Platform debate on a Jim Crow Southern railway car
Sam and Rastus discuss politics during a cotton-picking season ride. The exchange centers on a political platform and it uses racial slurs to critique attempts to use politics as a vehicle for control.
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Sam
Rastus
Auto wreck near Dana injures Greenfield visitor
The article details Earl Trees of Greenfield Indiana visiting Rev Fisk when a collision occurred east of Dana. John Handon, driving from the north, collided with Trees’ party. no one was killed though injuries and a damaged car occurred. It also contains unrelated notes on a medicinal remedy, family news, and a long personal narrative about a stepmother story.
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Earl Trees
Greenfield
Indiana
Rev Fisk
Illnois
Puesdar
Trees
Dana
John Handon
Real Estate Transfers in Indiana and Nearby Towns
Real estate transfers reported by Ki Lambert Rockville Indiana list multiple deeds. Transactions include Daniel G Johnson to Mrs Shoemaker in Union for 50 dollars and several parcels in Bridgeton Lyford City Raccoon Adams Bloomingdale Montezone and Marshall with prices ranging from 1 to 14 690 dollars. Most transfers involve parcels or lots with undivided interests and small sums.
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Daniel G. Johnson
Wmn. A. Shoemaker
Union
RAT SNAP rodent destroyer offered by local pharmacies
KILLS RATS and mice with cakes that do not mix with food. Money back if it fails. Available in small cake for pantry or kitchen and larger two cake size for chicken houses, coops, or small buildings. Larger packs from 25 to 65 cakes for farms, storage, path buildings, or factories. Sold and guaranteed by Murdock's Pharmacy and H W S Cornwell.
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Murdock
Pharmacy
HW. S. Cornwell
Locket Eyeglasses Sold by Murdock’s Pharmacy
The advertisement promotes a “Locket” eyeglass design grafted from a British patent. The glasses fold and resemble a locket when idle and can be worn on a chain as an ornament alongside offerings like ice cream.
Expenditures and Tax Levies for Reserve Township 1921
The Trustee Roy Aikman announces the Advisory Board will meet September ith 1920 at 10 a.m. to discuss 1921 expenditures and tax levies including township, local tuition, and special school taxes totaling 28 149 00 with 115 3 cents per hundred. Net taxable property listed, polls 235, mortgage exemptions credited.
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Reserve Township
Parke County
Roy Aikman
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