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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1899
Page
6
Prof. Sampson travels to Chicago on business. Various Sullivan residents visit family in Chicago Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Local sales include a Steinway piano and 55 acre Turman farm for sale. School district hosts a Graphophone library fundraiser. Wedded Friday invitations and health updates from local families are noted along with fair trip tickets and hardware exhibit reports.
Mrs Nao Ellis and her mother in law return to Appleton City Mo after a three week visit with relatives. Geo Ellis meets them in St Louis on their arrival Friday morning. The piece also notes a funeral attendance for Thompson Vaughn and a teachers gathering hosted by Prof and Mrs McKenough with a guessing contest and portraits of educational figures.
On Saturday evening October 1 at 7 p m Rev Jay Fairfield of Spokane Wash will deliver a popular lecture on James Whitecoin Huey in Lincoln Hall Union Christian College Rev Fairfield a Harvard graduate comes highly recommended Admission is free All welcome
About fifteen of the men on the sewer project quit yesterday over the employment of two or three colored men. Burton Bros offered pay when they called at the store. Work progresses and will be completed soon.
The fall term at U. S. College opened with strong prospects and a larger than usual student body. A higher percentage of the attendance is new students, signaling promising enrollment for the term and validating the college's success.
William Wyman named inspector of gravel roads for this township and G W Luzader named inspector for Jackson township. The board of commissioners met in Haddon township Friday to inspect the completed Cooper system.
Tom Springer Sr. reportedly refused 140 dollars each for four horses. The decision underscores that well bred stock still commands strong prices.
Wim F Case and Jane C Case were divorced after 52 years of marriage. The suit cites abandonment as the cause. They married in 1847 and Jane left him two years ago.
A Buffalo Express excerpt explains broom corn as a first cousin to field corn and outlines how broom makers harvest and craft broom heads. It recounts a tale of Benjamin Franklin discovering broom corn from a single seed found on a whisk broom, linking Franklin to the origin of broom corn in the United States.
A detailed method for making an orange omelet with sugared sections and pepper seasoning. Instructions cover peeling each orange like an apple, removing inner skin, segment extraction without breaking, and draining excess juice before folding into the omelet. Describes warming the omelet on the range for best appearance and notes use in cakes or desserts.
frugal readers assemble a bookcase by hollowing a packing box and finishing with rose wood stain and grillwork. also a note on eye water for nutrition from eggs whites in water, with cautions about boiling and digestion.
The piece recounts Elmer aged five and Viela aged three in Newport summer play with blue jeans and brown pants. They chase in a yard and share tender moments with family including Grandma who brings wooden shoes, while a sisterly quarrel with wishes for a Yankee dad appears.
Light apple dumplings baked in a biscuit crust use tart apples peeled and cored, wrapped in dough squares, baked golden brown, with a butter sugar sauce thickened with cornstarch and nutmeg. A lamp shade tip suggests using four Japanese palm leaf fans for a decorative, diffused light effect.
A boy sits in the sun by a riverbank fishing with a rod tied to a tree and his dog named Pish. A passerby asks the dog’s name and learns the dog’s name comes from his reluctance to bite, as the boy explains. The boy has fished all day without a catch.
A St Nicholas verse by Harriet Prescott Spofford celebrates spring orchard life. The speaker describes pink fragrant fruit amid warming weather, likening people to apples and claiming hidden magic in summer warmth and moonlit charms.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor strip presents a pun on bakery premises naming the "dough main" as a joke. It showcases wordplay where the bakery setting yields a play on "domain." The caption illustrates light local humor about language and business.
In downtown Memphis a square park features a thick grove of old trees and a large cool fountain. Hundreds of tame squirrels roam the grounds and will eat from visitors’ hands.
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