Thomas A Edison and his enduring inventions
Walton Williams portrays Thomas A. Edison as a world changing genius whose innovations include the incandescent lamp the phonograph and motion pictures. The piece recounts his early telegraph days his unusual financial caution and persistence and notes his advances in concrete pumping and electric storage batteries.
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Walton Williams
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
United States
Frank McGowan
Patrick jury breaks Sullivan circuit record in long deliberation
The Sullivan circuit court jury in the Leonard Patrick murder case has not returned a verdict after deliberating 117 hours, a new court record. Previous long delibrations include 96 hours in the Fred Clark case and 72 hours in the Joe Quakenbush trial. The panel, consisting of nine jurors from Sullivan and nearby townships, faces continued deliberations under Judge Henderson's guidance via special judge W T Douthitt.
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Leonard Patrick
Will Allen
Gilmour
Sullivan Circuit Court
Sullivan Circuit
Fred Clark
Taylor Smith
Dunnville
Joe Quakenbush
Patrick
Charles Wilkey
Sullivan
Presley Stout
Jackson Township
W. S. Williams
Josh Powell
Manford Otto
Steve Mattix
B. W. Beard
Turman Township
C. C. Alsman
Jefferson Township
D. L. McKee
Charles Houpt
Hiram Alsop
Hamilton Township
John Whitmore
Haddon Township
Sullivan County
Henderson
Chicago
W. T. Douthitt
Colonel Tipton's Humbling Fine for Intoxication Case
Hymera resident Colonel John Tipton faced an $11 fine after being arrested for intoxication in Hymera on April 23. Tipton had attended the McCracklin Baskeen blind tiger trial and urged leniency for defendants, then admitted to the offense and pleaded guilty at Squire Kirkham's office.
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Edison
Mr. Edison
Mr. Elison
Morida
John Tipton
Hymera
John
Tipton
Watson
Squire Kirkham
Sullivan County
Sullivan Times
Picnic planned by Sullivan Eastern Star and Blue Lodge
The SullivanEastern Star chapter and Blue Lodge announce a joint picnic in the grove at the McKee schoolhouse on St John’s day Wednesday June 24. Attendees will meet at Sullivan and depart at 12 oclock in the afternoon.
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Sullivan Eastern Star Chapter
Blue Lodge
McKee
St. John’s
Sullivan
New Lebanon Community Notes and Local Visits
Sunday night program at Walkers for the children follows day exercises. Claude Lisman and John McNaughton stay summers from De Pauw. Mrs. Emma Stewart hosts family from Sullivan. East Chapel services moved to Sunday afternoon. George Shaffer has his house repainted. George Pinkston and Minnie Wells wed at M E parsonage with local attendees. Various visits and loads of small-town happenings fill the week.
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Walker’s
Claude Lisman
John McNaughton
de Pauw
Emma Stewart
Sullivan
East Chapels
George Shaffer
M. E. Parsonage
McNaughton
George Pinkston
Minnie Wells
Merom
Martha
Lizzie Elliott
George Beck
Mr. Bailey
Paxton
John Bruner
Finley Pugh
Frank McNaughton
Coast Artillery
Ft. Moultrie
S. C
Ryan
Carlisle
Harve Clark
Charles Dodds
Mr. McNaughton
Thomas Hopewell
Oldham
Maude Bruner
Walker
Steadman
Nichols
Sam Lisman
Near Carlisle
Indianapolis Market Cattle Prices Reported in June
Market update from Indianapolis on June 16 shows steer price ranges by weight and grade. Good to choice steers 1,300 lbs and up priced around 700 to 725. common to medium steers 1,200 to 1,250 lbs bring 650 to 725. lighter steers 900 to 1,100 lbs range 525 to 675 as listed in the daily cattle report.
Bays Couple Guests of Home Folks
Mr and Mrs Harold C Bays of Culver are the guests of home folks they drove through in an automobile according to local notes.
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Harold c. Bays
Culs
Mr .Baye
Automobile
Livestock Weight Classes Highlight Sales Offseason
Buyers focus on heavies 210 pounds and up and mixed lots, with mediums 190 pounds and up and choice lights 150 to 180 pounds. Light pigs 110 to 150 pounds remain common to good, while roughs and bulk of sales appear in light pig categories.
Local Market Grain and Livestock Prices
Local market notes list prices for grain including new wheat corn and cracked corn. Livestock ranges show good to prime bulls and cows and calves with limits for feeding steers and calves and seasonal hay prices around 8.50 to 9.90 per unit.
Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement for feet relief
An ad promotes Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York offering a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease swollen tired hot or smarting feet and a free sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn Pad, a new invention.
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Allen S. Olmsted le Roy
N. Y
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