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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
4
Local notes report Glen Lutz as a Sunman caller and multiple residents traveling or visiting kin in Batesville Cincinnati Shelbyville Indianapolis and Bloomington. The item also mentions farm yields and a funeral service for Jacob Bachus with attendees from Cincinnati Covington Seymour and local towns.
Miss Ida Gesell married Clemens F Bosse at ten o’clock Wednesday morning at the Gesell home near Southgate. Rev Proehl officiated. The bride wore white crepe de chine with a veil, carried white roses. Bridesmaid Miss Marcella Bosse wore salmon crepe and carnations. Groom Elmer Gosell, bride’s brother, attended. A wedding dinner followed. The couple will reside in Huntersville at the Borchett property.
The children express sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for acts of kindness during illness and after the death of their father George Hartman. They thank Father Adelbert, floral donors, pallbearers, and those who lent cars for the funeral. They pray all may be rewarded for their kindness.
Beginning at 10 o'clock on Wednesday August 25 Mrs Caroline Roberts will offer at public auction her 100 acre farm farming implements livestock and household goods The sale is at her home a mile north of the Terry Schoolhouse Lunch will be served on the grounds J J Westrick Auctioneer L A Bruns Clerk
To Alonzo Huneke and wife a girl born Thursday Aug 12. To George Sarringhaus and wife a boy born Friday Aug 13. To Joseph Boehm and wife a boy born Saturday Aug 14.
Notice urges readers to support local merchants who advertise in the publication, promising good treatment and value in return. The brief appeals to community loyalty and civic-minded spending.
Classified notices list sales including a Jersey cow fire proof safe soft drink establishment mules land and animals plus a kitchen maid position. Items mention Batesville Oldenburg Sunman and Delaware Indiana with contact names and route numbers.
Morris hosts Huntersville on Sunday in what is described as a scheduled game. The article lists numerous visitors including Gertrude Vogel from St. Louis and Miss Loretta Zillebuehler visiting nearby towns.
Three year old Marjorie tells her mother the wife of a Muncie manufacturer that she was taken by a servant to eat at her father’s office in the afternoon. The child clarifies that she means the middle part of the afternoon.
London Answers notes several extravagant honeymoons abroad. wealthy Mr Elkins wed and chose a near polar retreat while Max Fleischmann and wife honeymooned in Arctic wastes. Major Powell-Cotton trekked Africa’s Ituri forest hunting okapi. Captain Andrews and bride sailed the Atlantic in a tiny cockleshell and vanished.
The text explains how early American Indians measured time and distance using sleeps and moons. A sleep equals a 24 hour day, a moon roughly equals a month, while distances were given in deceps, with 85 miles as a typical daily limit and occasional runs of over 24 miles for important messengers.
Downtown New York loses a historic seafaring hub as the Eastern hotel is razed to make way for an office building. The hostelry, famed for mahogany berths and as headquarters for figures like “Dynamite Johnny” O’Brien, reflects a century of maritime and commercial lore.
After resigning in plain terms, the narrator later answers a blind ad and is offered an appointment. A common name causes confusion as the former boss, now in a moved office with a changed firm name, fails to recognize the narrator. They meet briefly in an elevator, both stunned.
The YWCA plans a girls cafeteria in Buenos Aires with one steam table found by YWCA secretaries in a gas company storeroom. The table, sent from England for a food exposition, has not been used and is now installed. The new cafeteria is expected to attract a larger crowd than usual.
A New York Central Magazine tale recounts a salesman presenting a suit and noting it would wear the iron while a map supposedly shows wear. The story observes months passing and the suit remains unstretched while the map grows rusty.
A public notice dated August 14 1920 lists numerous signatories including Andrew Bedel Sr John Giesting John Hirt Joseph Lecher Henry Meer Frank Timerman Mike Rossfeld and many others approving the document. The long roster includes Elizabeth Meyer Joseph Bedel Henry Nobbe John Nobbe Fred Wenning and Leo Kleine among multiple Dwenger Bramlage and Kuntz family names.
The Indian mound in the northeast part of Kansas City dates about 57,000 years ago per Edward who studied prehistoric mounds in the United States. Located one mile north of Sheffield on a bluff overlooking the Missouri and Blue rivers, it is named Indian mound and likely served as a signal mound.
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