Gossip and Visits Highlight Sullivan Area Life
Local notes show A Asbury of Farmersburg transacted business Monday and multiple residents visiting relatives in Linton Terre Haute and Sullivan. Farmersburg, Paris Illinois funerals for James Eaton, train schedule changes on Indianapolis Southern, and residents sent greetings from Evansville to Bloomington.
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A. P. Asbury
Farmersburg
Indianapolis
James Eaton
Paris
Aaron Graham
James Hummel
Dory Eaton
Mesha Eaton
John Graham
John Springer
J. W. Hunt
Allen
New Lebanon
E. D. Thixton
Ernest and
Paul
Terre Haute
Michael Kirkham
Emma Thixton
George Miers
Gill Township
Sullivan
E. C. Snarr
Linton
James M. Hamilton
Jackson Township
Lora Gibson
Indiana State Normal
Laura Lemen
Robert Wallace
Masonville
Eph Williams
Nadine McClanahan
Evansville
Andy McClanahan
M. W. Asrey
John Graves
Elam Orr
C. E. Setzer
Merom
Quindara White
Carlisle
Dick Miles
James Miles
Roy Kaufman
R. W. Hubble
Hazel Hubble
Elsie Denney
Bloomington
Wm. Denney
Rug sales and insurance ads promote Hawkins Hawkins Bailey
An advertising item urges buying a modern rug from the Index with pay later terms. It emphasizes avoiding old rug patterns and offers house or property insurance through Hawkins, Haddon and Bailey, dated 31-tf.
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Hawkins, Haddon and Bailey
Sullivan teachers walk to Merom but turn back in rain
A trio from Sullivan High School Mrs Jeannette Keator German teacher Miss Mabel Jones Latin teacher and Eva Mygrants history teacher planned a walk to Merom and back. Heavy rain at Merom forced them to abandon the trek and return to Sullivan by train.
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Sullivan
Merom
Jeannette Keator
Mabel Jones
Eva Mygrants
Reverend Tilburn Gives Deputy Kelly Odd French Pipe
During confinement in the jail the former Linton Christian church pastor presented Deputy Sheriff Ed Kelly with a peculiar pipe from France. The pipe is made from a pipe plant seed row and though rare to mature it is valued for its bowl. Tilburn preferred gifting the plant pipe to Kelly in memory of Mary Smith who enjoys him using that pipe.
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E. O. Tilburn
Linton Christian Church
Ed. Kelly
Mr. Tilburn
France
Fulton One-Motion Go Carts Sold by INDEX
INDEX offers the Fulton one-motion go carts for sale. The ailing production cannot improve the current model, prompting buyers to consider the existing performance.
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Fulton
Stoves Wanted as Higher Cash Prices Offered
H. Schmidt & Son advertises paying higher cash prices for used second hand stoves. Some readers may contact the dealer at their listed location for trade-in options.
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H. Schmidt & Son
Girl scales 16 story building for candy wager
Florence Price, 17, from Newark climbs to the top of a 16 story building and tries a flag pole ascent. A workman saves her by pulling her back to the platform as a crowd watches in astonishment.
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Newark
N. J
Florence Price
Bank Street
Firemen’s Insurance Company
Broad and
Market Streets
Disabled Artist and a Bricklayer Student’s Ill Fate
A foggy day scene recalls painters passing time as one artist recalls a night class story. An Irish bricklayer named Pat attempted art but injuries from a brick accident hindered his drawing, his wife noting he could not come due to a hurt foot.
Man pursues a dream car as panic fades
Goitt, stirred by impulses, announces plans to buy a large automobile after visiting an auto show. He weighs big coachlike models against compact runabouts, debating health claims and the practicality of driving versus walking as his wife observes his shifting desires.
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Goitt
Jingo
The Candy Ghost Mystery In The Morway House
In a quiet home, five pounds of chocolates vanish from a bottom stair library table sparking a ghost scare. Harold and Mrs Morway suspect a sleepwalking ghost yet blame each other as boxes empty during nights and a sea serpent becomes a joking culprit among friends.
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Mrs. Murnay
Harold
Morway
Janet
Murnay
Tommy Taylor
Mrs. Morway
Cigarette Swearing and the Moral Language Decline
A Northwestern Christian Advocate piece argues cigarette swearing degrades language and culture. It likens cigarettes to early cigars, notes female use of mild oaths, and warns profanity harms home atmospheres and spiritual life.
Answers to Prayer and the Price of Blessings
The piece argues that prayers for health wealth or spiritual gifts require effort and sacrifice. It stresses that loving God demands participation in answer itself and warns against self indulgence as a path to comfort. The author notes that divine love knows us fully and that conceit blocks true faith.
Man’s opportunities hinge on his own effort
A reflective maxim on seizing chances. It contrasts personal initiative with the outcomes one reaps, implying opportunity favors those who act.
Death of Fred Draper in Kokomo Chronicle
The Ko komo paper notes the death of Fred Draper aged 31 at his North Washington street home after a year with tuberculosis. He leaves a widow Icy Turner and a three year old daughter, with surviving parents J. P. and Mrs. Draper and brother Harry. Draper was junior partner in J. P. Draper & Sons and a member of Good Intent lodge, K of P.
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Fred Draper
Kokomo
J. P
Antonio
Texas
J. P. Draper & Sons
Rullivan Indiana
Harry Draper
Icy Turner
Draper
Good Intent Lodge, K. of P
Man Seeks Life Change With Old Time Pills
Advert says Dr King s New Life Pills remove poisons from the system and cure liver stomach and kidney troubles. It promises hope and vigor for the weak and nervous and mentions 25c at Joe K Smock and Son s.
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Dr. King
Joe K. Smock & Son’s
Firms petitions to dissolve Billman McBride Furniture Co partnership
J Sherman T P McBride and Ed Billman stockholders filed a circuit court petition Monday to dissolve the partnership. The firm had dissolved previously. Hays & Hays represent the petitioners.
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Corporation Co
J. Sherman
T. P. McBride
Ed. Billman
Billman-McBride Furniture Co
Hays & Hays
Perry Davis Painkiller Promotion Cites Prevention Cure
An advertisement for Perry Davis Painkiller markets it as an ounce of prevention and a pound of cure for bowel troubles skin wounds colds and other ills. Offered in 35c and 50c sizes.
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Perry Davis
Former Resident James Eaton Dies at 77 in Paris Ill
James Eaton formerly of New Lebanon died at his Paris Illinois home last week from heart failure. He was 77 and survived by brothers Mesha and Dory Eaton and Mrs. Mary Miles of Sullivan and sister Mrs. Lizzie Allen of New Lebanon.
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Will Rogers
Bloomfield
Sam Silvers
John Huffman
Jefferson Blackburn
Linton
Frank Trinkle
Lou Stark
Terre Haute
W. D. Beck
Texas County
Chas. Ruddell
Will H. Hays
Greene County
Mayme Curtis
A. E. Curtis
Sullivan
A. Vernon Hall
Frank McClellan
J. B. Crowley
Saracoski
Crowley
A. C. Owens
Virgil Burks
Burks
Richard Sheppler
Dugger
Union
P. A. Reed
Curry Township
The
James Eaton
New Lebanon
Paris
Ill
Mr. Eaton
Mesha and
Dory Eaton
Mary Miles
Lizzie Allen
Reid Returns from Delaware with 62 Shetland Ponies
P. L. Reid traveled from Delaware Ohio where he bought 62 fine Shetland ponies. He shipped the ponies home and placed them on his farm north of the city.
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P. L. Reid
Delaware, O
Mr. Reid
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