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Newspaper

Franklin

Location

Franklin, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jan 21, 1917

Page

4

Annual District E meeting of Indiana Library Association

The District E annual meeting will be held in Franklin on February 7 with sessions in the city library. Miss Lelia Wilcox, city librarian, announced the event and expects representatives from 29 towns. The afternoon program features a question box conducted by Henry F. Sanborn, secretary of the Indiana state library commission.

Indiana Library Association Franklin Lelia Wilcox Henry, F Sanborn Indiana State Library Commission

Fragmentary Courier Style Debate Over Dress

A garbled OCR passage shows speakers asking about Ethel's dress and a joke about boosting a Franklin college paper. The text is incomplete and lacks coherent narrative or clear facts.

Texas Viewed From Dr Winship Lyceum Talk

Dr Winship praised Texas as a blend of north and south with rich civic life yet noted its cities act as independent hubs. He contrasted regional city identities from Houston to Fort Worth and likened Mississippi’s effort to stronger state backing, while weighing Atlantic and Pacific coast cities as potential western New York. He praised Los Angeles school system and noted upcoming Johnson County Teachers Association event in February.

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Webster Program Highlights Music’s Role in Society

A 1917 program features speakers including James Velar, Ben Hanna, Stanley Overman, and Dona Smoot discussing music as a reflection of inner life and social detriments. A preacher compares moral decline to molten iron in a furnace, evoking a fiery hellish image to warn against vice.

Webster James Velar Saw Ben Hanna Roxye Websters Stanley Overman Dona Smoot Hades

Unclear fragment hints at elderly figures and personal reflections

Fragmentary text mentions age and emotion with phrases like toothache and heart. Lacks clear events, entities, or structure to form a complete news item or factual summary.

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Voris & Company Nort Whitesides CO H. N. Dunlap & Son Fisher’s Meat Market E. Jeff Kemp Brothers North Main Street Call Franklin Dairy CO C. B. Vawter Bohall’s Baumgart Collins THE the Fraternity J. B. Payne & ‘Son Lowery Craig Pavy Cross East Jefferson Street Northeast Corner Public Square C. L. Vandivier Will Ethel Gale Lege Johnson County’ Teachers Frank Loveland Meridian Methodist Indianapolis Lyceum
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