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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1905
Page
9
Advertisement offers a 25 cent bottle of Dr Camstedt's German Liver Powder free to try claiming it cures liver and kidney ailments. It urges readers to act quickly, notes the product as a limited liberal distribution by appointed agents.
A letter urges trying a remedy said to relieve thousands of hopeless cases and offers mail delivery from the American Pharmaceutical Co. in Evansville Indiana. It asks distant readers to send postage and to refrain from sending children.
In this column last week a river incident involved a man harassing checker players. The same local resident wandered into M Farley’s checker room as Profs Cunningham and Whitsett studied the game. Saburo Koshiba of Union Christian College declined a tutor post for Roosevelt children and will remain at Oberlin University. A Nippon native skilled in jiu jitsu, Koshiba foiled a Merom college student attack.
A quick takedown ends an assailant as Koshiba is brought down. Robert Moore shows off a 153 inch circumference mango from his garden. An Terre Haute attorney notes early fishing season opens in spring with frost killing insects boosting fish hunger. Mrs Meade Bolling uncovers her father W P OHaver’s Linton Quarterly Conference minutes from 1851 to 1872 on display at the office.
A Sullivan man recounted a tale of a young man who rarely attended church. He attended one Sunday and was asked what the preacher spoke about. The young man said the sermon discussed a man born and then facing trouble with a woman.
An advertisement urges patients with persistent skin diseases to seek Dr Crowley who claims to cure cancers and related conditions. It warns untreated skin ailments may progress to cancer and encourages early treatment.
An advertisement asks if readers feel weak and in pain and promises health and vigor from Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea sold by Joe K. Smock for 35 cents.
Notice invites readers to trade in an old stove for an Estate Oak wood stove that will burn for 48 hours on one coal charge. Advertised by MATTIX TURMAN & HIGGR.
Articles of incorporation filed for the Indianapolis Vincennes and Evansville Electric Railway with Evansville home offices. The proposed route runs Evansville Princeton Vincennes Freelandville Pleasantville Linton Switz City Bloomfield Bedford Spencer Martinsville to Indianapolis, aimed at freight emphasis. Capital stock $100000, directors include East Ebner Cullop Schloot Hendren Cooper Matthews Johnson Fisher Thornton Davis.
School assignments listed for township teachers alma places and staff. Miners form a local union at Carlisle Coal and Clay shaft. Burrell Wiley seeks charter. John W Willis buys over 2,300 Western sheep with Dr J R Whalen. 1,500 arrived for feeding. Watermelon season 1905 ends with strong profits. over 100,000 melons shipped, prices ranged from 25 to 159 dollars per car, netting growers about 10,000 dollars.
John L. Reece father of Clifford Reece died September 10 in Hymera after a short heart ailment. He lived at Cory and served in the 31st Indiana Company C during the Civil War. He attended M E church and was a longtime IOOF and Grand Army member. Funeral held at Cory and Oak Hill cemetery with Rev. Taylor officiating. Survived by wife and children.
Prof George C Enders and family of Alberta Canada passed Sullivan en route to Merom where Enders will join Union Christian college faculty. Cass township resident Josiah Stanley met his wife returning from Terre Haute. Out of town students listed at the high school include Alta Carruthers Hattie Van Sant Mabel Alger Arista Boone Harvey Humel Med ford Pittman Hugh Roberts Eva Metcalf Cordin Shipman Iva Thompson Sepie Wesley Wright. The Evansville and Terre Haute road declared a 5 percent annual dividend with 12 percent payable October 16 and 23 percent April 16 to stockholders of record September 23. Annual meeting set for October 16. Sam Marsee sells Oaktown Record to Nora Asher who will edit it. A small fire at William Willis residence caused minor damage covered by insurance. Mrs Mollie Hoke and son Fred of Louisville visited and returned home. E C Liston returns from Indian Territory and Oklahoma. J O Bell appointed yardmaster of E T H at Seifert. Harry Fitch becomes conductor with the road.
The newspaper will pay 25 cents for the first copy of this paper dated January 11 1905 brought to the office.
Parties seeking information on rates and train times should write to D B Steeg Traveling Passenger Agent Terre Haute Indiana for prompt attention.
Bennettsville South Carolina resident says Electric Bitters cured his wife of chronic dyspepsia and torpid liver, restoring strength and vigor. A K Smock druggist sells and guarantees the remedy with a bottle.
The Pennsylvania R R Company announces September 19 home visitor excursions with low-rate tickets to points in Indiana Ohio and Kentucky return limit 30 days. Details available from Pennsylvania Lines ticket agents or Traveling Passenger agents D B Stegg Terre Haute Ind and J M Chesbrough Gen Pass Agt St Louis Mo 428.
An endorsement from W C Barber of Sandy Level Va praises Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds as a cure after failing with other remedies The ad touts the greatest sale of any cough or lung medicine in the world with Joe K Smock drug store samples price 50 cents and 1 00 Trial bottle free It also promotes Fidllister s Rocky Mountain Tea claimed to go to the seat of disease and cure after other options fail at 35 cents Joe K Smock
Canton is hailed as the Paris of the Far East and the fashion center of a lilies and tea country. The aristocratic Celestials worldwide watch southern China for an annual decree issued by a capricious authority.
A nostalgic piece extols the bank book as more absorbing than fiction. It argues ownership gives continual interest in the steady flow of wages, praising the durable, numbers filled pages as a compelling personal ledger.
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