Warning Over Marriage Benefit Schemes Warns Readers
The piece cautions readers about marriage benefit associations operating locally. It describes certificates sold for three dollars promising sixty cents daily until marriage, warns of rapid, unsustainable payouts, predicts a collapse within six months, and notes profits to founders while branding the system as risky and prone to prompting hasty marriages and later divorces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Review
Union City
Indiana
Spend at Home Emphasized By Local Voice And Rail News
The community urged residents to patronize local merchants and manufacturers to boost prosperity, warning against reliance on itinerant vendors. Updates report on the Indianapolis & Springfield railroad project, with Col Harper to begin staking locations and Gardner Russell & Co. to lead construction, plus rail iron orders and 90 day completion goal. A new Indiana law imposes penalties on officeholders who are intoxicated during office hours, with fines and possible removal. A Pawtucket man’s failure to support his wife leads to state farm imprisonment while she suffers at home. Senator Voorhees discussed tariff views in relation to a New York Herald interview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur Svan
Indianapolis and
Springfield R. A
Rockville
Lee
Col. Harper
Indianapolis & Springfield
Messrs
Gardner Russell & Co
Bainbridge
Danville
Indiana
State of
Indiana on free trade and direct taxation, 1884 outlook
The speaker asserts Indiana is hopelessly Republican on a free trade platform with direct taxation, but Democratic under tariff for revenue with incidental protection. He predicts a 10 to 20 thousand Democratic majority in 1884 and urges new subscribers to Tur Svan for a year at one dollar, touting the paper as comprehensive, popular, and improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Indiana
Union
Tur Svan
Stak
Terre Haute and Indianapolis Rail Line Opens with Public Banquet
Thirty years ago last Wednesday the Terre Haute and Indianapolis road opened its entire length. A passenger train ran from Indianapolis to Greencastle and from Terre Haute to Greencastle, both reaching Greencastle at noon, followed by a celebratory banquet and a grand time for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Indianapolis Road
Indianapolis
Greencastle
Local society meeting features England farmer talk and fruit display
On Wednesday the society met at its usual place with fine weather and Mozart Club music. Prof J B DeMott spoke on observations among farmers and fruit growers in England. W W Hodge gave a pointed third fruit district report. A humorous experience session led by Grooms. Flowers and baskets were shown by Mrs M A Moore. December meeting canceled due to State Society in Muncie. Future meetings moved to the third Tuesday each month. next on January 3, 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mozart Club
J. B. DeMott
England
W. W. Hodge
Thhird Fruit District
Remains Exhumed for Postmortem in Jennie Doup Case
Relatives of Jennie Doup, deceased, arranged disinterment for postmortem and stomach analysis. At Forest Hill Cemetery the heart brain lungs and stomach were sent to Dr P S Baker of Asbury University for chemical analysis. Authorities report possible foul play with arrests rumored in Ohio and a gallows sentence anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Doup
Cononer
Indiana
Asbury University
Tur Svar
Ohio
Asbury Notes and Campus Events Highlight Busy Week
Asbury reports praise for services and contests with prize topics on tariff questions and imperial precedence. Campus life features lectures by Dr Willets, musical performances by New Orleans Jubilee Singers, a cadet sword class, staff changes, and elections in literary societies, plus a Garfield birthday program and local market quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury
G. W. Switzer
Kinear-Monnette Prize
England
Germany
France
D. H. Patrick
Carmi
Ills
Dan
New Orleans
David Meharry
Shawnee Mound
Ind
Willets
Philadelphia
Hamilton
Robert J. Green
Asbury Monthly
John Jones
Garfield
Elrod
Philo
Ard Scarritt
Plato
Kate Hammond
Philomethan
Brooke
KE. A. Spinks
W. F. Cook
Ridpath
State University
Asburry
Doug Morris
Ed Hendee
Robt
Green
Lee
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Darnall Bros. & Co
Darnall Bros. & Co’s
Brattin
Spencer and Danville
D. W. Brattin
Brazil
Indianapolis Exposition
Frank A. Arnon
Entenen
Postoffice
Greencastle Ind
Supreme Court
Indianapolis Journal
I. & Srr
Gardner & Russell
Springfield
Col. Lee
Quincy
Ill
Read
Pawtucket
Voorhees
The
Washington Star
Amy Lee
Adeline Patti
Miss Lee
Battin
Greencastle Market
Esse
Wwe
TRAM
Craigre Whalers Reece
A. R. Brattin
Greencastle, Spencer and Danville, Ind
Jones’ Drug Store
Stevenson & Son
Apollo
Contest
Franklin
West Side Square
Greencastle, Ind
Langdon
South Side Square
BROS
West Fourth St
Cincinnati
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