Notice Petition to Improve Highway in Floyd Township
Auditor of Putnam County Indiana announces an amended petition by J P Christie et al to lay out establish and improve highways in Floyd Township. Hearing set before the Board of Commissioners February 1 1915. Petition details describe grading draining bridging and macadamizing multiple highway segments across Sections 10 11 and 12 with continuous line of improvement proposed.
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Putnam County
Indiana
J. P. Christy
Floyd Township
Board of Commissioners
J. Polk Christie
Said County
Township 15
North Range
Fillmore
New Maysville
Said
Road paving petition seeks gravel 35 foot width
Petitioners request a gravel pavement across about two and fiveeighths miles of land belonging to multiple named owners including Rachel E Gilpin Amanda E Webster Bessie Sutherlin Alma D Sutherlin Joseph Lewis Polly Lewis Harvey Ader and others. The proposal covers under three miles length and asks to proceed without an election. Signed January 13 1915 by C L Airhart Auditor of Putnam County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel E. Gilpin
Amanda E. Webster
Bessie
Alma D. Sutherlin
Joseph and
Polly Lewis
Harvey Ader
Geo. L. Sutherlin
Homer Tyre
Aaron Hand
Harry Akers
John Pickett
Emma C. Poff
Doughlas D. Eggers
B. Leisure
J. Polk Christie
L. C. Wilson
Mary Wilson Suthertin
Jas. C. Waln
Frank L. Ader
Fred Todd
W. L. Baldwin
Herman A. Heavin
Joe Lewis
Harry A. Alter
W. T. Batman
B. Summers
Lervis C. Wilson
Edward E. McVey
Ralph Pickett
Millard Greenlee
J. L. Ader
M. M. Miller
Leonard Heavin
S. Mason
Bates T
C. L. Airhart
Putnam County
Greencastle City approves Indiana Street improvement assessment
The Common Council of Greencastle Indiana on January 12 1915 approved a prima facie assessment roll for Indiana Street from Hanna Street to Berry Street. The project includes cement sidewalks curbs and gutters brick crossings and grade plots with Olive Street and several parcels listed for benefited assessment. A public hearing is set for January 29 1915 at 7 PM in the council chamber to consider remonstrances and verify the assessed amounts. The assessment roll is on file with the City Clerk.
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Greencastle
Indiana
Indiana Street
Hanna Street
Berry Street
Olive Street
Sellers Addition
Parke Street
Pine Street
Beveridge Street
Highland Street
Berry
Sellers Annex
Common Council
Miller
Best Croup Medicine Praised by Roanoke Mother
Mrs. Oran A Swaidner of Roanoke Indiana says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best croup medicine she knows for breaking up a croup attack. For sale by all dealers.
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Oran
Swaidner
Roanoke
Ind
Chamberlain
Village constable foils bank robber in St Louis County
In Gravois bank a lone robber, George W Finch, confronted cashier J Harry Rehme and bookkeeper Oscar Crecelius. Constable George Bohring arrived, fought the bandit, disarmed him, and locked him in after a dramatic struggle through the vault and broken window.
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St. Louis
Bill Nye
Pike's Peak
St. Louis County
Bookkeeppr
Gravois Bank
George Bobring
George W. Finch
Gravios Bank
Gravios and
Selbert Avenues
Greenville
Lil
Fred Cook
Finch
Cook
Irs
Music Room
Vandalia
Kansas City
Gravies Bank
J. Harry Rehme
Oscar Crecelius
Belle Nally
Rehme
Crecelius
George Bohring
Bobring
Girl Swallows Watch Dies After Operation in St Louis
Corrine Shine, a 9 year old girl of Odell Avenue, swallowed a watch and died a few days after surgery to remove it at City Hospital. The operation removed the watch but she did not rally.
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Inet
May Finch
St. Elmo
Clayton
St. Louis
Corrine Shine
Odell Ave
Making Pottery A LOI Process Recounted In Detail
A Pittsburg Dispatch survey explains the modern pottery making sequence from raw materials to finished ware. It covers clay sources from multiple states and Europe, the milling and refining steps, mold making, shaping on the potter s wheel, drying, glazing, and the use of decalcomania transfers for decoration.
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Florida
North Carolina
Alabama
Cornwall
Devon
Old England
Illinois
Pensylvania
Mojave
Tuscany
Maine
Michiigan
Hbringer
Paris
Europe
England
Germany
Pittsburg
Arc of Four Tons Plays Piano an Hour
A historical note explains the power needed to play piano notes. It claims small coin weights can produce sound on a key, mentions Paderewski could crack glass with a sharp strike, and estimates Chopin pieces require several tons of pressure per performance. It cites Chopin's C minor piece and average tonnage for an hour of Chopin.
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Paderewski
Chopin
Diamonds From Sugar A Curious Chemical Claim
A historical note explains that sugar contains carbon and can be processed to yield real but very small diamonds. The text emphasizes that while the diamonds are tiny and not commercially valuable, the chemical transformation demonstrates that sugar carbon can become diamond material, akin to famous stones in principle.
Curious Language Quirks Across Languages and Early America
The piece notes German terms like finger hat for thimble and hay horse for grasshopper, and calls well known substances oxygen and hydrogen sour stuff and water stuff. It claims French lack stand and baby words and Hindus lack word for friend, then cites an estimate of 26 million Indians in the Americas at Columbus’s arrival.
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North
South America
Dorothy and the vanity of early rising
A humorous reminiscence from the Tattler about Dorothy Drew who refused to rise early citing Psalm 127:2 and confounding her grandfather Gladstone. The piece also shares Irish wit involving Cyrus W. Field and a Queenstown incident with a train conductor’s abrupt joke.
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Dorothy Drew
Dorothy
Mr. Gladstone
Ireland
Cyrus W. Field
Atlantic Cable
Blarney Castle
How He Paid His Fine Senator Dubois of Idaho
The future Idaho senator Frederick T. Dubois was fined $50 for contempt of court in Boise City. He then sat on the bench for unrelated business and instructed the clerk to note that the fine had been remitted by order of the court.
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Senator Dubois
Idaho
Boise City
Dubois
Frederick T. Dubois
Mabel
Archibald
Canned Goods Shape Alaska Life Says Bishop
At a Boston bishops session last fall the Bishop of Alaska recounted how scarce fresh food drives heavy use of canned goods. A Sitka meeting showcased a phonograph as a driving card, where natives gathered to hear the Lord's Prayer and asked, Him canned missionary, as they pondered the device.
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House of Bishops
Boston
Alaska
Sitka
Call It Quits in an Engaged Dialog
Archibald asks Mabel about her age and income after their engagement. She probes his weekly earnings, while both blush at the question and hint of secrets from their mothers. The scene plays in a light, humorous tone.
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Mabel
Archibald
Weeping at the Ice House at Mount Vernon
An attendant finds a visiting woman sobbing loudly, claiming she mourns at the grave of the Father of His Country. He clarifies the tomb is elsewhere, and she responds that she is weeping at the grave, while they misdirect to the ice house near Mount Vernon.
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Mount Vernon
Indianapolis
Hay Loft Row Delays Provincial Theatre Performance
A provincial theatre faced a long wait for the play to begin as spectators grew restless. In the turmoil a gentleman in the pit shouted at the crowd while a ballery voice corrected the location, provoking a lively, comic dispute.
A Tragedy On The Cairo Corso And Stage Fire
George Begern travels with Mersberg in Cairo as a striking dancer known as Madam Yvonne performs a deadly markswoman act. A past love confronts him in the audience, a Levantine rival is killed, and the show ends with a fatal pistol shot amid chaos.
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Roedern
Palais Doro
Yvonne
Begern
George Begern
Hegern
George
Wrestling Tradition Deeply Roots in Japanese Families
In Japan, many top wrestlers pursue the sport as a family legacy passed from father to son across generations, reflecting a long standing cultural practice within the profession.
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Japan
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Mike
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Feld
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Corso
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Mersberg
Jilly
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