Indiana Centennial Observances Sweep Statewide Traditions
Indiana counties stage grand Centennial events with pageants parades and band concerts. Huntington Vanderburgh Monroe Knox Madison join Pendleton Elwood Crawfordsville and Union in week long programs led by county chairs and featuring historical exhibits reunions and a state pageant The Great Gateway of the West spectacle at Fort Wayne is expected to draw forty thousand spectators.
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Indiana
Huntington
Vanderburg
Monroe
Knox
Madison
Reservoir Park
West
M. C. Pearson
Indianapolis
Professor D. D. Hains Attends County Centennial Celebration
Crawfordsville professor D. D. Hains and his wife and son visited New Albany relatives during the weekend celebration. Hains, a Wabash College professor, is preparing a pageant for Montgomery County's Centennial and planned to speak at Corydon under the Constitution Elm but the schedule was full. He recalls his boyhood ties to Corydon and the old State Capitol.
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D. D. Hains
Crawfordsville
New Albany
Hains
Cheek
Wabash College
Montgomery
Corydon
State Capitol
Harrison County
Transit Schedule Fragments Forge Erratic Travel Plan
The notice outlines erratic departures from New Middletown Corydon Bintner Hotel and New Albany Luyons Hotel with inconsistent times. It hints at a gathering and arrangements in Clout dae Geis elery and Pole burg with unclear dates, likely mid June events.
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New Middletown
Corydon
Corydon resident touts Dean's Kidney Pills
Wilford L. Byrne of Corydon describes suffering kidney pain and night-time urinary issues. He says Dean's Kidney Pills relieved his symptoms after purchasing at Riely's Drug Store and notes his 1910 praise and continued endorsement.
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Corydon
Wilford L. Byrne
Beech St
Dean
Riely
Glenn
Foster-Milburn Co., Props
Buffalo
N.Y
Local Social Notes From Bine River Area
Delayed news from Democrat reports Will Conrad is very low. Visitors include Mrs Ed Langdon and grandson Robert to Ray Langdon’s. Miss Ray Pate of Cold Friday visited and attended Mt. Solomon commencement. Major Lowe and sons with Ollie Shrigley came from near Indianapolis to visit J W Shrigley. Minnie Cole left for Borden to pick strawberries. Mrs Marion Conrad near bedside of daughter Mrs Chas Pithean who has been sick. Pitman improving. Sunday visits at J W Shrigley’s include Major Lowe and family plus several neighbors.
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Bine River
the Democrat
Will Conrad
Ed Langdon
Robert
Ray Langdon
Ray Pate
Cold Friday
Mt. Solomon
Major Lowe
Herbert, Logan
Ralph
Ollie Shrigley
Indianapolis
J. W. Shrigley
Minnie Cole
Borden
Marion Conrad
Chas Pithean
Pitman
J. W.shrigley
Ehiticon
Strand Carts
Ollie Shriziey
Kisn
Magpie Mauck
Blanche Conrad
Rhea Pate
Lola Hmffiott
Victor Rothrock
Ray Mauck
Clem Zeller
Local residents visit and building work noted
Herbert Walie owns namen pina while C A Harrell and C A Ware plan a barn for W B Voyles at Ramsey Mir and Mrs Stevens daughter from Oklahoma visits this week. Miss Ethelle Heifner of Louisville visits her brother Herbert and C A Ware and wife. Several local women, including Lula Weathers and Ruth Wenning, guest Miss Laura Jackson Sunday. Edna Goss of Palmyra visits Hester Crayden Sunday. Paul Bigler and wife visit Jonathan Jackson and wife. Rev Joe Bunch and wife from Palmyra with Mrs Eli Wolfe and others visit C A Wolfe Sunday.
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Herbert Walie
Namen Pina
Lousky Routh
C. A. Harrell
W. BR. Voyles
Ramsey
Edna Goss
Palmyra
Hester Crayden
Paul Bigler
Jonathan Jackson
Joe Bunch
Eli Wolfe
Etta Routh
Frank Pillars
Chas Routh
C. A. Wolfe
Old Love Letter from 1874 Found in Corydon County
A family in Corydon uncovers a letter dated February 14 1874 from a woman in Janeaville Ind to a county gentleman. She boasts of an imminent marriage to a Methodist minister, mocks a rival, and includes humorous domestic notes about potatoes hens and gossip. The document also lists vintage patent medicine and a local shop ad line.
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Corydon
Janeaville
Ind
Methodist Church
Mary Newton Dresses at C P Trotter Co
Newton Dresses at C P Trotter Co showcase a special Mary Newton line for children ages 3 to 14. Made of Amoskeag ginghams and shrunk with color guarantees, these dresses come from Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co in St Louis. Each dress includes a doll with three costumes and a season long number, with drawings in the Ready-to-Wear Department for a Mary Newton Bisque Doll and a Mary Newton Dress. Save your numbers.
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Mary Newton
Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co
St. Louis
Eureka Telephone Owners Notice and Birthday Gatherings
Notice to Eureka Telephone Owners reports a birthday party at Mr and Mrs Jacob Bickels near New Middletown honoring their daughter Jace on her sixteenth birthday with guests and refreshments. The second notice details quarterly dues aligning with calendar quarters, totaling 1.36 due at four months and 1.06 every three months, signed by Wm H Keller Sr treasurer.
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Jacob Bickel
New Middletown
Jack
Roy Toombs
Jack Bickel
Samuel Kannapel
Leora Ellwanger
Dumont Deberry
Opa Wolfe
Lemon Resch
Minnie Wolfe
Eli Vogt
Iva Bigler
Elmer Felker
Flelen Newman
Harry Howard
Alma Kraft
Edward Newman
Corinne Kraft
Otto Schneider
Edna Newman
Albert Wolfe
Clemma Richert
Orlin Richert
Ada Felker
Paul Voelker
Eva Harbeson
Adele Schneider
Edith Gleitz
Rosie Wolfe
Faith Voelker
Tola Gleitz
Anna Kraft
Lena Schneider
Zetta Vo
Board of Directors
Wm. H. Keller, Sr
Army Recruits Sought By Sergeants In Louisville
Sergeants Samuel McAdams Lacey Luxton and Silas Glickstein of the United States Army stationed in Louisville visit for a week to recruit young men under a May 4 1916 act allowing cadets to be appointed from enlisted men aged nineteen to twenty two with at least one year of service. Also an advertisement for a good second hand sideboard offered by the office.
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Samuel McAdams
Lacey Luxton
Silas Glickstein
United States Army
Louisville
Act of Congress
United States Military Academy
Recrlar
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Edward C. Miller
John A. Forkner
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L. N. Hanes
Efarsham College
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Ard Arm
Liberty
S. W. Creed
Howe
Union
Owensville
Gilson County
Poleburg
Frank
Mary
Newton
C. P. Trotter
Eureka Telephone
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Joan W. Kern
Thomas Taggart
J. A.M. Adair
Portland
Mason J. Miblack
Vincennes
Homer L. Cook
Dale J. Crittenberger
Anderson
George A. Bittler
Fort Wayne
Evan B. Stotsenburg
Supreme Court
Philip Zoercner
Tell City
W. Kann
Ligonier
Isamuel L. Scott
Jeffersonville
Douglas Morris
Rushville
Charles EF. Cox
James A. Moran
John C. McNutt
Martinsville
Travel
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Jeffersville
Watson Junction
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Scoure
Crothersville
Seymore
Columbus
W4burg
Franklin
Greenwood
Indianapoli
Sey
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Olis
Southern Indiana
Bror
Seymour
Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Railway Company
Scottsburg
Service
Lindianapolis
Seymour Wah
Southern Anal R
GENS
Seeendiapapolis
Congress
William E. Cox
Charles T. Brown
Wielldaatea Bermel
Samuerl C.mauck
Thomas W Wnight
James AL Watson
Ill Miller
Hienry EL Wise
Commissienwe
Pipsi Distret
Nucholas
Chichester S Pills
Chi-Chesters
Pilla
Bert
Foxty
Parker
Druggiata
Evansville Courier
Dailysby Mail
Evansville
J. L. Lugkett
Undertaker
Corydon, Ind
Swarens
Adam
Undertakers
H. H. Miller
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Bulleti
Coryvon
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