Summer visits light up area households in weekend reuniting
Local residents welcome relatives and friends for summer breaks. Visitors include Miss Sharlee Kyser from Kentucky, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Stanley from Connersville, and Dr. and Mrs. Clark Gause with daughter Helen. University events and alumni gatherings noted at Purdue and Earlham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharlee. Kyser
Mrs
Michael Kyser
Mary Ann Kulmer
Sophia Waara
Hancock Michigan
Clark Gause
Helen
J. R. Behr
Rosemary
T. A
Near Monon
Mr. Behr
Purdue University
Z. M. Smith
Howard Ernest and
Franklin Addison
Arlington
Jamita Burd
Manilla
Harry Sample
Knightstown
Enos Coffin
Bearl Addison
Com University
Helen Mencement
Butler Addison
Marjorie Osborn
Robert Keith
Bloomingdale
Mildred Armstrong
Owensville
Nathan Pickett
Earlham College
England’s Early Postal Service Origins and Key Figures
The article traces England’s postal system from private posts in Edward II’s era to a formal royal service. It names Sir Brian Tuke, Sir William Paget, John Mason, and Thomas Randolph, noting Randolph as chief postmaster in 1581, and outlines James I’s creation of the foreign post, Charles I’s 1635 running posts, Prideaux’s 1644 reforms, and Murray’s penny post 1681.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Edward II
Brian Tuke
William Paget
John Mason
Thomas Randolph
James I
Matthew de Quester
Charles I
Edinburgh
London
Edmund Prideaux
House of Commons
Robert Murray
Crown
Perforated Stamps Pioneered By Archer Patent
Early stamps required cutting and tearing. Henry Archer patented a perforation system that Britain adopted in 1854. Soon most major nations built perforation machines, using rotary wheels or comb like bars to perforate single rows or whole sheets at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Archer
Great Britain
Chicago Tribune
Packing Animals for Sea Travel in Victorian Era Crates
The article describes robust crates for ocean voyages housing animals. It notes escapeproof designs, food and cleaning doors, ventilation, and sleeping or standing space. Jumbo the giraffe is hoisted by canvas sling, smaller animals by crane, alligators in coffin boxes, snakes in tin glass lids, pygmy hippos in galvanized iron tanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
England
Childrens dinner tale and comical perch remark
A group of children discuss their meals at dinner with jokes about chicken parts. Jackie then holds up a skewer and declares he has the perch, eliciting amusement from the others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackie
Medici Crest Legend Tied to Three Brass Balls
The three brass balls, emblematic of the Medici, are linked to the Lombards as early moneylenders in England. A legend says they symbolize three gilded pills for medicine, while another tale claims a Medici killed a giant Mugello and used the slain foe’s mace balls as his crest.
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England
Mugello
Magavine
For Sale Notices From Sharer and Moore
For sale listings include a seven foot deer ing binder from Sharer and Moore a good piano and rabbit hutches with inquiries at this office an Ohio manure spreader three years old in good condition Sharer and Moore
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharer & Moore
Ohio
Also Mentioned on This Page
Binder
Carthage
Burdsal
Shaker & Moore
Rushville, Indiana
North Main
Henley
Mary Ellen McCarty
Grant Stanley
Connersville
Alice Gray
John Ball
Newcastle
Louis Campbell
Ada
Elsie Chappell
Providence, Rhode Island
Arthur Sluyter
Hammond
Lowell Henley
John
Shelbyville
Leonard Clark
Miami, Florida
Carl Norris
Macy Plays
Richmond
John Parker
Mrs. S. M. Parker
Roy Newby
Dane Peck
Eaton
H. G. Sampson
Rushville
Mrs. Cleve Geise
Jesse Henley
Mrs. E. P. Trueblood
G. C. Stone
Morristown
Jesse Pitts
Thomas Addison
Clifford Tolbert
Walter Addison
Cleve Geise
Henry Gahimer
Fred Gahimer
John Nebb
Herbert
Mabel
Viola Mofford
Dickson Emmitt
Market St. Christian Church
Butler University
Ora D. Henley
Elwood Lineberry
Boone Dill
Dennis Dill
Mary Elizabeth
Pendleton
Frank Jones
Cleveland
Roger I
Thurn, Taxis
Valsassina
Tyrol
Germany
Italy
Brussels
Vienna
Maximillian I
Nuremberg
Charles V
Netherlands
Liege
Treves
Spire
Rheinhausen
Wurttemburg
Augsburg
Merrit
Maxwell House Coffee
Furnas
Coca Cola
Sunkist
Elliott’s Grocery
Carthage, Indiana
Frank Wilson
Regal
A. W. Winfield
Regal Store
Kingan
Addison's Meat Market
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