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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1884
Page
4
A fragmented list shows names of local officials including a county auditor treasurer clerk and various trustees for towns Sullivan Carlisle and Merom. The snippet also includes a mixed train timetable with arrivals and departures and ward trustee designations.
The Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company announces a new schedule effective June 5th 1884 with southward trains from Evansville via Meld portal and stops to Chicago, Indianapolis and Sullivan. Through sleeping cars between Evansville and Chicago and through coaches on Evansville Indianapolis routes are noted. G J Grammar general agent confirms service details.
The listing details westbound trains with multiple stops at stations including Seymour Olney Flora Vine’n Mitchell Verna Arginenti and Sandoval. It notes accommodating day schedules, express services, arrival and departure times, and connections limited to the day’s timetable.
In 1852 Tom Marshall appeared in a Circuit Court case in Chicago as defense ally to counter Mr. Martin’s prosecutorial appeal. The Kentucky orator delivered a dramatic opening defending truth over poetry and eloquence, swayed the jury, and the verdict favored the defendant.
An assortment of agricultural notes covers dry corn cribing methods, Shiloh's Vitalizer for digestive ills, and the vast Santa Anita ranch in California with thousands of trees and large sheep and livestock operations. Also comments on schoolbook changes and Catarrh remedies.
The article describes the vast machinery display at the World Exposition, noting its original size and subsequent expansion with an iron annex. The extended machinery department nearly reaches a half mile in length, ranking behind only the Philadelphia Centennial display. It also includes an unrelated medical advertisement for Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry promising relief for coughs and colds.
The Town of Sullivan Indiana enacts sidewalk obligations for Washington and Cogitage Streets. Property owners fronting specified sections must build sidewalks per standards, within 25 days of publication, under supervision of the Town Board with details on widths materials and grades.
In pursuance of an act the state offers for sale to the highest bidder at the Court House door in Sullivan on Friday December 5 at 2 pm two parcels of swamp lands in Sullivan County. Northeast quarter of southwest quarter section one township seven north range eleven west totals 40 acres appraised at 100 dollars. Lot one section seven town six north range eleven west 40 acres appraised at 50 dollars. No bid below appraised values. Lands donated by an 1850 Congress act. James M. KK, Auditor of State.
Thomas M. Douthit as administrator of the estate of John Wells files in Sullivan Circuit Court a petition to sell the decedent s real estate to pay debts. The hearing is set for the December term beginning December 24 1884 at the Sullivan courthouse. Witness the clerk and seal this first day of October.
The Century plans a series of papers on the Civil War. Generals Grant McClellan Beauregard and others will be featured with maps and illustrations. The aim is to record leading events with historical value while offering insights from both Union and Confederate commanders.
In this excerpt the editor Mary Mapes Dodge reflects on the value of magazines in households, stating printed periodicals cannot replace parents teachers or pastors but can supplement their influence. the focus is on St Nicholas magazine and its eleven years under Dodge’s editorial charge.
The market lists per unit prices for wheat flour cattle hogs sheep and corn along with dairy and butter rates. It notes price ranges for choice to fancy steers and dairy products with a firm trend for Haas markets and cautious Burren activity, reflecting a broad commodity snapshot.
An unclear OCR fragment references Feb and a Western Spot event with partial details about a place or activity, but readable facts are minimal and no complete names or outcomes are present. The text lacks coherent context or identifiable entities to summarize further.
The readable fragments describe a mixed lineup of names and phrases with unclear context and several garbled terms. Preserve entities if identifiable, but most details are illegible and lack a clear event or outcome.
Fragmentary OCR lists various numbers and terms such as December dates 10 percent 5 January and prices like 7.75 and 27.00. The text mixes percentages dates and product mentions with no clear event or entities to identify.
The unreadable text fragment mentions multiple names, places, and dates. It appears to be a garbled OCR capture referencing individuals and locations such as a western region, Penn, and winter terms, with scattered terms like December and year.
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