Correspondence Notes From Walnut Valley Visitors and Local News
Local notes recount visits by Mr and Mrs Cook and family. Mr and Mrs Nihiser with children Pansy and Adonis. Mr and Mrs Bloseer and baby. Mr and Mrs Highley with Mr Loghley family. Mrs Marcia Huggins visiting her mother Mrs Rhoads. Mrs Lucy Buesart visiting Will Cook’s parents. Mr and Mrs North and Noel calling on Mrs Highley. Mr George Bowers from Middlefork visiting. Lawrence Bishop at Ewing spelling. John Weaver of Stringtown employed by James Huggins. Mrs Kim Highley calling on Mrs John Nibiser. funeral attendance for Mrs Smith’s father. Wesley Kemper and Edna Sargent from Gore visiting. Will Cook’s business trip to Logan. Sadie Clowe visiting Nihiser family. mirrors advertised at Bort & Co.
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Walnut Valley
Mea
Cook
John Nihiser
Pansy
Adonis
Laurelville
Jerry Bloseer
Henry Highley
Jacob Loghley
Marcia Huggins
Frank Rhoads
Lucy Buesart
Will Cook
W. 1
North
Noel
Charlie Highley
George Bowers
Middlefork
Lawrence Bishop
Ewing
John Weaver
Stringtown
James Huggins
Kim Highley
John Nibiser
James Smith
Thanksgiving News From Gibisonville Area
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and traveling during Thanksgiving week. Flora Stoody Mattie Rouse and Maggie Whitcraft spent Thanksgiving at A E Bells. Eldridge Snyder visited Logan two days last week. Mia, Wm Moore and son and Pansy Brashares visiting in Columbus. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs E G Miller Saturday. Pete Keister moving into W B Zeigiers home on Glane farm. J Cupp arranging to burn gas. C D Notestone moved into M E parsonage Sol Uncle wife and son spent two days with Chas Keller family. Thos Hockman and Blanche Evans visited near Circleville. R H Collison of Pleasantville visiting old friends here. Novelties hundreds at Bort Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora Stoody
Mattie Rouse
Maggie Whitcraft
A. E. Bell
Eldridge Snyder
Logan
G. D. Notestone
Mia
Wm. Moore and Son
Pansy Brashares
Columbus
E.G. Miller
Pete Keister
W. B. Zeigier
Glane Farm
J. Cupp
C.D. Notestone
M. E. Parsonage
Sol
Chas, Keller
R. H. Collison
Pleasantville
Snowbound and travels spark small town notes in Carbonhill
The fragment lists local names and brief movements: Anon Francis visiting Bridgeport, Nelsonville residents Wilson Johnson and J H Blosser seen locally, Wilkinson Blosser Mattie Vera Matheny at Nelsonville services, John Hill of Sand Run en route to Columbus, Demiller of Nelsonville provoked an event, Pollard family visiting Wa Parks, and Evans of Columbus among others, reflecting a community diary of social and travel snippets.
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Anon Francis
Bridgeport
Wilson Johnson
Nelsonville
Harry Wilkinson
J. Li Blosser
Mattie
Vera Matheny
Nelsnville
John Hill
Sand Run
Local Family Moves to Tipp Canoe for Future Home
Mr William Ewart and family relocate from here to Tipp Canoe after a stay in Logan Inet. Mr Elmer Roy also moves his family there for a new home. Joseph Bowler, long ill, shows slight improvement. Local press notes art from Bort & Co.
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Williew Ewaor
Logan
Elmor Roy
Tie Familly
Tipp Canoe
Joseph Booower
Housing Lot Sale and Trade in Nelsonville Area
Property listing offers 68 building lots priced 25 to 100 and eight four room houses with open rooms, priced 400 to 800. Located in Nelsonville in a good area, with trade options for country real estate. Call or address for particulars.
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Price
Nelsonville
Wouldn't Kick Away the Ladder in France and Rosy Cheeks
A fragment notes bear taming and begging in southern France near the Pyrenees with a mayor who justifies his trade as profit. Also, a New York Press joke about eight year old Gladys with rosy cheeks and a pink secret from momma.
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France
Pyrenees
Baron Tausenjann
Lleggare
Gladys
Hadys
Dayase
New York Press
Daylight and vanity on a bright town stage
A lively column notes the push for daylight in homes, praising bright stairways and sunlit rooms while lampooning dim religious light. It includes a street scene with Dashley and Ashley joking about mirrors and fashions, ending with a reminder of bargains at Cases Store on the 10 and 25 cent shelves.
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Dashley
Ashley
Miss Sterling
The Chinese Wife and the Silent Virtues of Wives
A reflective piece on Chinese marriage customs highlights constancy of wives, family cohesion, and social perceptions. It contrasts old classics with modern satirical views, notes gender roles, and mentions girls’ vulnerability in famine, slavery, and the disdain for slaveowners, with a brief humorous anecdote about a peddler in a Chicago News clipping.
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Voltaire
Montefiore and the Jew in 19th Century Courage
A collage of anecdotal passages features Sir Moses Montefiore defending a poor Jew in 1823 London, a grocer’s joke about a jackpot, a farmer’s outburst at a cattle show, and a quip about a judge’s critique. The piece weaves humor with moral contrasts, highlighting Jewish charity, misread ethics, and social stereotypes.
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J. 1
Humor on Philosophy by Duncan M Smith
A fragmentary humor piece in the style of a playful column. It blends quips on philosophy, marriage, graft, and daily life with quirky lines about first aid for the bashful, courting, and social foibles. The text reads as a mosaic of dated humor bits and mock proverbs.
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Philosophy
Duncan M. Smith
Untitled fragment maps cities and names in unclear text
Fragmentary OCR lists places including Gallipolis Marion Toledo Chicago Detroit and names Logan McArthur Hamden Wellton with scattered terms. no clear event or outcome is stated.
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Logan
McArthur
Hamden
Gallipolis
N. Hivaltey
Tolanteu
Marion
Toledo
Chicago
Detroit
Dally
Bankhead Endorses Peruna In Catarrh Remedy Appeal
Congressman J H Bankhead of Alabama endorses Peruna as a tonic and catarrh cure in a Washington letter. He claims it is a radical specific for catarrh with a long track record and urges readers to write for guidance and a free Peruna Almanac for 1900. He also directs readers to contact Dr Hartman for further information.
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Senor Quesada
United States
George Kennan
Quesada
Batelan Theater
Mantangas
Cuba
Queandata
Marti
Peruna Medicine Company
Washington, D. C
Senor Quesada Enye
Gonzalo de Quesada
J. H. Bankhead
Alabama
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C
Perna
Katie
Perana
de. Hartman
Attitude of the Trusts Toward The Philippines
The proposed WF HE legislation would defer coastwise trading rules to 1909 and reduce Dingley tariff rates on Philippine sugar tobacco and other goods to 26 percent then grant complete free trade. Sugar and tobacco interests oppose free trade arguing against Philippine market access while critics call their stance selfish and unfounded.
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Philippines
Philippine Islands
United States
Tropics
Sellers
China
Congress
America
One Churches Should Co operate By Rev J W Hegepian
Secretary of the Federation of Churches argues for federation as essential to church success. He promotes cooperative parish plans and coordinated efforts among all religious factors. An example from a village shows district division and local reporting to map religious conditions and aid future pastors.
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J. W. Hegepian
Federation of Churches
Canvard Traile
Bais
Doi
Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad Service Update
Passenger trains depart The OC and MV Depot at Lancaster Ohio to run daily except Sunday No 4 and Nos 0 38 with connections to Penn Zanes Baa and Hanover. Official notices list routing details and through connections with limited service signals, conveyed by Paul Jones and F M Wilkinson, Lancaster Ohio.
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Oc, & MV
Lancaster
Bally Wacom
Patyarrivay
Ofnetnneds
Danoaster
Paul Jones
Sapt
B and O and W R Tour of All Mexico Experience
Travel notice for a selective escorted Mexico tour by B and O and W R via a deluxe train with vestibuled cars, libraries, music rooms, the largest dining car, and open top observation car. Leaves January 30 1906. details via C P McCarty Cincinnati Ohio.
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American Tourist Association
New York City Terminal to Open via B & O Rail Line
Advertises New Weat 23d Street Terminal in midtown Manhattan as the heart of shopping hotels and theatres with electric cars electric lab and carriage service. Stopovers allowed at Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia. Also offers round trip fares for December travel and January return with single fare plus one third. Employment ad seeks aviation manager for county and adjacent areas offering weekly pay and up-front advances.
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New York
New Weat 23d Street
New York City
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Columbia
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Logan, Bart & Co
Bort & Co
Gibisonville
Carbonhill
Rolly Eggleston
Dr. Eastman
Frasch Bakery
John
Maria
Scott
Chicago News
Hushband
Greana
London
Biggst
Best Line
Bart & Co
Drew
Ian
Rte
Deery
Emaline
Tie
First Express
Uim
Alko
Jon
Chath
U. S
R. R
Adress de
Tiriman
Focl Linnerting
Cotati
Sorreancn
The
Foley Shoney
Cincinnnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad Company
F. M. Wilkinson General Ticket Agant
Liancaster
Ohio
All
Mexico
C. P. McCarty
0. S
Cincinnati
Hov
Gxenstons
Chicago Whaler Ale
Mil
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