Genung Family Pioneer Doctor of Gibson County Dies
Dr. W. R. Genung born 1827 in Elizabethtown New Jersey grew to Indiana by age five. He practiced medicine for fifty years in Fort Branch after forming Day and Genung with Dr. B. J. Day and served in the Gibson County State Legislature in 1882. He was DePauw University class of 1845 oldest living graduate and died January 1 1914 at Fort Branch leaving a widow and five children.
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Genung
Lower Rhine Country
Alsace
Lorraine
America
New Jersey
Elam Genung
William R. Genung
New York
Terre Haute
Methodist Episcopal Church
Indiana
New Albany
Elizabeth Tucker
Susan Tucker
Fort Branch
William R
W. R. Genung
Elizabethtown
East Madison
Somerset County
Asbury
DePauw University
Greencastle
Leonard
University of New York
New York City
Medical College
Gibson County
Hazelton
B. J. Day
W. C. Polk
R. M. Stormont
Oakland City
Horace
Homer T. Genung
Ind
Republican Party
John C. Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
University
DePauw
T. E. Talbott
Hick's January Weather Forecast Proclaims Stormy Winter
Parson Hicks predicts a sequence of storm periods from late December 1913 through January with rain turning to snow. Expect blizzards, high barometers, and rapid temperature swings across the western to Atlantic states, followed by a shift to warmer, stormy conditions late January. Miss Lulu Gibbons visited for the Stephens O'Hair wedding then returned to Indianapolis.
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Parson Hicks
Mississippi
Atlantic
Lulu Gibbons
Stephens O’hair
Indianapolis
Miss Gibbons
Hazel Hardacre
Stephens-O'Hair
Miss Hardacre
Visitors and local residents travel to Indianapolis events
A long list of residents and visitors spent the day or a few hours in Indianapolis for business or leisure. Names include Mrs. Douglas Huffman, Miss Merle, Miss Florence Black, Alonzo Cook, E. R. Hibbitt, Miss Anna Cannon, John Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hamrick, F. M. Lyons, Mrs. William Shamel, Glenn Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Zaring, and many others visiting relatives, attending meals and social gatherings, or conducting errands.
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Douglas Huffman
Miss Merle
Indianapolis
Eugene Hamrick
Marguerite Callender
Hiram Callender
West Walnut Street
Marriage Licenses Reported in Bainbridge and Greencastle
Ray Hand of Bainbridge Indiana and Dorothy Wells of Bainbridge receive a license. Eric S Vermillion of Greencastle and Chloie Scobee of Greencastle obtain a license. Robert Woodall of Hammond Indiana and Florence E Scobee of Green Castle receive a license.
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Ray Hand
Bainbridge
Indiana
Dorothy Wells
Eric S. Vermillion
Greencastle
Chloie Scobee
Robert Woodall
Hammond
Florence E. Scobee
Mining Quicksilver in Oregon at Black Butte Town
The Black Butte mercury mining operation in Oregon boasts a vein 400 feet wide running for over a mile and to 1,600 feet depth. A sprawling tunnel network and cinnabar ore deposits support a large quicksilver industry. A Lewis and Clark Exposition display demonstrated a miniature distilling plant and condenser process illustrating ore roasting at 1,200 degrees and vapor condensation into metallic quicksilver ready for shipment in fourteen pound iron flasks.
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Oregon
Black Butte
Quicksilver Uses and Ore Extraction Breakthrough
The article explains quicksilver found in cinnabar ore with 13.8 percent sulfur and 86.2 percent mercury. It notes wholesale price about 58 cents and major uses in mining, paints, mirrors, thermometers, and instruments. A distilling plant at the Portland fair claims ore processing time reduced from about thirty six hours to four hours.
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Portland Fair
Chicago Chronicle
Pecan Shellers Union Numbers Grow in San Antonio
The San Antonio Pecan Shellers Union lists 1700 members many more work in the trade in the city. Pecan shelling runs October 1 to July 1 with kernels shipped to New York and St. Louis for candy making. The industry began after a New York candy maker used Texas pecans sparking a nationwide demand.
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San Antonio
Pecan Shellers’ Union
Pecan Shellers Union
Austin
New York
St. Louis
Texas
Moon legend of Bulawayo two wives story
Natives of Bulawayo describe a moon tale with two wives. During first quarter the moon travels to the Zambesi region to stay with Keep-the-Door-Open who feeds him and makes him fat. On return, he visits Shut-the-Door-Tight who starves him, leaving the moon thin before his next journey.
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Bulawayo
South Africa
Zambesi
Future of treeless East sparks forest reserve call
The article argues the East faces acute forestry problems with dense populations and a large lumber market. It highlights White Mountains and Southern Appalachians as critical national water and forest reserves needing federal protection to curb erosion and flood risks.
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White Mountains
New Hampshire
Appalachians
Forest Loss Threatens Southern Lands and Rivers
The piece warns that extensive cutting of forests in the White Mountains and Southern hills threatens soil stability and river power. It argues floods and debris from deforestation will devastate cultivated lands, erode soils, and jeopardize future water power and agriculture unless federal action or restraint occurs.
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Great New South
New Hampshire
White Mountains
How He Solved the Light Problem by Frugal Economist
Thomas W. Lawson argues that progress comes from enterprise and originality rather than mere economy. He recalls a Boston restaurateur who cut one candle into two to extend light, illustrating how scarcity can drive impractical thrift.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Brilliant New Year Nuptials in Princeton
A New Year wedding conducted by Dr H A Gobin united Miss Pearl Stephens and groom in Princeton with a ring ceremony. The couple will honeymoon in New Orleans after Indianapolis and Chicago and reside in Princeton where the groom manages a dry goods store. Attending out of town were many relatives and friends from Crawfordsville Oaktown Browns IL Indianapolis Paris Rockville and Sullivan. Old timers recall winters and a 1364 style deep freeze as they discuss New Year temperatures.
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Oaktown
Ruth Stephens
Browns, Ill
O. N. Gilbert
Princeton
Laura Walker
Hugh Dougherty
Indianapolis
Charles Jewett
Richard Shirley
Hugh Wilkinson
Elen Lemon
Indianapoli
Gra Walker
J Bishop
John Sheets
Mooresville
Blanche Baker
Paris
Charles Allen
Ill
Kekah Chadwick
Shelbyville
Hannah Hardacre
Miss Hardacre
Miss Gibbons
John Lineberger
Rockville
Liam Hargrove
Pa Jeffries
Wale Prichard
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Charles F. Zeis & Company
Grocers
DR. W. R. Genung
HICK
Florence Black
Alfred Hirt
Alonzo Cook
E. R. Hibbitt
Business Today
Anna Cannon
John Cooper
F. M. Lyons
William Shamel
Cloverdale
Glenn Tucker
Rushville
Mrs. C. T. Zaring
Frank Donner
J. P. Allen
Thomas Vaughn
Noble
Belle Union
City
Harry Mercer
Ruth Lawton
Mabel Shamer
Anna Hastings
Ted Willis
Toledo
N. E. Hardacre
W. W. Tucker
Miss Bertha
George Christie
Catherine Curran
Mary Curran
Honora Curran
John Crooks
Chicago
The
A. Kelley
A. R. Whelan
Louisville, Ky
Iva
Florence
Lawrence Black
Montreal
Canada
Edward Black
Edgar Shamel
Lawrence Hazelett
Algan Moore
Big Four Automatic Signal Company
Paul Jones
Evanston High School
W. W. Jones
Claude Black
Warren, Ind
James I. Nelson
East Washington Street
Charles Harrold
Ridge Farm, NL
William King
William Stroube
West Franklin Street
Franklin Street
Madison Township
C. L. Airhart
John Kanner
Airhart
Stroube
Kanuer
Charles King
Committee On Public Safety
Dobbs
Schmidt
Abrams
Virgil Grimes
Fire Department
Mt. Carmel
William Ader
Indiana Street
James
Jesse Tobin
Illinois Street
Marie Merryewather
Athia Brown
J. Y. Denton
Clarence Cherry
John Cherry
Janesville
Wis
Frank Crawley
Uncle Sam
Will Irwin
Ladies’ Aid Society of
Putnamville
Doc Hurst
Dora
Quicksilver
White Mountain and
Appalachian Reserves
New Orleans
E. Browning Grocery
Pearson’s Bakery
Gordon Thomas
Sullivan
Mervin Freeman
Putnam
Lincoln Oil Co
Cleveland, O
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