Local notes record pensions marriages and town news
Regencje Hoje ofoche r Josiah Asdell learns of a pension increase to 30 dollars monthly. William W Swift and Samira F Grigsby wed in the county clerk's office. Several residents relocate visit and travel in and around Farmersburg with updates on deaths illnesses and court actions. Community events include a 40 guest gathering, a 5 cent theatre plan, and a field of local social and civic activity spanning November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josiah Asdell
Pension Department
William W. Swift
Samira F. Grigsby
Farmersburg
S. J. Long
The
Baptist Church
John McCloud
Boonville
Shawnee
Oklahoma
J. R. Hinkle
Snow for Travelers Across Europe
The passage compares climate options for snow lovers, noting Malta offers immunity, St. Petersburg suburbs provide about 179 days of snow, Copenhagen has 30 days, and Palermo Rome and Venice offer one two and five days respectively for those seeking snow as a casual guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
St. Petersburg
Copenhagen
Palermo
Rome
Venice
Advertised Letters in Sullivan Indiana Post Office 1907
List of unclaimed letters as of November 20 1907 including Ladies list with Byren Buck Griggs Harris Street and Mertie, and Gents list with Barnes Cunningham Douglas Fallowell Fitzwater Berromford Hockenberry Kane Morgan Pursell Paulk. Callers must say advertised or letters go to Dead Letter Office. ARTHUR A. Holmes P. M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan, Ind
Byren
James
Buck
Martha
Griggs
Harris
C. B. Street
Mertie
Barnes
T. Roy. Cunningham
Raneom. Douglas
H. J. Fallowell
Walter. Fitzwater
G. B. Berrom
Marcia and Charlie Ride to Kiowa for a Prairie City Wedding
Marcia Brooks, weary from drought and hardship, joins the Kiowa opening ride with her chestnut Bonnie Belle. She reunites with Charlie Keith amid the stampede and, amid dust and danger, accepts his marriage proposal as they blaze toward a new life together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcia
Pap
Bonnie Belle
Nebraska
Charlie Keith
Darter
Waal
Tom Hobson
Charlie
Tenderfoot
Kiowa
Prairie City
Darling
Effie Darrow
General Daumesnil’s Leg and Its Historic Endurance
The wooden leg of General Daumesnil, lost at Wagram, was replaced by a timber contrivance with iron springs. He kept command at Vincennes in 1814, reportedly saying, Let me have my leg, and then you can take Vincennes. He died in 1832. the leg passed from a Vincennes smith to locals, then to Vincennes municipality and finally to the war department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daumesnil
Paris
Wagram
Vincennes
Brou
Artillery Borough
War Department
Origin and history of gloves through the ages
The article surveys glove use from ancient times to modern days. It notes early mentions by Xenophon Homer and Varro, church rites and land transfers with gloves, a medieval single combat custom, and the late adoption by women after the Reformation, followed by a light joke strip about a doctor patient interaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xenophon
Homer
Laertes
Varro
St. Louis Republic
Fairbanks Corn Husking Peaks as Town News
Emory Johnson visited Sullivan on Saturday and stock events drew Dave Giles to a Quincy Illinois sale where he bought forty five calves. Dave Smock has been ill for a week and the Rev Griffith led meetings at the M E church. LeRoy Smock and QO were mentioned in town chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Barnes
Albert Hazelrigg
Henderson
Ralph Beauchamp
Omaha
Neb
M. Koontz
O. C. Byers
Bloomington
Alex Dickerson
Fairbanks Township
Dickerson
Grover C. Marlow
Flossie Ross
C. W. Welman
Crawfordsville
Winnie Pearson
Merom
F. M. Douthitt
M. M. Morgan
Princeton
J. H. Gordon
Livengood
Fountain County
W. T. Melott
Emerson Krug
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Terre Haute
Otto Krug
W. A. Ransford
Mr. Ransford
Moultrie County
Ill
Sullivan
Joe Hayden
City
Arkansas
Tennessee
Mr. Hayden
Joe Loudermilk
Hazen
Ark
Mr. Loudermilk
A. M. Getty
Oklahoma
Texas
Jim Johnson
Lewis
Johnson
Farmersburg
Belle Kendall
Maud Polk
Steve Kendall
Charles McClanahan
Max
William Parsons
Woodard
Okla
Andy Long
Clay City
Charles Ross
Nelle Crawford
Esam Searles
Central Christian Church
J. H. Mavity
Paxton
Sallie Roark
Shelburn
Harry Heck
Carpenter
Dora Borders
Pearl Williams
Nettie Bennett
Laura Dodd
Etta Dean
Pimento
Joseph Reynolds
J. T. Oliphant
Baby
Dr. Oliphant
Marshal Shepherd
Church Taylor
Frank Clark
Charley
Missouri
Mr. Lloyd
Dave Smock
Rev. Griffith
Dave Giles
Quincy
Sullivan Circuit Court
Leonard L. Nicholson
Isaiah Nicholson
Court House
Sullivan County
Indiana
Southern Indiana Railroad
A. G. McNabb
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Regencje Hoje Ofoche
Josephine Moore
Genevieve Scovel
Indianapolis
Helen Mahley
Will Casto
Virginia
Bond
California
Pearl Carrol
Bucyrus, O
Sylvia Hill
Chrisman
Jim
P. R. Jenkins
Will Jenkins
Chicago
W. H. Holton
Henryville
J. W. Holton
Sandy
Marcia Brooks
Marcus
Mareia
Milwaukee Sentinel
Hoosier Bargain Store
Dorothy Dodd
Julius Hatry Shoe Company
Sullivan Union
Fairbanks
Emory Johnson
M. E. Church
Will LeRoy
QO. M. Chambers
William A. Brunker
Louisa McClanahan
Fannie Funk
Silver Chaney
Atty
Miss Grace Crowder
Lima
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