Bearers Hold All Day Meeting of Graysville Methodist
The Standazd Bearers of the Graysville Methodist met at the Shields bocce Thursday for an all day session. They planned mission work, shared devotions, and discussed dues payments, with a cover-dish dinner and a program including songs and a mystery box for July.
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Graysville
Ehave
Shields Bocce
Japan
Allie Buriders
Lenore Trvin
Burton
ABC
Standar
Bis
Elsie Burton
Irma Yager
Flose Thompson
Hrs. Burton
Memie
Flossie Thompson
Mildred Stennis
Marglerite Cushman
Enid Siveous
Allie Borders
Helen Phillips
Ota Burton
Leanore Irvin
Mrs
E’~e Burton
Thelma Lere
Lois Shields
Laura Avenue
Laura
Former Van Vleck Pupils Entertained
Mrs. Carla Ridgeway Adams hosted the Rosie Van Vleck circle at her Glenn home with Mrs. Rosie Van Vleck as guest of honor. The club honors former students of the late H. H. Van Vleck and his wife, recounting school days and local history. Attendees included extended and out of town members from Indiana and Illinois.
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Carla Ridgeway Adams
Rosie van Vleck
Glenn
H. H. van Vleck
van Vleck
Narrows’ School
Fairbanks
Ind
Grandpa Reads With Help From Little Bessie Window Trick
Grandpa loses his spectacles and laments unable to read the paper until Bessie suggests a makeshift method to peer through the window. The child’s quick fix sparks a moment of practical humor in a family scene.
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Bessie
Boston Evening Transcript
Fragmented Civic Jokes and Social Snippets From Go House Side
A collage of quips on fashion shifts, telephone etiquette, Prohibition, science versus politics, and social foibles. Remarks range from skirts and hats to car horns, June weeds, Laura avenue mishaps, and jokes about brides, dancing, and marriage. Various figures and topics appear in a casually observational tone.
Mob approach challenges true public benefit
Quoted reflection on pleasing crowds versus guiding them toward meaningful improvement. Emphasizes that flattering the mob is easy, while genuine progress for society requires effort and carries risk. Attributed to Colton.
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Colton
Father a Bachelor in Odd Exchange at Graysville
An Englishman scolds a fellow for untidy appearance and hair saying his father was a bachelor. Jesse Medsker of Graysville, a tensorial artist, has a small shaver but weighs nearly two hundred. The note laments rising generation of women knowing more about making us than making biscuits.
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Jesse Medsker
Graysville
Jesse
Weather summary for Farmersburg county week ending June 17
Miss Glenn Yeager reports cooperative weather data for Farmersburg county. The week saw a mix of cloudy and partly cloudy days with temperatures ranging from 58 to 83 degrees. Rainfall totaled 1.65 inches across the 11th 12th and 15th.
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Farmersburg
Glenn Yeager
Co-Operative Weather Observer
Sullivan Woman Has Large Duties in U S Postal Service
Mrs. Maud Allan Harris of Sullivan Indiana serves as secretary to the director of the service relations division guiding welfare work begun under postmaster general Hays. The welfare division has created a network of service councils to unite 350000 postal employees and improve conditions and cooperation nationwide. A Indianapolis Postmaster lauds the program, noting strong response and active committees.
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Sullivan
U. S. Postal Service
Washington
The
Postal Service
Maud Allan Harris
Ind
Will H. Hays
Post Office Department
Service Relations
National Service Relations Council
Departmental Service Council
Local Service Council
County Service Council
Harris
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Hays
Lee K. Frankel
New York
Henry S. Dennison
Dr. Frankel
Welfare Department
Harding
Service Council
District of Columbia
United States
Bryson
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
Court Petitions and Divorces Listing Multiple Actions
New suits filed include Auerbachs against Bierhaus on account, executors Rusher and Robbins versus Mary Eaton for real estate sale, Hunt versus Hunt divorce, Board of Children’s Guardians custody petition for Ruby Wetherall, Smiths versus Runyon for adoption, and Fanny Ruby versus Rose Baker on note and mortgage forfeiture.
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Charles W. Rusher
Charles A. Robbins
Jacob H. Miller
Mary Eaton
John Wesley Hunt
Ivey Hunt
Board of Children’s Guardians of
Sullivan County
Ruby Wetherall
Leslie Smith
Ertis Smith
Arthur G. Runyon
Nora E. Runyon
Fanny Ruby
Rose Baker
Jake Baker
Impressions of Passengers at the Great Railway Station
A Collier's Weekly vignette notes the telephone girl at the railway station recalls the crowd at the booths. She focuses on unusual moments, particularly when someone says thank you, rather than the usual bustle and lines.
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Collier’s Weekly
Indiana Couples Obtain Marriage Licenses in Roundup
A list of couples receiving marriage licenses includes Charles A. Rosenfelder 25 from Lafayette and Ruth Elizabeth Richeson 18 of Linton. Charles Roscoe Magill 42 of Hymera and Chloe Edith Hamilton 37 of Hymera. Gilbert Grim Dutton 26 and Ione Antoinette Watson 20, both Hymera area residents. and others from Farmersburg Carlisle Terre Haute and surrounding towns.
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Charles A. Rosenfelder
Lafayette
Ind
Ruth Elizabeth Richeson
Linton
Charles Roscoe Magill
Carpenter
Chloe Edith Hamilton
Hymera
Gilbert Grim Dutton
Ione Antoinette Watson
Arthur Louis Fridenmaker
Miner
Mildred Everly
Farmersburg
Matthew Lawrence Blair
Verna May Graham
Chicago
Ills
Carl S. Stoelting
Carlisle
Margaret Louise Ladson
Paxton
Edmond H. Stoelting
Opal D. Howard
Pleasantville
Stewart W. Edmonds
Hattie Buchanan
Terre Haute
Martin Henry Gust
Maude Louise Jordan
Palestine
Ernest Lynn
Cora Ethel Ellis
Alphus Floyd Pugh
Helen McCoskey
Woodson Wesley Starnes
Indianapolis
Edna Mae Grimes
Merom
Levi Dennis Houpt
Edith Laura Stultz
Luther Dewy Sempstote
Minnie Ollie Wellman
Willow Hill
Til
Ora E. Newlin
Middletown
Thelma E. Sparks
Pimento
Elza Bruce Cooper
Vincennes
Sarah Alice Mauldin
Princeton
Horse-Wranglers and Their Role on Western Stock Farms
Literary Digest notes that a horse-wrangler acts as a herder for ponies on western stock farms. It traces the term to an extension of wrangle meaning to wrestle or struggle with refractory horses, and mentions that in England a similar term refers to a horse dealer.
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England
Literary Digest
Graveyard visit sparks child’s notice on stones
A girl comments while viewing an old graveyard. She notes the brown sandstone tablets and distinguishes the marble markers, asking if the brown stones are for colored people, reflecting on race in a child’s observation of the site.
Burns Healed by Equal Mix of Sweet Oil and Lime Water
The article promotes a home remedy claiming equal parts sweet oil and lime water efficiently soothe and heal burn injuries. It presents the mixture as a splendid remedy and advises using it promptly after injury.
Real Estate and Insurance Business Change Carlisle
Notice that E S Griggs real estate and insurance business is sold and moved to the former Dr Joe Freeman office. Also announces available sale of a 20 by 51 inch Case Thresher with cleaner belts and parts, offered by Boswell Auto Sales and Geo Unger at Carlisle Indiana.
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E.S. Griggs
Joe Freeman
Jim Dandy
Boswell Auto Sales
Geo. Unger
Carlisle
Ind
Appointment of Administrator for Indiana Estate
Notice is given that Oscar W. Alsop has been appointed administrator of the estate of Ambrose Ed Alsop, late of Sullivan County, Indiana, deceased. The estate is presumed solvent. Arthur E. DeBaun, Attorney. First insertion June 13, 1925.
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Ambrose Ed Alsop
Sullivan County
Indiana
Oscar W. Alsop
Arthur E. DeBaun
Chamois Leather Misunderstood Material Fact
The article clarifies chamois leather is not the animal but the softened sheep skin lining processed for pliability. It notes only a small portion of leather comes from actual chamois and describes the mountaintop dispersal of the animal.
Great French Dramatist Moliere and His Pseudonym
The celebrated French dramatist Moliere was born Jean Baptiste Poquelin. He adopted the name after pursuing comic stage roles of unmatched prominence. His best known works include The School for Husbands The Absurd Preciouses and The Madcap and the Loving Spite.
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Moliere
Jean Baptiste Poquelin
Fancy Work Limit Joke Echoes From Eureka Herald
A Eureka man jokes about his neighbor’s wife and her insistence on crochet details. He notes she even borders por ous plaster with red thread and threads a yellow ribbon through holes.
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Eureka
Scott
Eureka Herald
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Germany
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Senator Borah
Profit
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sr-Gouckenour
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I. C
J. A. Hash
Optometrists
Star and Sullivan Union
A. Leopold Auerbach
Joseph S. Auerbach
William C. Bierhaus
Horse-Wranglers
Ford—Fordson
Carlisle, Ind
Boswell
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