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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1904
Page
3
A regional item lists health notes and local events: Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription praised for women’s health with a Kentucky mother’s thanks. claims of cures and a $500 reward for unresolved cases. Also brief society items: traveling mishap, Odd Fellows meeting, weddings, levee debate, birthdays, train changes, and annual bar association banquet.
October notes list deaths of T. K. Sherman and Wm Mc Cammon. Dugger rejects incorporation. golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Blalock. shootings and mine fatalities at Jackson Hill and Superior. Andrew Rose and Minnie Reeves wed again. business purchases and light rate hikes. multiple weddings including Miss Marie Asbury and Lewis Henry. Mrs. Eliza Murphy turns 88. bond denial for Elijah Russell. various society events and school damage. October end with Lightning at Shelburn. November items include escape from death on E and T H train and liquor license remonstrances. Civil War veteran Wm T. Dodds noted. marriages and local incidents continue into November.
The fourth annual Pan Hellenic Association banquet at the Davis House last Wednesday featured impromptu speeches, music by Brienigs orchestra, and a full menu. Officers elected were W. P. Stratton president, Dirrelle Chaney secretary, and Will Aydelette treasurer, followed by dancing and a list of attendees including Hays Crowder Mahley Reed Riggs Hunt Chaney Bays and Aydelotte.
The Bobbitt family of Bargertown Terin reports Mrs M L Bobbitt nearly dying from consumption doctors could not help but after using Dr Kings New Discovery her life was saved. The ad claims it cures consumption and lung troubles with relief from first bottle and full cure with continued use. Trial bottles free at Joe K Smock's Drug Store and bottles priced 50c and 1.00.
A Baltimore News item recounts a boy and his dog stranded on a burning deck with all others dead. The dog cannot swim and the boy considers escape by floating or flight. A pig balloon rescues them, after which the boy and dog survive, delivering the tale’s moral about safety on deck.
A playful exchange about a poem that has circulated for ten years and keeps returning, framed as a perpetual motion joke between the poet and a friend. The scene captures a light moment of literary persistence in a San Francisco Examiner context.
A lighthearted excerpt notes the boy known as Little Johnnie and his wit during a French lesson. The Boswell records a polite exchange with his uncle about birthday presents and the certainty of receiving a splendid gift, highlighting his humor.
A teacher poses a division problem with fifteen apples for twelve boys. After crumbling through the math, a boy suggests a quirky solution by giving one apple to three fifths of a boy, provoking laughter and a pondering pause.
A husband sighs over another tragedy as the newspaper recounts a man took his own life due to an unhappy home The wife questions whether the paper's account makes the home any happier and the exchange echoes a persistent grim tale from the era.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip notes a landlady removing the slogan Home Sweet Home from the dining room and substituting a placard reading No Trust, highlighting a sharp social jab on sentimentality and trust.
A Boston guest attending a Billington lecture fainted shortly after the speaker declared he would reveal the facts. The incident drew attention in the lecture room with bemused onlookers nearby.
A Washington Star quip credits Wiggins with a sharp wisdom by limiting himself to two words. He waits for a superior to express an opinion and then simply says That’s so. The remark highlights concise, pointed commentary in a workplace hierarchy.
Illinois Central R R promotes Cuba itineraries with through tickets from Chicago and Cincinnati to New Orleans and Havana. Advertises Mexico and California tours, exclusive vestibule trains, luxury cars, and a Mardi Gras stopover. Gulfport hotel details and Florida routes via Dixie Flyer are included.
Hot Springs Arkansas itinerary details Sleeping Car service from Chicago to Hot Springs on the Central's fast Pullman vestibule Limited. Request the health and pleasure resort brochure by contacting Illinois Central agents or Central representatives A H Hanson Chicago Tl J F Merry Dubuque.
A Boston Transcript excerpt shows a child objecting to two hours of daily practice while a parent and mother endure hardship as the “chief sufferers.” The dialogue highlights generational tension and parental authority in a domestic scene.
A humorous anecdote from a 1920s humor page where a thief excuses himself for picking a pocket by claiming absentmindedness and compares himself to the victim’s trousers. The quip reflects lighthearted crime lore and genteel wit of the era.
A fragment references a prize winner Katie at a summer cooking class and a Judge remark about getting a man to talk about himself. It also notes a book titled First Aid to the Injured and cites a Somerville Journal quotation on conversation.
A new plan proposes loans from $10 to $100 with flexible repayment on the 10th or 25th or any date. Borrowers can pledge household goods such as pianos horses cows wagons buggies and other valuables as security. Confidential inquiries encouraged with no cost to learn the method.
A fragmentary poem-like text sketches a gray sky over the sea with frightened gulls. A neighbor’s irritability is noted as a quarrel or rebuke, alluding to a domestic dispute or sarcastic exchange during a winter moment by the shore.
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