Madison Fair date and a busy round of travel notices
Madison area residents are listed with visits and trips to Louisville Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Several relatives and friends depart Madison by Corker train and steamer while others plan visits to Switzerland county Grand View and Terre Haute. Local deaths and a Chautauqua stockholders meeting are also noted with brief details.
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Frank Schram
Todianapolia
William Melton
Trimble County
Louisville
Mary Ehaglin
Indianapolis
Belle Francisco
Grand View Ind
Emma King
Mesers
John Robrmas
Jobo Denzer
Stony Point
Joseph Gardner
Memphis
Altha Cope
Bellesview
Sarh Jones
Alice Henry
Milton
George Bailey
Fred
George Schnabel
Young man smokes on street after pipe mishap
A youth who looked like a college student stood on a corner in Louisville smoking a new white pipe, refilling and stamping out ashes every fifteen minutes. A friend asked about his purpose, and he explained he had broken his father's meer schann and planned to fix it quickly with a colored epheme.
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Louisville
Gilmer Wingham
Nathan Wingham
Judge Bear
Main and
Mulberry Sts
Kings Daughters Hospital
Ir. Cook
Main Street
Mulberry Street
Young Wingham
Arch
Bud) Melton
West Madison
Melton
Married Tomorrow A Pessimist Seeks Odds From Weather Clerk
A stranger tells a clerk he is to be married tomorrow. The clerk quips that his look suggests poor odds, illustrating a lighthearted New York Globe style exchange about marriage and luck.
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Weather Bureau
New York Globe
Local notes from Maison on September six
Community diary items list multiple residents traveling to Indianapolis for the State Fair and visiting friends in Cincinnati and Middlefork. It notes a criminal court martial in Indianapolis, a Camp Garber reunion near Dupont, and a bicycle accident injuring Gilmer Wingham in the city, with Judge Bear assisting at the scene.
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Irs
Clarence Hisle
Yisio
Chcigo
William Gateswood
Ellen Verkinson
Bedford
Earl Guilion
Moorefield
Indianapolis
Bert Antle
Middlefork
Mabel Smith
Cincinnati
Herman Krueger
Kent
Charles Stark
Batesville
Mee
Jacob Holzer
Baltimore Street
F. B. Malcomaon
Vevay
Greenwood
Mary Hugeback
Anna Hiret
Josephine Schafer
Indiananapolis
P. E. Bear
H. O. Woolford
H. H. Cope
George Hill
Hal Drake
State House
Edwin Ball
Walter Dowell
Co. F
Gideon W. Blaine
Camp Garber
Dupont
Joe Wheeler
M. C. Garber
Sheriff M Kay Praises County Jail and Grounds
Sheriff Frank McKay oversees a well maintained jail praised by visiting sheriffs as clean and sanitary. The 16 cell building holds neat beds and sheets andGray blankets. McKay also gardens the sheriff residence yard turning it into a productive vegetable and tobacco patch. Custodian Shafer keeps the bail rolling and the courthouse grounds tidy with vines and canvas along the wall.
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Frank McKay
Kekay
McKay
Shafer
Court House
Brennan brother alive in Chicago ends mystery
A letter to Miss Mary Brennan reveals her brother Joseph Brennan is alive in Chicago, refuting a photo identification that linked him to an unidentified Eastland disaster victim. The notice contrasts with a prior Indianapolis Star report.
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Chicago
Mary Brennan
Fort Wayne Avenue
Joseph Brennan
Miss Mabel Buchanan Rites Planned After Death in North Carolina
The remains of Miss Mabel Buchanan, who died Saturday at a Black Hill health resort in North Carolina, will arrive tonight with her brother Earl Buchanan. They will take the body to Vail chapel for funeral tomorrow and burial at Fairmount. She was a daughter of Congressman Srank Buchanan of Chicago from a former marriage and spent her life in the county. Survived by her brother and her mother who lived with her near Canaan.
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Flavius Hurley
Squire Stuart
Cragmont
Sheriff McKay
A.B. Wynn
Mary Bain
Point Liew
Gladya
Aline
Schwab
West Third Street
Louisville
Frieda Schwab
Frank Hitz
Wm Orrill
Orr
Vail
Terre Haute
Mable Buchanan
Black Hill
North Carolina
Earl Buchanan
Vail Chapel
Fairmount
Srank Buchanan
Chicago
Canaan
Funeral for Gilbert Spangler Held at St Patrick’s Church
The funeral for Gilbert Spangler, who accidentally shot himself last Friday, was held Sunday at 2:30 PM from St Patrick’s Church in North Madison. Despite rain, a large crowd attended. Burial followed at Fairmount Cemetery with pallbearers comprising young friends of the deceased.
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Gilbert Spangler
St. Patrick’s Church
North Madison
Fairmount Cemetery
Unclear text from Chicago Tribune fragment
Fragmentary OCR text discusses golf, balls, and a resigned official. It mentions a forum, some names, and improvised remedies. The readable content is sparse and includes garbled phrases with no coherent event or identifiable persons or organizations.
Addressing an Onion Seallion Riddle
A terse verse from the New York Evening Sun ponders secrecy and strength in a playful riddle about an onion. The speaker hints at memory and presence, concluding with a note on not being a secret view.
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New York Evening Sun
Love and Business Form a Double Partnership
A cheeky exchange teases a romance with practical aims as Minerva completes a sales course and a partner finishes advertising. They plan to invoke a notary and a clergyman to launch a family business union blending love and commerce.
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Pepley
Minerva
Cleveland Plain
Perfectly Horrid Mae Name Sparks Town Debate
A playful report notes a young girl Mae Mae’s name drawn laughs in the community as residents discuss the spelling and social reactions during an evening gathering in Richmond. The item captures local humor and concerns over names in a period newspaper tone.
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Mae
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Candy Box Banter Sparks Half Full Joke
Aunt and Grace exchange playful lines about a large candy box on the table. The niece asks for candy and the aunt jokes she can eat all she wants, noting the box is only half full, in a light domestic vignette from the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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Grace
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Henry Ford Calls for World Peace Over Preparedness
Henry Ford urges isolation as insufficient and pledges his wealth to promote unending peace. He critiques militarism, argues against arms buildup, and says Edison would not aid war. Ford envisions teaching peace from childhood and vows to dedicate his life to ending 6,000 years of warfare. Take The Herald.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
America
Alb
Itenry Ford
Mr. Ford
Thomas Edison
Plains
Edison
Humaan
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