Greencastle notes and local business ads
Greencastle items cover visitors and residents in town including Wille Sillery and H. O. Smith in Indianapolis Cloverdale and Linton travelers. Local ads promote slippers ready to wear coats and gift items while events include a boy scout feature at the Opera House and Phi Beta Kappa meeting in the Minshall lab.
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Will Sillery
Elwood
William Sillery
Christie’s Shoe Store
Belle Eskridge
B. F. Corwin
George Williamson
South Jackson Street
Fashion
West Side
DePauw
Phi Beta Kappa
Minshall Laboratory
W. M. Blanchard
Christie's Shoe Store Line Sells House Slippers
A line at Christie's Shoe Store offers house slippers for every man. If available, consider the line to see the shop selling them. A pair of new automobile gloves from the Fashion could make a practical gift.
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Christie’s Shoe Store
City Council Brief Session Orders Rail Crossing Repair
City Council met briefly Tuesday and instructed City Attorney Lyons to compel Monon Railroad to repair the Jackson street crossing raised by tracks. The meeting lasted under ten minutes and included payment authorizations for fire department salaries, miscellaneous costs, and street work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyons
Monon
Jackson Street
Chas
Vanvador
Hiram Huffman
P. R. Duncan
Mike Burdett
J. W. Herod
U. 8, Chemical Co
C. W. Pfeiffenberger
Indian Refining Co
True
R. L. Pierce
Wm. Dittemore
Roscoe Lisby
John Girton
Geo, Conklin
Earl Durham
Spear Pitman
Ford Lucas
Greencastle Water Co
Gladys Rogers
Rex Hunt
Fem, Cunningham
Ralph Pierce
Lena Figg
Leonard Greenlee
George Fritch
Frank Ellis
J. E. Champer
Nti
James Dillon
Jeff Miller
Elma Hall
Unclaimed Letters List at Local Post Office
The postmaster lists uncalled letters including Anderson W A Cane Cash Clyde Hill Davison Kean John C Kinsey Paul Nelson Dennie Rule Mrs Jennie Sellers John W Stephenson G M Callers urged to say advertised. Also a shop ad for men’s wear at the Fashion store for Xmas gifts.
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Anderson
W. A. Cane & Cash
Cash
Clyde
Hill
Davison
Kean
John C. Kinsey
Paul
Nelson
Dennie
Rule
Jennie
Sellers
John W. Stephenson
G. M
W. B. Vestal
Galley O' Fun Host Praise and Courtship Advice
A humorous set of social prompts to compliment the host on carving, confess that self perfection is the obstacle to marriage, praise home cooking, and indulge in playful flattery toward relatives while courting. It mixes food talk, family anecdotes, and light banter about matrimony and travel.
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O. E. Badger
Clay Praiie
Brazil
Ladies’ Aid
Locust Street
Ewing McLean
South Coast Street
Ladies’ Aid Society
Fred Thomas
East Hanna Street
The
Citizens Trust Co
Bert Smith
Smith
Hamricks Stown
Col
O. O. Dobbs
Ernest Averitt
College Avenue Church
D. Tillotson
Greencastle High School
Masters
Fillmore High School
J. P. D. John
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
John
Kenton O
Buffalo
Rochester
New York City
Wilksbarra
Plymouth Pa
United States
Abner
Poem Fragment Amid Curious Obscenity
A fragmented verse depicts a narrator reacting to a racial insult and a fantasy of viewing a figure described with blunt, unflattering imagery. The speaker expresses disdain for plain women while masking it with ironic humor and self-justification.
Be Careful With Xmas Trees Warns Fire Chief
Fire Chief Ricketts urges citizens to avoid cotton tissue paper and celluloid decorations on Christmas trees and to prefer electric lights. He warns against children lighting candles and advises expert wiring and removing trees promptly to prevent fires.
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Ricketts
Santa Claus
G O P Bosses Steam Roll Reformers Sharpen Rails
Horace C Stilwell of Indiana arrives in Washington to urge progressive reform ideas to the Republican national committee. He denounces party bosses Barnes Crane Smoot Hemenway and Penrose as controlling the GOP machinery, saying reforms are crushed by “the little tight corporation” steering the party.
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Washington
Horace C. Stilwell
Indiana
Republican National Committee
Barnes
Crane
Smoot
Hemenway
Penrose
Republican Party
Stilwell Fails To Move National GOP On Representation
Stilwell and Oswald Ryan pressed the national committee to shift from state district basis to votes cast at the convention. A stone wall blocked reforms as Goodrich and others considered abdicating roll selection to the credentials committee. Barnes Crane Smoot Hemenway and Penrose rejected the plan and denied Stilwell a role for 4,500,000 Republicans in rebellion.
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Stilwell
Oswald Ryan
National Committee
Goodrich
Committee On
Farm Loans Offer From Newgent and Newgent
Newgent and Newgent advertise farm loans with first mortgage security available to farmers seeking financing for land and equipment.
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Newgent & Newgent
Real Estate Transfers and Foreclosure Case In Putnam County
Sheriff of Putnam County transfers land in Greencastle to Delilah F Sutherlin for 1753.60 dollars. Andrew Sweeney and others sell land in Madison township to R P Moore for 2500 dollars. A suit named Doney versus Brown and Brown forecloses a mortgage and collects a note in Putnam Circuit Court. Case moved from Marion County. Advertises bathrobe purchase at Bashion store.
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Daniel G. Johnson
Henry Otterson
Squire Philip Frank
Johnson
Clinton
Fred Leatherman
Otterson
Putnam County Medical Society
Joseph F. Gillespie
J. F. Gillespie
Charles Hope
Coatesville
Chas. Sudranski
Jerome King
W. W. Tucker
W. M. Hutcheson
Fashion Store
West Side
Putnam County
Delilah F. Sutherlin
Greencastle
Andrew Sweeney
R. P. Moore
Madison Township
William H. Doney
Jenny J. Brown
Harry R. Brown
Pisce R. Douglas
Putnam Circuit Court
Marion County
Fashion Ad for Black Suit at 20 Dollars
An advertising snippet promotes a black suit priced at $20.00, described as ready to wear. The brief mentions The Fashion and features unclear typography with possible brand or store cues.
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Lilor
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W. ©. Gill
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Fleming Lynch
Linton, Ind
Wilbur Donner
Peddie Institute
Hightown
N. J
Frank Donner
East, Seminary Street
Wilbur Grose
George R. Grose
East Seminary Street
Wilburham, Mass., Academy
J. A. Rowe
Lelia
John Rowe, Jr
DePauw University
Bedford Mail
Phillip Sellers
Charles Sellers
Paul Halton
W. V. Torr
Culver Military Academy
Boy Scout Movement
Louis Hodshire
Jeffersonville
Tues Lane
State Reformatory
Lane
Putnamville
Evan B. Stotsenburg
Plato Hall
R. T. Stephenson
Greece
Stephenson
Prof. Post
Owl
Victor
Columbia
E. B. Taylor
A. Manuel
Terre Haute
Mrs
Fred Goodwine
J. P. Allen, Jr
A. M. Love
Methodist Hospital
Adv
Pocahontas Lodge
L. G. Wright
Jackson Township
William Kreigh
Butlerville
Eliza Vaughan
Belle Union
Otto Dobbs
East Washington Street
Mr. Dobbs
Vaughan
Osteopathy
Lyric Theatre
Nance’s Creamery
Ansco
Owl Drug
Stilwell, Reformer
Bashion
Wonder Tone
Owl Drug Store
Columbia Records
Mee God
Howard Brice
East Walnut Street
Yale
C. J. Arrnold
Ind
Arthur Reat
C. N. McWethy
Grant Scott
Estes Duncan
Cloverda
A. McKee
Henry Vaughan
Lycurgus Stoner
Grecastle
Baldwin Piano Co
James L. Hamilton
Square
Sackett Grocery
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