Elxora Local Notes and Court News Roundup
Community tidbits recount travel visits from Emet Pope to St Paul and west, Odon and Burns City residents, and local engagements. Court action in Washington Herald notes Clara Beasley v town of Norn and others seeking damages. Local marriages, illnesses, school commencement at Elmore township with Horace Elllie as speaker and seven graduates.
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Washington Herald
Clara'm Beasley
Norn
Henry T. Beaver
James B. Able
Daviess
Elmore Township
Dillon
Occassion
Pres
Horace Ellie
Vincennes University
Hillis
Bipora Orchestra
Valuable Indiana Centinel relic highlights 1821 Vincennes issues
The piece preserves a copy of the Indiana Centinel from Vincennes dated February 24, 1821. It notes a law forming a county north of Vigo, a treaty with the Wea, state capitol at Corydon, and harsh mail service reports from Vincennes to Louisville, including a mail contractor’s alleged flight and a mail delay in Congress news.
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D.J. Abraham
Indiana
Vincennes
Vigo County
Park
Corydon
Harrison County
Louisville
Congress
Washington
Orleans
Foyles
Abraham
Fixable Jewelry Offer Amid Stated Breakage
A fragmented late notice advertises buying repairable jewelry including a brooch and a watch. The seller claims items are fixable with little time cost and offers to purchase them for a few cents, urging prompt action.
Land giveaway pitch and pressroom bustle at the paper
The stenographer reports nine hundred fifty papers printed as the boss complains of circulation, while the office worker grumbles about pay. Cale O'Dell touts a Florida quarter section promising 160 acres of climate, quipping the land costs nothing and is worth all it costs.
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Dickens
Cale O’dell
Florida
Fire destroys Raie's General Store in Odon blaze
A major evening fire on East Main Street in Odon destroyed the rear of Raie's General Store and damaged Mrs. Etta Bunch's millinery. The blaze spread to nearby Haig store and hardware, but the department quickly contained it. Losses exceed $1500 with $500 in interior damage and goods insured. Fire origin unknown.
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Haig
Odon
Raie
East Main Street
Ings
Willis Edgie
Jeffersonville
Two Doctors and the Baron Lutz Leg Treatment Joke
The late Baron Lutz of Bavaria, wounded in both legs, had one doctor treat his right leg while another treated his left without telling them of the other injury. The two methods differed, yet both wounds healed around the same time, and the baron later enjoyed watching the doctors differ in their explanations of how each leg was treated.
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Baron Lutz
Bavaria
Some Thought For Food Says Digestion Guides Life
A quotation by W. J. Lampton in the New York Herald urges that digestion shapes satisfaction and action. It links appetite to courage and warns that indigestion fosters vice. It emphasizes that a stomach in trouble unsettles judgment and happiness.
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W. J. Lampton
New York Herald
Secret writing in cipher in ancient sources and opposition
Polybius traces cipher writing to Aéneas who created twenty methods that remained hard to unfold. The practice, vital to diplomacy, was opposed by Elector Frederic II who deemed it devilish. Trithemius tried reviving it, Boville mocked the terms, and Poissevin echoed the claim. Frederic burned the original Tritheimian work in zeal.
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Polybius
Aéneas
Frederic II
Trithemius
Spanheim
Boville
Poissevin
Frederic
Governor Hanly and the Boy Move Audiences in Indiana
Blodgett reports Hanly’s Washington speech urging anti liquor laws and moral politics in Daviess County. A rosy cheeked boy in the front row drew the speaker’s plea to save him and Indiana’s children, arguing saloons are pitfalls for all boys and that a moral General Assembly protects them.
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W. 4. Blodgett
Indianapolis News
Hanly
Washington
General Assembly
Indiana
Trustee Notice for Madison Township Friday Office Visit
Trustee invites all persons with business to contact the office. the trustee will be at the office or about town on Friday each week to attend township affairs.
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Madison Township
Dentist at Main and Spring Streets Corner
A dentist operates from the corner of Main and Spring streets near Ver Haig's store.
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Spring Streets
Haig
Graceless Children
Michael Minot a French preacher who died in Paris in 1518 was noted for his pulpit eccentricities and rapid shifts from humor to pathos He spoke of pillories for sweaters and warned that harsh laws would punish all ages He urged reverence for aged parents and used a tree root image to condemn children who neglect roots of virtue
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Michael Minot
Paris
Iate
Special Offerings Highlight May Bar Gains
A compact note promotes May bar gains with emphasis on customer attention. It highlights a select set of lines and urges focus on reader engagement and value.
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Elxora
Emet Pope
St. Paul and
the West
Orval Morrison
Sumner Alexander
Jake Pershing
Valparaiso
Beulah Carroll
Myrtle Winkleplck
John Caress
Burns City
Lula Effinger
Terre Haute
Walter Whiteman
Odon Burday
Harry Laughlin
Linten
Mrs. Mack Chambers
Indian Springs
C.L. Melsheimer
Jasonville
Augusta Denham
Plainville
W. E. Laughlin
Laverne Tearle
Indianapolis
W.E. Laughlin
Neat Guthrie
Son Everett
Linton
Curtis
Web Bair
Ing
Perry Barks
Lev. Milligan
Christian Yebarch
H E
Rs.d. M. Sears
Emery A. Eubanks
Miss Peatershing
Mr. Eubanks
Barks Brothers
Miss Pershior
ES. Pershing
Fnomas Payne
Benjamin Parke
United States
U.S
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Lodiieaar
Odon's Fire Department
B. D. Smiley
Woodman
A. Jolliff
Governor Hanly
J. U, Seal
Brussells
Axminister
Hamilton Brown
H.c.godman
Barkley G Overton
Henderson & Gilliatt
Douglass
Pacific
Pickett & Morrison
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