Gas Shortage Forces Indianapolis Servants Homeward
A citywide shift from natural gas to firewood and coal for cooking has emptied many rental houses in Indianapolis. Landlords struggle to recruit servant girls willing to work without gas, while tenants abandon gasless homes and consider selling or renting out properties. Rental agents report rising flat rents and strong demand for gasless accommodations as households cope with the shortage.
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Indianapolis
Central Avenue
What's become of nicknames in the old school days
A man on the corner laments the decline of nicknames since thirty years ago. He recalls boys named Bill Bob Nat Den Sol Dick Jim Steve Tim and girls Molly Sally Nell Em Gert Mag Becky Fan now replaced by formal forms William Robert James Richard Mayme Lars Cornelia Margaret and other long names. He notes old playful terms like Toot Jink Pes Polly Coot Babe Pinky Popay Sugar Dot Luce Rene Bee and similar diminutives fading from daily talk.
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Bill
Bob
Nat
Den
Sol
Jim
Steve
Tim
William
Robert
James
Richard
Molly
Sally
Nell
Gert
Mag
Becky
Mayme
Lars
Cornelia
Margaret
Toot
Jink
Pes
Polly
Coot
Babe
Pinky
Popay
Sugar
Dot
Luce
Rene
Bee
Civic Improvement a Failure by the Suburban Club
A gossipy suburb recounts a summer row over Booster Bros. advertising signs on a vacant lot. The Beacon Lights literary club threatens boycott while husbands and advertisers influence action. the bachelor club president vows civic plans without male meddling.
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Beacon Lights
Boosters Bros
Bobbs
Booster Bros
Boster Bros
Gibbs
A Stutterers Joke from a New York Dinner
A Philadelphia Inquirer item recounts a New York gentleman famed for wit who dines with a friend on Staten Island. A college student at table mocks with a quip about the dish calf s brains provoking the stutterer to respond with a lisping joke.
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New York
Staten Island
Country Life and the Pull Between City and Farm Life
The piece contrasts rural longing with urban ambition across generations. It notes how youth crave city wealth yet aging minds seek stable land and nature, while mothers’ guidance shifts from strict to permissive as daughters grow. It ends with a reference to William Wallace Whitelock in National Magazine.
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America
Mother Earth
Margaret
Jean
Jane
William Wallace Whitelock
National Maga
Massacre at Fall Creek Leads to Pendleton Executions
A Seneca hunting party on Fall Creek near Anderson, Indiana, is ambushed by five white men. Ludlow and Mingo are killed, two squaws and two children slain, and the camp looted. The attackers are captured and tried in Pendleton. Hudson, Sawyer, Bridges, and a son of Bridge face murder charges. Trials end with first degree verdicts and death sentences, two men hanged, others to be executed.
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Fall Creek
Anderson
Ind
Madison
Pendleton
Falls
Indianapolis
Ludlow
Stephen Ludlow
Lawrenceburg
Mingo
Harper
Sawyer
Hudson
Bridge
Ohio
John Jjohnson
Piqua
War Department
Washington, D. C
Johnson
William Conner
James Noble
United States
Secretary of War
Daniel Boone
Simon Kenton
Blue Licks
Bryan
Braddock
St. Clair
Bridges
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Pat
Eamew Yark
Butterick
Indiana
Sorosis
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Sasekene
Polk
Wilbur
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Rockhaven
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Barry
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Hartford
Lilly & Stalnaker
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