Boys Friends Coming to Covington Campaign
Indiana specialists for boys and young men arrive Monday Sept 27 at 8 p m in the Presbyterian church for a two week campaign. A. W. Conner leads with entertaining talks and practical guidance aimed at improving boy welfare. He speaks daily at 4 p m and nightly at 8 p m on the Boy Problem with music by Miss Mary Seeger. Monday night lecture free.
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Indiana
Presbyterian Church
Covington
A. W. Conner
Conner
T. E. Ballard
M. E
Brook
Mary Seeger
Birthday Celebration at Coal Creek Honoring Mrs McLain
A large gathering at Mrs Polly McLain’s Coal Creek home marked her 69th birthday with a noon dinner attended by relatives and friends from Wallace Perrysville Terre Haute and nearby. The chapter closes with a wish that grandma may see many more birthdays.
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Polly McLain
Coal Creek
Philip Keller
Earl Keller
Jonas Keller
Wallace
Gay Oyler
Agatha
Dice Keller
Terre Haute
Wesley Winter
Perrysville
Vera Keller
Richard Hall
Charles McClain
Chas. Helprich
Ludtke
Than Woods
Eliza
Verna
Lucy
Alfred Jones
Thomas’ Rowel
Lucy McLain
Gertrude McLain
Joanna Jones
Edith Rowell
Mira Williams Neal Chatt
Charles McLain
John Jones
Stanna Keller
Perrysvile
Clyde Hershberger
John Pickett
Auburn Auto Display Impresses At County Fair
James Yerkes and partners plus Warren County Auto Co displayed Auburns led by J C Muse and J O Finch with Thos McCune and Lee Dodd. The silent running car wowed buyers. parade featured 18 Auburns confirming leading, high class status. 1910 30 HP four cylinder touring car priced at 1000 dollars.
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James Yerkes
Auburn
Lewis
Richmond
Warren County Auto Co
J. C. Muse
J. O. Finch
C. W. Amos
Bart Ermentrout
Thos. McCune
Indianapolis
Lee Dodd
Ladoga
Fair Grounds
Yerkes
Warren County Auto Company
Auction Sale of 30 Jersey Cows at Kingman Fair Grounds
Auction at the Kingman Fair Grounds on a Saturday in September offers 30 Jersey cows and heifers for sale. Cows are high quality, either yielding milk or calved, with six months terms and bankable notes. Sale proceeds rain or shine with clerks and organizers listed.
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Jersey
Kingman Fair Grounds
Bart W. Hat
Claude Madden
Allie McCord
Cash Grocery
Romford
J. A. Farnsworth Harlow
Plucking Bats in Paris Cafes and Caves
A sailor recalls honeyed bat meat served in Parisian eateries while describing nightly bat gathering from caves. He details plucking bats for cooks in the Latin Quarter and Bull Meesb with a burlap bag and notes their inclusion in a famed five sou navarin.
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Paris
Latin Quarter
Cart-shay
Boulevard Michel
Jacques
Cafe Anglais
Cincinonuti Enquirer
Lincoln Irony Recalls Boy Imprisonment Case
The Boston Post recalls a meeting where Hon. Alexander H. Rice asked President Lincoln for a pardon for a Boston boy jailed for robbing his employer’s letters. Lincoln quips about abolishing courts as the way to end such jailings and praises the boy’s supposed virtue while condemning the legal system.
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Alexander H. Rice
Lincoln
Boston
Mr. Rice
President
Mr. Lincoln
Massachusetts
Boston Post
The French Schoolboy's Hard Day
The Pall Mall Gazette notes French students endure long hours from early morning to late evening. It cites school commutes after 7 o clock and tutors by 5 o clock for those pursuing higher professions. It contrasts French student toil with the intense conservatory regimen and German comparisons.
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Tyre
Pall Mall Gazette
How High a Tiger Can Jump
A correspondent writes that a tiger can jump from all fours to at least seven feet high when pursuing. He hid in a tree but the tiger sprang up, and the hunter escaped by shooting the animal in the mouth. The lesson is to choose trees with branches above sixteen feet.
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India Field
Iron bedstead denied at inn in Boniface reply
A tourist at an inn declares there must be an iron bedstead. Boniface replies that none exists in the house but promises comfortable mattresses and hard pillows.
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Boniface
Ouse
London
A Concession in a Tender Exchange
A brief dialogue shows a woman demanding freedom and a man granting caution as tension builds. The exchange ends with a threat to return home to her mother if limits persist.
A Hill and a Pil Joke: Up or Down
A pun contrasts a hill and a pill noting one is hard to get up and the other hard to get down. The quip plays on mobility and size with a playful moral about effort and ease.
Tragic Tale of a Tragedian on Stage Teeth Fiasco
A London actor manager loses his false teeth during a dramatic curse scene as described by a sprightly English actress. The teeth vanish into hiding, the crowd laughs, the stage manager uses a lantern to recover them, and the performance resumes with renewed vigor.
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London
New York World
The Red Rock Cinnabar and Mercury Mining
The article explains cinnabar as the red ore source of quicksilver and vermilion pigment. It describes roasting to release mercury, its vapor as a pencil of molten silver, and notes rare native mercury. It warns miners face poisonous fumes and suggests extreme cleanliness and a lemonade antidote with acid replacing lemon juice.
Curtains Must Stay Up In London Public Conveyances
A Baltimore American reader recalls London law requiring public vehicles to keep curtains open so the interior is visible at all times. The rule applies to cabs carriages and similar conveyances to deter robbery and aid capture, with strict penalties for noncompliance.
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London
The Gorgons in Greek Mythology Recapped
The Gorgons were serpent haired, scaled monsters with brass hands whose gaze turned people to stone. Perseus beheaded one of the three sisters, and blood drops formed serpents that plagued Libya. New York Telegram.
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Gorgons
Homer
Euripides
Perseus
Ethiopia
Lybia
New York
Avoided the Conventional Dress Scene Mention
The Chicago Post recalls a publisher urging a heroine description. The author responds with a bold, detailed outfit including a $600 dress a $250 hat and a $98.75 mantilla over a $375 lace coat.
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Heloise
Chicago Post
Deacon Critiques Sermons and Barber Quips at Church
A deacon respectfully criticizes a minister for long sermons while a quip about Napoleon and shaving undercuts the exchange. The minister replies that more knowledge would reduce the sermon length, and a classical barb about tyrants and barber’s hands adds a tangential moral.
Transfer Law Test Aims At Patoka Township Cruel Transfers
A Princeton special reports seven Patoka township patrons have filed complaints with Deputy Prosecutor J. T. Lallard about denied pupil transfers to city schools. The test case targets township officials for possible discrimination after state official Robert J. Alley opposed transfers.
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Princeton
Gibson County
Patoka Township
J. T. Lallard
Robert J. Alley
Baldwin Hights
Township
Schous
Danville Commercial News Contest Prize Winners
Winners announced for the Danville Commercial News Contest closing last Saturday and reported Monday. First prizes included an auto for Capital Mrs. W H Goodwine and multiple Misses from Danville and nearby towns. seconds awarded as diamond rings or scholarships. thirds received gold watches.
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Danville
Capital
W.H. Goodwine
Potomac
Vita Hopper
James C. Anderson
Estelle Love
Pearl Rucb
Fithian
Esther White
Catlin
Bessie Loomis
Perrysville
Emma McKinzie
Williamsport
Ind
Eima Temmerman
Homer
Verne Douglas
Florence Seth
Mark C. Miller
Josephine Keeler
Bismark
Martha Laurence
Ridgefarm
Meriam Gwyn
Covington
Madge Dean
Pence
Mollie Lurger
Chrisman
Anna Dyer
Mabel Broderick
Jessie English
Vera
Cheney
Armstrong
Genevieve Williams
Sidell
Halma Martin
Covington Ind
Edith W. Snoooks
West Lebanon
Estelle Lucas
Villa
Grove
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Albert J. Beveridge
Ohio
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David Turpie
Beveridge
Congress
Rainier’s
William Beauchamp
Mabie Cronen
Bell Thompson
Carrie Jones
McLain
Wayne Staley
May Tod
F. W. Boyd
P. M
Plymouth
Restaurante
Mamma
Filegende Biatter
Napoleon
Talleyrand
Dtonyailla
Syracuse
Commercial News Prize
Fletcher
John M Galloway
Fountain Circuit Court
Fountain Trust Company
Johan M.galloway
the Fountain Trust Company
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