Political Announcements for County Offices
A list of candidates announces for county treasurer recorder clerk and assessor in various townships. Each seeks party support and is subject to the will of the Republican nominating convention. Names include Theodore To Jones Madison Madison Madison Henry Hoseit and others across Washington and Van Buren townships.
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Theodore
Jones
Washinton
Gumeainees
Eocunty
Henry Hoseit
van Buren Township
Milton Kitzgerald Declines Sheriff Candidacy
Milton Kitzgerald of Washington township announces he will not seek the sheriff position. He states his stance is subject to the will of the Republican nominating convention scheduled for March 30.
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Milton Kitzgerald
Washington Township
Harrison man seeks county auditor post at GOP convention
Jacob C G Clack of Harrison township announces candidacy for county auditor subject to the Republican convention. This item notes the party process and the candidate's local backing.
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Jacob CG. Clack
Harrison Town
Henry Setrit of Van Buren Seeks County Assessor Nomination
Henry H. Setrit of Van Buren Township announces candidacy for county assessor. His six years on the Board of County Commissioners give him familiarity with county business and promising experience for the assessor role.
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Henry H. Setrt
van Buren Township
Setrit
Sears
Board of County Commissioners
Caleb E O Dell Secures Republicans Nomination Hint
Caleb E O Dell announces candidacy for Republican nomination for county clerk in Madison Township. He previously sought the same nomination four years ago in Florida, narrowly missing a strong county-wide showing against campaigner Col Wallace, with local support noted in Madison Township.
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Florida
Washington
Veterin Cammpaigner
W. Oal Wallace
Gratitude to Neighbors After Loss
The note thanks kind neighbors and friends for loving assistance during the illness and death of a wife and daughter, Finn Cooper, and Mr. and Mrs. D. Gantz. The message emphasizes continued support and encouragement.
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Finn Cooper
D. Gantz
Local Notes From Ward's and Nearby Towns
A collage of brief items lists visits and sightings: Miss Rind Callahan at Elnora, R C Skemp in Bloomfield, EL O Dell in Washington, Levitt Singleton from Bedford, and various residents like Mrs Ira Correll and the Harmans at Sandborn. Also noted are sales and ads for Orpington eggs, watches at Williams and Jol lis, and notices of people visiting relatives and attending events in numerous towns.
Recital at School Building Tonight by Miss Vivian Eastham
Miss Vivian Eastham will give a recital at the school building tonight at 8 p.m. Admission is 15e. Proceeds go to school supplies.
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Vivian Eastham
James Blackmore Dies at Home in Greene County
James Blackmore, a prominent Greene County resident and leading farmer, died at his home near Blocanfield after a several weeks illness. He was about 60 years old and born in Switzerland. He leaves many descendants and was among Greene County’s wealthiest citizens.
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James Blackmore
Greene County
Blocanfield
Switzerland
U B Church Services Schedule
Preachings at Ordon 16 50 Mud Pike 14 30 and Pleasant Hill 19 00 with extended services planned at Pleasant Hill Sunday night if the pastor recovers to begin.
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Ordon
Mud Pike
Pleasant Hill
Value of the Bible Topic at M. E. Church Meeting
The Mo Eo church announces Sunday services with Sunday School at 9:30 and preaching at 10:30 on the Value of the Bible. Jr. League meets at 2 pm. A mass meeting is planned Wednesday at 7 pm led by Gard ner and others with special music. Everyone is welcome. Pastor Hue. VT. Lewis.
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S. S
Laughtlin
Jr. League
Wed
Mo Eo
Shiloh Items Bair sale attendance and local visits
Severn attended the Bair sale Tuesday. Earnest Sears visited Arrison Overton Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs Jas Spurgeon is on the sick list this week. Mrs Clara Hattery who has been ill at Indianapolis is now with her parents the Wm Riggins and not much better. Emanuel Humerickhouse and sons Verill and Charles Myers returned home from Virginia. Amy Overton visited Emanuel Humerickhouse's family Sunday. George Coyle was at Odon Monday. Mrs Smanuel Hamerickhouse visited Mrs Will Hamerickhouse Sunday. Orville Overton visited Alva Callahan Saturday night. Oll Hinkle was at Elnora Monday. Barn Allen and family of Montgomery moved on to Gartens place. John Heshelman and family visited friends in Martin County Sunday. Roy Hinkle visited Willis Overton Sunday.
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Clara Hattery
Indianapolis
Win. Riggins
Mass Meeting at M E Church in Washington Ind
A mass meeting is set for February 16 at 7 p.m. at the M. E. church with Judge Gardiner of Washington Ind delivering an address and several others possibly speaking. The program ends at Jolliff's Hall after a social hour and includes music by an orchestra and a series of readings and toasts led by Rev. Eug. T. Lewis and Caleb O Dell among others.
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M. E. Church
Judge Gardiner
Washington
Ind
Jolliff’s Hall
Goodman Bros Move to Oakland City Store
Goodman Bros have moved their stock of general merchandise to Oakland City. The room will be occupied next week by Pershing and Matthews general store.
Hard Work of Colombian Women
The report notes that women constitute half of Colombia's miners, often working in hydraulic operations up to their waists in water alongside men, highlighting gendered labor in the mining sector.
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Columbia
Daviess County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company Formed
Articles filed in the recorder's office reveal a farmer founded mutual insurer named Daviess County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company. It spans Daviess, Muuti and Konos counties with business in Cannersburg. The plan is fifty years, nonprofit, fire insurance for members, annual costs shared, no officer pay, no capital stock.
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Recorder
Daviess County
Cannerburg
Daviess County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company
Local Social Notes and Birth Announcement
Miss Goldie Howard returns home after weeks with friends near Eaglesville. Misses Pansy and Lula Mobles of Ocon stay with Miss Eva Connel. Miss Abbey Baile of Marsh valley visits brother E Baile’s family. Union Chapel meeting led by Rev Mobley and Rev Arford grows in interest. Grace and Ruth Carpenter of Odon visit Ada Howard. Truly Pownall visits at D W Osborn's. Lilly Howard visits Mrs Grace Herron. Born to Mr and Mrs McNabb a daughter Friday.
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Pansy
Lula Mobles
Ocon
Eva Connel
Union Chapel
Mobley
A. W. Arford
Misses Grace
Ruth Carpenter
Odon
Ada Howard
Missionary Program at U B Church Sunday Evening
Program for Sunday February 13 at 8 pm includes devotion by the president, a report from a mission field, a duet by Pearl Senett and Sadie Alexander, and a Porto Rico study by Ethel Laughlin. Recitation by Genevieve Ward. Business and dismissal by Mrs. Sue Arford.
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U. B
Pearl Senett
Sadie Alexander
Porto Rico
Ethel Laughlin
Great Revival At Union Chapel Sparks Church Growth
Rev. M. L. Mobley leads a revival at Union Chapel on Bunkum. Reported yesterday are thirteen conversions and ten additions to the church.
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Union Chapel
M. L. Mobley
Bunkum
Postmaster Ancestry and Rural Work Ethic Highlighted
The passage recalls a boyhood visit to a Pengetey England postmaster and a grand father who once held the job, noting inheritance customs in the postal service. It contrasts family history with the mystery of alive ancestors while linking farm work to practical judgment and disciplined field practices.
TWO MEN AND A TIP. ETHICS LESSON IN BROADWAY LUNCH ROOM
A business man recalls a brief incident in a Broadway lunch room in New York. Two well dressed men finished meals. one moved a dime from the neighbor’s plate to his own before leaving. The waiter noticed the switch and the man ponders Shakespearean lines about a stolen purse harming a name.
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New York
Gin
Tritune
Nisi Prius Explained as Civil Court Sittings
A Dundee Advertiser note defines nisi prius as the court sittings for civil causes tried by circuit judges who may also decide private party complaints. It contrasts writs summoning juries with the actual assizes and explains how the term survived as a historical label.
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Westminster
Gloucester
Winchester
Dundee Advertiser
The Fascination of Corn Cutting
The writer admires corn cutting as a precise craft showing the farmer gripping tall stalks with a stout hand and clipping with a swift knife. He notes the bundle is tied neatly with a twist of a slimmer stalk tucked under, describing it as a tidy, deft art.
Famous Cedars in Lebanon and Nigeria Decline to Extinction
The famous cedars of Lebanon once covered the mountainsides near Hers Syriew in ancient times. Today only a few surviving trees remain on a northwestern slope, securely fenced, yet the 260 remaining individuals face imminent death and eventual extinction.
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Lebanon
Nigeria
Lebanons
Hern Syriew
Fragmentary note on personal life and marriage status
Fragmented OCR reads about Mrs Stern, a daughter married, divorce mentioned. Reference to a Boston Transcript line questions the identity of a “hippy man” in relation to a friend and an unnamed subject.
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Stern
Doughter
Liberty cannot be established without morality
Greeley asserts that liberty rests on moral foundations rather than power or policy. The remark frames ethics as essential to lasting freedom and governs how society should balance rights and duties. The author emphasizes virtue as the prerequisite for true political liberty.
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Greeley
The Vindictive Knife in the London World tale
A narrator recalls Lopden and Finco in a second floor corner room near Vil liers street. A serpentine knife hangs on the wall by the Thames in Farbankment Gardens, described as vicious and sharp. Nipling and Tosud discuss its origin as the weapon wounds his foot and bears a grisly vertebra fragment.
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Lopden
Finco
Villiers Street
Farbankment Gardens
Thames
Nipling
India
London
Do I Believe in the Occult A Suburban Rail Seance Belief
A New York Times anecdote describes a skeptical suburbanite who, after attending a seance with a friend, experiences a sudden shift to belief in the occult. He reports a vision of a stout dark woman and ends with a confession that the event led him to fire his colored cook.
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Sur
Buggins
New York Times
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Indiana
Atered
Odon, Indiana
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Co-operative
Olive
Inter
Dean M. Inviani
DW. Hayes
Florence
Lin
Marre di Ao
County Recorder
Harry BL VouTrees
Washingtes Township
Verte Township
Ameidbees
Por
Caleb BE Oliai
Madison Township
Ghnounces
Stuagert
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Marelli
Aiq
Mareit
Abbehy Oy
Ship
Caleb E. O'Dell
Conny Clerk
Madi
Son Township
O'Dell
Carco
Ward's
Elnora
R. C. Skemp
Bloomfield
CG. EL. O'Dell
Ford Sunday
Batf
Orpington Eggs
Ira Correll
Williams
Jolli’s
Orn
Mrs. Seal
George
Frank Harman
Sandborn
Dean M. Inman
Call
Uwo
Everette Sears
Claude Crawford
Willie Malone
Edwardsport
Lee Varvin
Henry Harper
Bondville
Ilinois
Jacob Clark
Montgomery
TY. T. Jones
Tresasurer
Priday
James T Hitchcock
Lincoela, Nebraska
Jol Hitchcock
Mrs. PL AL Winklepleck
Reason Bennett
QO. O. Laughlin
Oe W. Danham
Amos Staleup
Denlof Tarrisburg, Colorado
Do BL
Alr
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Albert Murray
Greswim
Nebraska
Juli M Witchcock
BP. A. Winklepleck
Fauncy
Alm. Keek
State Jewelers
Aut Opticians
Claude Danner
Terre Haute
Walter Danner
Boomington
Wine Sidaday
Mrs
W. J. Danner
Alary Lacy
Chicago
Downey Grove
Ills
Will Walters
Peter Walters
Walters
Ong
Mattie Neekemer
Julia Harnan
Zelki Ackerman
Mollie Neenemer
Leo Chandler
Leona
Danner’s
Panama
Danner’s Big Store
U. B. Church Services
M. E. Church Services
Pion
W. OR. Gard
Hue
Lewis
Shiloh
Severn
Earnest Sears
Arrison Overton
Jas. Spurgeon
Emanuel Humerickhouse
Verill and
Charles Myers
Virginia
Amy Overton
Geo. Coyle
Smanuel Hamerickhouse
Will Hamerick
Orville Overton
Alva Callahan
Oll Hinkle
John Heshelman
Martin County
Roy Hinkle
Willis Overton
Letha O'Dell
J. W. Anderson
Wim. Bear
H. H
Crooke
Rena Dearmiin
Mable Chinn
Martha
Hulda Sommers
Lela Crooke
Rev
Eug. T. Lewis
Caleb O' Dell
E. T. Laughlin
Oakland City
Via
Regular Fire Insurance Company
Goldie Howard
Eaglesville
Miss Abbey Baile
Marsh Valley
E. Baile
Miss Truly Pownall
D. W Osborn
Mrs. McNabb
Genevieve Ward
Sue Arford
Kent
England
Wwear
Nates
Post Office Department
New York Press
E. B. Powell
Masagine
Nisi Prius
Kipling
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