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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1884
Page
4
A. J. Whitbeck offers 153 acres in Cass township near Pleasantville for trade against town property. The land is all cultivated with a good house fine orchard and a good well with a spring. includes 40 acres sown to wheat. Owned by A. J. Pigg.
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit covering Sullivan and Greene counties lists term dates starting March 19 June 11 October 5 and December 24 with five week terms. Includes county officers clerks treasurers trustees town officers and named officials such as Recorder Commissioners Surveyor Coroner Superintendent and Trustees across multiple townships.
The timetable shows Oan going east at 5 50 a m and returning 3 59 p m, then going west to the River at 3 35 p m and returning from the River at 5 40 p m.
A historical railway timetable lists southbound trains Nos. 1 3 6 17 19 21 with varying departure times and class designations. Northbound trains Nos. 2 4 6 18 20 22 follow, noting daily operation for most services with Sundays excluded for some runs.
Schedule shows trains departing Evansville and other towns with arrival times at Vincennes Princeton Sullivan and Terre Haute. Includes listed connections to Chicago Cincinnati Louisville and Chicago routes with times around morning and evening windows.
Timetable shows trains between Mt Vernon and Evansville with connections to Indianapolis and Chicago. Parlor cars operate Evansville to Indianapolis. Sleeping Cars on Evansville to Chicago. Schedules list stops at Poseyville Wadesville Owensville Cynthiana Centhiana and Evansville with departures and arrivals across morning and daily runs.
OCR text shows a fragmented railway schedule with multiple station names such as Vincen wood and Olney and times like 6 45 am and 7 dopm. The legible items include routes and stop times in a garbled sequence, indicating a timetable snippet rather than a full article.
A fragmented timetable lists multiple city stamps including Vernon Seymour Mitchell Olney Plora Odin Sandoval St. Louis with scattered times and day parts. The OCR yields inconsistent punctuation and stray symbols, providing no clear schedule or routes.
In a quaint Maine town Paine, a courting singing schoolmaster, misreads a page, prompting laughter from Miss Patience White and pupils. He stares at a grave line, groans, and the class erupts as mischief and chiding verse spread.
A New York Sun piece presents a casual con man who makes a living by borrowing money. He explains tactics to flatter, time his requests, and exploit social settings, noting he rarely repays beyond a few loans and continually seeks new “stock” of lenders.
Drugstores report only Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry available for coughs and colds, showing consumers seek the best cure and will not accept substitutes.
The list shows Indiana citizens receiving patents for various inventions including water and gas pipe stopcocks condenser for ammonia ice making apparatus ice tongs elevator and buggy seat along with several other devices. An assortment of ads and old notices follow with medical and editorial snippets.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway offers reduced round trip excursion fares to Jacksonville Savannah Charleston Thomasville and other southern points. Tickets are valid fifteen days after sale for outbound travel and may be used to return any time before June 1 1884. Inquiries to O and M agents for rates and routes.
Yarston Hawkins offers 100 acres of improved land from his 328 acre farm 44 miles northeast of town with option to sell entire 328 acres. He will also sell 44 acres of town property in the north part of Sullivan. For details contact Tanvron Iawkins Sullivan Ind Lomarsstf.
A British writer notes Cochin hens eat more and lay fewer eggs than Leghorns. He recalls one Cochin hen laying two eggs while a Leghorn laid four, with the Cochin consuming twice as much food for the two eggs. He adds three Cochins eat as much in a day as a four month pig would. A cab company applicant joke shows a driver asked about honesty and politeness, replying he would live on his income if found with a $10,000 pocketbook.
On Monday April 7 1884 voters in Jackson Curry Fairbank Cass Jefferson and Haddon Townships are to elect officers including one trustee two justices of the peace and two constables for Jackson Township and similar positions for the other townships listed.
Notice is hereby given that the April Election will be held on the ith day of April 88s at the respective voting precincts in Sullivan County Indiana for the election of the officers named in the Clerk's certificate. James L. Berry, Sheriff Sullivan County Indiana.
One third of purchase money due on sale day, then at nine and eighteen months, with two promissory notes bearing six percent interest from date. Attorney fees and security required. Sale at one o clock P M on the premises. Executor Roland S Walker of John G Kimberlin estate.
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