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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
1
A Sunman column reports on visits and travels of residents including Mabis and Connelly families, with notes on drought affecting crops and wells. The piece questions Prohibition Party efforts as women urged Republican husbands to vote their ticket, while skeptically doubting broader adoption.
Pipe Creek residents Chris Holwadel of Sunman and Ollie Holwadel of St. Paul called on Jacob and Lizzie Abplanalp Thursday. Mrs. Mary Weaver and daughter Amy of Lawrenceburg visited Fred Abplanalp and family from Saturday evening to Monday. Edenia Baas went to Cincinnati for the winter. Sunday visitors for Mrs. Abplanalp's birthday included Mrs. Weaver, Amy, Mrs. Baas of Penntown, Fred Heitzman and wife of Batesville, and Jacob and Lizzie Abplanalp. Our shredder company held a meeting at Lewis Zimmers Saturday night. Jacob and Lizzie Abplanalp were in Sunman Friday afternoon.
Walter H Fitch and C M Osborn traveled to Lawrenceburg Sunday. Walter H Osborn wife and babe Niel Osborn wife and George Osborn spent Sunday with C M Osborn. Ralph Croxton and Ed Thomas Clifford and Alice Schomber visited Schomber's. They toured St Marys and Napoleon Sunday. Niel Osborn and wife, visiting his father George W Osborn, left for California. Conner Hutson was a caller at Batesville Wednesday. C M Osborn and wife and Eddie Thomas spent Thursday evening at Hutson's.
Mrs James Brown of Clark Mills New York credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with quick relief during a severe lung cold. The note says many others have also been pleased by the remedy's prompt relief.
A note on the origin of the word magnet stating it comes from Magnesta in Agia Minor where roadstone properties were said to be diaenveret. The account links ancient place name to magnetic attraction and folklore.
Local residents share visits and calls across Batesville Sunman Sunman area with multiple families hosting relatives and friends. Notable names include Meyer Bartling Stahley Airplanalp and Ford families visiting in Dover Lawrenceburg Cincinnati Indianapolis and St Nicholas during the past week.
Local families and visitors frequent Adams Church area with visits to Sunman Batesville and Indianapolis. The article lists multiple households stopping by, birthday party attendees include Florence Timke and several Drees Wissel Heeseman Prakel names, and notes no services at Adams Church next Sunday.
Farmers report finishing corn and sowing wheat and rye on R R 4. Lydia Schrader, Albert Schrader’s daughter, is gravely ill with typhoid pneumonia, attended by Dr. Gibson of Batesville. Relatives visit, help with chores, and plan upcoming travel to Rossville, Kansas to work.
The passage uses a metaphor about carrying water on both shoulders causing defeat and a drowned rat appearance. It suggests fatigue and overwhelm in attempting a difficult task. No specific persons or events are named.
Capt. Bilidie Rickenbacker, famed American ace of aces, argues that soldiers signal a pledge to fight only if the League of Nations is kept and interpreted cautiously. The article begins a four part series on why soldiers oppose the League, reflecting frontline wartime sentiments from France.
Capta in Eddie Rickenbacker argues that for a soldier the League of Nations means a contract to fight and to keep a promise to enter war when allies call. He contrasts legal debates with the soldier's view of obligation and duty.
The piece argues that article 10 of the league covenant compels the United States to defend external aggression against any member. It portrays soldiers viewing the pledge as a contract to fight abroad, even for nations with self interests, leading many veterans to oppose joining the league and its obligations.
The queen of Rog land, Elizabeth, favored fine gloves and gave eight gifts to friends. She enjoyed receiving gloves in return and valued this custom as a mark of favor and friendship.
County agents mail dairy survey to farmers across Ripley County and southeastern Indiana to map dairy activity, cattle breeds, and use of pure bred sires. Purdue University and Farmers Federation will analyze results to guide future actions and promote pure breeding and Cow Testing membership.
The annual mass meeting of the Federation of Farmers of Ripley County will be held at the Court House in Versailles on Saturday October 30 1920. All members are invited to attend to learn what the organization is doing for farmers. A speaker will address the meeting. The gathering starts at 10 00 a m. W S Gookins Secretary.
Beginning at 1 o clock on Saturday October 30 the sale at the farm 214 miles west of Lookout offers household goods canned fruit an automobile farm tools and many other articles Louis Jobst J J Westrick auctioneer
A fragmentary note recalls Cardinal Wolsey’s dust said to lie among the ruins of Leicester Abbey, now presented by the Earl of Dysart to the city, while the exact grave site remains unknown.
There is more catarrh in this section than all other diseases combined and for years it was deemed incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co. is a constitutional remedy taken internally to affect the blood and mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any case it fails to cure with circulars and testimonials available. Hall's Family Pills for constipation are also advertised.
The editorial notes that no newspaper can succeed without advertising and appeals to readers to support the paper by placing advertisements, enabling continued publication.
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