Local News Notes From Sullivan and Nearby Towns
Savvy items from Sullivan Indiana and nearby areas include Dr P A Barco dentist visits, Elza Gambill from Linton visiting friends, Miss Jessie McAfee to Louisville for schooling, and Oliver plows selling at 38.00 or 312.50. Reports mention normal school prep, property bargains, and several residents traveling to Terre Haute and Indianapolis for work or study.
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Jessie McAfee
Louisville
Olivers All Steel
Long, Warren & Co
Confessed Perjury and Murder Verdicts Reported in Indiana Cases
The Dubois County case recalls Aiva Rosenberger who stole watches and received a reformatory term with later perjury admissions about a poison myth linked to life insurance. Mrs Rosenberger faced seven years in a women’s reformatory, later paroled and writing a life story. In Knox, Indiana the jury found Clements guilty of first degree murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment for killing his fiancée Edith Holcom Davis after she vowed to marry another man.
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Yvonne Man
Berrie
Jasper
Aiva Rosenbarger
Wes
Dubois County
Jeffersonville
Young Rosenberger
Princeton
Young Rosenbareer
Clements
Edward Davis
Warrant Issued for Anderson Agent Over $100000 Forgeries
A Tipton County Bank has sworn out a warrant for Manson A. Johnson an Anderson school supply agent and Hot Springs Arkansas officers have been alerted to arrest Johnson on forgery allegations exceeding $100000. In Terre Haute the Eleventh district miners and operators convention approved the same scale as last year with clearer wording.
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Tipton
Ind
Manson A. Johnson
Anderson
Hot Springs
Ark
Johnson
Terre Haute
Indiana
Kentucky
Johnsons Chief Creditor Predicts Quash of Indictments
Hanson A. Johnson of Anderson Indiana, wanted for alleged forgeries totaling about 100000, was arrested in his Great Northern hotel room in Hot Springs Arkansas. He is reported physically exhausted and bedridden for a week, with his wife and J J Netterville of Anderson present. Netterville says all proceedings against Johnson will be quashed.
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Johnson
Hot Springs
Ark
Hanson A. Johnson
Anderson
Ind
Great Northern Hotel
J. J. Netterville
Netterville
Senator Hanna Proposes US Trial for Rathbone in Cuba Fraud Case
Washington reports Senator Hanna intends to introduce a bill to try Estes G. Rathbone in a United States court under American law for fraud connected to the Cuban postal service. He cites Rathbone's honesty and argues Cuban procedure barred evidence should be admissible under US law.
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Washington
Hanna
Estes G. Rathbone
Cuba
United States
Rathbone
Russian Princes Executed for Caucasus Mass Murders
News from Kutais Transcaucasia reports that three Russian nobles Prince Kipiiadz Prince Valerian and Prince Zuludidz were executed on March 3 for leading a bandit organization blamed for terrorizing the Caucasus with systematic robbery arson and murder. Their two week trials culminated in the executions.
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St. Petersburg
Kutais
Transcalcasia
Kipiiadz
Valerian
Zuludidz
Caucasus
Indications of Murder Shocks North Carolina Town
News from Wilkes county reports the discovery of Sarah Benge’s body in a millpond. The missing farmer’s daughter had been gone for three weeks and bears blows on the head with a large bruise on the breast. No water in the lungs.
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Charlotte
N. C
Wilkes County
Sarah Benge
Old Papers For Sale At Office
Advertises old newspapers for sale at twenty per hundred.
Towels at Sale Prices From Hemstitched to Huck
A varied lot of towels listed at 80 cents per pair for 20 by 40 inch figures with hem stitching and fringing. White towels including heavy duck cloth options offered at 63 cents per pair. Butchers linen towelsbleached 86 inches wide valued at 50 cents.
Oliver steel plows cut price by one dollar
On March 20 the price of Oliver steel plows drops one dollar to offer the best plow at a low price. Long Warren & Co advertise deals as well as local sales notices including a house and lot for sale and an implement store opening by J W Miles offering Sattley cultivators Hummer plows Captain Kidd disc cultivator buggies and road wagons old papers offered at 20 cents per issue.
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Oliver
Long, Warren & Co
Kentucky
Oliver Steel
J. W. Miles
Merom
Sattley
Hummer Gang
Captain Kidd
Community thanks for kindness after illness and death
We express gratitude to friends and neighbors for support during our daughter Helen Irene's illness and death. Mr and Mrs Ina Ruddell sign the note. Prof A C Payne was in the city en route from Pleasantville to Crawfordsville to enter Wabash College next week for the spring term. Alvin taught a successful term at Prairie Creek and will return next fall with an increased salary.
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Helen Irene
Ina Ruddell
A. C. Payne
Pleasantville
Crawfordsville
Wabash College
Alvin
Prairie Creek
Notice of Appointment for John T. McKinney Estate
Figen announces appointment as Administrator of the estate of John T. McKinney deceased in Sullivan County Indiana. The estate is described as solvent.
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Figen
John T. McKinney
Sullivan County
Indiana
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P. A. Barco
Sullivan, Ind
Elza Gambill
Linton
Hill
Sullivan Normal
J. A. Mattins
Lulu Stewart
Carl Cowle
Indianapolis
Sullivan
Riley Dodd
Debcarbo
CNION
Globe-Democrat
Ada Campbell
Pear
Charleston
S. Pear
W. H. Hill Jr
Mabel Smith
Dugger
Greencastle
Sarah Kivett
Mary Crooks
Geo
Stell
Tichenenolis Journal
M. F. Purcell
Douglas County
Illinois
Housekeeping
Epworth League
Rev. Steele
County Infirmary
Ed. Hancock
Green Hill
John Hammack
Daisy Thomas
Lizzie
Lucy Burnett
Sallie McClure
Cora Curtis
Addie Murdock
State Normal
F. M. Woodall
Wheeler
Lls
Woodall
Bishop Burton
Taylorville
Ill
Harrison
Tom
Knox
Bishop
Franklin Robbins
Phoenix
Ariz
Will Robbing
Chicago
Womans Club
Ivy Hunt
Effie Nesbit
Carrie Wood
Iva Hunt
Emma (Hampkon
Bay View Circle
W. F. Knotts
Canton
Miss
Macon
Stephens Brown
Regar
India
Viskniskki & Co
Jno. Davis Co
Sammie
Nellie Brewer
Gill Township
North State and
Cochran Streets
L. H. Crawley
John Nesbit
W. R. Nesbit
Recorder’s
W. L. Hunt
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