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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
6
Time card details Rockport departures with trains 41 43 45 and arrivals 40 42 41. It notes connections to Louisville French Lick Monon and Lincoln City and mentions Sunday service variations and transfer points at Lincoln City and Helmbeck. The item ends with a pasted quotation from the Sacred Bert Review.
Homeseekers rates to points in 1st and 2nd Tuesdays of each month. Limit 25 days from sale date. For rates routes train service and other information call any Southern Railway agent or write J. C. Beam Jr A G A P Saint Louis Missouri.
President Taft backs a national health bureau proposal and the committee believes Congress may pass it this year. The main obstacle is insufficient public interest with only limited letters from women’s clubs farmers unions and lodges showing support for establishing the bureau.
Mrs Lionel Marks of Cambridge Mass writes as Josephine Preston Peabody and discusses her play The Piper winning the Shakespeare Memorial Theater prize for production during Stratford on Avon birthday festivities. She credits Professor George F P Baker for inspiration and notes F R Benson will stage and star as the Piper with his company.
A Richmond mother’s nine year old daughter tutors a cook’s child in the alphabet. Teeny learns A and B then struggles with C. When asked what eyes do Teeny blurts I sleep with them in a humorous Sunday Magazine vignette from the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Round trip from Rockport priced at 1.00 with 7 30 a m departure and 9 35 p m return. Entrance to cave 35 cents. Promoted by J C Beam Jr and A G P A St Louis for a rare chance to see the attraction at a low cost.
Union Douglas of Carter township files to sell intoxicating liquors including vinous and malt beverages and tobacco cigars in the southeast room of a Jett numbered building in Lincoln City. The June term hearings before the Spencer County Board of Commissioners will determine license for one year with on premise drinking privileges.
Evansville railways list hourly passenger departures from Rockport Evansville and intermediate points with multiple morning and evening time slots. Direct connections exist to Richland Lake P O and Hatfield via Evansville Rockport services. Freight depot at Main and 9th. freight car from Rockport to Evansville 7 PM daily except Sunday. General Manager D C Powell GE & PA.
Sunday June 1 1941 round trip from Rockport at 7 30 A M arrived Evansville 10 15 A M return 6 00 P M 9 35 P M. Attractions include Central League baseball Ft Wayne vs Evansville steamboat trip to Henderson Ky 25 cents, Oak Summit Mesker Parks open band concerts and vaudeville shows at parks and theaters.
On June term 1910 Spencer county board of commissioners will hear an application by Gilbert Egbert for a one year license to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in the north room of a two story building at Lincoln City lot sixteen seventeen block thirty three. He also seeks to sell cigars tobacco and soft drinks in the same room fronting the railroad station.
Motive is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Spencer county in the State of Indiana will offer for sale at public auction at 2 o'clock p m on the Mth day of June 1910 at the court house door in the city of Rockport the old wooden bridge on the Grandview and Rockport road over the ravine known as the Lake Drain. The said property will be sold for cash.
Signed application to Spencer county authorities for a one year license to sell intoxicating liquors including spirituous vinous and malt in quantities less than a quart at a site on the ground floor front room of a frame house in Rockport. Location details given with a May 13 1910 date and request to also sell cigars tobacco and serve lunch.
Male Indiana resident over twenty one plans a June 1910 hearing before Spencer County commissioners to obtain a one year license to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in New Boston on ground floor front room of a four room single story building with on premises drinking privilege. He also seeks permission to run a lunch counter and sell tobacco and cigars at the same location May 1 1910.
Signed application for a one year liquor license to sell intoxicating spirits wines and malt liquors in Rockport Spencer County Indiana at a room on the first floor of a two story frame building lot fifteen block thirty three Lincoln City. The space fronting a public thoroughfare has glass doors and windows visible from outside with a 10 foot ceiling and doors on north east and south walls. Applicant seeks to sell cigars tobacco and serve lunch with the saloon. May 13 1910.
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