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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
7
Numerous visitors from Cincinnati, Covington and Greensburg spent Sundays with local families including Schrader Baumer and Wachsman households.Trips north and west brought relatives from Price Hill and Indianapolis to Oldenburg with several planned calls on kin from Friday through Monday. A birth is noted for Louis Jager and wife.
Enrollment of Civil War veterans at the 83rd Regiment reunion shows 141 attendees. The roster lists names, regiments, and home towns including David Giffen Co C Ludlow Ky and Henry Schuter Co I Aurora Ind among others from the 83rd and various other units.
Letters from S. E. y. Atkinson of Nebraska and Lewis Anderson recount long battles with weak hearts. They credit Dr Miles Heart Cure with relief from headaches choking sensations and past near-death episodes after using multiple bottles and seeking the company’s free medical book.
A reunion feature notes Capt. C. B. Johnson of Co F, 52nd Ind Vol, sang an old Liberty Tree ballad. The verses celebrate the Goddess of Liberty, a pledge of liberty, and unity against tyranny, urgingFreemen to defend the liberty tree against eastern and western threats.
Mrs. Alfred Whittan and her two children of Elwood, after visiting her aunt Mrs. James Ray here for a couple of days, returned to their home Saturday.
Lawrence Gauck traveled to Cincinnati on Sunday to enjoy a day with friends, reporting a casual visit and time spent in the city.
Baas and Schultz promote Mi-ona flesh forming food with a money back guarantee. They advertise a 40 cent deposit option and promise a refund if the product fails to increase weight improve digestion or cure dyspepsia. The trial sale in Batesville has spurred clerk activity and strong customer interest.
Mr. Gorman says it is too early to name a Democratic presidential nominee and that Barkis is willing. He notes it is impossible to outline issues in advance but believes the German homeopathic tariff reform would win.
An old allegory shows a girl frightened by a grasshopper while stepping on a snake, paralleled by a man who spends on a cyclone cellar but neglects to provide Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. The remedy is praised as prompt and reliable and available from local stores.
London Friends seek to recover Bibles taken from Boer families in the South African War. Twenty Bibles are missing. some have been found. A bishop of Ripon holds one for Commandant Prinsloo. another Bible is in western England. Haas boek, killed in the war, possessed a Bible. Alexander of Friends has two Bibles, including a 1660 large folio for Van der Merwe, returned by Captain Werneford. another may belong to Grant. A Newcastle officer reports returning a Bible to Martinus Els of Sloot Kraal Heilbron.
In the Metropolitan Museum a painting shows the Russian court during General Cassius M. Clay’s late administration in St. Petersburg. The czar and Clay are the only figures standing with hats on, despite a foreign envoy urging Clay to remove his hat. Clay replied he only removes his hat to those who remove theirs first.
The excerpt presents the famous opening lines from William Ernest Henley’s Invictus. It depicts resilience and defiance against fate and hardship with strong imagery of night, fate, and inward strength. The speaker declares unyielding courage and sovereign control over his fate.
The letter from J F Green of Lancaster New Hampshire says chronic indigestion and nervous debility improved after using Electric Bitters. He credits his wife’s continued health to the remedy and recommends it highly. Sold for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed by Baaa & Schultz.
The Laughery township trustee announces proposed annual expenditures and levies for 1903 at the September 2 1908 meeting. Totals include 3074 dollars in expenditures and 81 cents per hundred dollars in taxes. Assessed property value is 3382125.00 with 142 polls. Michael Benz trustee dated August 17 1903.
A brief dialogue shows a man apologizing for forgetting a woman's name while complimenting her aristocratic face. The woman gently nudges that her name is plain, and the man corrects himself, noting her fame and the difficulty of recalling both.
A fragmentary collection of witty exchanges and quips from Chicago Journal style jokes. It includes a Parisian Irish woman remark about being meant for an Irish woman and a witty Irish reply about being meant for an Irish man. Also references a humorous altar of advice about a quarrel and a remark on love blindness.
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