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Newspaper
Carlisle News
Location
Carlisle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
4
The passage notes that making money by selling at a loss is untenable. It argues if a farmer grows only grain for grain, he will starve, and a merchant selling at purchase price loses time, labor, and expenses.
Sullivan news items note Chas D Nalley visiting Greenup, Wiley Brenton leasing his machinery to J H Myers for summer threshing, Tom Jerkins sending THE NEWS to Mary Ledgerwood in Avilan Okla, and Prof C J Waits teaching summer school in Winona Indiana. Other items include Belt of local changes in insurance work, visits, a Sullivan street fair on August 4, and county board of review sessions plus local civic notes.
The article traces Flag Day origins from June 14 1777 adoption of the stars and stripes and notes the 1897 founding of the American Flag Association. It credits Col George Baich for initiating the flag day salute and documents efforts by the Woman's Relief Corps and the Grand Army to promote a national celebration with governors’ proclamations and public displays.
An ad touts Krause’s Cold Cure claiming to break a cold in twenty four hours with no work interruption. It also promotes Wil prevent colds at 25 cents. Bold by W. 7 ner.
Roy Brower, 13, son of Richard Brower of three miles south of Indian Prairie, died after a accidental gun discharge while hunting on John M. Douthitt’s farm near Jefferson township. The shotgun blast struck his upper right thigh, a six inch diameter wound, and he bled to death before reaching home. Funeral held at Indian Prairie church with Rev. A. L. Tidrick officiating.
An old advertisement promotes Lichty’s Celery Nerve Compound as a nerve medicine. It claims insomnia results from a derangement of the nerves and presents the celery extract with other ingredients as an effective remedy.
The infant child of C K David son and wife died Saturday aged three months from spinal meningitis. The death occurred near Pleasantville at the home of Mrs Davidson's parents and the child was buried Sunday morning in Engle cemetery.
Mrs Uriah Wilson of Jefferson township near Pleasantville dies after long paralysis. Her funeral was held Sunday afternoon at Indian Prairie church, coming just twenty minutes after Roy Brower’s service in the same church.
Earnest Hines aged 18 years eight months and twenty seven days died of consumption Friday afternoon June 13 about four o clock at his mother's home Mrs Sarah Hines. He had been an inmate at Evansville insane asylum for about two years and was brought home May 4 this year. Funeral services were held Saturday morning with interment in Carliste cemetery.
Mrs Elizabeth Harper of Sullivan arrived Saturday for a brief visit with relatives in town.
A notice extols Bochee's German Syrup as a remedy for colds and severe lung ailments. It promises prevention of serious sickness and death with three or four doses and offers a free sample from Curtner's drug store, plus a Green's Special Almanac.
Stone and Webster will start work on interurban lines radiating from Terre Haute. J P Clark of Terre Haute Electric says an electric road to Sullivan and mining towns south is planned, with capacity at the existing power stations to support all lines in time.
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