Westville and Laporte Items Chronicle Local Notes
Local society updates include junior high graduates Ruth Cass Leila L Hixon Frances T Martin and Lois Winters. track meet in Laporte with 149 athletic entries and 25 oratorical. Wm Cherry set for appendicitis operation in Peru. new Lincoln Way Inn sign at G A Maxwell’s. Cory Henton and wife road trip. fish cart collision near Otis. Westville Girls Band concert May 26 with new silver instruments. ball season opener Westville 3 Union Mills 4. Laporte Normals vs Westville Sunday. Monon railroad retrenchment. Mazurkiewicz will wills and Wanatawan high school building project in Cass township.
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Michigan City
Ruth Cass
Leila L. Hixon
Frances T. Martin
Lois Winters
Westville
Jennie Powell
Valparaiso
M. E. Church
Cincinnati
Origins of the Royal Post in England 1635
In early England the post office emerged in 1635 as the first formal communications system. Special messengers and the common carrier were the sole means before roads expanded. Letters were delivered along great routes to distant towns with carriers and foot posts connecting remote areas.
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England
Yorkshire
Ludgate
Lonedon
American style and the American trade in London
A London drugstore window displays a notice American drugs and drinks. Parcels fastened American style with rubber bands. Clerks explain that sealing wax would be used by conservative English firms, while stores chasing the American trade adopt rubber bands. The tale contrasts British prudence with American improvisation.
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London
Gamin Suckles on Gutter Cigar Banter With Cop
A traffic cop questions a gamin about his cigar stump. The boy replies with a Crusoe gag, claiming to find cigarettes in the gutter. The officer muses on Robinson Crusoe as a castaway, prompting a wry exchange.
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Gamin
Robinson
Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
For Sale and Notices in M City Advertisement Row
For Sale A horse five years old black good puller inquire at this Office J s 1921 Farmers Honest Insurance insure windstorm fire and lightning Old Continental Co call or write Warren P Fogle Agt Laporte Ind Seed oats for sale Rera Geist For sale Full blood white leghorn eggs for setting 15 for 50c Mra BK C Gardner 514 Abe Standiford s prepared to suit you in wall paper Wanted Timber of all kinds Any one having timber to sell will do well by writing to Coppes Zook Mutschler Company Nappanee Indiana 33-8
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Oswald
M. City
J's
Old Continental Co
Warren P. Fogle
Agt
Laporte
Ind
BK. C, Gardner
Coppes
Zook & Mutschler Company
Nappanee
Indiana
The Complexions Friend Article on Beauty
A discussed guide highlights complexion as a key factor in attractiveness for women. The text emphasizes appearance matters and suggests complexions as a social asset and form of personal confidence.
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Norfolk
Just
Davidson & Porter
H. M. Fetters
Fetters
Main St. Laporte
LaPorte Savings Bank
Laporte, Indiana
Chicago
New York
Bank of Westville
Lo Dan Spee
Clara
Heights
Yz Herman
Warnke
Eva ‘Davidson
Earl Brown
Apolis
State Assembly
D. of
Nystrom & Beeman
John
Poston
Marion ‘Soldiers_ Home
O. K
Wm. Cherry
Wabash Railroad
Peru
Elmer Hall
G. A. Maxwell
Lincoln Way Inn
Dell
Cory Henton
Hannital Mo
Merrick Baird
Seednick
Otis
Union Mills
Cattron Hall
Carrie
Watts
Here
Alparaiso
Esther Gillette
Harry McKellips
Indiana Society
Michigan
Joe ‘Cannon
Cannon
Paul
Martha’ Standiford
Hess Anstiss
S. A. Wight
Chicago Heights
Springfield
Laporte: Normals
Westville Nine
Chesterton
H. C. Farwell
Southland
J. M. Darneil
Laporte Masons
John Hazen White
Episcopal Church
Monon
Stephen Mazurkiewicz
Sadie
Hattie
Hie
Bert
Frank
Karzumere
Laward
Cass Township
Wanatab
Rera Geist
Abe Standiford
Meyer-Lindorf, CO
Michigan Avenue
Auers
Court House
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
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