Centenary Fireworks Display Highlights Indiana State Fair
The Indiana state fair centennial celebration will feature a grand nightly fireworks show during the week of September 4. The program offers a historical review of 100 years in Indiana with special set pieces including transport evolution from ox teams to locomotives, a Hoosier barn yard scene, and a Hoosier rose evolution. It promises skyward salutes to Old Glory and other spectacular effects.
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Indiana
Fish Forestry and Food Exhibits Highlight Indiana State Fair
A large Indiana state fair exhibit features fish from state lakes and streams presented by Eugene Shireman, with fifty varieties displayed in twenty five aquariums. The board of forestry and several timber companies plan major forestry displays, while the food commissioner showcases fraudulant weights and measures and examples of unclean grocery practices alongside a model clean store to promote pure foods.
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Eugene Shireman
Fish and Game
Indiana
Indiana Board of Forestry
No Ice Shortage Expected in Sullivan
Merchants Ice & Fuel Company in Sullivan reports ample capacity at forty tons per day to meet local demand despite hot weather. Local plant has ceased shipments to Linton and Bloomington to focus on Sullivan contracts, with Mr. Wm. T. Leahy noting efforts to buy ice elsewhere failed. The plant used 1,050,000 gallons of water in July.
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Merchants Ice & Fuel Company
Sullivan
Linton
Bloomington
Wm.t. Leahy
Leahy
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Evansville
County agent Hayes to leave Sullivan on September 1
A. W. Hayes county agent announces he will leave Sullivan September 1 after a three year term marked by strong agricultural work. He has received several offers for similar positions at higher salaries but has not chosen a new location.
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Hayes
A. W. Hayes
Sullivan
Editorial calls for restoration of rural mail service
The Sullivan Daily Times urges Mr Burleson and Post Office officials to restore Sullivan county rural mail service to its former level. The piece links improved service to benefiting the Democratic party and the local population.
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Sullivan Daily Times
Sullivan County
Cullop
Burleson
Post Office Department
Democratic Party
Purdue to show in three buildings at state fair
Purdue University expands displays at the state fair with exhibits in the Studebaker and Oliver pavilions and a poultry exhibit in the main building. The Oliver pavilion will feature the Indiana agricultural exhibit from the Panama Pacific show and a top corn collection. Purdue home economics, foods, and child welfare displays will join the agriculture displays. The university will also run the annual boys judging contest offering free scholarships on September 5.
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Purdue University
Studebaker
Oliver
Purdue
University
San Francisco
Indiana
Oliver Pavilion
Scotts return from Northwest automobile tour
Mr and Mrs Walter G Scott returned from a long Northwest visit visiting A D Scott and family in Huron South Dakota and also at Minneapolis and Chicago They joined relatives for an automobile tour from Huron to Yellowstone Park covering 1800 miles at gas prices from 18 to 50 cents per gallon with park rates at fifty cents a gallon.
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Walter G. Scott
Northwest
Mr. Scott
A. D. Scott
Huron
S. D
Minneapolis
Chicago
Crook and Bierhaus Dissolve Bierhaus Bros Partnership
John W. Crook and William C. Bierhaus dissolve their partnership in the Bierhaus Bros. wholesale grocery firm by mutual consent after a deal completed Saturday July 29. Crook served as traveling salesman and visited Sullivan weekly for over thirty years, becoming a familiar figure to locals whose visits will be missed.
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John W. Crook
William C. Bierhaus
Bierhaus Bros
Vincennes Commercial
Crook
Sullivan
County Board to Rule on Woman’s Claim for Caregiving Pay
Mrs. Etta Ketchener petitions the board of county commissioners seeking remuneration for services during the illness and death of James Cope. Cope died last week after thirteen weeks of illness. he roomed at Ketchener’s home and she cared for him. The board has taken the matter under advisement.
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Etta Ketchener
Board of County Commissioners
James Cope
Cope
William Springer Visited Uncle Edward Springer in Garden City
William Springer visits his uncle Edward Springer at Garden City Kansas as the two share a family meeting in the city.
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William Springer
Edward Springer
Garden City, Kas
President Election of 1824 Widens Personal Contest
A political race without parties produced Adams as winner by House vote after no candidate won a majority. Jackson led in popular votes but Adams carried thirteen states in the final tally. Calhoun was generally supported for vice president. The year’s popular vote totals are given for each candidate, marking the first recorded popular vote.
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Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
William H. Crawford
Henry Clay
House of Representatives
Adams
John C. Calhoun
Jackson
Crawford
Clay
Personal visits dot busy Indiana circuit
A series of visits unfolds across Indiana with O. B. Mene and son Philip seeing N K Harris in Noblesville, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Crowder visiting in Indianapolis, and Miss Robertine Buchanan staying with Miss Carro Krug. Other travelers include Rev W E Gray and Mrs Gray heading to Livonia for a month, while Mrs Gray recovers from illness.
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O. B. Mene
Philip
N. K. Harris
Noblesville
Laneh
Brown County
Indianapolis
Milton Crowder
Dave Nicoson
Robertine Buchanan
Carro Krug
Civil War Veteran Thurber to Settle on New Mexico Land
A. B. Thurber, Civil War veteran and former rural mail carrier from Sullivan, will move to New Mexico. His son Walter D. has leased two quarter sections of government land, one for himself and one for his father. Thurber was among two Civil War veterans who received walking papers from the Sullivan post office in this administration.
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New Mexico
A. B. Thurber
Sullivan
Mr. Thurber
Walter D
Sullivan Post Office
Mrs Ellis Celebrates Birthday with Carlisle Guests
Mrs Thomas D Ellis hosted a dinner south of Sullivan for her husband on his fifty seventh birthday, plus the sixteenth anniversary of his daughter and the fiftieth of his sister Mrs Sam Page of Linton. Relatives and friends from Carlisle Vincennes and Linton attended.
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Thomas D. Ellis
South of Sullivan
Sam Page
Linton
And
Mire Thomas ‘Lis
Cherley Ellis
Dan Cochran
Carlisle
Dan Ellis
Vincennes
Office move ad seeks poultry wool and junk buyers
Notice states David L. Kaplan moved to 317 North Section street in Nesbit's old mill. He offers to pay top market prices for poultry wool and junk and invites a trial before selling elsewhere, with telephone contact 275-2.
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North Section Street
Nesbit’s
David L. Kaplan
Be Your Own Boss Earn Money From Home
You can make money right around your home as hundreds of men and women do. Work is easy pleasant and permanently profitable. Be your own boss. No risk. Send name address one reference to L Brown 66 Murray St New York City.
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L. Brown
Murray St
New York City
August private sale at M H Parsonage New Lebanon IN
During August exclusive sale of selected new furniture and household goods at the M H Parsonage in New Lebanon Indiana. O C Haas announces the event with limited items available at affordable prices.
Birthday greetings shared by many at Dugger gathering
The piece notes a celebration where Mr. and Mrs. Porter Bedwell Mr. and Mrs. Osee Boyll and son Ellis of Terre Haute and Mrs. Dr. O. O. Parker and daughters Mary and Anna of Graysville joined family and friends. All departed at a late hour, with wishes for many more happy returns of the day. R. A. Plunkett took photographs of the crowd.
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Nelda
Dugger
Porter Bedwell
Osee Boyll
Ellis
Terre Haute
O. O. Parker
Mary
Anna
Graysville
R. A. Plunkett
Marriage Licenses Granted in Two Counties
Orval Shannon 21 a farmer near Sullivan weds Grace E Bennett 19 of Paxton. Francis E Rooksberry 29 a farmer near Dugger marries Sarah Gilbreath 22 who is also from near Dugger.
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Orval Shannon
Sullivan
Grace E. Bennett
Paxton
Francis E. Rooksberry
Sarah Gilbreath
Dugger
McClure Family Visitors From Berlin Maryland
Mr and Mrs Orlando McClure and Miss Nellie Grise of Berlin Maryland are visiting the McClure grandparents Mr and Mrs H J McClure.
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Orlando McClure
Nellie Grise
Berlin, Md
H. J. McClure
Harvey Bell Sets Hay Baling Record
Harvey Bell, a well known farmer, claims a record for hay baling. In six days he produced 2,400 bales averaging ninety pounds per bale.
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Harvey Bell
Mason of Atlanta Visits Old Friends in Princeton
Louis Mason of Atlanta Georgia visited old friends here Thursday. He was born and raised in Sullivan is a son of the late Samuel F Mason. He works with the Avery Plow Company in Atlanta and is visiting his mother Mrs Matilda Mason and his sister Miss Julia Mason at Princeton.
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Louis Mason
Atlanta
Mr. Mason
Sullivan
Samuel F. Mason
Avery Plow Company
Matilda Mason
Julia Mason
Princeton
Crowders from Indianapolis and Chicago visit relatives
Claude Crowder of Indianapolis and Dr. Tom Crowder of Chicago visited relatives here over Sunday, sharing time with family members and returning home.
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Claude Crowder
Indianapolis
Tom Crowder
Chicago
Transfer of Liquor License Location in Jackson Township
George W. Brown notifies residents of Sullivan County Indiana of a planned transfer of a retail liquor license from the current ground floor room of a tram building near Section 25 to a new one story frame sheet iron building on Section 12. The notice states the license was granted by Sullivan County Commissioners in January 1916 and requests approval at the September 1915 meeting for the new location. Brown affirms he is a white male resident and citizen over 21 and has resided in the township and state.
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Jackson Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
George W. Brown
Township 9
Board of Commissioners
Section
Township 8
State of
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Paul
Maurice
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S. P. Poynter
Goldie Thomas
Lulu Butts
Edsil Bosstick
W. E. Gray
Livonia
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Nelle McClellan
Denver
Holt Park
John Woodard
Frank Wible
Rochester
Clennie Hall
Danvillle
John Frakes
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P. A. Barco
Briggs
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