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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
6
State auditors found errors accusing Fred Killin former Bolivar township trustee of illegal payments. He later received 58 dollars of a 100 dollar repayment from a 5 000 dollar suit settlement in Benton county court Fowler after a prior compromise.
Daniel Martin farm near Sheridan harvested 3000 bushels of corn from a 32 acre plot. A. L. Hiatt and son managed the crop on Yellow Gleaming seed corn. Planted May 3, the field yielded about 100 bushels per acre on rich black ground, with six plowings.
The Benton Review urges attention to Charles Shipps of Oxford for a diplomatic post in Sweden. Shipps, a loyal Democrat, aims to serve his birth country and improve the service, while stating he only wishes peace in Oxford and to earn a living as before. Oxford Gazette notes no other applications have been made for him.
The business system is a home rule, non partisan plan to remove party influence from city rule. A five member board of administration, headed by the mayor, governs with commissioners from the council. recall, referendum, and initiative give the people direct power. No city is forced to adopt it. voter approval by ballot is required.
Dr. Henry A. Buchtel of Denver gives University of Denver students Riley’s first poem inspired at his friend Hamilton J. Dunbar’s funeral in Greenfield. Riley, then 23, was a sign painter. the piece praises Dunbar and is not included in his books.
The First Methodist church of South Bend launches a temperance movement aimed at nation wide scope. It calls pledges to write to Woodrow Wilson before his inauguration urging support for the Kenyon Sheppard bill to stop liquor shipments from wet to dry states. The effort seeks Wilson’s backing for legislation that has cleared committee but awaits passage and signing.
Unclear OCR fragment lists multiple names and an address line for the Attica post office. Names include Omer Ash er, Sarah E. Bates, Frank Brown, Anty Charters, J. M. Davis, L. A. Misner, Charley McKinsey, Cleo Porter, and Grace Vansickle with incomplete details.
A Warren County farmer argues that price increases for farm products reflect supply and demand rather than Taft policy. He cites gold output, metallurgy, cattle scarcity, hog cholera, and reduced hog slaughter to question presidential credit for rising prices. He questions Taft’s role in market dynamics.
Congressman Martin A. Morrison, visiting Indianapolis, says he will ignore post office appointment matters in his district until he receives official notification from the Post Office Department about a vacancy and a request for recommendations. He is recently discharged from a hospital after knee surgery.
A new method uses common nettle fibers as a cotton substitute. Dried nettle stems are boiled in dilute soda lye to loosen fibers, then brushed free of woody material. Repeated boilings in lye and washings yield a gum-free yellowish mass that can be bleached, combed, and spun into yarn.
Readers following the Bedford circuit court murder case learn Ada Maud Ping was married to the husband she allegedly killed, tying the defendant to the victim through a spousal link.
A persuasive pitch promises proper shoeing to stop interference and forging by a horse. The speaker claims Missouri residents can see how it is done and seeks an opportunity to demonstrate.
On Sept 20 1911 in Covington a woman testified a Fountain County residence claim in a perjured statement. The marriage was officiated by Mayor McGeorge in the clerk's office. After a quarrel in April she fatally wounded her husband. mental strain from past indignities surfaced. She was acquitted last Saturday and the verdict found favor in Bedford.
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