Local notices recount travels and health reports in Martinsville
Orange resident Cooper visits town while Dan Davis and wife from Kansas conduct business. Funeral services for Mrs. Fasig note long life since Martinsville settlement and 12 children. City council organizes committees and plans Memorial Day service. road work to extend east toward Auburn.
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Union
M. E
C. O. Tracy
Burger Place
Prairie
Auburn
Auburn Hill
Catherine
Katy
Christian Faily
Lebanon County
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Mississippi
Cape Girardeau
Martinsville
Church of God
O. O. ‘Tracey
Kettling
Sunday Visits Across Local Families
Clyde Elliott and family hosted visitors Sunday while Laura Elliott joined Lillie Beltz. Many households welcomed relatives and friends including Corks, Shirelys, Frakers, Traviolis, Talways, Weavers, Krews, Kuykendalls, Wyricks, and others. A nurse returned home from Floyd Weaver care as Florence Ligget and Ruth Weaver traveled to Terre Haute for a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong Clyde Elliott
Laura Elliott
Lillie Beltz
Will Cork
Geo. Cork
Henry Shirely
E. J. Shirely
Ogden Fraker
Howard Travioli
Flora Eliott
Plessie Irwin
Edith Burkholder
L. F. Weaver
Jim Weaver
Myrtle Black
Hazel Eliiott
Joe Crew
Hurley Welsh
Wm. Kuykendall
Cora Wyrick
Greeley Brown
Livingston
Florence Ligget
Ruth Weaver
Terre Haute
Ruth Elle
Floyd Weaver
Frank
Walter Welsh
N. T. Dunlap
Herman Saiter
Anna Welsh
Sophia
Florence Macke
Dollie Owens
Chicago
Tornado and fire prompt insurance offers in Marshall
Insurance firms advertise lower rates after a tornado and fire devastate areas. Col a Cele Marshall promotes farm and city coverage with strong terms and direct contact for quotes.
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Cola
Cele
Marshall
Dolson Notes of Local Life and Ministerial Meeting
Frost and ice eyed the area as residents prepared for a May 28 to 30 ministerial meeting at Clarksville Baptist Church with an all day basket event on the final day. Local births, purchases, travel, and community projects are noted along with a Busy Bee Club effort to repaint Dolson Chapel and walling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearley Babcock
Clarksville
Clarksville Baptist Church
Harvest notes and health troubles fill rural week edition
Homer Will Ax considers a new auto. Frank Snyder remains ill. John Husted spent the week at Advance. Don Romine battles measles. Charles Hix visited Terre Haute with relatives. Fruit growers report an excellent apple crop. Mrs. Robert Hurst of the youth side is in poor health. Farmers say they have not been so well in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Ax
Frank Snyder
John Husted
Don Romine
Charles Hix
Terre Haute
Robert
Hurst
Winter Notes Include Cattle Loss and Local Visits
Winter records mention Brossman losing one of his best Holstein cows named Bonnie Shaffner, drawing happy reactions from friends at church Sunday. Mrs D C Cleaver attended the Rebekah school instruction in Casey Wednesday.
Crandall Visits and Local Faithful Gather for Baptism
Miss Ada Moonshine reports Crandall in Casey on Friday while George Tyhurst and Frank Dehl also visited Casey. Families from here joined Mrs Etta Shanks Sunday, Robt Doran and wife traveled from Needmore, several locals attended Dugan baptism, Donald Ping and Miss Nord Postlewaite of Yale visited Ova and wife, George Dyer from Denver visits his sister Mrs Sylvester Crandall after 36 years. Z T Lindsey and wife, James Nelbarger and families, Riley Lingafelter and families, C D Crandall and families spent Sunday with S Crandall. Last Thursday Chas Misner’s home burned down though most lower floor contents were saved.
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Ada
Crandall
Casey
George Tyhurst
Frank Dehl
Nash
Etta Shanks
Robt
Doran
Needmore
Dugan
Donald Ping
Nord Postlewaite
Yale
Ova Chapman
George Dyer
Denver
Colo
Sylvester Crandall
Z. T. Lindsey
Lindsey
James Nelbarger
Riley Lingafelter
C. D. Crandall
S. Crandall
Chas. Misner
Local Social Ties Highlight Terre Haute Area Visits
Estel Crumlin visits Terre Haute. Numerous families share weekends with relatives in Armstrong Walnut Prairie Dennison and Marshall. Health news includes W T Brown critically ill and relatives at his bedside. A West Union wedding ends with a lively celebration and a note from Oklahoma.
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Estel Crumlin
Terre Haute
Hal. Kessler
Andrew
Jake McHenry
Walnut Prairie
W. T. Brown
Jesse
Iowa
John
St. Louis
Will
Clinton
Russell
Ola Lamb
Missouri
Nora Crumb
Ind
Quacks Sell Earthquake Pills And Fashionable Gowns
A collage of 18th century notes describing panic in London after a series of earthquakes in 1750. It mentions quacks vending pills claimed to prevent quakes, women wearing earthquake gowns, and the wealthy spending evenings in parks and coaches. The piece also notes quirky old Scottish words, Verdi secrecy, and brief humorous exchanges from various newspapers.
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London
London Expresa
Adolph Saves Words as He Clings to Iron Cross Tale
A Baden peasant soldier narrates to his wife via letters from the front. He recounts being awarded the Iron Cross after injury in Flanders and describes the simple ceremony and his major and sergeant at the moment of the pin. His wife learns of the medal through a hospital photograph.
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Frankfort
Baden
Flanders
Adolphe
Drst
Bertha
Adolph
Heidelberg
Iron Cross
Diver Seeks Permit to Salvage Neva Sloop of War
Port Townsend diver C. F. Stagger received a War Department permit to salve the Russian sloop Neva wrecked off Cape Edgecombe near Sitka sixty years ago. The Neva carried about $200,000 in gold for crews and officers. after striking a reef it was abandoned and later sank. The Russian government failed to recover the gold. Work is set to begin around May.
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Port Townsend
Wash
C. F. Stagger
Marine
War Department
Cape Edgecombe I
Sitka
Alngka
Neva
German prisoners marry before war release on ship
Four German prisoners of war escorted by armed guards left a prison ship at Southend and wed women they had been engaged to before the conflict. After a wedding luncheon with rewards issued, the brides returned to London while the couples were separated.
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London
Southend
Men with Swelled Heads Always Have Room for More Brains
A pithy aphorism notes that arrogance never fills the mind and suggests even those puffed up by vanity have space for further intellect.
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Salbert
Cooper
Orange
Dan
Davis
Kansas
Chas. Fasig
Rachel Jones
Weir
Andrew Maurer
Wabash Township
Barney Collier
Carbondale
Jasper Alrey
Henry Reasor
James Edwards
Bellatra
Salem
William Blunk
Edwards
Bellair Crossing
SOUTH
Dolson Wm. M. Clapp
Jesse Meloy
Cleo Marrs
Westfield
John. L. Hurst
Dave Montgomery
John ‘Hurst Jr
Dave
Ernie Ross
Glen Ross
Busy Bee
Walla
Dolson Chapel
Forrest Meloy
Homer
Ete
Alfred Stover
Rob English
H. C. Grisham
Jas
M. M. Landers
Otis ‘Landers
Pimento
Carl “Myers
Terre
Haute
Will English
Fairmount
York
Newman
James’ Barker
Annapolis
Henry Starr
Oklahoma
Upper River
River
Para
Sea Island
Goodrich
Goodyear
Mobiloil
Flippard Motor Cars Co
South 6Th Street
Marshall, Ilinois
Glasgow Herald
Aberdeenshire
Verdi
Nicordis
Pialstaire
Boito
Valyly
Tye
St Louis Pont
Dispatch
Louisville
CourierJournal
Columbia
Black & Hutchinson
Texas
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