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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
4
Misses Ida Harvey and Clara Sand visit friends and return home from Greensburg and Cincinnati. Families including the Bischoffs Rohrer Huber Dupps and HackmanJohnson travel to Brookville Newpoint and St Nicholas while Anthony Dupps plans a farm move with Indianapolis ties.
Batesville highlights include New Year ball at St Clair's hall on Friday night Dec 29. Local events note George Drake of Batesville visiting relatives. Bertha Busch currently staying in Batesville. John Wisman and family from Batesville visited relatives. Mrs Goertemiller and son Fred spent Sunday in Batesville. Mrs John Norwold of Smyrna was guest with home folks last week.
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion for fat babies promising comfort and fewer cries. It claims fat stores aid bones and nerves, and urges parents to send for a free sample while ensuring the product label is seen on every bottle.
Community notes report Walter Stockinger Bertha Eichacher Lydia Idlewine and Lydia Klein attended church at Salem. Wm Menchhofer and daughter Maggie and George Menchhofer and wife visited Dick Luers and family. Fred and John Karl returned from Ottawa Illinois. Mrs Drees and son of Napoleon visited Louis Norwold. John Beck of Batesville was here on business. Clinton Wilson and family traveled to Batesville. Locals plan to go to Batesville to buy holiday goods.
A scattered column mentions Olivier Thomas at Sunman and others at the Farmers Institute, notes on Henry Baas and Lizzie Huber, and a quoted Atlantic piece by Samuel McChord Crothers on speculation. It recounts a Canary Island bird history from Elba to cages and the birds’ music and transformation.
A horse lover from the New York Press argues that black horse coats fade under constant sun exposure, turning rusty black then reddish. He notes two kept shaded to maintain coal black coats and compares sun bleaching to hair and carpet fading.
Dead Letter List informs that letters addressed to Adolph Abbott A B Anderson Chas Bell Andrew Anderson Frank Janes Timothy Cleary H E Cruse James English Jno Copfer Henry Klusman Arthur Werhert Seth Williamsor Jos Muller Brenton Murray W D Murphy Thos McNally Jno Pattion Jed Robenstein Clay Turner Frank Uphaw Wop Schieter Jno G Donahue D McCallum M P M must be called for by November 40 or be sent to the Dead Letter Office in Washington D C.
Low fares plus 25 cents to Seymour Indiana and return with December 11 12 and 13 tickets and December 16 return limit in 1905. Winter rates to Cuba Florida Gulf Coast Inland Southern Resorts Texas California through April 30 1906 with return until June 1 1906. Half rates to Chicago for Sixth International Live Stock Exposition with December 16 17 17 and 19 1905 sale dates at one fare plus 100. Florida Special Chicago to St Augustine via Pullman Sleeping Cars weekly from January 8 1905. For details contact Big Four Route agents Warren J Lynch Cincinnati Ohio.
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