Local notes and rural life fill Crawfordsville week
Mrs L L Fellows visits Indianapolis relatives while Dr W S Heady notes church foundation plans. The Press defends its correspondents as Big Four timetable changes anger Jamestown residents. Montgomery County notes include barn fire and a whiskey fueled shooting in Ladoga. Boston dispatch covers famine in India with missionary Rev Rockwell Clancy recounting harrowing scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. L. Fellows
Indianapolis
Geo
John Piersol
W. S. Heady
M. EB
I. D. Reynierson
Thorntown
Charles McDaniel
Walker
Z. T. Ginton
Greenfield
Mike Fruits
Ottis Fruits
Here
Yountaville
Florence Fruit
Montgomery County
Crawfordsville
Observers Call for Calm as Town Faces Hard Truths
A Brownsburg Record column quotes Mark Twain about belief and folly, urging townspeople to avoid resistance and wait as social tensions rise. The piece contrasts those who stubbornly misbelieve with others on a shared path toward ruin, urging cool, reflective prudence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Brownsburg
Apron of Mary Queen of Scots Put Up for Reproduction
An apron said to be the most exquisite needlework by Mary Queen of Scots during imprisonment has surfaced. Hidden under a robe lining before her execution, its threads and letters to a Paris ambassador were smuggled out. An American owner, refusing 50100 dollars, plans a large reproduction for June Ladies' Home Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Queen of Scots
Paris
Ladies’ Home Journal
For Sale Poland son with pigs and litter details
A two year old thoroughbred Poland horse with eleven thoroughbred pigs in the second litter is advertised. Presa Office Jamestown advertises in The Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer, urging subscriptions at 75 cents yearly, 57 cents through the paper, or 32 cents for six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Presa Office
Jamestown
Cincinnati Weekly Enquaiter
West
Big Four Excursions for National Meetings and Lodges
Rail fares listed for May 1900 events including Peoples Party national convention in Cincinnati and Indiana Odd Fellows Grand Lodge assembly. Tickets on sale May 7 8 15 16 21 22 with return limits through May 12 18 17 19 24. multiple routes including Cincinnati Indianapolis Greensburg and Columbus regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Peoples Party National
Indianapolis
O. O. F. Grand Lodge
Rebekah Assembley
Indiana
Mill Greensburg
Ind
Indiana State Odd Fellows
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Indiana
Grand Lodge F
A. M
Free Subscriptions Through Local Advertisers
Readers can obtain a free one year Jamestown Press or New Ross Mail by trading with listed firms and requesting a subscription coupon. Participating stores include Cincinnati Store at Lehanon, Kennett & Kendall, Will M. Shoffner, Could Oliver & Martin B. L. Ornhau in Crawfordsville. Coupons convert to cash value for subscription.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Shelley
J. H. Stewart
Walter Spohr
Big Four
Kuielerbocker
Jamestown
Indianapolis
Jamestown Press
New Ross Mail
Lehanon
Cincinnati
Kennett & Kendall
M. Shoffner
Crawfordsville
Oliver & Martin B. L. Ornhau
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Gould, Oliver
Cee Martin
Crawfordsville, Ind
South Washington St
Voris & Cox
Oak Drug Store
Campbell & Masters
Lebanon
West Sipe Square
THE
BE. A. Gregory
West Main St
Lebanon, Ind
Calis
Geldsherry
Hustler
Danville Trust (Co
Ofice
First Yarns Bank
Main Street
ORD “Carter, Sec’y
Danville
T. K. Smith
Advance
Warner Kessler
Wm. Walters
Daniel Feeley
Ernest McLain Bat
W.W. Yager
Cornelius Airhart
Sam Ailes
Kentucky
Ingels
House of Representatives
Hodshire
Ol Pennington
Ladoga
Pennington
Boston
Mass
Rockwell Clancy
Allahabad
Medford
India
Bombay
Julian Hawthorne
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Well
P. M. Lewis
C. E. Stephenson
Jamestown, Ind
Dental Department
University of Indianapolis
D. C. Smith’s
East Main St
A. Smith
Prop
Lloyd T. Nelson
Boone County
East
Sipe Square
Lesanon Inv
Elmer Smith
Vom
Chicago
Lafayette
Louisville
All Pointe
West Baden
French Lick Springs
Carlsbad of America
L. A. Cuarx
J. M. McConnelll
Trav. Passe
Frang J. Regn
Pass
Ill
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