Knightstown notices and local updates span visits bids sales and crimes
Notices from Knightstown cover business advertising Watkins Products orders by phone, local arrivals and travels including Pitts Hinshaw and Winslows, council meetings, a public sale, lost purse found papers missing items recovered, hospital update on Mrs Bramel, and Women’s Literary Circle Indiana Day program with readings and songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNew Bros
Knightstown
Stone Quarry Mills
Abe Turnbull
J. W. Johnson
Indiana
Ella J. Coffin
Mattie Clark
Irish recollections spark sly bedstory of Billy Mulcahy
Lord Castleton records a comic Irish anecdote from the San Francisco Argonaut. Billy Mulcahy lies bedridden after a fall while Briscoe jokes about his misery and toast crumbs. He plans to import white mice from Clonnel to cure him, a quip that ends in playful bravado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Castleton
Billy Mulcahy
Briscoe
Billy
Henry
Gorra
Clonnel
San Francisco
The Vengeful Flivver Stirs Town in Petunia
A comical scene unfolds as a man escapes a haunted car, the Hootin Nanny, cranking it to chase him through streets. He warns the Right Place store proprietor and flees toward safety while the vehicle allegedly follows him into a nearby milliner shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petunia
Kansas City Star
Domestic help ad notes applicant’s wide skills
Bridget replies to a domestic help ad listing plain cooking cleaning washing ironing whitewashing paper hanging sewing mowing and weeding. She adds she is fully trained and would only decline to make a fourth at bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridge
Winter Closes In With Snow and Cold Snap
A cold spell brought 6 above Friday morning and rough ice from strong winds. Light snow fell Saturday evening, followed by a thaw with 86 degrees and sunshine Tuesday through Thursday. Sugar camps opened for a second run, light through Thursday, with a possible record.
Assessors Begin Work in Ripley Township
Assessors William Henley and James Arnold started work this week on personal property and real estate. Henley handles Carthage area while Arnold covers the rest of the township. Howard L Wynegar a New York banker will speak at the Foundation day event May 6 at Indiana University. He heads Continental Guaranty and Commercial Credit Corp of New York and is son in law of Mrs W J Porter of Connersville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Henley
Ripley Township
James Arnold
Henley
Carthage
Mr Arnold
Howard L. Wynegar
New York City
Indiana University
Continental Guaranty Corporation
Commercial Credit Corporation of New York
Wynegar
W. J. Porter
Connersville
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van Camp
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Country Club
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Oleo Wondernut Pound
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Watkins
R. V. James
H. O. Pitts
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Thomas Alexander
Son Ed
B. H. Billings and
Battle Creek, Mich
George Hinshaw
Martinsville
Charles S. Winslow
Fay Winslow
Earl Herkless
Nancy Herkless
Herkless
John Porter
Denver
Colo
Myers Pulp and Paper Co
Mary F. Willcutt
J. Butler Hill
Robert A. Watling
Middletown
H. M. Kenworthy
Greenfield Ice Cream and Bottling Co
Pennsylvania
Greenfield Republican
R. H. Hill
George Youse
Earl Andis
Marvin Bramel
Sexton’s Hospital
Rushville
Poland
Hampshire
Studebaker
McCormick Mower
National
Black Hawk
Gale Corn
Hoosier
Globe
Wheeler & Wilson
Ray Compton
Heeb & Brown
Clerka
Bridget
Sinclair Liberty Aero
Liberty Aero
Sinclair Refining Company of
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Sinclair
Goodwin Bros. Auto Co
Weber’s Garage
Charlottesville
J. B. Omelia
Ogden F. L. Redick
Hunsinger Bros
Mays F. C. Port
Raysville
Goodwin Bros. Oil Company
Dunreith, Indiana
FORD
Genuine Ford Parts
Franklin Foxy Five
Palais Paramount
State
Tweedy & Stager
Kennedy & Son
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