Local Residents Active With Meetings and Travel
Frank Bartmess of Cleone and Sam Sneed of Wier visited town. Farmers plowed corn fields as John Trump visited friends. Byron McNary family returned from Sarasota. Easter service at Church of God Bethel featured missionary talks. Sergt Gray spoke of Ar gonne battle from Ft Sheridan hospital. Benjamin Hirschman of Auburn died at 82. Claude Vickery won mayoral race over rivals. Various local moves include property sales and farms near Casey.
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Frank Bartmess
Cleone
Sam Sneed
Wier
Josiah Bardin
Dolson
Elwood Millis
Orange Township
John Trump
Melrose
Byron McNary
Sarasota
Florida
Martha Pierce
Marshall Giles Miller
Benton Linn
Robert Lindsey
Fred Sinclair
Board of Education
Church of God
Nan Sanders
West Virginia
Nannie Westen
Mee Robinson
Benjamin Hirschman
Auburn
Martinsville
Wayne County
Ohio
Winfield Black
Lincoln
Local Society Notes and Birth Announcements
A good rain aided gardens after a rough spell. May 18 brought a baby girl to Mr and Mrs Henry Madison. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Dixon on the 7th. Maybell Bone steel visited her mother Mrs Lamb in Warshall on Wednesday. Lesia Clark, recently in France for months, returned home last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maybell Bone Steel
Warshall
Mrs Lamb
Henry Madison
Dixon
Lesia Clark
France
Dolson Community News Summary
Fred Wieland and Cal Bogers of Charleston visited Dolson on Monday. Clarksville school led by Miss Etta Hutchison closed. Dolson soldiers Ernest Reeley and Ernest Spires arrived home soon from overseas. Word came of Mrs James Hurst's illness in West Terre Haute, sister of J F Hornbrook of Clarksville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Wieland
Charleston
Cal Bogers
Clarksville
Etta Hutchison
Dolson
Ernest Reeley
Ernest Spires
James Hurst
West Terre Haute
J F Hornbrook
The Flyabout and the Rise of Personal Flight
The piece traces a shift from the old best girl buggy to the modern motorcar and then to flying machines. It notes wartime production ending and a firm offering flying boats seaplanes and chummy flyabouts for commercial or pleasure use as a gift idea for sons or daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bey
Ancient salaries of actors from Roscius to Garrick
A Buffalo Express piece discusses historic actor pay from Roscius earning about $160 daily in ancient Rome to later stars like Apollinaris and Terpinus. It notes Ves Pasian gifts, Harpists salaries, and 19th century figures such as Garrick at $250 per night and Miss Ellen Tree around the same period, illustrating early modern views on theater wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Mantell
Buffalo Express
Rosclla
Mantell
Cicero
Charlie Chaplin
Roscius
United States
Aesopus
David Garrick
Macready
Richelieu
Ellen Tree
Dog Refused to Stay Dead
Frank Finney and Ben Lansing, Indianapolis motor policemen, were sent to end the suffering of a run over dog at the Corburn Storage and Warehouse. Finney shot the dog to end its pain, but the animal allegedly revived. Lansing finally killed the dog after Finney refused to participate a second time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Finney
Ben Lansing
Coburn Storage and Warehouse Company
West
Georgia Street
Finney
Sanders
Lansing
Indianapolis
Submarine Target Crafted for Naval Gun Practice
A Popular Mechanics writer details a waterborne imitation submarine target used during voyages. The 30 by 5 foot frame carried a conning tower and periscope, drawn by two cables, with the upper cable lifting the frame to surface and the under cable submerging it. Officers controlled range by adjusting cable lengths unseen by gunners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics Magasine
Fragmentary note on church and errands interrupts thread
Disjoint lines describe interruptions to a thread about remoin and hranae with mentions of an Evangelical Church. The text lacks clear events, dates, or identifiable people or organizations to anchor a full summary.
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Nccmoormool
Am Newstems
Casey
The
Banner Times
Claude Vickery
Dark Horse
J E Turner Harold Law
Lucille Williams
Greenup
Shelbyville
Tlt
Winchester
Fletcher Depew
Chicago
Simon Brady
Kentucky Oil Fields
National Refining Co
W . Lee
Parker Township
Esta Elliott
Terre Haute
Delilah Aller
Chas Robinson
Louisa Luella Bland
J W Bland
Frank First
Evah
Chillicothe
First
York
Clothcraft
Green & Fancy
Man's Underwear
Porosknit
Balbriggan
White Shoes
Oxford
Indies & Children
M. Grabenheimer
South Dolson
Ile Leneal Place
EAGLE
Bae Weh
Kirchner & Williams L.number Company
Ancient Acfone
Soan
Marshall
Clark County
Illinois
Marshall Township High School
John A. Sweet
D. D. Dol.ki
North Side Square
Minois
Rémoin
Hranae
Ian
Intervala
Evangelical Church
Emanuel
J W. Feller
Wabash
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