This Dec. 7, 1916 Lowell Tribune item was found on page 3, column 4 under "Schneider Items":
J.M. Dickey returned Thursday from French Lick.
This Feb. 1, 1917 Lowell Tribune item was found on page 6, column 3 under "Schneider Items":
J.M. Dickey has been quite sick for the past week, but is slowly improving.
This August 9, 1917 Lowell Tribune item was found on page 8, column 1 under "Schneider Items":
Schneider is to have a meat market, which is being located in the building vacated by J.M. Dickey. We understand the new party is to run a wagon through the surrounding country in connection with the market.
This August 16, 1917 Lowell Tribune item was found on page 8, column 4 under "Schneider Items":
A Kaufman, of Indiana Harbor, has opened a grocery and meat market in the building vacated by J.M. Dickey, and solicits a share of the trade.
This September 13, 1917 Lowell Tribune item was found on page 8, column 2:
A bad fire occurred at Schneider last Saturday when the Rouse store, Dickey hall and Rouse garage were burned. We are informed that quite a lot of the stock in the store was burned, and four automobiles, including John A. Johnson's car, were burned in the garage.
Tom Berkshire, descendant of James M. Dickey, sent the following information:
I am the great grandson of the late James M. Dickey noted in some of the history. Your picture of him and real estate advertisement is part of the collection. We always knew him in the family history as an "inventor" of a cure for alcoholism and heroin addiction (The Devil's Mortgage Cancelled). . . .
I know very little else about James Dickey although with the book and the adverts, he almost seems like a fictional character that would be fun to fill in more of the pieces. My grandparents, Pearl Dickey and Robert Berkshire, were married in Monon but moved to Logansport then to Canton, Ohio.
A copy of the pamphlet indicates that the Dickey Remedy Company was located in Shelby, Indiana, with J.M. Dickey as President, Maude Dickey as Secretary, and E.L. Hollingsworth, Treasurer. In addition, the rest of the faculty was listed as A.F. Long; E.E. Dickey; H.N. Wason; and Dr. F.D. Wilson, head of Medical Staff.
