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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1899
Page
7
Advertorial claim urges men to keep a bottle of the medicine to avoid neglect or harsh drugs. It cites Mrs Nelson Smith’s six year recovery from grip bronchitis and consumption after using Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The letter credits improved weight sleep appetite and overall health to the remedies.
Dr. oJ Keys and Miss Jessie Pearce visited Linton and friends. Lawyer John Bays from Sullivan came Friday. A Bethlehem quarterly meeting was led by Presiding Elder M S Heavenridge. Locals fished on the Wabash and recruited soldiers for the 33d U S Vol Inf. Holiness group bought Riggs estate land for a church site.
Mrs. W Brunker of Lockport visits sister Flora Plew. Rev Mr Simmons of Terre Haute preaches in the grove east of town. Miss Lorena McDonald of Terre Haute visits relatives here. Elijah P Brown to lecture at M E church August 17. District Conference at Farmersburg last week. Rev John Ragle delivers temperance sermon Sunday. Chester Bostick and Bert Beasley return from Terre Haute where they attended state normal. Mr Conner of New Albany visits Hymera. James Barnett moves to a new building this week. B C Payne plans a groceries stock in Barnett’s vacated building.
Dr Allison of Shelburn and Mrs Belle Shelburn of Delcarbo were seen in the community on Wednesday. Frank McClanahan enjoyed a large gathering Tuesday evening with supper and good cheer. Miss Mary Wright of St Louis and Bertha Rich visited Mrs Jas Bilvew on Tuesday. Numerous locals attended a Sullivan band concert Friday. Hosea Anderson and Osa Graham returned from Terre Haute Friday after attending Normal. Jim Bilgew bought a new carriage. Will Henderson traveled through Sunday en route to Robinson. Local gatherings and visits continued through the week with plans for future events.
Rev Brewer to address locals Saturday evening and again Sunday. Burgeoning social notes include Sam Hopewell and family visiting Dave Taylor, and Mrs Sam Hopewell and Miss Georgia Davis trip to Palestine. An extensive report from the New York Sun recounts the Benalder voyage with an enormous Borneo ape named Rube, seven pythons, and a crew including Captain J. D. Sarchet, detailing measures, travels, and shipboard incidents.
Mrs. Sarah French and Mrs. Lou sinda Thompson were in Robinson Sunday. Ed Perkins and G C Welch were in Sullivan Friday.
Warm weather and adequate rains improve corn potatoes vegetables and fruit across regions. Corn shows good stand and potential high yields though a few areas report damage from drought. Tobacco, clover, cabbages and melons show favorable growth with apples grapes and pasturage in good condition. Wheat threshing near finish and oats continue. plowing for the new wheat season resumes. Livestock remains healthy.
Bing Humbert is described as an abstainer who avoids wine and drinks only water or mineral preparations. Ming Humbert of Italy is noted as a total abstainer. A Cincinnati Enquirer piece extols Ford as a great orator capable of vivid boarding-house dried beef imagery.
Chicago readers praise Mrs. Henry Boardman of St. Paul who invented a collar button improvement. She removed the button base and attached the top to a pin, enabling a simpler fastener for collars and cuffs. The device, patented after a Washington submission, is sold in major cities. It aids both men and women, including army officers in linen collars.
An 11 year old boy Charles Peters from Green Garden near Joliet underwent an operation at the German American hospital in Chicago to remove his rudimentary legs. Dr H Hasselden led the procedure, performed under chloroform. The operation aims to give artificial limbs and improve mobility significantly.
Romano and Lost Springs Kansas each claim a population near 300 with no idle men or boys no saloon or empty homes and no place where liquor is sold. The odd census note paints a strange picture of two quiet towns.
The article states the sun’s age as 100 million years and, given current combustion rate, predicts it will burn out in 7 to 16 million years. The claims reflect period scientific views and speculative timelines.
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