Postal Forwarding Clarifies Use of Correspondents
The notice states stationery and postage will be used for correspondents and promptly forwarded to them, ensuring proper handling of communications and timely delivery.
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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1904
Page
8
The notice states stationery and postage will be used for correspondents and promptly forwarded to them, ensuring proper handling of communications and timely delivery.
Fead and Harless Raley visited Oblong Paris and Terre Haute last week and reported a good time. Several locals including E G Carruthers Elmer Thomas Graysville Chas Poston and wife Terre Haute visited Mrs Jas Cochran. Willie Clark plans to move to Palestine Illinois next month. Work to begin in a sand pit once frost ends and Merom Grave Co overseer Dick Hoskins from Spencer moves in. Bella Hunt plans a new barn and Dick Tunkston is sick.
Local items report measles and mumps in the area and illnesses among residents. Meetings and visits occur with Rev McNaughton at Kingsley and Squire Foutz on legal business. Mention of rural mail carrier vacation, birthday observance, and upcoming telephone development.
Public sale begins 10 o clock Monday Feb. 29, 1904 at the farm two miles south of New Lebanon featuring 75 head of yearling and two year old steers cattle hogs mules horses and wagons etc plus corn and farm implements and gas engine. Terms cash for receipts up to 5 and nine months credit on larger sums with note and security. Also farm near Sullivan Indiana 1044 acres with buildings fruit grass and nearby church and schoolhouses. Marion F Walters invites inquiries at Sullivan R F D No. 5. Bridwell hosts leap year party on South Court Street with friends this week.
The report notes Germany with 147 births per 13 in France and 116 in Britain, Spain plans fortresses work at Melilla and Ceuta, New Zealand adopts the metric system three years ahead. Denmark touts education, literacy under 1 percent. Spain and Portugal rail link to Paris nearly done, Venice bridges count 493 with Mestre project rejected on art grounds. Northern Italian wages range from 40 to 70 cents daily across trades.
Grace George will star in Pretty Peggy at a London venue in April while Fernanda Eliscu, starring in Marta of the Lowlands, is noted as a Roumanian sewess. The season features increased English actor participation and notable New York revivals with Hackett and Barrymore families in prominent roles.
The market for pacer Cubanula 2 06 15 grows as Brook Curry leases stallion San Mateo 2 13 4 for the season. Louise G 2 08 14 pacing may shift to trot while J G Thayer plans a small, selective stable and G F Brant buys veteran trotting gelding Success 2 11 14. A W McEtroxy and Palmer expect multiple meets and The Judge 2 12 14 along with Bellini 2 13 8 4 are touted pacers. Charlie Pean trains Water Palms amid changes, Palmer possibly retiring from driving. Scott AleCoy at Douglas Park Louisville with Guivailis Farm stock.
College students increased their missions giving from the previous year. Four Syrian worship places in New York conduct services in Arabic. A Salvation Army world rally will mark its 25th anniversary in London next June. A German Christian workers congress drew 198 delegates representing 622,000 workers. War in South Africa boosted missionary interest among Boers. The Dutch Reformed church has 200 young men and 50 young women who offered as missionaries.
A Globe column notes that many talk without kindness while ambitious people seem more agreeable. It observes that those who claim to want to do right often cushion their claim with hollow intent. The item jokes about diamond studs and marital jewelry and defines an original man by not overstating marriage length.
A collection of traditional sayings on argument proof habits and human behavior. Notable lines warn against premature claims and blind trust in beauty, suggesting caution in speech and judgment and highlighting the weight of habit over instruction.
Mrs Thirza Wood of Farmersburg is visiting Mrs J C Chaney. The brief social note records a visit between two local residents in the community.
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