Local notes from Sullivan and Turman townships
Community updates list visiting relatives, travel to Terre Haute Sullivan and Crawfordsville, business trips, illness including typhoid fever and influenza, soldiers and sailors returning from service with photos and stories, along with a Liberty Loan notice urging public support and patriotism.
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Carl Lester
Cochran
Terre Haute
Lynn Thomas
Charles Morris
Sullivan
Wesley Jewell
Farmersburg
Ed Jewell
Charles Riggs
Lawrence
Levi Drake
David Whitlock
Charles
Lansberry Riggs
Indianapolis
Shelburn
Charles’ Bostick
Charles Badgers
Mt. Tabor
Sandusky
Sarah Bostick
Iowa
Gus Chowning
Ira Drake
Shelb
influenza hits Fry couple closing school and notes
Mr and Mrs Fry are ill with influenza and the school remains closed. Private work in music and expression continues during the closure. Miss Bonnie Douglass visited her sister in Vincennes last week.
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Clay Bryant
West York
Illinois
A. D. Woodworth
Japan
America
Merom
Hershey
Margaret Hershey
Dawn
Texas
Hazel Lindley
Salamania
Indiana
Ohio
The
Christian Publishing Association
Dayton
Ward N. Black
Y. M. Cc
France
Pleasant
Hutsonville
United War Agencies
Bloomington Star Lickskillet Items Chronicle Light Local News
The Bloomington Star column highlights small town happenings with humorous anecdotes and names such as Hawkins Perkins Bascombe Slivers Long and Bledsoe. It notes Sears Roebuck purchases, church stovepipe talk, a door ajar joke, a corns charge change, and a dusty Ford caravan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ry Hawkins
Sears-Roebuck
Eli Perkins
Devine
Ed Bascombe
Zeb Hawkins
Jim Slivers
Bixler
Love Ann Long
Love Ann
Zeke Hawkins
Squire Hansford
Zeke
Dee McFadden
Tess
Sparkin
Dick Bledsoe
Weather of a Week Report from Farmersburg
Miss Glenn Yeager Local cooperative weather observer reports weekly data for Farmersburg for the week ending October 20. Daily highs and lows range from 36 to 78 degrees with rainfall totaling 0.07 inches on the 20th and varied sky conditions including clear and cloudy days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmersburg
Glenn Yeager
Co-Operative Weather Observer
Bate HL
Paradox Sparks Minds in Brief snippets
From Lemons. An Italian chemist’s method for extracting essential oils from citrus fruits is said not to alter oil chemistry and may revolutionize industry. A companion remark notes that blunt speakers often pose pointed questions on life’s small journeys.
Woman Bragging Over Long-Hired Cook Not Husband
Observation notes a Galveston News quip that a woman with five-year cook tenure and ten-year marriage mostly brags about the cook rather than the husband. The remark reflects domestic humor in the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston News
Teach Children to Be Kind to Animals
A brief note emphasizes teaching children kindness toward animals and condemns deliberate cruelty, urging guardians to instill empathy and responsible behavior in youngsters.
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Nnyaperm
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