Thoughts On An Passing Trip And Life Paths
An excerpt discusses travel routes across eastern states from Indiana noting that going east via the northern route and returning south offers peak scenery in the Pennsylvania mountains. It compares two life paths shaped by circumstance or fortune, urging routes where interest and growth ascend like a journey up the Wabash Valley along the Paul Dresser Drive.
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Indiana
Pennsylvania
Wabash Valley
Paul Dresser Drive
Wabash
Camden area social notes and community news
Camden community reports a week of visits and gatherings. Residents from Yeoman Monticello Oak Grove and Delphi among others visited relatives and friends. The Camden Community Club elected officers and planned fundraising efforts. The Delphi marriage of Bessie Sharps and Mike Campbell was announced with plans to live in Akron.
Scenic Motor Tour Through New England and Mid Atlantic
A 1926 travel column praises driving routes from Indiana across the Wabash Valley to Ohio and Western New York. It extols the Berkshires, eastern Massachusetts, Boston, Lexington, Gloucester, Plymouth, Connecticut stone fences, colonial architecture, and returns via the Hudson River. The piece emphasizes scenery, historic surroundings, and coastal vistas on a round trip.
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Izen
Indiana
Wabash Valley
Ohio
New York
Cherry Valley
Hudson
Berkshires
Massachusetts
Boston
Lexington
Gloucester
Plymouth
Connecticut
Journey Through American Roads and Homeward Pride
A travel letter recounts a summer road trip from Indiana to New York across New Jersey Pennsylvania and Ohio describing scenic highlights and the joy of returning home to Delphi The writer praising Indiana wealth and good roads notes travel plans for 1926 and reflects on youth travel culture through humorous anecdotes Rising travel enthusiasm and reflection on the value of going abroad versus exploring home state culture.
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Hudson
New York
New Jersey
Indiana
Philadelphia
Ohio
America
Palestine
South
Canada
Southampton
England
Europe
Bartholomew Columbus More Recognized by Government
The text notes Bartholomew Columbus enjoyed greater government recognition and held important offices after Christopher Columbus's death, highlighting a contrast in stature between the brothers.
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Batholomew - Columbus
Christopher
Bartholomew
Another Carload of Fordson Tractors Delivers More Power
McCain Tractor and Implement Co ships Fordson tractors to Delphi Flora Monticello and Lafayette with 23 percent greater drawbar power, highlighting improved traction for farming work.
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Fordson
McCain Tractor and Implement Co
Delphi
Flora
Monticello
Lafayette
Local Social News From Jefferson Township
Mrs. Ed Crowell visited her mother Mrs. June Scott on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs John Roach are listening to a new radio. Aaron Brewer is on the sick list. Mr and Mrs Ensley Hanna and son Paul and his bride of Metea spent Saturday night and Sunday with Carl Hanna and family. Mr and Mrs John Dimmitt and Gerald called on Olive Dimmitt at Allen Blickenstaff’s. Cris Dimmitt and son spent Sunday with her parents John and Mrs Roach. Clyde and Gerald Crowell arrived in Phoenix Arizona and liked it after visiting White County friends in New Mexico Kansas and Arizona.
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Jay Nace
Nace
Patton
Ella Hall
Monticello
Marion Lucas
David Lilly
Martha Creek
Yeoman
Elda Viney
Ross Austin
Pearl Nicholas
David Arthur
Fred Gaumer
John Thurston
Oak Grove
Delmar Clark
Everett and
Kenneth
Hickman
James Viney
Matthew Jackson
Thyrza Henry
Mary Chadd
Marie Thurston
Alonzo Curtis
Beulah Roth
Homer Stitt
Stitt
Stewart McCall
Idaville
Martha Myers
Frank Galloway
Mahala Henry
Thomas’ Schnepp
Henrys
Ellen Viney
Fred Viney
Glenn Kennard
Golda
Margaret Viney
Ward Holloway
Guy Harvey
Thomas Schnepp
Daniel Wan
Chalmers
Camden Community Club
Camden
W. O. Pettiner
John F. Pritsch
Treas
Oliver Stone
R. O. Sharp
C. E. Baker
Pettiner
Bessie Sharps
William Sharp
Near
Delphi
Mike Campbell
Ulysses Campbell
Delphi Methodist Parsonage
Akron
Ohio
Lutheran Church
Ed Johnson
Arthur Ritchey
Ralph Jones
Lewis Dock
Clarence Lake
Bryan Miller
Margery
Sephar Mhamerickhouse
Carl Lake
Joe .Nieble
Naomi
Harold Baker
Webb Robison
Frank Snoeberger
Charles E. Cline
F. G. Armick
Wilson
Frankfort
Methodist Church
Wesleyan
Purdue University
Camden School
Carrollton Township
Ed Crowell
June Scott
John. Roach
Aaron Brewer
Ensley Hanna
Paul
Metea
Carl Hanna
John Dimmitt
Gerald
Olive Dimmitt
Allen Blickenstaff
Cris Dimmitt
John Roach
Clyde
Gerald Crowell
Phoenix
Arizona
New Mexico
Kansas
Jean Coble
Carrie Williamson
Burrows
Floyd Groninger
Helen
James Thomas
Len Million
Carl Million
Indianapolis
Wabash
Arthur Caldwell
Yellow Graph
Canada
Retta Brown
G. I. Christie
P. M. Byrum
Christie
Rockfield
G. I
Presbyterian Sunday School
Mary Landis
Truman Sanders
Margaret Simons
Anna McDowell
Home Economics Club
Joseph Turner
L. J. Deel
Chas. Raber
Russel Logan
Guy Fincher
Joseph Fincher
John Kerlin
George S. Christie
Lafayette
Henry B. Wilson
H. Y. Mullin
Annie Flora
Orvil Flora
Frank Simons
Mary Cates
J. D. Tricky
Logansport
Presbyterian Church
Co-operative Telephone Company
Lyceum
Chas
W. Wright
Local News Briefs and Notices Reflect Small-Town Life
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Willard Caldwell a son Arthur Lee weighing 84 pounds. Mark Horner of Chicago visiting his parents on East Columbia street. The 80 acre Humberd farm near Walnut Stump sold to Glen Booth for 8050 with possession March 1. W. W. Farr resigns from Burroughs Adding Machine sales role. Rev. S. D. Steffey accepts call to Deer Creek and Rock Creek Lutheran circuit starting April 1, previously pastor at Walton then Spencerville. Parsonage remodeling at Deer Creek has begun.
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Willard Caldwell
Arthur Lee
Mark Horner
Chicago
F. C. Horner
Columbia Street
Samuel Humberd
Walnut Stump
Glen Booth
W. W. Farr
Deer Creek
Jumping the broom superstition linked to wards off evil
The phrase jumping the broom is tied to an old gypsy superstition suggesting that leaping over a broom can ward off evil. Royal Scepter Coffee, Smith's Groc.
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Royal Scepter Coffee
Smith's Groc
Circle Girls hostess in Rockfield
Local notes show Miss Jean Coble hosting Circle Girls at her home Wednesday evening. Several visits and social events are listed including members and relatives visiting, a Day of Prayer event, and church activities at the Presbyterian and cooperative circles.
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Dorothy Cushman
Arch Support Shoes
Goodyear Welt
Goodyear
Rossville
Mr. Schnepp
Henry Schnepp
Mary Burke
Schmitt Kloepfer Co
Broadway
Paris
Mississippi
Jim
Jim Brown
Dis
Eagle
Carroll County
New City Building
6Th and Broadway
Logansport Press
Pharos-Tribune
Our
Chamber of Commerce
Jefferson Twp
Luna Coffee
Smith’s Grocery
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