Optimistic economic mood cited by Morgan and Guggenheim
New York is buoyed by optimistic notes from J Pierpont Morgan and Daniel Guggenheim on U S business, rail and mining regions show improving activity, and the Navy plan to two ocean powers is seen as boosting western prosperity amid rising shipments and agricultural gains. Local society notes follow with visits, illnesses, and weekend gatherings.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Europe
United States
Morgan
Daniel Guggenheim
Chicago
Pittsburg
Mountain States
New Mexico
Alaska
Colorado
Pacific Coast
Navy
Ilinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Guilf
Atlantic
Pacific
Navy Department
Far West
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Beard Couple Visit Cambridge City
Cambridge City Indiana June 20 reports Mr and Mrs Clayton Beard of Chicago visiting the Cambridge City residents or events in the town during a brief stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge City
Ind
Clayton Beard
Chicago
Nervous Break-Down Cure Claim by Miles Nervine
Dr Miles Nervine is advertised as a remedy for nervous breakdowns and related symptoms. The ad claims thousands cured and urges readers to try it, attributing healing to nerve energy and body restoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles’ Nervine
Ed Lee
Miles Medical Co
Elichart
Ind
Greensfork ND business opens with Doyle lithography
D Doyle after fifteen years in Cincinnati Logansport and Chicago has opened a place of business in Greensfork. He is producing fine picture painting and lithograph work locally. Other news includes Theodore Davis at Earlham college home for weekend and various residents visiting Richmond Martinsville and Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Boyd
Harris & Co
New York
Harry King
Estella
Richmond
Francis Dean
Chicago
Frossle Snyder
Charley Roller
Mr. Stanley
United Brethren Church
Charley Hoover
C. G. Carpenter & Co
Clyde Osborn
Indianapolis
Lute Hatfield
George Nicholson Rej
Richmond Visit Notes Highlight Local Social Scene
Mr. and Mrs. Will Roller entertained guests from Richmond on Sunday. Shannon Neff spent Saturday in Richmond. Mrs. Orville Hoover returned from a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. King, at Centerville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Will Roller
Shannon Neff
Orville Hoover
Mrs. King
Centerville
Local Notes From Hagerstown Indiana Area
Hagerstown and nearby residents share visits and news as Gideon Crull stops by, Ruby Rummel returns from Cambridge City, Mrs. Wallace McCall visits Richmond, and Will Cox with three children travel to Richmond. The wedding of Charles Ault and Lucretia Lakey at New Castle draws local attention, followed by hospitality visits from Hannah Shafer and others as Osborn's park hosts a gathering of Richmond youths.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Gideon Crull
Ruby Rummel
Cambridge City
Wallace McCall
Richmond
Milton Lock
Will Cox
Alva Cox
John Crawford
Chas. Ault
Lucretia Lakey
Elwood
Sarai Stonebraker
Ault
C. B. Canaday
New Castle
Hannah Shafer
Ed Birch
Edith
Germantown
Geo. Bunch
New Castile
Osborn's Park
Economy
Raymond Deeter
Curtis Lontz
Will Dingworth
Frank Hawkins
Grover Brower
Warren Dennis
Chas. Walters
Carl Macon
Robi. Allen
Joshua Allen
Lew Gephart
Milville
That Settles It With Easy Task Laundry Soap
A humorous ad touts Easy Task laundry soup as pure white and fast‑dissolving. The five cent cake is claimed to dissolve dirt and grease instantly, convincing homemakers to try it and be converted.
Local Social and Family Visits Highlight Liberty Week
Liberty Indiana June 29. Allen Beeler of Indianapolis visited his parents C. C. Beeler and wife Sunday. Many Liberty residents hosted and visited friends in Connersville Dayton Oxford and South Bend over the weekend including Finley Kell, Miss Grace Maibach, Hazel Chitwood, and Miss Lizzie Sommers. Several couples from College Corner gathered in Liberty and surrounding towns for social visits Appleton to Richmand roads noted.
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John Beard
Eva
Lallah Nettleton
Fremont
Wager
Lee,Ault
Harry
Ault
Rachel Ault
Greenville
Ohio
Chas
Doney
New Castle
Helen Garvin
Richmond
Fannie Fog
Ellen McCoy
Gee. Callaway
Kaneag
Omer Willte
New Paris
Geo. Cheeseman
Hagerstown
Aveust Boden
Alonzo Swallow
Centerville
Lon Guthrie
Wm, Doney
Edna Wallace Fof Miltona
Matt Kreush
Anderson
Orange Hall
Munele
Chas, Rink
Pat
E. C. Denny
Cambridge City
Edgar Ault
C B. Canaday
New Castte
Herbert, Bailey
Spiceland
Dayton
LN. Locks. Co
C. Thomas
Connersville
John Worl
M. L. Bowmaster
John Weber
Robert Mosbaugh
Hamilton
Frank Mosbaugh
Bessie Vanmeter
Alene
Ada Dennis
Alice Walter
Winchester
L. Locke
South Charleston
David Wissler
Daniel Wissler
Front Street
Liberty
Ind
Allen Beeler
Indianapolis
C. C. Beeler
W. P. Kennedy
Geo. Rude
Hope
Ressie Ammerman
W. L. Johnson
Rolman
A. G. McDill
J. C. Barkley
College Corner
Finley Kell
D. Kell
Grace
Addie Maibach
Hazel Chitwood
Indianaffairs
Emma
Vessie Yary
Ray Murphy
Lewis Hessler
Golda Johnson
Richard Sommers
Lizzie Sommers
Lewis Ryan
B. F. Johnson
Clint Bond
Chas. Helger
J. C. Norris
Chester Casey
Ralph Robertson
John 4. Garrett
Frank Rude
Harold
South Bend
John K. Johnson
George E. Stevenson
Molyneaux
Oxford
G. W. Robertson
Charles
Lake Manitou
Tony Flint
Pierce Flint
Jeff Heider
Lyons Station
Local Social Notes Highlight Modoc Area Visitors
June 29. Mrs Amanda Oler and daughter Nola hosted guests from Centerville and Economy. Mrs John Fouts Jr and Sr, Mrs Will Fouts and Harold traveled from Bethel. Alonzo Edwards made a Modoc business trip. Edna Replogle stayed with Lulu Cain. Vergia Stanley returned from Richmond for a short vacation. John W Taylor shipped stock from Modoc. Dr J B Clark Matilda Martin and Mary Chamness celebrated birthdays. Surprise visits honored Mrs Martin and Mrs Chamness with gifts.
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Economy
Ind
Amanda Oler
Nola
John Fouts
Centerville
Will Fouts
Harold
Bethel
Alonzo Edwards
Modoc
Edna Replogle
Lulu Cain
Vergia Stanley
Richmond
John W. Taylor
J. B. Clark
Matilda Martin
Mary Chamness
Local visits and family arrivals in Indiana communities
The excerpt notes several social visits and homecomings: a person staying with her mother in Muncie has returned home. Mr L W Stoman returned from Ohio. Mr and Mrs John Segraves and baby daughter plus Miss May Kimball visited Mrs Hannah Kimball. Mr and Mrs C M Greenstreet were in Richmond recently. Miss Pearl Edwards visited Mrs Clyde Oler near Williamsburg.
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Muncie
L. W. Stoman
Ohio
John Segraves
May Kimball
Winchester
Hannah Kimball
C. M. Greenstreet
Richmond
Miss Pearl Edwards
Clyde Oler
Williamsburg
Fountain City News Notes and Illness Report
Fountain City Indiana June 29 Mr Emmett Fulghum of Wolcottville is visiting relatives. Mr Charles Day, well known here, is seriously ill at his home near Hollansburg. His eighteen months old son Glenn Day is also seriously ill with brain fever. Rev Zerbe of the M E church preached last Monday at Atlanta Indiana.
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Fountain City
Ind
Emmett Fulghum
Wolcottville
Charles Day
Hollansburg
Glenn Day
Zerbe
M. RE. Church
Atlanta
Temperament and emotion in art, a critique
Francis Grierson argues that true art demands intense emotion plus form. He likens feeling to a thermometer, contending high temper is essential for creative power and that idea must be embodied in clear form to move the beholder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Grierson
Critic
News Riders Pledge Fast Weekly War Intelligence Ride
A May 1775 Berkshires notice records citizens agreeing to ride from town to Tyringham or Sheffield to carry intelligence from Boston. Jacob Van Deusen would start May 8, followed by Mark Hopkins, with biweekly Springerfield reports and two-day Sabbath gaps, to fund news gathering until a formal method exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkshire Courier
Boston
Tyringham
Sheffield
Josiah Smith
Springfeld
Jacob van Deusen
Mark Hopkins
Speed of Insects and a Dragonfly Chase
A naturalist notes that a common house fly with rapid wingbeats can reach speeds up to twenty five feet per second in calm air and over one hundred ninety feet per second when alarmed, potentially covering a mile in thirty three seconds. The piece also shares a simple method to insulate ice water in a pitcher using cotton batting and wrapping paper, and ends with an ad note.
Treasury foresees record deficits and higher debt this year
Washington June 29 reports the coming treasury statement will show a large shortfall in receipts versus expenditures for the year ending June 30. Total receipts about 50 million dollars, down 14 million from 1907, while disbursements rise to about 8590 million, 90 million above 1907. Isolated large costs include 38 million for the Isthmian Canal and 13 million for public land reclamation. The postal deficit may reach 13.5 million, a historic high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Panama Canal
Korea's open door praised by officials and traders
In Chemulpo Thomas Sammons, American consul general, affirms no closed door in Korea. He notes Japan's edge in the region but says open access exists for those using modern Western business methods, with similar conditions in Manchuria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Korea
Chemulpo
Thomas Sammons
Japan
Far East
Manchuria
An Ancient Military Devotion and Custom
An account discusses medieval devotion in which a knight shared three blades of grass as a symbolic communion on the eve of battle. It notes this as a devotional act but not an efficacious substitute for penance or the eucharist, possibly seen as a popular substitute where sacraments were unobtainable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Eugenio Martinengo Caesaresco
Great Fair Planned for Wayne County In Indiana
Hagerstown Indiana prepares for the nineteenth annual Wayne County Fair to run July 28 29 30 1914 with a record racing purse of 1568 the largest ever. Officers include President W H Barter Vice President Freemont Bennet Secretary F S Walker Treasurer L S Bowman and superintendents Gates Davis and Em Hoover. The race track and buildings are being prepared, vaudeville intermissions funded, and high hopes set on a major community event.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Wayne County Fair Association
WH. Barter
Freemront Bennet
F. S. Walker
L. S. Bowman
Gates Davis
Em. Hoover
Fair Board
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Ghichester
Fountain City, Ind
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