Urgent linen repairs halt electric service weekly
Oldenburg notices the Batesville Electric Light & Power Co will turn off current four days each week until further notice for urgent linen repairs. Local social news includes dances, visits by residents to relatives, and upcoming weddings. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Schreiner, Miss Holtel, and Adolph Lampert among others.
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Batesville Electric Light & Power CO
St. Clair’s
Robert Erte
Mary Jane
F. W. Peine
Hugo Wahman
Greensburg
William Hoelker
Elmer Kellerman
Cincinnati
St. Anthony’s Young Men’s Society
Herman Brockman
George Streuwing
George Moorman
Ivo Kirschner
William Decesterling
Clement Raver
Ralph Ferkinhoff
Leo Tebbe
Herman Rossfeld
Edwin Klein
Leo Freihage
Frank Wittenberg
Eugene Etter
Reid
Dayton
Ohio
Frank Riehling
Woodlawn
Jacob Etter
Katherine Holtel
Adolph Lampert
Norwood
Cleveland
John Holtel
John Bingham
Louisville
Louise Rudolf
Indianapolis
August Haverkamp
Terre Haute
L. Holman
H. Dunkman
Marion
Joseph Haverkos
Frances Stamps
Ed Hoelker
Clarence
Leonard Holter
C. W. Friend
Clarence Beidelman
Elmer Peine
Rural Brookville Friends and Relatives Network
Sunday visits and kinship ties populate a Brookville area roundup. Ben Bruns and wife plus baby stayed with George Sammis and Mike Vohler while August Fledderman and family visited Connersville guests, including Mr. and Mrs. Fledderman’s daughter, Mrs. Carl Grunkemeyer. More gatherings feature Alois Pulskamp at a Batesville dance, and Mrs. Bruns and daughter Stella joining Mrs. Meeker and Mrs. Siefert groups socializing with relatives in Cincinnati and Ertel households.
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Ben Bruns
Babe
George Sammis
Mike Vohler
August Fledderman
Connersville
Fledderman
Carl Grunkemeyer
Ben Moster
B. Bruns Sr
Alois Pulskamp
Batesville
Anthony Bruns
Stella
Meeker
Siefert
Mary
Cincinnati
Anna Risselman
Harry Ertel
Nature and Love in Simple Means by Heine
A compact reflection on how nature yields grand results through basic elements sun flowers water and love. The moral notes that without insight the scene appears plain and the essentials resemble tiny mites in diameter while trees supply fuel and flowers are classified by stamens.
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Heine
Never Alone Says A Devout Man Keeps Constant Cheer
A quotation notes that someone living with a constant sense of the divine presence maintains perpetual cheerfulness and enjoys each moment as if in the company of his dearest friends. Time never feels heavy. solitude becomes impossible for him.
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Joseph Addizon
Fresh Air Request From Katie Inside Gate
Katie asks to leave the yard gate open for a bit of fresh air after wanting to go outside, noting the yard is enclosed by a wire fence and gate. Her mother considers the request as she debates allowing more outdoor time.
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Katie
Metamora Notes on Visits and a Doughboy Magazine Missing
Metamora residents host relatives from Indianapolis Harrison Congersville and Kentucky with numerous visits and reunions. A former Doughboy collector from Metamora disappeared after taking a dollar subscription two years ago, leaving the town awaiting delivery.
Purple Dye From Shellfish On Costa Rica Coast
On the Pacific coast near Cocos bay a shellfish called nacancos yields a purple color. The dye is produced by blowing into the shell to release a greenish liquor, which dyes thread upon sun exposure. The liquor may be air sensitive, hindering preservation and industrial expansion.
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Costa Rica
Cocos Bay
First Woman Printers in Mount Ripoli Convent
Report notes that the first women printers were nuns from the Dominican or der order who operated a printing press in a Mount Ripoli convent in Italy as early as 1476.
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Mount Ripoli
Italy
Two Classes of Snobs
Thackeray quips on social pretensions warning that those who despise poverty and those who flaunt wealth both exhibit snobbery in equal measure. The aphorism contrasts humble origins with aristocratic pride, urging self awareness.
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Thackeray
The Trouble With Them Jazz in Home Sweet Home
Uncle Eben muses that some families would be happier if they stopped inserting excess jazz into the old song Home, Sweet Home. The remarks humorously critique modernizing traditions and musical tastes within households.
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Eben
Reflections of a Flatterer in a Boston Transcript Quip
A brief reminiscence notes how a dumb waiter becomes a mirror of chatter in a Boston Transcript snippet. It hints at themes of health wealth wisdom, urging work and mindful advertising as a path to success.
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Boston Transcript
The Aftermath at the Bank and Norma's Sacrifice
Norma Drury confronts her father Martin Drury after a missing $4,000 bond pack and a bank crisis. Sydney Wardell, son of former president Wardell, reshapes the bank, promotes Norma, and later reveals a plan to honor her loyalty. A love blossoming as the bank prospers and the duo rises.
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Norma Drury
Martin Drury
Norma
Wardell
Coom
Stern
Prury
David Wardell
Sydney
Mr. Drury
Young Wardell
Leeville
Miss Drury
Sydney Wardell
Booze Is Not a Good Cure from Ames Intelligencer
A drugstore column warns that whiskey is not a cure for colic or stomach pain and urges consulting a doctor or using Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. It contrasts false beliefs about alcohol as remedy and notes Roman era origins of subjugate terms and yoke imagery.
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Ames Iowa Intelligencer
Chamberlain
Terry
Chinese Leather Novelties From Chan Chun Foo
Chinese leather goods are made from lizard shark dolphin and snake skins at Chan Chun Foo in China. Snake skins yield many items like canes pipes purses and pocketbooks. The earth travels more than half a billion miles in a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chan-Chun- Foo
China
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Joseph Jackson Sr
Ella McGuire
Elliot
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Laurel
Anderson
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Everett Piper
Clinton and
Scott
Roy Holbert
Clarence Holbert
Milroy
Owen Holbert
Pansy
Ervin Holbert
Cambridge City
Ezra and
Emmett Holbert
Eva Ellison
Homer
Herman Kaiser
Frank
Adrian
Ray
Hilda Holbert
Metamora
Tom Martindale
Vivian Ratz
Walter Crawley
Lewis Schuler
B. Ferris
Maud Curry
Alva
Alpha Wright
M. F. Cupp
Willard Chance
Uncle Sam
Western Newspaper Union
Geo. Steinwart
John Ditton
S. E. Cor
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Grand Central Depot
Ripley County
Third Street
Boerstler
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Blank’s Pharmacy
Rexall Store
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