Thumb-Nail Sketches And Incidents From Indiana History
Anecdotes from educator exams in Indiana era. local color of Palmyra and Harrison County. reminiscences of teachers licenses, spelling errors, Ringmaster Dick Heth, Gen. Sevier and Tipton rivalries, Iron Bridge days, and Palmyra’s early settlement and Cross Roads era.
Sevier and Kate Gardner Blessed By Fort Bond
The account notes Sevier carried a young woman to safety inside the fort and later married her, Miss Kate Gardner. Biographers praise her unusual gifts and note Sevier worshipped her, calling her his Benny Kate. She is identified as the speaker's great grandmother.
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Sevier
Kate Gardner
Benny Kate
Corydon Man Recalls Kidney Remedy in Interview
A Corydon resident, Mr. Gutkese, recounts kidney problems and backaches eased by using Dean's Kidney Pills. He explains his morning stiffness and frequent kidney activity improved after trying the Foster-Milburn Co. remedy. Price 60 cents at dealers. guarantee offered on results.
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Corydon
Dean
Mr. Gutkese
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
In Memory of Mauda M Patterson Who Departed Life
In memory of Mauda M Patterson who died October 22 1922. The verse laments sorrow and longing with family lines and a faith in reunion on the golden shore. An advertisement for Silvertip Gasoline from Reasor’s Visible Pumps follows.
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Mauda M. Patterson
Reasor
Bergdoll Plans Return to America for Draft Evasion Case
New York October 8 Grover Cleveland Bergdoll a German fugitive plans to return to the United States to serve his sentence for draft evasion his mother Mrs Emma Bergdoll said on her arrival from Germany where she visited him She said the return will await court proceedings after an alleged kidnapping attempt at which one man was wounded Bergdoll was said to be preparing to submit to American courts and his mother promised a statement on his intentions when she returns to Philadelphia.
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Palmyra
W. F. Avery
Vincennes
Webber Home
Silver Lake
Charley White Eyes
Captain Berry
Tippecanoe
Yellow Jackets
Spier Spencer
McClellan
New Albany
Maucks Ferry
Mauckport
Indianapolis
McCallen
McAllen’s Woods
Carthage
New Albany and
John H. Martin
McCalles
McdAllen’s
G. B. Avery
J. H. Martin
John Coleman
Martin
Hays R. McAllen
Missouri
Joseph Avery
Indiana
John Morgan
Britton Boston
Confederacy
Gen. Hobson
Old Cross Roads
Red Man
New World
Houser
Mother Earth
New York
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Germmany
Emma Bergdoll
Albert Basin
Germany
Bergdoll
Sensible Driving Warns Amid Reckless Highway Tragedy
A Wisconsin Indiana verse laments Percival Sap who crashed with a girl on his lap and William Bake lies buried, using stark funeral humor to urge careful behavior on public roads and reduce traffic deaths.
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Indiana
Percival Sap
Mary Jaye Returns to Life with Ford’s Thirty-Five
A brief which notes Mary Jaye is no longer alive yet her Ford is described as turning thirty five. The item hints at a defunct persona and a vehicle tied to her.
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Mary Jaye
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Thomas
Zenor
Canada
Atlantic
The
Educational Ltd
Bunker Hill
Ren
Horace Greeley
Virtue
Dick Heth
Corydon Fair
Dan Rice
Heth
Fletch Davis
Ner
Gid Heth
Dick Applegate
Whcich
Hez Applegate
John Orwick
John Q. A. Sieg
Mr. Sieg
Ike Melton
Gay
Debonair
Bayard
Monroe Sieg
Bill Miles
Abe Dyer
J. E. Steele
Little Ring
J. P. Funks
John Tipton
Tennessee
Great Bend
Tipton
John
John Sevier
Great Smokies
Tennesse
Andrew Jackson
King’s Mountain
Jackson
Roosevelt
Nashville
Sevier Trome
Congress
Iarrison County
I Tivanus
Aly Blader
Percy L. Mavis
Town of
Crandall
Ohio Power
John Wolfe
C. A. Sims
George Gutkese
St. Vitus
Henry M. Stevens
Palmer Chiropractor
Ind
Miller’s Apparel Shoppe
Laura R. Miller
America
J. J. Bullett & Son
Ramsey
Jacob W. Davis
Rhode Island
Eureka Telephone Co
Robbie I. Davis
R. F. Davis
William Bake
Railieg
William Jay
John Smith