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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
5
Local column records a flurry of visits in Sullivan and nearby towns. Mentions road talk and a Women's Foreign Missionary Society pageant, plus air traffic sighting and various family gatherings across Sullivan, Shelburn, Farmersburg, and Terre Haute.
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a treatment for nasal catarrh and frequent colds. It claims internal action through the blood to cleanse mucous surfaces, prevent chronic catarrh, and reduce inflammation. Circulars are free from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. available at all druggists.
Mrs. Dudley Hayworth spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Bruce Fox. Carl Barcus is visiting home folks. Mrs. Alvin Hood and daughters took dinner with Mrs. Amanda Allen at Farmersburg. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Jewell attended events with local acquaintances.
Miss Glenn Yeager, cooperative weather observer, reports a warm week in Farmersburg with partly cloudy days from May 24 to 27 and clear skies on May 28 to 30. Temperatures ranged from a high of 91 to a low of 36 degrees, with .32 inches rainfall on May 26 and .02 inches on May 28.
Kingsley and Fairbanks school groups met at the Drake church for a joint Sunday school session. A basket dinner followed, with Rev. Cohn of Sullivan praising cooperation between parents and school leaders. Claude Pittman, superintendent, earned much credit for the event and the offering supported the American Legion fund for destitute children in France.
The article explains that merry in Merry England describes the country as pleasant and plentiful, not especially merry people. It notes uses like the merry month of May and cites poets Spencer and Chaucer describing a merry London and a fine city by the haven.
The piece argues that mind based cures are not new and cites bread pills used by old physicians as a secret remedy. It notes ancient and diverse cultures, including Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and American Indian healers, all employing suggestion in healing.
Wallace Bruce Amsbury, poet and interpreter, will present a lecture recital at Redpath Chautauqua on Janes Whitcomb Tiley, Poet Seer of Lockerbie Street. He will revive Riley’s whimsy and warmth with fidelity and insight in this program.
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