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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1920
Page
8
Fragmentary text mentions Governor Cox at a state fair awarding prize for best bull and criticizes The Daily Times. A column advertises a fruit tree agent injury. The rest quotes poets and philosophers with political jabber about socialism and Ford, ending with weatherish lines about winter and Seemore.
A jagged OCR style collage riffs on figures like Cox and Gore, mentions Me Ne and Caney-Wilson, hints at amendments and social shifts, and wanders through humorous, nameless anecdotes about public life, with stray references to cuisine, theater, and everyday manners.
A southern Indiana burg grew from a 1910 population of 871 to 1920 with no change in residents. A newspaper man notes the town’s census story, recalling local growers and oddities like paw paw and a curious refrain about “the cause assigned.”
A newspaper man visiting the town learned that the population had not changed in ten years. He was told no deaths occurred in that period and every birth was balanced by a departing resident, keeping the town’s headcount constant.
Mr and Mrs M H Dix recount a family trip August to September visiting Chicago Toledo and Akron with their children. They describe attractions from Lake Michigan parks Hulf House University at Evanston Fort Sheridan Great Lakes Training Station and Canton monuments to farm country near Toledo and Lake Erie shores, noting veterans and wartime reflections.
Harry Porter an actor and entertainer died at his Indianapolis home on Friday. He was well known in the city for his Elks lodge appearances and headlined the Mikado at the opening of the Coliseum Theatre. Porter acted on stage for years before moving to newspaper work and, in recent times, directed amateur theatricals and performed at various special events.
Rev. John McD. Horne, recently stepping down as pastor of the Christian church, preached his final sermons this Sunday morning and evening. He and Mrs. Horne left Monday for Baltimore, Maryland, where he will soon lead a church as pastor.
Local notes list Sullivan County residents at the Indianapolis National G A R encampment. Visitors include Col. Bob Knotts, John T. Watson, Capt. Tom Allen, and many veterans and their families. Other items mention regimental reunions, trips to Terre Haute and Kentucky, and a Cutsinger family 65th anniversary gathering.
Guests collected at the new bungalow of Walter Strawn and family for an old fashioned house warming on Sugar Grove Farm. The evening featured watermelons music games and dancing with many neighbors and relatives present including Eldo Rockenfield Clara Allen J C Brown Homer Halberstadt Frank Bolenbaugh Wm Self Clem Hogesty and others.
A want ad announces one cent per word per insertion targeting Sullivan county farmers. It offers motor truck hauling by J. E. Burroughs & Sons with contact numbers 180 and 38 at 11 West Wall Street. Also sells a galvanized 772 gallon tank 16 by 4 by 2 feet from Turman & Riggs.
Notice states the signer will not be responsible for debts of others and warns against accepting papers claiming to bear her signature. Signature attributed to Mrs Helen Hughes.
Notice advertises auto tops side curtains and storm fronts repairs. It lists harness line items including auto robes and horse blankets. It implies readiness for winter service.
A letter from W Noles at the Hotel Roosevelt in Indianapolis invites “honest men” to join a new plan to raise capital and share in a promised fortune with no experience or risk, asking for references and capital in the first letter for screening and future opportunities.
Heating stoves offered for cash at Brett 218 E Harris St. An estray buck sheep, 200 pounds, blind in one eye, from Bill Thornberry farm. contact Claude Campbell R R A Sullivan Indiana Graysville. Private sale of household goods at 415 West Johnson Street including bed set, chairs, carpets, books, dictionary, dressers, pictures, and Remington typewriter. Wheat for sale Blue Stem at 2.50 per bushel by Ancil Woodard R R 1 Fairbanks Ind. Peculiar amusements note Francis Bacon 1200 costume drawings and street promenade with grotesque attire.
Lee and Fred Bays, who have been in Texas sometime looking after all interests, are expected home tonight.
A steeple jack recounts a near fall while repairing a clock. He slipped and dangled from the clock hand as townsfolk gathered below, calling residents to return home for supper while he suspended mid fall.
Fragmentary notes recount Massachusetts as an early iron industry seat in colonial America, mentioning a blast furnace at Lyne in 1048 and Pennsylvania rising as a producing state, with references to supremacy for upward tools.
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