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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1901
Page
5
A sale notice lists machinery stock including binders, mowets, hay rakes, hay tedder 6, disc harrows, t peg tooth harrows and binder twine from H Osborne & Co. The abbreviated fragment indicates liquidation or inventory action with agricultural implements.
Readable lines show a flurry of visits and business in the city with residents and visitors from Evansville Vincennes Shoals Plainville Plainville and other towns. Names include Fred R. Puter James Fox Elise Eppert and many others traveling for commerce and social calls.
A string of visitors and locals are listed as being in the city today on business or visiting friends. Names include John Downey Vincennes E J Lingo Petersburg Al Ritter Evansville Reed Haas Evansville George W Nelson Vincennes J C Scheikamp Evansville E B Meier Evansville W C Hollaclaw Indianapolis Mrs Albert Whesler Vincennes Editor Thomas Adams Vincennes E W Determan Ed Wagner Vincennes Hugh O Donnell Wheeling W V W A and D B Ford Hydaville Eugene King E Fleming Petersburg Mrs Reister Washington Mrs John Wandersmith Linton Call Mrs John Neal and Donald Greencastle BF Cavanaugh and sister from Washington Seymour Republican.
Prof C B Millard, noted artist and musician, assists the church pastor in evangelistic meetings starting March 17. He uses the Stereopticon to illustrate his solos, combining voice and picture to interpret songs with a pleasing effect.
Fragmented local notes recall residents and travels from Jasper to Loogootee. Mentions include Alfordsville figures, health updates, church plans, road concerns, and a reference to Monretree events amid a broader scramble of tastes and ailments.
The 6 foot alligator captured by Sara Hernhardt in New Orleans will be fattened for the Louisiana purchase celebration. Mr Sanles Gordon Bennett traded his yacht Namouna for one named Lysistrata. Bennett is said to lack patriotism for not using American names.
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