Sullivan County legal cases and early county history notes
Sullivan County cases in the Supreme Court discuss LaFollette v Akin over Richie property and debts, with judges and attorneys named. The piece also covers Miller v Day guardianship, and Sandusky v Webb, plus a lengthy history of Sullivan’s early residents, townsite, courts, and notable figures from 1840s to 1860s.
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Sullivan County
Supreme Court
Indiana
LaFollette
Akin
William F. Richie
Ransom W. Akin
Richie
Floyd County
Carlisle
Knnsely, Stout and Kellogg
Sullivan
James M. Hanna
T. L. Smith
M. C. Kerr
Indianapolis
Sewell Coulson
Miller
Day
Guardian
Pettit
Appellee
S. Coulson
J. M. Hanna
Sandusky
J. M. Allen
W. Mack
Appellees
Allen
James C. Allen
Merom
Terre Haute
Kentucky
Thomas Marks
Carlisle Messenger
Jeremiah Young
Daviess County
Jacksonian Democrat
Helms
George W. Bee & Co
Illinois
Congress
Section Street
Wolfe
Attorney Allen
John H. Wilson
Federal Farm Loan Act Loans Authorized at 5 12 Percent
The Federal Farm Loan Board announces authorization to make loans at 5 12 percent interest for forty year terms and up to 75 dollars per acre.
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Federal Farm Loan Board
First Mortgage Bonds Offer Gilt Edge Investment
We have on hand a supply of First Mortgage Bonds yielding 6 percent. These are gilt edge investments and no trouble to hold as we collect all interest and payments.
Newspaper Bundle Offer at Five Dollars Per Year
The Terre Haute Star and Sullivan Union announce a combined subscription rate of five dollars for a one year period for both papers.
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THE
Terre Haute Star and Sullivan Union
Cooperative bull associations grow for small dairy herds
The United States hosts over 80 active cooperative bull associations with about 650 members owning 120 pure-bred bulls. These groups, begun in 1908, divide regions into breeding blocks with one bull per block and rotate bulls every two years to limit inbreeding, sharing costs by cow ownership. Early estimates show first generation offspring values rising 30 to 80 percent, averaging 65 percent, with low risk of loss.
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United States
Co-Operative Bull Association
Michigan
Co-Operative
Maryland
Minnesota
Potatoes Prove Profitable On Old Strawberry Beds
Potatoes grown on a worn strawberry bed after a clover cut can yield large crops of high quality. Seed sprouted in spring under partial sun forms short green sprouts, then cut tubers with sprouts are planted. At the Ohio experiment station June 30 seed yielded nearly twice as much as cellar-stored potatoes planted the same day.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Mites on Chicken Roosts
A wartime style tip notes mites torment chickens roosting at night. The article advises painting roosts and walls with crude exosote to kill parasites, which hide in cracks by day and do not stay on the birds.
Hen Confinement With Chicks Highlights Poultry Care
An agricultural note warns against letting a mother hen range freely with her chicks during the first weeks. Unrestricted movement leads to wet grass exposure, chilling, and higher mortality among the weaker chicks left behind.
Also Mentioned on This Page
John E. Lloyd
James H
D. RB. Weir
Elias Albertson
John Bridwell
A. J. Thixton
Joseph Gray
Section
Washington Street
Howard’s Tavern
Washington Lilley
Railroad House
J. P. Duffiey
John R. Mahan
Court Street
Major Stewart
Isaac Stewart
William M. Crowder
James H. Reed
Daniel Turner
F. C. Freeman
James
Samuel
John J. Thompson
Walls
Court House
William Reed
Samuel Brodie
Abraham F. Snapp
Buck Creek
Busseron
Seat of
Court House Square
Democrat
Julius Matry
Seat of Justice
Beech Street
Broad Street
Harris Street
Beech
Wall Washington
Jackson
Harris
State
Main
Court
Hugh S. Orr
Mason F. Buchanan
George Smith
Squire McDonald
Hugh Orr
Greene County
William Greenlee
Fayette County
Pennsylvania
Joseph W. Wolfe
Jesse Hadden
Levi Maxwell
Louisville
James Whitcomb
Federal Farm Loan Act
Vincennes, Indiana
Ohio
Man With
the National Bank Sullivan, Ind
Buick
Dave Giles
John C. Chaney
Citizens Trust Building
Fidelity Loan CO
DR. Crowder
Sullivan, Inviana
East Side Square
Auditor of State
W.1, Hill, Jr. Farm Loan Co
Crowder
Sullivan, Ind
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