Gossip from Evansville trip and local notes
Cor respondents report teachers J A Sergesketter Birehler and Jacob Weaver attended the Southwestern Indiana Teachers Institute in Evansville. Local residents share visits, Thanksgiving plans, and small events including a man drowning scare near Crooked Creek and a horse rescue.
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J. A. Sergesketter
Birehler
Jacob Weaver
Martina
Blandina
Evansville
Southwestern Indiana Teachers’ Institute
Martin Birehler
Martin
Local travelers and visitors noted in Munday and nearby towns
Miss Clara Buechler left Munday for Louisville to consult a doctor. Paul Jasper made a business trip to Jasper last week. Gilbert Arehart visited his uncle Josh Arehart at Washington last week. A shooting match at John Arehart's last Saturday drew a good crowd despite weather. Jos Linetti and family and Hugo Beckman visited John Elmer's flagt Sunday.
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Clara Buechler
Munday
Louisville
Gilbert Arehart
Josh Arehart
Washington
John Arehart
Jos. Linetti
Hugo Beckman
John Elmer
Flagt
Town Notes From St. Meinrad and Surrounding Areas
Mr and Mrs Frank Petry of Ferdinand spent Monday and Tuesday in town KK C Sehnelenberger and Frank Brockmann made a business trip to Ferdinand Miss Della Denning left for Louisville Monday Miss Henrietta Schaffer came home from Louisville Wednesday Hubert Ruxer made a business trip to Louisville Wednesday Miss Clara Bombolaski came home from Louisville Tuesday Barney Mever Theodore Denning and Hubert Ruxer took a pleasure trip to Mt Vernon last week Mrs Wm Sidzer of Louisville is the guest of her sister Mrs Frank Mever Mr and Mrs F A Boxer and Mrs idn Becher and son Robert were at Jasper Wednesday Dr and Mrs William Lomax made a business trip to Evansville Friday Andrew Becher came home from Denver last Tuesday
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Stillman Cummins
Birdseye
Martha Hulsmann
Leander
William Linetti
Louisville
Felix Linetti
Frank Petry
Ferdinand
Town
Clara Bombolaski
Barney Mever
Theodore Denning
Hubert Ruxer
Mt. Vernon
Wm. Sidzer
Frank Mever
F. A. Boxer
Idn. Becher
Robert
Jasper
William Lomax
Evansville
Liquor Trade Flourish and Decline Across Indiana River Towns
In Cannelton, Tell City and Troy, grape wine once common faded after frost, giving way to dandelion and elderberry wines. Makers claim wines are for personal use, with little sold beyond local areas. Investigations show soft drink shops rarely stock home-made wine.
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Cannelton
Tell City
Troy
Test City
Ferdinand Railroad Time Card and Connections 1921
Train schedule from Ferdinand to Huntingburg and back with arrival and departure times for Sundays and daily trains. Notes connections: trains 1 3 6 link to Evansville Louisville West Baden Princeton and others. All trains run to Southern Railway depot at Mountingburg Indiana. Leonard Muller general manager Ferdinand Ind. Tad.
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Southern
Jesenuth
Evansville
Rockport
Cannelton
Louisville
Witty Tin
West Baden
Princeton
Evanaville
Southern Railway
Mountingburg
Ind
Leonard Muller
Ferdinand
Tad
German secret signals described for postwar literature
Popular Mechanics Magazine explains German wartime signaling ideas using hidden light methods. Polarized light shifts color through binoculars, didymium screens create black spectral lines, and moving color gaps read as signals across a spectrum. A sea based application is noted.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Secreted His Little Hoard in Spare Bedroom
In Connersville a wife reports to the factory superintendent that money is missing from the ministers who used the spare bedroom during a church conference. The husband reveals he moved the cash to the cowshed to avoid the two men, claiming no threat remains.
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Indianapolis News
Siemens Schmidt Works Builds Massive Overspeed Generator
Siemens-Schuckert works in Germany completed a 60 000 kva 7000 volt three phase generator rated at 1000 rpm and built to withstand a 50 percent speed increase. The unit marks a leap beyond their previous 21 500 kva rank, with special transport for rotor and stator due to its size.
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Siemens-Schuckert Works
Germany
Scientite American
First Canadian Marriage Celebrated in Quebec 1617
Johnson records the first Canadian wedding as Etienne Coulthard and Marie Hebert in Quebec on August 26, 1617. The 304th anniversary was marked in Quebec with many descendants attending. Marie Hebert is noted as a daughter of Louis Hebert, deemed Canada’s first farmer.
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Johnson
Canada
Etienne Coulthard
Marie Hebert
Quebec
Louis Hebert
Unanswerable Mrs Doolan joins policemen fans again
A London prison visitor notes Mrs Doolan visiting repeatedly and claiming credit for others’ hard work. She argues her influence keeps the authorities busy and questions the system while defending her role in society.
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