Indiana's Weekly Record highlights rural oddities and local crime
The issue reports astonishing tales from Vermillion to Three Oaks, including a talking baby prophecy and confessions in murder plots. It covers a wave of local incidents from arsenic in tea to a deadly gate fencing, weather notes, railroad wealth, blight in Corydon pears, insane astonishment, a return of gas and electric ventures, and municipal projects across Indiana towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latorre, Inc
Henry Sebring
Three Oaks
Various Local News Tidbits From Grayville Area
A collage of short reports covers injuries, odd incidents, politics, and agriculture. Highlights include John Wheatcroft’s bad thigh fracture from a hayloft accident, a misadventure over marriage licenses in McLeansboro, a near-accident for Harry Wheatcroft in a road-cart, and a curiously described pig with unusual features on a farm. Other items note shifts in political patronage, Braidwood’s Democratic victory, McLean county planning an asylum, Lincoln bottle fragment injury, saloon votes in Shawneetown, a fatal nosebleed in Peoria County, blackberry shipments, the Little Wabash flood impact, a 244 rat-killing tally, a child’s fatal blood-vessel burst, a 40-pound Albion catfish, school enrollment in Carbondale, a massive new Carmi barn, a McLean oat crop destruction, a large wheat yield by Ex-Sheriff Cowling, safety at Cairo bridge, home-grown watermelons in Carmi, Albion cheese production, and county dog counts followed by Posey railroad assessments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Namilton County
Shoemaker & Coker
McLeansboro
Grayville Mercury
Harry Wheatcroft
New Harmony
Miss Wheatcroft
Harry
Wm. H. Medler
Albion
Braidwood
Harrison
McLean County
Lincoln
Lauer
Shawneetown
Jackson Johnson
Peoria County
West Salem
Olney
Frank Beck
Carmi
Buntomb
Union County
John Hambrough
Wabash
Carbondale
Cowling
Wabash County
Cairo
Albion Creamery
Gillatin County
New School Books Adopted Under Reform Law
The governor proclaims adoption of the new school books with bonds filed. Trustees resisting the reform face bond violations and damages claims. Superintendents must ensure sufficient orders, counties may use uncontracted titles, and uniform low prices guide adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Anaa Pouis, Inc
Ring
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the Hegister
Co. W.ssidater
Provinca Oy Uaw
John Wala
MAN Tafpacturer
Gerrand
John Walz
Main St
Ind
WM. P. Ford
Tieckmann
East Main Street
Indiana
A. D. Jones
Cpeice
Wells House
Hartford
Lowell
Philadelphia
Philadelpha Union
Higgins
Brussels
Harts
Cate
Ford & Benrett
John A. Wilhelm
Queensware, Glassware, &c
Armour
City B Bakery
C. Miller
Will. Mott
New Harmony, Ind
Y Will. Mott
Suclas
Centlemen
L. DC
Congress
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Jantil
Terex Havre, Inc
Clinton
Wabash River
Here
Vermillion County
Jong
Orstuiana, Inc
John Williams
Andrew Smith
Smith
Williams
Seysoun, Inc
Lafayette Cornett
Vernon
Seymour, Inp
Love
State
Cuxrurana
Inn
Inpranapolis
CoremBes, Inc
Nathan McIntire
Huntingburg
Jacob Jones
Anderson
Corydon
Anni
Amelia Day
Fort Wayne
Reagan
W. T. Merker
New Albany
G. A.R
Vincennes
Brazil
Jeffersonville
Ohio River
Loniaville
Purdue University
Agricultural Department
Washington, D. C
John Kelly
Franklin
Flora Ogden
Michigan City
Clay County
Indianapolis
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Bartholomew
Marion
Terre Haute
Roy Howard
Will Payne
Columbus
Chas
Rogers
Chas. Wetzel
Lillie Wallace
Washington
James
Ed Thompson
Shelbyville
Montgomery County
Worthington
Miss Drummon
Crawfordsville
Hammond
Hamilton County
Evansville
Brazil High School
James Mack, Jr
Henry Brown
Gibson County
John Lane
Cambridge City
Elkhart County
Middlebury
Monon
Knox County Woods
Floyd County
Bartholomew County
Geo. Johnson
Shelby County
Indiana School Book Co
Lafayette
Logansport
New York
Marion Soldiers’ Home
Ohio
Sam Jones
Lake Maxinkuckee
Jackson County
Gov
Chase
Mexico
Leavenworth
Clarke County
South Bend
Greenfield
Madison
Poseyville
Illinois
Grayville
Iba
John
W. G. Wheatcroft
Posey
Mr. Vernon, Inc
Peoria
Decatur
Louisville & Nashville
Eugene 8. Thrall
Horace? .Owen
Cashier
Eugene
Thrall
Thomas Mumford Jr
Eugene F. Owen
Horace P. Owen
Charles A. Parke
William S. Owen
Alfred Dale Owen
Arctic
Albert
Newsom
Church St.bet. Main & Brewery
Albert S.newsom
Jacob Breith
Breith
BANK
Jery
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