Pleasantville News Roundup of Local Visits and Events
Pleasantville residents hosted and visited neighbors with a weekend of social calls including Jessie June of Shelburn staying with the Garetts and Ellen Sears visiting Shoe Buck. Engagements, reunions, car news, and an auto accident involving Victor Brinklow are noted along with several IU students spending a weekend at home.
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Tom Shultz
Jessie June
Shelburn
Joe Garrett
Ellen Sears
Griffin
Ind
Murphy Enochs
Pleasantville
Lela Abrams
Terre Haute
Illinois
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement
For over 46 years Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been used to treat catarrh. The product includes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that works through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Townships Visits and Socials Across Nearby Families
Mrs Leslie Holmes and children near Fairbanks spent part of the week visiting relatives Robert Miller James Miller and Elmer Taylor. Frank Marts Ulysses Oakes of Washington Indiana called on Will Jowell. Oral Harris and children stayed with Ford Hall and baby Dallas. Residents attended Sullivan celebration. Chester Johnson and daughter Dorothy of Shelburn visited James Miller family. Sinklar’s of Sullivan called on Hamet Boone. Herman Neubert Sr and son Herman Jr Lulu Fogguss and Avert Suffon of Bridge Farm NL spent Saturday night with Alvin Hood family. Levi Jewell and son Barnett Jr and Otto Jewell attended church at Jasonville and visited Fred Helton family. Willie Webb of Tennessee, visiting Caleb Webb family, departed Monday. Will Jewell and Barnett Jewell Sr attended Concord church. Clarence Reed and children visited Dudley Hayworth. Doyle Gun and baby...
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Leslie Holmes
Fairbanks
Robert Miller
James Miller
Elmer Taylor
Frank Marts
Ulysses Oakes
Washington
Ind
Will Jowell
Oral Harris
Ford Hall
Dallas
Sullivan
Chester Johnson
Dorothy
Shelburn
Sinklar’s
Hamet Boone’s
Herman Neubert
Herman, Jr
Lulu Fogguss
Avert Suffon
Bridge Farm
Alvin Hood
Levi Jewell
Barnett Jr
Otto Jewell
Jasonville
Fred Helton
Willie Webb
Tennessee
Caleb Webb
Will Jewell
Barnett Jewell
Concord
Clarence Reed
Dudley Hayworth
Doyle Gun
Sunday Social Visits Tie Nearby Towns Together
Mr and Mrs Curtis Hope and family hosted Sunday with several relatives visiting from Mefém Harrisburg Illinois and Knoxville Tennessee. Chester Woodard and Lydia Woodard hosted guests while Hood family visitors stayed through Monday morning.
Graysville Folk Echo Community Dinner and Meeting
A local bulletin cites planned events and travels. Mrs. Joseph Grimes and children returned to Valentine Indiana, Mrs. Paul Cushman and Fred Yager to Canton Ohio, while a tent meeting continues into its third week with Dr H C Morrison visiting this weekend and a community dinner Sunday inviting all.
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Bob
Joseph Grimes
Valentine
Ind
Paul Cushman
Fred Yager
Canton
Ohio
Dr. H. C. Morrison
Sister Harrel uses faith healing on New York Black crowds
The report portrays “Sister” Harrel as a faith healer enriching herself by selling love handkerchiefs blessed to heal. Her troupe of 30 includes a Black manager and sales girls, with profits from envelopes, handkerchiefs, and meetings at Commonwealth Sporting Club.
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Harrel
New York City
Gotham
Terre Haute
Newyork Coons
The
New York Herald
Sisters
Second
Locust
Commonwealth Sporting Club
Jasonville
Thimbles as Ornaments in Elizabethan England
Victorian-era commentary notes that during Queen Elizabeths reign fashionable English women wore conspicuous thimbles as finger adornments. These items were often crafted in precious metals and studded with jewels or engraved with family crests.
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Queen Elizabeth
England
Leaves Prison After 22 Years Finds Changed World
Charner Tidwell of Welch Oklahoma, wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years for the 1900 murder of James Brown, has been released after a deathbed confession by Josie Gregory implicated her husband. Tidwell, a Cherokee, adapts to a modern world with skyscrapers and cars, while awaiting restitution of lands and allotments.
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Muskogee
Okla
Charner Tidwell
Welch
James Brown
Adair County
Josie Gregory
Tidwell
Robert Gregory
Brown
Atlanta
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Son's Thefts Ruin Father in Bethlehem Store
Morris Schulman, eighteen, is jailed in Bethlehem Pa on larceny charges after stealing about $15,000 in goods from his father's store since age six. The father says the son began stealing as a child to buy candy, later funded pool hall debts, and the father finally had him arrested after repeated reform promises failed.
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Bethlehem
Morris Schulman
Crippled for Years Regains Walk After Fall
J W Coulter, crippled for fourteen years by a dislocated hip, walks without a limp after injuring his leg on an icy pavement near home. The incident led to recovery of function.
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Roundhead
J. W. Coulter
Home Makers Club Meeting in Turman Township
The Home Makers Club of Turman township meets Friday afternoon July 13 at Mrs. Charles Wible with neighbors as guests. Members bring homemade bread scored by Sylvia Medsker and Helen Cushman, Pauline Medsker leads a trip to Niagara and Canada, songs include The Maple Leaf Forever and I Wish I Were in Michigan, hay fever talk by Josie Pound, banner study of Indiana, and a closing Star Spangled Banner and Home Benediction.
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Home Makers Club
Turman Township
Charles Wible
Sylvia Medsker
Helen Cushman
Pauline Medsker
Niagara
Canada
Josie Pound
Michigan
Indiana
Thompson couple postponed motor trip plans
Dr and Mrs W N Thompson could not depart as scheduled on Monday for their motor trip. Their daughter Mrs Edson Murray, living at Rensselaar, arrived to join them but will stay for a visit with her parents.
Early Washington history and land deals for the Capitol
Long before the nation's birth Washington was the Algonquin center and Powhatan territory. Francis Pope named Rome on the Capitol site and predicted a great nation would govern from the hill. Maryland ceded land to the federal government with private owners selling land for streets and buildings at 125 per acre. The government obtained 600 acres at a cost.
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Washington
Francis Pope
Rome
Tiber
Maryland
Washington City Planned by L'Enfant and Early Growth
The piece describes the development of Washington from land acquisition costing 36 000 dollars and 10 136 lots sold for 850 000 to a final value near 100 million. It details Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant’s checkerboard plan with diagonal avenues, the Mall, and four city sections. It explains street naming by direction and alphabet, state-named avenues, and early government life in 1800 with 1386 employees and 137 000 dollars annual expenditures. It previews Boss Shepherd's role in post Civil War growth and notes a future sketch on Government Departments.
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Washington
Pierre Charles L’enfant
L’enfant
National Museum
Capitol
Capitol Street
Pennsylvania
White House
Philadelphia
Hughes
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