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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1917
Page
3
Franklin college notes mention Dorothy Weight visiting a Friday at the bookstore on a cash basis in Lebanon and Mae Reynolds hosting a week end at home. Helen Kelly trip to Brownstown on Thursday and Bertha Caffyn missing school this week.
Fragmentary OCR text offers limited readable details about a local item without clear names, places, or actions.
Examinations start Saturday for teaching German in elementary schools and high school German, graded by the state department. The piece discusses population shifts since 1800, grain production, rising living costs, Johnson County corn championships, and the Pay-Up Week plan to improve debt resolution and community economy.
A fragment notes Elsie Ensley in Edinburg this week. The text references timing and a moment of waiting, but details are unclear and no further facts are provided.
Nine members met at the college dormitory on Saturday afternoon to mark the thirty eighth anniversary of the local chapter. A photocen sign highlighted future plans for members while reminiscences of school days filled the social hour. Attendees included Mrs. L. E. Ott and others from Franklin Indianapolis and Lebanon.
A wife laments having nothing to live for after a domestic dispute while the husband, labeled a brute, retorts that he only scams to forget her life in insurance. The fragment implies a heated quarrel centering on life insurance.
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