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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1899
Page
6
The column lists numerous shop promos and visits including hair switches at Mrs. Fannie E Ridge, watches for sale, hunting gear at H H HW, hunts and digestion tablets from Joek K Smock, J S Reed and T B Shaffer, and a December sale at the Index cheap store. It notes residents and visitors such as M Ringer Cass, Mrs J S Draper in Terre Haute, W C Wright, Mrs Glenn Hart, Will Hays, and various local dinners and socials.
The column lists a range of local items including a cigar ad for the Greater Columbia 5c cigar made by Columbia Cigar Co. in Sullivan, church revival notes and visitors, theater promotion for the Lyman Twins at the People's Theater on December 7, Thanksgiving and church activities, a Baptist missionary address on December 11 in Sullivan, and family notices including deaths and kin visiting from Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana.
The E. and T. H. R. R. offers ex cur sion rates at one and one third fare for the round trip to all Central Passenger Association territory. Tickets on sale Dec 23 24 25 30 31 and Jan 1, return by Jan 2 1900. Students may use college certificates for the same rate return by Jan 10 1900. Sullivan agent W W Casto Evansville G P A H R Griswold A G P A.
Stanley & Co. of Merom Indiana offers rolled gold plate gold filled and solid gold jewelry of their own manufacture with a full 5 000 designs warranty. They promise perfect satisfaction or money back and offer mail orders and care instructions. Factories cited in Providence Rhode Island and East Iowa City Iowa with over 52000 square feet of floor space.
A Chicago Record summation notes a big English insurer says the Prince of Wales is the heaviest risk in royal policies with potential losses around 10 million dollars if he dies. It explains schemes where speculators buy policies and use medical reports to back bets, and cites Emperor Frederick and Queen of Spain as heavily insured figures.
An experienced electrician notes that repeated shocks from live wires seem to fortify the body against electricity. He cites factory and streetcar workers who tolerate shocks with little harm. A town incident shows a stranger paralyzed longer but not permanently harmed, challenging common assumptions about electrical exposure.
The Schuylkill Valley riders recall the Singing Brakeman, a confident youth who belts out station names to the tune of operatic motifs. Passengers cheer with bravo and encore requests, while the performer stays focused on his railway duties.
A historical note states that a seventeenth year marks a small portion of humanity's pathway, indicating a notable demographic threshold. It emphasizes youth age before reaching 18 and how populations are tracked across regions.
A New York Tribune excerpt notes social attitudes toward tipping, with anecdotes from a counter in Onpcheon about a woman who leaves a ten cent tip, a waiter returning it, and a luncheon where the hostess later learns a larger tip would have been proper. The piece contrasts generous intent with customary practice.
A discussion explaining the percentage of capital as the core profit principle in gaming houses. The author argues the house profits steadily by drawing on players’ finite funds, using a simple penny-stake example to illustrate how losses are absorbed and reserves grow, regardless of luck.
A New York Herald description of barefoot children using soap box carts as ice haulers. The "turn out" becomes daily ritual as ice from Herald free stations reaches tired households, delivering comfort and even life with coolness amid heat and disease fears.
The Departmental Committee report on dangerous trades highlights label licking as a health risk. Dr Oliver of Newcastle notes that young workers lose saliva daily, harming digestion, while labels may contain copper and lead. Stamp licking linked to stamp licker's tongue and blood poisoning from stamp paper on wounds.
The engineer describes a three mile long railroad in Bombay used to transport road sweepings to land covering about nine hundred acres, aiding town sanitation efforts.
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