Suburban Social News Bridgeport Visit Notes
Misses Mary and Della Ford and many others are visiting friends in Indianapolis. Numerous callers from Greencastle Martinsville and Danville drop by, with social visits and dinners forming the week’s pattern. Local residents attend teas, dances, and family gatherings, posting a busy social calendar across Irvington and surrounding towns.
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Bridgeport
Mary
Della Ford
Indianapolis
Georgie Hauck
John Ridner
Nora
Katie Long
Mount Jackson
Carl Brown
Greencastle
Frederick Roberts
Bert Weir
Jamestown
Charles
Albert McLaughlin
Martinsville
Henry Foltz
Sabine
Edgar Stout
Mary Morris
Samuel Jackson
Anderson
Charley
Nora Casserly
Charles Reynolds
Brownsburg
Charles Deltz
James Norris
Harvey Johnson
Dan
Oscar Okey
Indianapoee
Alta McLain
Danville
Simon Powers
Irvin Groves
Henry
Covington
Mise Aene
el Bery Davis
Oscar Overtrue
Daugh Heren
Plainfield
Martin Sanders
Green 3
William
James Gambel
Terre Haute
Michael Dugan
Daugh Katie
Henry ‘Ernel
Olinville
Ida Powner
Lilly Ferree
Georgie Gladden
Walter Sheets
Jes
Toledo
Joseph Parker
Irwin Kent
Muncie
Arthur Johnson
Anna Dugan
Viola
Katherine Waene
Rosa Kincaid
Charles Watkins
Samuel Henley
Villis
Russell
Sarah Ris
Oscar Overman
Lebanon
Katherine Dungan
Estella
Ida Omely
Rosa
Katie Gladden
Mary Woollen
Etta Stout
Nora Powers
Anna
Clara Hadley
Pearl
Vestal Davis
Jess Richardson
Haughville
Mildred Harding
Mary Anderson
Cincinnati
Barbara Newmarket
Kate Montgomery
Lulu Craig
Betsey Brown
West Indianapolis
Elizabeth Meyers
Local residents visit relatives across several towns
A string of visits and returns unfolds as residents travel to and from Indianapolis, Sheridan, Manilla, Crawfordsville, Zionville, Lebanon, Thorntown, Rensselaer, Greensburg, Richmond, Clayton, Marco, Lake Maxinkuckee, Illinois, Vincennes, Terre Haute, Knightville, Brazil, New Castle, Milton, Hamilton, and Pensacola. Names include Valena Hiatt, Pearl Taylor, Nellie Lowden, Dell Dreyer, Florence Saunders, Celine Neptune, Helen Neptune, Beulah Wise, R. H. Nixon, Burnett Nixon, C. Claude Davis, Alex Lee, Mabel Benson, Pearl Blue, Jennie Wiles, J. H. Crull, H. L. Scotten, J. W. McGrew, Harley Drake, Mae Heacox, Clarence Huffman, Cora Huffman, Margaret Johnson, E. Johnson, Grover Jones, Owen Quigley, Mary Baker, Homer Neuman, Louella Neuman, E W Kerr, Arthur Case, and others.
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Shall
Carl Henshaw
Edinburo
Valena Hiatt
Sheridan
Ray M. Ross
Pearl Taylor
Manilla
Nellie Lowden
William Rinehart
Crawfordsville
Sarah Smith
Dell Dreyer
Zionzville
Florence Saunders
Lebanon
B. F. Hollingsworth
Celine
Helen Neptune
Thorntown
Helen
Beulah Wise
R. H. Nixon
Burnett Nixon
Newport
C. Claude Davis
Alex. Lee
Marco
Mabel Benson
Lake Maxinkuckee
Bornkamp
Illinois
Pearl Blue
Renssalaer
Ind
Jennie Wiles
Greensburg
McMunn
J. H. Crull
Richmond
H. L. Scotten
Clayton
Eden
Chicago
W. C. Ela
J. M. McCready
Arthur
New Castle
J. W. McGrew
Harley Drake
Terre Haute
P. Jacobs
James
Vincennes
George Leachman
Mae Heacox
Knightaville
A. H. Holliday
Clarence Huffman
Cora
Oakville
William Johnson
Margaret Johnson
E. Johnson
Grover Jones
Brazil
Owen Quigley
Mary Baker
Milton
Homer Neuman
Louella
Hamilton, O
John Baker
H. Wilson
Muncie
E. W. Kerr
Margaret
Pensacola
Fla
Arthur Case
Nordyke Avenue
Washington Star Scene Fragments From a Day in Georgetown
A family in a sitting room pores over a rambling paper filled with obituaries notices about Mr Longdays and Mrs Brownson, marriage rumors, sales ads for fabrics and hats, sports gossip, and international headlines. The mumble of topics includes sugar tariff talk, canal debates, a New York rowing tragedy, and the American Derby favorite.
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Washington Star
Mamma
Evening Paper
Papa
Rickashaw
Pickapenny
Merion
Hugh
New York
Heno
Chicago
Mr. Goquick
Bright
Hawaii
Panama
Edward
London
Patent Office
When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates
A poem fragment of Richard Lovelace praising free love and spiritual liberty. The speaker contrasts earthly constraints with inner freedom, invoking verse on liberty, virtue, and divine favor.
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Althea
The Wrong Path
A convict explains to a parson that changing direction would have prevented his current fate, joking that choosing the right path would have led him to Canada.
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Canada
Modern Fables by George Ade Parlor Blacksmith Tale
A brief note introduces George Ade's Modern Fables. The parlor blacksmith story centers on a craftsman unable to fix a plate, illustrating a satirical clash between domestic polish and practical skill. Copyright 1902 by Robert Howard Russell.
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George Ade
Robert Howard Russell
Philo the Shell-Fish and the System of Love
A humorous portrait of Philo a hapless romantic who schemes to win women using social playbook tactics. He follows two outdated love books and fails, realizing the futility of contrived games. The tale ends with a moral: never play a system.
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Philo
Dora
Father
Odd Facts From Around The World And Nation
A collection of brief notes reports diverse curiosities including Massachusetts physicians numbering about 4.50 per 65 inhabitants Edinburgh to post notice boards against spitting Salvation Army claims no divorces in 35 years coal production last year enough for 3.5 tons per person Johns Hopkins endowment funds granite origin woman’s rights in Abyssinia coffee introduction date albino quails rare male majority in 41 states and territories California leading in male excess with Minnesota and Texas following.
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Massachusetts
Edinburgh
Scotland
Salvation Army
United States
Johns Hopkins University
Abyssinia
Europe
John Sobieski
Vienna
Charles Payne
Wichita
Kan
Zoological Garden of Stars
Oklahoma
Atlantic Seaboard
California
Minnesota
Texas
Global curiosities and notes from distant lands
A digest of varied facts: a Romanian peasant woman aged 131 who survived on milk, a Japanese tree avenue from Namanda to Nikko, a looming trial in Kieff for mass arrests, Brussels' pay for riot damages, a Manila furniture venture then Hong Kong factory plans, a Fort Donelson relic, and Texas adoption of Egyptian cotton promising South growth with longer fiber and easy ginning.
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Roumania
Japan
Namanda
Nikko
Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung
Kieff
Russia
Brussels
New York
Manila
Hong Kong
Fort Donelson
Tennessee
Grant
Colorado
Capitol
Texas
South
United States
Sea Island
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