Uncle Jim McKee marks 75th birthday in Sullivan County
Longtime Sullivan County resident Uncle Jim McKee celebrated his seventy fifth birthday with a large gathering of about 78 neighbors relatives and friends at his home city event recalling his life from Turman township birth in 1830 through Fairbanks township days. He helped found the county Republican party in 1856 and recalls pioneer mills boats and early travel by horse and wagon.
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Jim Mckee
Fairbanks Township
Jim
Sullivan County
John C. Fremont
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Uncle Jim
Fairbanks
Orcutt
Alexander McKee
Carlisle
Turman Township
McKee
Thomas Osborne
Turman’s Creek
Johnson & Hayes
Wabash
New Orleans
Dodd’s Bridge
Vincennes
Terre Haute
Gordon
Mr. McKee
James Drake
Ben Anderson
Meron
Sullivan
Mary Drake
Martha E. Baldridge
Farmersburg
Tom cat injures hand during rescue attempt
A man reaches into a cage and is clawed by a cat, blood sprays as he withdraws his hand. He tells Samantha to reach in to get him, and she does so at his request. An ensuing struggle or further action is not detailed in the readable text.
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Samantha
John
Domestic Discord Ends With Buried Cat Plot
Scott Bros. repair efforts fail as John jokes about a sore head while Samantha sulks over a hand binding. The couple relax that evening on Lawn Swings and Acme Couch before a dramatic suggestion to trap and bury a cat. Maud is then hitched to a wagon as tension lingers.
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John
Samantha
Sullivan Union Showcases Press Upgrades Through Eighty Nine Years
The Sullivan Union marks 89 years by highlighting a press evolution from a Washington hand press to a Cottrell two revolution seven column quarto installed July 1. The old press printed three hundred papers per hour and two pages at a time, folded and addressed by hand. The new press prints 1800 per hour, four pages at once, with a two feed folder and automated address stamping.
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Cottrell
Washington Hand
Cottrell Press
Washington Press
Sullivan Men Ganges Contract Let to New Driller
Ed Burton and Albert Wallace of Sullivan who won the contract to place test holes for oil and gas notified the Carlisle committee they would not do the work. Since no bond was filed, the field looked for other drillers and L. E. Meecham of Jones Gas and Oil Co left for Muncie to re let the contract. A telegram says J. B. Johnston of Anderson has been employed to undertake the work.
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Meecham
Jones Gas and Oil Company
Johnston
Carlisle News
Ed Burton
Albert Wallace
Sullivan
Carlisle
L. E. Meecham
Muncie
J. B. Johnston
Anderson
Indiana University Report Shows Growth and Local Students
The 1904-05 Indiana University catalogue records attendance of 1538, with 86 graduate students and representation from 20 states and foreign countries. Local Sullivan County students listed include William E Aydelotte and others, while 12-year-old Cam Mullane sustained a head injury after a wheel accident near a mineral well and was treated in Sullivan.
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Indiana University
Bloomington
Indiana
Cam Mullane
J. B. Mullane
Dan
Sullivan
Vigo County Fair at Terre Haute to feature U S Cavalry
The Vigo County Fair runs Aug 28 to Sep 3 at Terre Haute with Co G 11th U S Cavalry from Ft Des Moines appearing daily and nightly in mounted drill. Also Fanciuli’s Italian band of fifty performs seven days costing 2500 dollars. Railroads offer one fare round trip.
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Vigo C
Terre Haute
Wabash Valley
War Department
Co. G 11Th Rgt
U.S. Cavalry
Ft. Des Moines
Iowa
Indiana
Terre Haute Fair
Fanciuli
Gilmore
Marine
Vigo County
Tom the cat buries a cat and a store touts low prices
A comic scene shows Tom buried alive by Samantha and friends. The text shifts to a furniture store ad boasting low prices on beds, furniture, bug gun collars, wagons, field fence, pipe fittings, fire brick and clay, and a note that Tom’s safe place is the SPECIAL as cool days approach.
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Tom
John
Birdsell
Troy
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H&s
Bere
Scott Bros
Maud
The
Sullivan Union
Washington Hand-Press
Sullivan Men Ganges
Scott's
Scott & Bown
Pearl Street
New York
Drake
Clyde Cleveland
Vernor Johnson
Rose Florence Benefiel
Dagger
Charles Bedwell
Mercm
Robert Rollin Massey
U. S. Cavalry
REX
Tommy
S’mantha
Thomas
Hardware and Furniture House of
West Side
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