29 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
1
Marengo Fair dates coming next week and Corydon Fair now on. Notices of fairs, church events, and births, including a baby boy born near Temple to Mr and Mrs Greely Smith. Local business ads highlight salt prices and sorghum molasses. Community updates mention farm purchases, reunions, baptisms, and upcoming church dedications.
Two eastbound freight sections caused a runaway pileup near Georgetown when a five car cut on the main track rolled toward a trestle. The second section collided with the runaways, sending twenty spans of the trestle down and wrecking the locomotives. Traffic halted. a temporary trestle reopened by Monday night.
A double-header freight train plunged through a 40 foot trestle at Georgetown, 30 miles east, killing four men including Engineer Reynald Duvall of Louisville and Fireman James B. Cox of Princeton. Conductor A. G. Lewis and Brakeman Wm Burns escaped injury. Lorenzo Ross of Milltown also died. his wife was Dr. Sanders’ daughter. Rossi...
The County Teachers' Institute met at the Court House this week with 132 teachers enrolled by Thursday and daily visitors. Lectures covered Shiloh, Valley Forge, and beauty. Knoefel Summers and Miss Iona Weathers won township and town medals in the county contest.
Ba Talbert Breeden and many others were over to English this week for institute attendance. Locals report visits, travels, and arrivals from Grantsburg, Leavenworth, Pilot Knob, West Fork, Riddle, Beechwood, and other nearby towns as teachers, relatives, and friends attend the teachers' institute and county contest.
after years of belief in oil south of Birdseye a test well four miles south of Birdseye struck oil on the 20th at 1050 feet yielding ten barrels daily. the operators plan deeper drilling to boost production.
The article reports counterfeiters operating in Hickman Kentucky with two men jailed after buying a shirt with a suspected twenty dollar bill that proved fake. It notes rising practice of bill raising and bogus government certificates, plus warnings to merchants about scrutinizing money. It also mentions church services by Rev McNaughton and Rev Campbell, and the Elks Grand Lodge ban on street fairs in Salt Lake City.
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