Finest Prospect From Gordon Kansas Enlists as War Looms
Letter from Gordon Kansas dated July 22 1918 from Devon Pence to E H DePoy editor of Van Buren News Eagle notes crops in fine condition wheat cut oats shocked corn looking good and abundant rain. He says many local men will join the army around July 25 signaling a farm community preparing for wartime manpower. He reports booming oil business three million gas pressure and asks about Eugene DePoy address while sending regards to local friends and noting front lines in Europe.
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Gordon
Kansas
E. H. DePoy
van Buren News-Eagle
van Buren
Ind
Eugene
Thomas Eugene DePoy
Co. A
Americaan Expeditionary Forces
New York
DePoy
Socials Chronicle Village Farewells and Parties
A sequence of gatherings from Pilkingtons to Muchmores fill a weekend. Notables include Cardia and Sedic Sloderbeck departing for camp and farewells for Mrs. Charles Muchmore and Mrs. N J Muchmore as they move to Mitchell Indiana. Mentions of Susiebelle Skerd hosting day nurses and Idah Woodard hosting a farewell for Frank Mathias plus a birthday for Mr Roush. Several guests listed by name attend each event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susiebelle Skerd
Grant County Hospital
Marion
van Buren
John Milford
Trace Draper
Miss Phillips
Digestion Help From Chamberlain’s Tablets Cited
Mrs. Blanche Bowers of Indiana Pennsylvania reports long poor digestion improved after taking Chamberlain’s Tablets. She claims relief after trying many remedies and credits the tablets with restoring her digestion to normal.
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Chamberlain
Blanche Bowers
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Miss Maude Howard Returns Home From Chicago College
Miss Maude Howard completes studies at the University of Chicago and returns to her home town. She has been attending college there and now resumes residence with her family.
Corn sufferers urged to use freezone remedy warning
A Cincinnati authority promotes a drug called freezone to treat corns. A few drops relieve pain and lift the corn root and all, with no irritation to surrounding tissue. The notice warns against cursing or harsh language during use.
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Cincinnati
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Van Buren Residents
Van Buren readers report days of dizziness headaches backache and urinary issues. Mrs. Dan Struble of Vine Street credits Dean's Kidney Pills with relief after trying other remedies, praising the product and its Buffalo makers Foster Milburn Co. for distributing it locally.
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van Buren
Dean
Dan Struble
Vine Street
Conwell
Henne
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfrs
Buffalo
N. Y
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Devon Pence
Care Mid Kansas Oil and Gas Co
Gordon, Kansas
George Pilkington
Cardia
Sedic Sloderbeck
Francis Young
Nanty
Mable Sloderbeck
Opal Woodring
Daphne
Dierdra
Dee Pilkington
Hazel Wilson
Sedric Sloderbeck
Forest Rentfrew
Roy Brown
Jack Heaton
John Kiser
Cordin Sloderbeck
Gail Kern
Harold Pilkington
Guy McElfresh
Charles Muchmore
N. J. Muchmore
Mitchell
J. C. Mills
J. L. Dillon
Sam Saxon
Hattie Saxon
E. B. <Ern
George Pilk
Idah Woodard
Frank Mathias
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Agnes Dillon
Mildred Mils
Vivian Boxell
Eileen Paxton
Geraldine Miller
Kenneth Doyle
Landess L. White
Floyd Tippey
Frank Lefavour
W. A. Paxton
Robert
Will Boxell
Abbie Doyle
Frank Shroat
Glenn Boxell
Slyvia Boxell
Lucile Paxton
Marguerite Whitecotton
Bernice Campbell
Iris Pickenpaugh
Minor Stimax
Raymond Griffith
Forrest Griffith
Mary Nelson
Dorothy Duckwall
Ralph Boxell
Walter Paxton
Charles Paxton
Anna Margaret Paxton
Harold Stepp
Lucile Stackhouse
Jay Boxell
William Losure
Brainard Losure
Spencer Saxon
Lewis Paxton
Robert Paxton
Palmer Worster
Forest Pierson
Frank Bloomfield
Roy Roush
Walter
Ned Conwell
Sarox Store
Maao Teenie BO Mente
News Eagle
Iwintistinfinzin
Boston
Corey & Pilkington
van Buren, Indiana
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