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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1920
Page
3
Incomplete text references a disease study or medical inquiry with unclear details. The legible portions mention experts, a location, and a call to verify information, but essential names, dates, and context are missing.
List of unclaimed letters with note they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office after ten days. Names include Margaret Wiss Sadie Shoniges Marie Niley ALS, Carl Kinhney, Wu J. Meine A Milkey, Thomas Nash, Hiershon Arthur Hen, and others. Also notes a brief visit of L Pleasant of Zionsville, Indiana, and local relatives.
Aug Heids of Morton Wisconsin says Tanlac cured years of rheumatism and indigestion. He gained twenty four pounds and now works hard without pain or fatigue. He credits Tanlac with improved appetite sleep and kidneys and notes local retailers selling Tanlac.
A mixed column mashes distillery talk and prohibition jokes with social quips. It notes sugar plentiful and beef prices rising, mentions Dave’s planned talks and a court house question, and jests about fashion, taxes, and unsettled politics.
A playful verse laments the loss of a favored social feast item by the author. The speaker notes no more cheese and olives and pretzels at the gathering and questions whether the free lunch will be worth it. The tone blends nostalgia with humorous resignation.
The text references alcohol called wood used by an undertaker to intoxicate or incapacitate a person with a single shot. It implies the drink's potency to render a man good and dead and mentions wood from pine or oak. It contrasts with a proverb about soft drinks reducing wrath.
A yellow chrysanthemum and cold slaw with dressing resemble each other in appearance. The text notes that many foreigners were once deemed green, but now many are considered red.
At home the Victors beat Graysville 43 to 25 before the season’s largest crowd. Fairbanks Fuller and B Debaun led with 7 goals each, while Johnson and Pound held steady guarding as Ingersoll and Phillips shined for Graysville amid a fast second half rally.
The weekly weather summary for Miss Glenn Yeager, cooperative observer, notes varying days from cloudy to clear, with temperatures ranging from the mid 30s to mid 40s. One inch of snow fell during the period and visibility and sky conditions are reported for several days.
Sullivan County Council met Saturday afternoon in special session to reappropriate and add county funds for the year. Totals include Treasurer's office 478, assessing Cass town 10, poor expenses 21.48, courthouse 7,142, jail 11,522, county asylum 1,490.41, bridge superintendent 220, new bridges Roseberry 660 Prang 820 Robbins 2,250 Everhart Bond Bedwell Manning and Funt 2,000 total 26,550. Contracts let for bridges but not completed.
The notice records a subscription favor from Mrs. Roscoe Wright of Scio Ohio. It notes she was formerly Miss Morris of Turntan township.
Directors of the Mutual Truck Company were entertained at dinner by J y Sinclair at his West Washington street home. Present were J B Miller A G McNabb Frank McCoy Flom Courant Walter M Routt Robert de Petrie Homer Steele and Luthier Steele of Kymera Roy O Andersen and Edwar Chanthers were guests. The annual stockholders meeting will be at the ducal factory at 2 o clock Saturday. The board will choose officers for the coming year at the meeting.
Mrs Pigg, the retiring prosecuting attorney, has moved his office from the room above the Mé ulhier Boothe drug store to the room above the J. F. Bonthitt clothing store.
Bankers from Sullivan County will gather in this city on January fourteenth at the Christian church. Officers and directors of fourteen bancos are expected to attend with guests from outside the county including Dick Miller City Trust Indianapolis Andrew Smith Indiana National Indianapolis Quincy Michell First National Linton and F id Davis Citizens National Tipton. The Christian church Ladies Aid Society to provide supper and special music is arranged.
Clint Muarduck, now living near Hunneywell Kansas, sends in his Union renewal and reports his family is well and the weather is fine.
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