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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1916
Page
5
A group of Sullivan Shelburn and Farmersburg Masons plan to attend in Terre Haute on Saturday evening for initiation into the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. About 150 will be in the class. Several local residents return home for vacations and life events including weddings and births.
Mrs J M Springer attends Baptist Missionary training school on her sister's campus in Chicago. M G Roberts replaces O J Cartwright on the Carlisle grand jury, Cartwright excused. Bart Walker jailed for selling liquor on Sunday. fines and costs total 2955. Carlisle and Farmersburg postmasters' salaries rise to 1200. Sullivan leaders plan meeting at C J Sherman’s home to discuss boys welfare. Numerous social notices from Chaney Bays wedding guests to trips and school events. Italian workers quit interurban project amid timekeeper dispute. Local births, funerals, recognitions, and university travels noted.
San Francisco reports Charles M Hatfield a Los Angeles rain attracter who claims to have ended Grass valleys drought with a 1.10 inch rain and 18 inches of snow test. He says he will contract to work in April for a British colony then return to California to test near San Rafael and predicts forty years from now all cities will have rainmaking plants.
Lewis Virgil Llewellyn and Effie May Marshall obtained marriage licenses, records show. The filing confirms their intention to wed, marking a milestone in their respective lives.
Clinton travels to Sullivan Sunday for a game likely to reveal Shelburn and Sullivan's current form. Clinton lost 8 to 2 at Shelburn last Sunday assessing both teams' likely strength.
The piece notes Col. Albert Stickney stands about five feet eleven inches and a wrathful tall posture, while his son Stickney junior towers six feet four and a half inches. Peckham jokingly hopes the son may not outdo the father in virtue as a model for lawyers.
A hurricane and thunderstorm swept the Tarbes district driving migrating quail to the ground. At about 10 PM large flocks fell to the plain, with Hotel de Paris grounds strewn with bodies as collectors gathered them in dozens.
Dr William P Wilson director of Philadelphia museums introduces miniature museums for city libraries to excite school children about travel natural products and world occupations. The project aims to depict the manners customs and industries of distant lands.
A program loans country study boxes to teachers for two weeks each. Each box holds about 200 specimens and up to date photographs. Ten countries have been prepared and Dr Wilson aims to cover every country worldwide with forthcoming boxes.
A Santa Cruz correspondent reports flames issuing from a live redwood in Big Basin State Park. The tree, decayed at its heart, burned slowly with a pink core. a vent forms, releasing embers. It stood 140 feet tall initially and has fallen to about 90 feet. This marks the third such flare in fourteen months.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes a 26 day prayer service at Hartwell Presbyterian Church. Each day prays for members whose names start with successive alphabet letters from A onward. Pastor Dr. Charles F. B. Walker revised the service.
The article notes lace making waning in France with alencon and chantilly no longer produced, Spain’s industry dying, while Belgium rises to meet demand by producing lace of any required style or name.
Fragmentary text hints at a discussion of national tone and guidance while awaiting a response at home. No clear events, names, or dates are present.
Edgar B. Marchant Oklahoma official warns that growing giant melons by feeding them with milk bottles may set records for size. David Maxey of Alipe Oklahoma nurses prize melons with milk to fatten them, using a buried bottle and wick to transfer liquid into the fruit. If successful, the method could yield sweeter melons and spark a broader vegetarian era, the St. Louis Globe Democrat reports.
Visitors can now explore Padirac caves in Lot France home to a vast craterlike opening and a subterranean river. Advances have reduced dangers making the caverns accessible to the average sightseer for the first time after ages of exploration. A prior descent used a board hung on ropes like a swing.
The Standard Oil Company seeks to lay pipelines from Red Fork to oil fields near Florence and Boulder Colorado. If the project succeeds, extensions may run from Denver to Wyoming fields.
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