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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
4
The Mooresville Times informs subscribers that papers marked with a blue cross indicate overdue multiple year subscriptions. Post office policy requires discontinuing pound-rate delivery for those owing over one year to preserve pound-rate privileges.
The report notes one of the largest fruit crops ever seen yet warns frosts may reduce the yield. It mentions C B Rariden considering a run for township trustee on the Democrat ticket but undecided. Mooresville sports fans oppose Sunday baseball for financial reasons. Republican delegates claim the state convention was the best ever and the ticket looks strong, though votes remain uncertain.
The Democrats of Brown Township Morgan County Indiana are called to a mass convention at the opera house in Mooresville on Saturday April 18 1908 at 2 p.m. to nominate a township ticket for the November election. All Democrats and others who wish to cooperate are urged to attend.
An American physicist Dr Cushman argues rusting of iron is due to electricity rather than oxygen. He found hydrogen particles at the attack front and shows that active oxidizing agents like bichromate protect iron by preventing electrochemical attack, with practical implications for protecting iron structures and machinery.
The text traces the emergence of veterinary medicine from 18th century needs to control epizootics in Europe. It notes Lyons and London as early veterinary schools in 1791, the role of fear in spurring work, and the move to prove contagion in diseases like glanders and neuro pneumonia. It ends with ads for goods and stock offers.
Public sale of a 210 acre farm in Green Township Morgan County Indiana with 125 acres cultivated and the rest timber and bine grass. Sale on the farm Wednesday April 15 1908 from 10am to 3pm. Located 5 miles west of Bargainville and Providence 9 miles east of Martinsville 10 miles west of Franklin. Improvements include a one room house two barns granary corn cribs summer kitchen cellar cistern well and a living spring. Contact Col J C Weddel Franklin Indiana for details.
Public notice for Yor Sale requests inquiries to Public Service Co. about a plow described as in first class condition after a gang riding break.
In the Morgan County Circuit Court an April term filing of Burris vs Andrew Clark et al. teaches quiet title action. Defendants named include Andrew Clark and numerous unknown heirs. failure to appear by May date will cause default and hearing in Martinsville Court House. Clerk Odin R Smith and attorney James M Bishop filed the complaint March 23, 1908.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes how letter writing once showed grand phrasing and leisure in days of old. Examples include Lady Pomfret praising alabaster vases and the Princess Craon thanking Sir Horace Walpole with expansive, worldly expressions.
An architect seeks public opinion on the near complete town hall. Jer rold at the livery stable reports initial disappointment as walls rose but acknowledges broad acceptance now with more praise than criticism overall.
A tall gaunt woman enters a West Virginia county clerk’s office to check marriage records. She confronts the clerk and learns James Jones had a license to wed Elizabeth Matt Mott two years earlier. She reveals she is Elizabeth and says Jim has escaped.
A strict drill sergeant, unpopular for harsh discipline, led a squad of recruits through a funeral drill. He walked the passage between ranks as if portraying a corpse and urged the men to show the proper look of regret, testing their composure and reactions.
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