Womans Benefit Association installs officers at Russell lodge
The regular meeting of the Womans Benefit Association of the Maccabees in Russell opened with a noon meal. Mrs. Inez Thompson was installed as Commander and Flora J. Russell served as Post Commander. Twenty six members attended as officers and volunteers prepared to assist a ill member with fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaplin
Jessie Peterson
Kate B. Sadler
Adella Gregory
Hazel Thompson
Seargant
Gernie Duell
Sentinel
Susan Mason
Emma Marsh
Nellie Wiltsie
Flora J. Russell
W. A. Thornton
H. T. Russell
Lounda Pervine
W. J. Gavey
Little Son
Newbury
N. Y
Harry Cole
Alta
Akeley Hallow
LeVern Sadler
Akeley Notes and Local Activities Highlight Late October
Mrs. C E Marsh visits North East and Erie as local residents work on barn stanchions. Grange Hall project praised. L A H C A to meet there for October end preparations for a bazaar. Grand View Fruit Farm reports strong young tree growth for 1915 and a good berry crop with few apples.
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W. Hallock
Frewsburg
T. M. Howard
D. M. Howard
Warren
John Geracimos
Grange Hall
Order
L. A
Grand View
Edgar Fellows
Louisa Fellows
Mattie Clendenning
Odd Bits of News Heads Sparking World Gaps
A collection of quirky notes reports a 3150th birthday under a legendary tree in San Francisco, a string of family deaths in Coleman Wisconsin, a bootlegger case in Charlestown West Virginia, San Francisco women praised for shapely legs, Miss Maria Kurr a noted Pennsylvania character dies, frog power hopes to cure cancer in Monroe City Missouri, and frogs hunted by farmers with torches in marshes.
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San Francisco
Cal
Troy
Pharoah
Red Sea
Atlanta
Georgia
Monroe City
Albert Farquer
Farquarer
Jail Girl For Sixty Years In Springfield Case
Peggy Meadows was fined 10000 dollars and costs in the United States district court at Springfield NL on a charge of manufacturing smoking opts. She was sentenced to Bloomington jail until the fine is paid at fifty cents per day. Peggy will spend sixty years in jail.
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Peggy Meadows
United States District Court
Springfield
Bloomington
Peggy
General Survey of the War Reports Allied Push and Counterattacks
Allied troops move from Salonica toward the Serbo Bulgarian frontier to bolster the Serbian front while Bulgarian advances threaten the Serbians. French forces recapture Hartmansweilerkopf and seize a German fort as Berlin reports gains. Strumnitza falls to Franco Serbian forces after heavy Bulgarian losses. A French steamer Admiral Hamelin sinks in the Mediterranean, with an Austrian submarine implicated.
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Salonica
Athens
Vosges
Hartmansweiler
Paris
Berlin
Hartmanweilerkopf
Bulgaria
Strumunitza
Strumnitza
Nish
Admiral Hamelin
Mediterranean
Sayg
Havas New Agency
Quouchez
War Office
Milan
Havas
Grief Stricken Canadian Woman Wanders in New Orleans
A Montreal woman identified as Mrs. Julia King, 30, elegant and jeweled, is detained in New Orleans after claiming to be the widow of a Canadian officer killed at the Dardanelles. She says memory loss followed grief from her husband’s death. She traveled with two children and a maid, cannot explain her presence, recently in Seattle, headed home. Physicians suspect grief impacted her mind.
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New Orleans
Julia King
Montréal
Canada
Dardanelles
Seattle
Tomato graft yields tomato stalk with tomatoes and potatoes
One Flant's Fruit and Tubers in Marysville Pa reports George Zeilers grafted a tomato plant to a potato stalk. The plant bears both tomatoes on the vine and potatoes at the root, observed Oct 20.
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Marysville, Pa
George Zeilers
Market Report New York Freevision Market
Wheat futures settle December at 1144. Butter Creamery extra at 28 percent. Eggs gathered white by size and quality priced at 2.36. Long Island potatoes per barrel range 2.50 to 2.75.
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Long Island
Buffalo Provision Market Report with Grain and Poultry Prices
Winter wheat No 2 red 1 16, corn No 2 yellow 72 cents, yellow 72 cents. Oats No 3 white 42 ½, No 4 white 38 ½. Flour fancy blended patent 6 25 to 6 50, winter family 6 00 to 6 25. Dressed poultry fowl fancy 17 ½ to 20 cents per lb. turkeys 21 to 22 cents. Butter creamery extra 31 2 per lb, choice 27 28c. Eggs hennery white 42 to 48c, mixed 38 to 39c. Cheese daisies 16 ½ per lb, fancy flats 16c. Potatoes No 1 per bu 65 to 75 cents.
East Buffalo Livestock Market Prices Report
CATTLE export steers 9.00 to 9.75 per cwt with higher ranges. Shipping steers 8.25 to 8.85. Choice heifers 7.25 to 8.00. Choice cows 6.50 to 7.00. Choice veals 11.00 to 11.50. Sheep and lambs mix 6.00 to 16.25. Hog prices light weight 7.50 to 8.20. heavier 8.59 to 8.60.
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East Buffalo
Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Dark Hair Overnight
An old Sage and Sulphur formula promises to darken gray or faded hair naturally after one or two applications. A 50 cent bottle of Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur is sold at drug stores with claims of eliminating druff itching and scalp shedding while restoring a youthful, glossy look.
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Wyeth
Hamburg Breast Tea for Cold Cure
An old time remedy promotes Hamburg Breast Tea as an inexpensive vegetable cure for colds and grip. A tablespoonful steeped in boiling water, strained, and drunk through the day or at night is said to open pores, relieve congestion, and loosen the bowels.
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Hamburg
St Jacobs Oil Promises Quick Rheumatism Relief
Vintage advertisement urges readers to rub St Jacobs Oil on rheumatic joints for fast relief. It claims internal treatment not required, skin-safe formula that dissolves pain from rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, backache and neuralgia. A 25 cent bottle is promoted as a remedy.
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St. Jacobs
Fragmentary price list with unclear items and codes
A garbled OCR snippet shows a list of items and prices such as $19.06, $17.00, and $16.00 labeled with No. numbers, but the surrounding text is unreadable. It resembles a miscellaneous catalog or internal price sheet with missing context and multiple typos.
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Optical Department
Optician
All
Reynolds Co., Inc
Russell
C.M. Lewis
Jamestown
Coldman Duell
Lander
Frank Hegg
Allen Wilson
Ella Chapman
Buffalo
Cole Fox
Erie
Arthur Young
Gerald Mattison
Youngsville
Floyd Thomas
Home Bakery
Sheffield
Thomas
Charles Campbell
J. B. Ingles
Larned
Kan
J. B. Arnold
Arthur Kelley
Arnold
C. Hodges
Marion Wright
A. W. Dennison Sauuday
David H. Keller
Philadelphia
J. Blaine Peck
Grand Valley
Russell High School
Merlin Briggs
Falconer
Ida Briggs
Karl Seitz
Salamanca
Louise Briggs
Trask
Charles Briggs
Corydon
Wm. A. Phillips
A. W. Young
Akeley Hollow
Jefferson Sears
Cable Hollow
Dorothy Hegg
Pine Grove Township
Wiltsie
Romaine Griffin
LeVeern G. Sadler
Akeley
Coleman
Wis
Emily Ermis
John Ermis
Miss Ermis
Charlestown
W. Va
Kelley’s Creek
Louis Peters
Peters
Bethel
Maria Kurr
Pennsylvania
Kurr
Millersburg
Market Report
New York
Buffalo Provision Market
Timothy
Charles Flesh
Charles
Por Sale
DR Charles Flesh Food CO
Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y
National
New Stock
Eachange
Funy
Mas Printing Co
Waren
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