Hunter Fights Appraisal Over Farm Condemnation
Fletcher Hunter of Warren township contests a Putnam Circuit condemnation report for his land taken for State Farm use. He argues appraisers undervalued 16 acres and seeks $1200, while the trustees and board valued the land at $400 and said $40 was offered for the land improvements. The case advances toward Supreme Court review if condemned.
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Fletcher Hunter
Warren Township
Putnam Circuit
Faye 8
S. Hamilton
Theodore Crawley
Hunter
State Farm
Board of
Supreme Court
State Fair Special to Indianapolis Train Schedule
Vandalia Railroad runs from Green Castle at 7 31 A M September 8 and 9 returning from Indianapolis at 7 00 P M For times of other trains and further information contact J S Dowling ticket agent G
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Indianapolis
Vandalia Railroad
Greencastle
J. S. Dowling
The Boy with the Rifle and the Yankee Skull
A teenage Confederate boy reloads a percussion rifle as Union soldiers pass. He confronts two looters at his family home and fatally wounds one rider. Years later the man becomes a physician, aided by an old darky and a skeletal relic found in the woods. The skull bears a laureled crown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perel
Medical College
Darky
Minister Converts Lunatic to Compliment and Curses
A minister visits a private asylum inmate who quips about Elizabeth marrying the Sultan and Roosevelt’s eternal presidency. The clergyman confirms boldly, the patient exposes him as “the biggest blankety blanked liar” he ever met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Turkey
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Law for Herself in Arkansas Logging Camp
A camp physician employed by a timber company travels rough hollows to reach a log house where a wary woman asserts she called for the doctor and guards her household against a reported sick day, revealing distrust of her husband who claimed the doctor would come if summoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Sloctor
Dangerous to get near says Annie Jones
A Southern Woman's snippet recalls a teacher testing a child's memory of a rhinoceros lesson. The pupil answers a horned danger as an automobile, illustrating playful rural wit.
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Annie Jones
Annie
Resurrection of Peter Halsbury in Entwalla Prison
An old man seeks his son Peter Halsbury in Entwala penitentiary but the son uses an assumed name. The warden warns, the man is identified, and father and son share a brief visit before Peter confronts justice and is sentenced to four years. The tale ends with a hardened inmate receiving a quiet act of mercy from an officer.
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Peter Halsbury
Peter
Pete
Dad Peters
Dal
Peter Hulsbury
John Gregory
Peter Helsbury
Entwala Penitentiary
Emerson
Halsbury
Ife
Entwala Penitentary
Gregory
Eullty
Apology Backfires as Boy Enacts Second Offense
A boy promises to apologize to Freddie after making his nose bleed and then repeats the offense the next day. Willie confronts Freddie and delivers a punch, vindicating the warning that the first apology was only for the first meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Freddie
Willie
Freddie
Little Willie
Goveror story on choosing counsel in court room
Senator Gore recalls a prisoner before a criminal court without a lawyer. The judge asks about a lawyer and points to several young attorneys as options. The prisoner surveys them and finally says he will choose Mr Allen, who is outside the hall.
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Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
Thomas W. Wilson
Henry Eddy
Gee. Rogers
Severa
Allen
Bargain Offer In Butcher Shop Provokes Stolen Meat Crackdown
A shawl covered woman browsed a butcher shop counter stacked with pieces labeled Choice bite and fashionably offered to steal the meat. The butcher, hawking a two cent price, lowers to one cent, but the woman refuses the deal and hints at taking meat when unseen.
Bread theft plea in old court scene
A woman admits stealing a loaf of bread in court. She declines further defense, joking that kleptomania could excuse lace or jewelry but not bread, as the judge presses for her statement.
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Indiana Farmer
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Today’s Magazine
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Brothers
Robert Cooke Bicknell
Paget
Law
George Henry Ellerton
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