Hair switches and social notes spread across town
Community updates include Mrs. Fannie Ridge selling hair switches at 1.25 to 3.50, notices of visits by Bert Harrison and Uncle John Jackson, and events at the Blackwood sisters concert. Local weddings, football chatter, and church entertainments are listed alongside shop promotions and household news.
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Fannie FE
Ridge’s
Fannie Ridge
New Lebanon
Fannie E. Ridge
Nelson Houpt
Linton
Lizzie
Emma McCrory
Tennessee
Willie Lyson
Johnson 51
J. ©. Brown
Flora Draper
Terre Haute
John
Bays
Lee
Chicago
Terrible voyage of Mananuez transports 400 soldiers to Manila
Reports recount an unseaworthy transport Mananuez sailing from San Francisco to Manila with 400 soldiers. Damaged by leaks and a typhoon, the ship lacked pumps and power. soldiers bailed water for two weeks and endured darkness while crew faced possible criminal recklessness charges.
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Mananuez
San Francisco
Manila
Mania
Honolulu
Sullivan Boys
John Neal Levi South
Nelson Norton
County Farm Institute Free to All at Courthouse
The court house hosts a two day session of a school of agriculture on Friday and Saturday in December. The event, funded by the state legislature, invites farmers to learn about farming mistakes soil fertility and corn production with experts including Dr N S Wolf O F Lane and Prof B F Mc Henry.
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Court House
N.S. Wolf
O. F. Lane
B. F. McHenry
Werner
Mars
Werner Encyclopadia Britannica
The
Britannica
Encyclopadia Britannica
U.S
For Rent 70 Acre Farm Near Carlisle and Oak Town Ind
For rent an extensive 70 acre farm located 5 miles southwest of Carlisle and 14 miles northwest of Oak Town on state road. Ten acres are timber, the rest cultivable with 3 wells and a 2 acre orchard. Features a six room frame house milk house smoke house good barn and other out buildings plus feed mill engine burr shelter and complete equipment. The mill can be separated from the farm. Immediate inquiries invited by Wa R McKinney Oak Town Indiana.
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Carlisle
Oaktown
R. McKinney
Ind
New Marble Store Opens in McCammon Block
Alex Owens formerly of Terre Haute opens marble store in the McCammon house block in the former Chinese laundry room. The Chinamen have moved to Oakland City.
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Alex Owens
Terre Haute
McCammon House
Oakland City
Farm For Sale Near Carlisle In Indiana
A 33 acre farm three miles northwest of Carlisle is for sale or trade. Nearly all in cultivation with good water. Willing to consider reasonable terms. Contact Mary E. Hatfield Paxton Indiana.
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Carlisle
Mary E. Hatfield
Paxton
Ind
Farmers Institute at Court House This Friday
Farmers Institute will be held at the court house Friday and Saturday of next week. All are invited to attend.
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Farmers’ Institute
Court House
Van Fossen Dies at Scottsville Farm Age 70
Capt Wilbur Van Fossen died of stomach cancer Sunday at his Scottsville farm. An autopsy by Carlisle physicians Monday confirmed the cause. He was buried Tuesday in Odd Fellows Cemetery with Masonic rites. He never married and for years lived as a county eccentric, once an auctioneer, later a pumps partner, and a Civil War veteran. He and brother Al Van Fossen hailed from Michigan in the 1850s and helped establish mills later known as Bauer mill before a fire.
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Wilbur van Fossen
Scottsville
Carlisle
Masonic
Odd Fellows
Ford
Basler
West Side
Ed. Crick
Capt. van Fossen
al. van Fossen
Michigan
Snapp
Sullivan
Bauer
Crowder
Sullivan County Farmers Institute Winter Session
The Sullivan county Farmers Institute will hold a winter session at the courthouse in Sullivan on December 5 and 6. General Youngman and James Dodd, president and secretary, distributed announcements and programs last week. Vice presidents will ensure programs reach all township societies. the event aims to be an interesting constructive session and invites all farmers to attend.
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Sullivan County Farmers Institute
Court House
Sullivan
Youngman
James Dodd
Sccvoc
Stanley & Co. Jewelry Line Rolls Out Guaranteed Gems
A full and fine jewelry line offered by Stanley & Co. of Merom Indiana guarantees perfect satisfaction or money back. The firm claims 5000 designs, manufactures gold plate and solid gold goods, and offers mail orders for distant customers with care instructions included. Providence Rhode Island factory and East Iowa City Indiana Western factory are listed with extensive facilities.
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Stanley & Co
Merom P. O
Ind
W.ff. Main Cou
Eastern Factory
Vorner
Pilfering Bananas Arrest Shocks Bell’s Grocery
Dick Copley, a colored man, was arrested Tuesday evening and jailed on a charge of pilfering bananas from Bell's grocery. He is said to have been intoxicated at the time.
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Dick Copley
Bell
Brown Versus White Eggs Clarified by Study
California experiment station tests show no chemical or significant nutritional difference between brown and white eggs. Analysts find white-shelled eggs slightly superior on a physical basis, but practical food value remains virtually identical.
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California Experiment Station
Woes of a Penny Saver in Buffalo
A young Buffalo man tried to save every rent he earned over two years totaling 1200 cents. He then tried to sell the coins at a discount, but shoppers refused to buy at half price and merchants hinted at possible theft from poor boxes.
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Buffalo
Longest-red bird dies in London at age 215
A parrot named Ducky, owned by the Prince of Wales, died in London. The bird reportedly lived about two hundred fifteen years, making it one of the longest lived red birds on record.
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London
Ducky
Wales
Greater Columbia 5c Cigar Advertised as Hand Made
An advertisement promotes the Greater Columbia five cent cigar crafted in Sullivan by Columbia Cigar Co. F R. Sampson serves as manager. The copy promises long Havana filler and Sumatra wrapper with strict hand made quality.
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Greater Columbia
Sullivan
Columbia Cigar Co
F. R. Sampson
Mgr
Queer fish washed ashore near Tolchester Beach described
A 16 inch shark sucker fish with an egglike skin and bare scales was identified by Mr Tames HL Gale of Tolchester Beach after being caught near Polchester. It features a long dorsal disk and cartilaginous plates, attaches to sharks and ships, feeding on small prey, common from Cape Cod to the tropics.
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Tames HL. Gale
Tolchester Beach
Polchester
Tropics
Fortune Teller in Georgia Court Recall of Slur Ridden Trial
An African American old woman labeled Guinea nigger faced charges for fortune telling in a Georgia police court. Witnesses testified she promised to tell fortunes for 25 or 10 cents while the defendant laughed and flashed white teeth. The magistrate and alderman teased as the case concluded with partial payment and remarks recorded in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Georgia
Treorgia Premuan
Osahdt
Atlanta
Cockatoo’s Remarkable Nut-Cracking Bill in Indian Ocean Isles
A Savannah News item describes a large black cockatoo from Indian Ocean islands near New Guinea. It boasts a steel hard bill and ingenious method to crack an extremely hard emery nut using precise edge orientation, leaf support, and repeated nibbling to extract the kernel.
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Indian Ocean
New Guinea
Savannah News
Incident in a Hickory Street butcher shop
A small negro girl asked for five cents worth of dog meat and pleaded for better meat because her father was sick from the previous portion. The butcher, overwhelmed by concern, gave her chuck steak without weighing it, reflecting the era's harsh poverty and meat price pressures.
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Hickory Street
St. Louis Republic
Germans urged to buy German cloth to aid home industries
The Berlin Koelnische Zeitung appeals to Germans to display patriotism by purchasing German-made cloth instead of English products as manufacturers protest influx of goods marked made in Germany and flood of imports.
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United Kingdom
Germany
Berlin Koelnische Zeitung
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