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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
2
William F. Oliver of Franklin, recently elected on the Republican ticket, assumed the state auditor’s duties in Indianapolis last Wednesday December 1 as the first state officer to take possession and begin work.
The Geneva assembly shows the league’s influence while Harding returns home to form a cabinet. Republicans plan to cut 250000 federal jobs, arguing many are unnecessary. Senate should reject Wilson era appointments as incompetent and extravagant. Vows to respect Congress and executive power, seeking harmony between branches.
The Sixty-sixth Congress opens its last session and aims to run until March 4, 1921 with many bills and resolutions ready. Administration estimates total 4.65 billion dollars for annual appropriations, a figure likely to be trimmed from the previous billion-dollar, wartime echo.
A Chicago American note tells how a young man started life independently by securing a good job. After one week of pay his father sent a bill covering his entire life expenses, including birth costs and the attending physician, with compound interest. The son begins repaying, though the sum could buy a comfortable home.
A young man measured sap ascent by tying a bladder to a cut vine. Within two hours the bladder expanded greatly and after three hours it burst with a plop, showing the force that drives sap upward in trees.
The text notes Sunday as Empress Eugenie's feared day. It cites September 4, 1870, the mob attack on the Tuileries, the prince imperial's death, and Eugenie's own death all occurring on Sundays, framing Sundays as ominous in her life.
Elsa Worth wins the grand prize auto at Brookton street fair raising the orphanage fund through a dollar ticket purchase. She accepts a garage lesson from Adrian Bristol and eventually agrees to marry him after her family struggles and contemplates selling the car to repay debts.
A humorous exchange finds Flubdub praised as a convincing talker. The boss asks him to return home and explain to his wife that they were detained at the office for the evening.
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