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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1903
Page
4
The article notes Indiana politics in 1903 with independents in the General Assembly and reports on Miss Helen Gould's charity petitions. A week’s petitions show 1,303 letters requesting funds or favors, 636 naming specific sums totaling 1,548,502 dollars.
Maj Alvan E Bovay who originated the term Republican and helped unite anti slavery factions died in Santa Monica California aged 85. Born in New York he moved to Wisconsin, settled in Ripon and became a prominent lawyer. Bovay chaired meetings in 1854 that formed the new party and shaped the anti slavery coalition.
In Congress the thirty Whigs and Democrats gathered in Washington pledged to form a party to halt slavery in new territories and chose the name Republican. The note mentions Major Boyay’s death receiving scant coverage, illustrating uneven fame in U.S. papers.
Sullivan newspaper publishers announce new ad rates for legal notices including bank statements final settlements and liquor license notices. Rates set five cents per line for bank cards one dollar for lodge resolutions twenty cents per inch for extra space. Community leaders praise lawmakers for listening to constituents on the reform.
The text outlines that a clerk may serve on an election board if related to a candidate and that the county central committee chair from the two major parties designates a party member as judge. It also states poll clerks must be two qualified electors from the two major parties. If designated four days or more before an election, a party member may be appointed as poll clerk.
Next Sunday the Baptist Church will observe Tem perance Day with the morning service focusing on temperance as suggested by the Indiana Anti Saloon League. Everyone is invited to attend.
A Indianapolis News poll across 45 correspondents in several cities shows 1 646 voters favor leaving the Nicholson law as is and 512 favor amendment to remove the blanket remonstrance. The article also discusses the constitutional theory of separation of powers and the Senate courtesy guiding presidential appointments.
Forty bushels of fine clover seed offered at five dollars and twenty five cents per bushel at Jas Watsons located at the northeast corner of the public square.
A period advertisement claims one person looks pale and sick while another is healthy and rosy. It attributes the healthy appearance to Dr King’s New Life Pills which stimulate lazy organs, improve digestion, and prevent constipation. Sold by Joe K Smock, druggist for 25 cents.
This excerpt describes the black swallow er a large fish that swallows prey many times its size by alternately moving its jaws. After eating its stomach expands turning it belly up with trapped gas, rising to the surface where it may be stranded and die if the tide recedes.
The Dietetic Gazette states that intelligent people need not fear seeds from berries and grapes. A healthy appendix blocks seeds via a valvular mechanism, and only inflamed appendices allow intrusion, making seedy fruit consumption safe and beneficial.
The piece notes a Wisconsin state geologist episode where Percival’s assistant provoked a governor by whistling and throwing stones at birds. After that incident Percival continued his geological work alone.
A New York Tribune item recounts a metropolitan church pastor who studies palmistry telling a spinster to avoid marriage. The woman insists she does not plan to marry but confesses she worries about it as lines spread across her hand.
The London Telegraph notes how England uses varied terms for a left handed person. Gloucestershire calls them scrammy while Staffordshire uses craggy and Yorkshire phrases include gawkrodger or callick handed. Durham features cuddy paw in broader regional humor.
The verse contrasts terms level and flat through a dialogue about parental reactions to labeled heads. It notes a miscommunication over descriptors and the emotional shifts when others call someone level or flat.
A dialogue fragment shows a mistress and maid arguing over trust and memory. The maid admits uncertainty about a ring earlier, and the mistress asks for courtesy and the benefit of the doubt in the future.
The fragment shows Mrs Parke lamenting a sick husband while Mrs Lane recalls his calmness, noting two weeks without a cross word. The dialogue hints at underlying tension and concern within a troubled domestic setting.
A short aphorism from the Atchison Globe notes that feeding a lonely boy aids his spirits, reflecting a community care sentiment.
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