Home Sweet Home 91 Years Old Recalled
A historical note marks the 91st year since Home Sweet Home was first sung. John Howard Payne, a prodigy on stage, wrote the opera Clari for $250 and later served as US consul at Tunis where he died. His ballad remains widely loved, with a monument at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington.
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John Howard Payne
New York
Payne
East Hampton
N. Y
United States
Tunis
Oak Hill
Washington
Rural Carrier Survives Tornado Along Covington Route
Elmore Arter, rural carrier on Route 2 from Covington, rode into a ditch as a tornado approached. He was drenched by rain pouring into his buggy, sought shelter at the Lynch home, and later wore dry clothes. The storm damaged trees and outbuildings locally and crossed into Illinois causing deaths and injuries in Danville.
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Elmore Arter
Covington
Lynch Home
Illinois
Danville
Big Shale Find Near Veedersburg Boosts Wabash Plant
Management at the Wabash clay plant in Veedersburg located a 60 foot shale vein just south of Stone Bluff and secured an option on an 80 acre tract containing the shale and a five foot coal vein. The shale beds sit beneath eight feet of ordinary clay and soil. C and E I will lay a switch to open the beds, avoiding a mile of track needed for earlier beds. The find promises a practically inexhaustible raw material supply for the factory.
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Veedersburg
Stone Bluff
Wabash Clay Company Passes to Veedersburg Firm
Veedersburg News reports the Wabash Clay Company has become defunct as its holdings shift to Veedersburg Paving Company. Articles of incorporation filed June 3 by E. F. Otto A. H. Bauer and J. B. Klein name a $100000 capital and paving brick production at Veedersburg.
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Wabash Clay Company
Veedersburg Paving Company
Veedersburg News
E. F. Otto
A. H. Bauer
J. B Klein
Veedersburg
Ice Cream Social at Prairie Creek Baptist Church
Prairie Creek Baptist Church hosts an ice cream social on the church lawn two miles west of Steam Corner on Tuesday evening June 16. Melvin Light and family visited Attica and were at the bedside of Velma Light who was critically ill but improving. Mrs Sam Newlin died in Hillsboro at 7 pm last Saturday aged 44, survived by husband and a 5 year old daughter Elelen.
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Prairie Creek Baptist Church
Steam Corner
Melvin Light
Attica
Mr. Light
Elgin
Velma Light
Sam Newlin
Hillsboro
Elelen
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Oliver Cultiva
Tors
New Boss Coal Oil Store
Kingman Hardware Com’y
Fountain County
Farquar Furnace
C. F. van Duyn
Ned Inlow
J. W. Bonebrake
Hemet Tobacco Co
Well- Fargo Express Co
United States Express Co
Jessie Craft and Baby
Springfield, Il
Craft
Jessie Millikan
A. A. Bardin
Mecca
Clinton
Cory Hdw. Co
The
Ice Cream Social
Fred Madden
Dorris, Dorene
Nellie Carson
Dennis Shell
Yeddo
J. W. Metsker
Harry Towell
Joe Towell
Shanks
Fairmount, Ill
Booe-Cory Hdw Co
Adv
Cambril
Capital City
Orient
Pioneer Drug Store
Tor
H. P. McCrary
Kingman
H. J. McAlister’s
Grismore
Drake
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