Doings From Marshall and Surrounding Towns
This week features visits and homecomings across Marshall and nearby towns. Ben Ogle stays in Chrisman. Elizabeth Hedrick visits West Union. Elizabeth Hagist visits Terre Haute. Robert Jeffers from Terre Haute spends Sunday with friends. Otho Tibbs returns from Cincinnati for a family visit.
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Ben Ogle
Chrisman
Elizabeth Hedrick
West Union
Elizabeth Hagist
Terre Haute
Robert Jeffers
Otho Tibbs
Cincinnati
J. H. Maurer
West Terre Haute
Navy Secretary Honors Sailor With Destroyer Name
Josephus Daniels spoke in Baltimore praising Osmund Ingram for the sacrifice that will name a new destroyer Ingram to avenge his murder. He noted that no rank in sacrifice divides the brave from a gunner's mate first class and lauded the sailor who answered the call of the sea.
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Josephus Daniels
Navy
Baltimore
Washington
Ingram
Osmund Ingram
Local Democrats Tell Reverend Sweet to Withdraw
Local Democratic bosses held a confidential meeting last Wednesday and told Reverend John Sweet to quit the ticket due to his candidacy for the legislature. The move reflects party tensions over his name on the ballot.
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John Sweet
Boy Bitten by Snake at Reservoir Lake
Paris News reports 100 year old Harry Lee, son of Mr and Mrs Otho Lee, bitten on the foot by a spreading viper while swimming Saturday at Reservoir lake. The bite caused infection and swelling to above the knee. physician expects no permanent injury.
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Paris News
Harry Lee
Otho Lee
Reservoir Lake
Death of Mrs Nelson at 79 in Forsythe area
Mrs Sarah A Nelson died Saturday after a long illness at her son Richard's west of Oliver. She was 79. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 4 at her late home conducted by Rev Goodman Forsythe and she was buried in Forsythe cemetery. She is survived by four sons and one daughter.
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Mary Belle May
West Terre Haute
Dunlap Cemetery
Arthur Guinnip
J. J. Rose
Cincinnati
Alice Stateler
Business
Terre Haute
Kelly
O. A. Keiser
Indianapolis
Charles Killie
Casey
Levi Mark
Marshall
Irene Carpenter
Lucile Stafford
Sarah A. Nelson
Richard
Oliver
Goodman Forsythe
Forsythe
Methodist Circuit Calendar and Cemetery Work Day
The district superintendent Rev. W. L. Fairchild will cover services on Sunday August 4 at Dolson Chapel 11 a.m. Dar win 3 30 p.m. Walnut Prairie night. Last quarterly conference August 5 West Union M E church 2 p.m. All invited. Auburn cemetery trustees call workers meeting Thursday August 8 to clean grounds.
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W. L. Fairchild
Dolson Chapel
Darwin
Walnut Prairie
West Union
M, EB
W. H. Stephens
Local Martinsville Ads Bundle Sparks Trade and Services
The notice list includes Marshall Candy Kitchen cold drinks and ice cream, Golden Star polish for furniture by Bubeck & Gallagher, farm land loans with low rates by Edgar Summers, a modern house for sale or rent with garden and orchard by Fenton Mathews, seed potatoes onions from McNary, and a flour mill ad from The Marshall Flour Mills plus wheat purchase offer from J. Marvin.
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Fenton Mathews
Affable but troublesome neighbor charms yet harms
A witty Los Angeles Times Magazine piece lampoons a relentlessly polite neighbor who borrows coffee bread tablecloths lace doilies a lawn mower and an opera cloak often returning items damaged or altered, leaving hosts reluctantly charmed yet exasperated.
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Don
John
Los Angeles Times Magazine
How Airplanes Are Caught by Steel Nets in Night Raids
German reports cited by Aeronautics describe nets of thin gauze plane wire strung between kite bal loon balloons to entangle Allied airplanes. The barrier could wrap a propeller and force raids to stay high, aided by balloons with small explosive charges scattered nearby.
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Aeronautics
London
Kote Sim
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Rex Taylor
Wallace Macdonald
Claire Anderson
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Adirondacks
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al Star
Berlin
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A. Li Howertot
Charles Bruner
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Mary Crow Wernz
Merrick Cox
Dan W. LeGore
Walter Adams
George Baird
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William Rector Jr
Washington, D. C
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Mary Lake
Kinmundy
Ernest Howell
Joe
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Greenville
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Altamont
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Frank Greenough
Eula Morton
Mary Eagleton
Robinson
Bailey Eagleton
Camp Wadsworth
Spartansburg
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Claude Scott
Paris Island
Mabel Osborn
Marshall High School
Don E. English
Ordnance Department
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Frieda Hagist
Weir
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Mary Green
Jonefort
LaGrange
Ind
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Will
Frank Ravenshute
Albert Huston
Freedom Neighborhood
Charles Huston
Ruth McNutt
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Jennie McNutt
Mary Huston
Burr Lewellyn
Paris
Louis R.whitson
Martinaville
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F. W. Greenough
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J. S. Mundy & Co
Duncan Drug Store
Marshall Candy
Edgar Summers
Martinsville, Ill
B. F. Johnson
Bubeck & Gallagher
Duncan’s
Cole & Cole
Marshall, Ill
Fred Wallis
Kohl Building
East Main Street
Wabash
Farmers
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McNary
Marshall Flour Mills
J. Marvin
Duncan
Star Bakery
Sockler's
Harry Coldren
Poland
China
Ross Holler & Son
Dr. Wiiley
Bartlett & Buckle
Seventh St
E. W. Archer
Foster Martin
RC. U
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Dixie
Palm Beach
Booth & Handy
Terre Haute, Star
Marshall Herald
Kirchner & Williams Lumber Co
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