Weekend visits and local notices in Putnam County
Readable items list weekend travel by Milo Mitchell and Earl Sourwine visiting relatives in Linton plus campus news from DePauw Indiana State Normal College and Washburn College. Also notes births engagements church events and several police and public works updates including a planned E R Robards drainage ditch across four counties and upcoming ceremonies.
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E. R. Robards
Hendricks
Putnam
Owen
Morgan
Matt J. Murphy
Fifty Prisoners to Be Transferred to Pendleton Work Site
Anderson Ind June 3 Fifty prisoners from the Indiana Reformatory will move from Jeffersonville to the Pendleton site on June 12 to begin building the main outside wall. Superintendent George A H Shideler announced the barracks for temporary housing will be ready next week. A steam shovel has arrived to dig the trench for six foot foundations while trusties learn cement mixing and laying. Memorial Day saw the first flag raised on the new site.
Wise man recalls a dining joke with a digestion tablet
A humorous quip from a Boston Transcript item recalls a wise man who dines with a newlywed couple. He says, whenever the wife serves a dish she prepared, a tablet claimed to aid digestion is served as a playful addition to the meal.
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Boston Transcript
Chestnut resembles town Kastana name origin in Pon tus
A nut grown in pro fusion Kastana Pon tus Asia Minor derives its name from the town. In English it is chestnut, in Russian kashtan, Bulgarian kesten, Italian catasqua, French catalque. All variations echo the town’s name Kastana.
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Kastana
Pontus
Asia Minor
Kashtan
Brown Moffett Offers Farm Loans in Greencastle Indiana
Brown and Moffett advertise farm loans of five million dollars available at six percent in Greencastle Indiana. They state they offer any kind of farm loan the reader may want.
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Brown & Moffett
Greencastle
Indiana
Wanted Rough Dry Washing Lucy Wyatt
Advertisement seeks rough dry washing for Lucy Wyatt and directs inquiries to Matthews and Keller Store.
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Lucy Wyatt
Matthews & Keller Store
Church Schedule Adjusted for University Baccalaureate
Victor L Raphael minister. Sunday School at 9 30. No morning or evening services due to the University Baccalaureate Service at 10 30. Vespers at 7 00. Prayer Meeting at 7 30 Thursday evening.
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Victor L. Raphael
Who Is the Champion of Greencastle High Baseball
In the Greencastle High School interclass baseball tournament the juniors and seniors contended for the cup. The final was halted in the fifth inning with the seniors leading 8 to 7 as third year players walked off the field, leaving the championship undecided.
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Greencastle
Opening Hog Prices Jump Across Market
Indianapolis market reports 5,000 hogs 200 cattle 300 calves 100 sheep and lambs. Opening hog prices 5 to 10 cents higher with top at 10.85, most hogs 10.65 to 10.70. Pigs 10.85 down sows 9.50 down. Cattle steady calves 10.50 down sheep and lambs steady with good lambs at 13.00. Most hogs went to local packers and supply cleared well.
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Indianapolis
Miss Mullins and Miss Moore Host Evening Party
Miss Imogene Mullins and Miss Annice Moore will entertain a group of friends at the Mullins home on West Washington Street this evening. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Mullins and Mr. and Mrs. Moore.
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Margaret Godwin
Vivian Godwin
South Indiana Street
Lafayette
Harry DeGross
West Lafayette High School
Imogene Mullins
R. P. Mullins
Annice Moore
Harry Moore
Mrs. Mullins
West
Washington Street
Children Day Missionary Program at Nazarenes
The Church of the Nazarene invites all to a Sunday schedule with 9:30 Sunday school, 10:45 worship on the theme A Guarded Posterity Is the Young Man Absolom Safe The Young People Society meets at 6:50 and the Children’s Day Missionary Program is set for 7:30 with a strong pupil-led program Also an open air meeting is planned Saturday night at the East entrance Court House yard with everyone invited.
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United States Wool Growers Association
Court House
Chas. F. Pegram
Absolom
Young People’s Society
Court House Yard
Seven-Year-Old Br Bradford Excels in Mental Tests
William Elliot Bradford, seven, in Woodcrest School fifth grade, astonished UC professors by scoring high on Stanford revision of the Binet Simon tests. He wrote complex word voluptuous on cue and could assemble a U S map at age two. He memorized Whittier poem Barbara Frietchie at age six.
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Los Angeles
William Elliot Bradford
Woodcrest
University of California, Southern Branch
Stanford University
William
United States
Edith Eddy Bradford
Barbara Frietchie
Whittier
Jessamine Crapier
Woudcrest School
William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Right Hand Man to Weeks Named War Secretary Aide
John W. Martyn, private secretary to Secretary of War Weeks, has worked with Weeks for nearly ten years and is described as the right hand man, fully familiar with Weeks policies and more than an ordinary secretary.
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John W. Martyn
Weeks
Moro Marriage Records Ordered for Non Christian Tribes
Governor Wood directs the department of justice to keep a registry of all marriages performed by Moro priests and other tribal ministers in the Philippines. The move follows the Philippine Supreme Court ruling that such marriages are legal and that Mohammedanism is a religious denomination under the law. The system mirrors English colonial practice.
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Manila
P. L
Philippines
Wood
Department of Justice
Philippine Supreme Court
England
Locust Street M. E. Church Service Bulletin
Locust Street M. E. Church announces Sunday School at 9:30 led by Jesse Mc Anally with W. P. Sackett as song leader and L. E. York as orchestra leader. Sermonette for children. All other services dismissed due to Baccalaureate in McHarry Hall. Public welcome. Members may submit weekly envelopes at Sunday School to the financial secretary.
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H. C. Clippinger
Jesse McAnally
W. P. Sackett
L. E. York
McHarry Hall
Mottiers Retrieve Daughter from Greencastle
Mr and Mrs D N Mottier of Bloomington drove to Greencastle Friday to take home their daughter Wanda Mottier a teacher in Greencastle High School.
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Harry King
North Greencastle
Elsie Wilhelm
Grencastle High School
New Harmony
D. N. Mottier
Bloomington
Greencastle
Wanda Mottier
Greencastle High School
Mastodon's Bones Found by Oil Drillers in Gray County
In Gray county Texas oil drillers unearthed mastodon bone fragments embedded in a dry sand strata. The pieces are said to be large enough to indicate they were part of a prehistoric monster's skeleton.
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Texas
Wichita Falls
Tex
Gray County
Mud geysers spout 200 feet near El Centro
A spectacular eruption of salt sea mud geysers near El Centro California sent mud smoke and steam 200 feet into the air. The eruption came without warning and lasted about 20 minutes according to several witnesses.
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el Centro
Cal
Salt
Four Year Old Maine Girl Speaks Three Languages
Mabel Edith Greenlaw, four, of Windham Maine, is hailed as a child prodigy for speaking French Spanish and English. She can name states cities and towns of Maine and answer geographic questions. She started walking at seven months and often corrects others grammar.
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Windham
Maine
Mabel Edith Greenlaw
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Greencastle Battery Battery and Tire Service
Milo Mitchell
DePauw
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Linton
Earl Sourwine
The
Sourwine
George Browning
Betty Browning
Washington _ street
Indiana State Normal College
Terre Haute
Putnam County Farmers Asociation
Fred W. Boyle
Federated Marketing Service
Indidianapolis
Elva Ayler
Evelyn Ayler
A. E. Ayler
Franklin Street
College Avenue
Washburn College
Topeka
Kansas
Park Graham
Robert Graham
Mayme Hollingsworth
College Avenue Church
Marshall Henry O’hair
Fire Department
McKeen Field
Marshall O'Hair
Sears
Ted Ogden
Ohio Wesleyan College
Ogden
Ernest Stoner
Raymond Day
Brazil
Margaret Albaugh
Walter Albaugh
Indiana and
Larabee Streets
Oxford College
Oxford
Ohio
John Gray
Methodist
West Poplar Street
Lillian Hays
S. A. Hays
California
H. C. Franklin
Mary Beverly Bolling
Lost Creek
Shrilda Huffman
Columbia Streets
Nut
Tates
Pioneer Trust Company
Central Conesny
Dobbs & Vestal
Herald
Legion
Greencastle Legion
Putnamville
National Medical Institute
Milwaukee
Wis
John J. Black
Indiana Street
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin
the Presbyterian Church
Church OF the Nazarene
University of California
Opera House
A. Cook
Mer
James Oliver Curwood
Mutt and
Jeff
Fox News Weekly
Jack Livingston
Tarzan
Family Supply
Katsup
Arbuckle Coffee
Old Reliable F. F. F
Coffee Post
East Side Square
Cleveland
Dail
Daffalo
Ningara
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company
Livesond
Greene
Erie
Buffalo
Burrato
Kentucky
Jack the Ripper
John Sigler’s
T. A. Sigler
Mar
E. A. Browning
Grocer
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