28 May 1909
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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
1
The News runs a big piano contest offering a $400 piano to the girl who brings in the most subscriptions. Contestants show quiet, persistent effort with friends and supporters aiding them. Votes grant prizes and a $25 silver coffee set. a Jewel Box offer runs through June 12. Free ballots end after this issue.
Reports from Marengo list residents and visitors including Clark Sloan in English on official business and Mrs Mat Manning and Ellen Siloan visiting Falls Cities. Multiple locals travel for visits, schooling, and funerals, with doctors and ministers noted in surrounding towns.
A fragmented editorial voice extols farm prosperity and road improvement to boost rural life. It cites Temple meetings led by Eld. A. J. Goodman, praises his Bible handling, and muses on matrimony and climate with humorous quips about farming communities and travel.
Unofficial returns show Jennings Whisky Run Liberty Sterling Patoka Johnson Union Ohio Boone townships voting against alcohol, with only Dry Run precinct going wet. The article notes the day’s calm turnout and a humorous aside about a woman’s daily chores.
Ollie Atz returns home with a thirty inch pike caught at Rothrock's mill. Community notes report events: Joe Ferguson and Luther Flanagan depart Monday for Danville to attend school. temperance sermon by Rev. McCarroll at the Methodist church. a girl born to Samuel Clark and wife Monday evening. mother and baby doing well.
The column mentions piano contest voting incentives with special prizes and subscriptions, a Dubois county fight over a new courthouse with Huntingburg offering funds, and railroads required to equip trains with medical cases. It also includes a reflective obituary-like passage and varied local notes.
The News invites readers to back a contestant in a wide scale piano contest offering 100 votes per subscription and prizes including a $400 piano. Readers can obtain a receipt book, claim the Jewel Box extension to June 12, and earn a $25 silver coffee set by timely participation.
A Laurel Review clipping describes an offer where a person who drinks three drinks of whisky daily for a year and pays ten cents a drink can exchange that amount for a catalog of goods from firms named on the card. The list includes flour, potatoes, sugar, crackers, salt, rice, butter, cheese, coffee, candy, canned tomatoes and corn, pickles, oranges, bananas, matches, soap, oats, and a thirteen dollar premium.
A charity driven railway trip to French Lick and West Baden organized by the Southern Railway promises friendship and relief over a day trip. The advertisement notes a $1.23 round trip from English with a late evening return, urging readers not to miss this genteel excursion.
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