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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1920
Page
8
Numerous short items report shop sales and ads, travel notes, family visits, and community happenings. Residents like Chas Dentley and Mrs. Welshaar travel, purchases include broom sales and a fireless cooker, while local firms reference salesmen, lumber, and insurance. Community figures attend events, visit relatives, or plan hospital projects and camp improvements.
Community gossip mentions visits from Howard Myers and Mrs Windsor in Morris, Bert Case from St Cloud calling at Chapin, and Dick Clarke visiting family in Lafayette. Norma Talmdage in The Woman Gives at Temple Theatre Friday. Town social life includes dinners, relatives visiting, and a note on diamond omens and a dining event.
About a week remains in the period for reinstating war risk insurance. Men whose policies lapsed since discharge have eighteen months to reinstate. The War Risk Bureau extended eligibility to July 1, 1920 for those discharged over eighteen months. Payments may be split into two, with a grace month and current month, and require a health statement. Red Cross and Home Service offices assist.
The passage traces nicknames for national groups such as Taffy for Welsh, Davy for David, Sawney for Alexander, Pat for Patrick, and John for English. It notes Lach as a designation of race or nationality and compares Brother Jonathan to Uncle Sam in American usage.
A reader reports that gum tragacanth used between two glass sheets with a sheet of paper, dried for a week, causes no staining. The method could yield paper weights and glass items with calendars embedded. The gum appears stained while wet but vanishes upon drying, per Scientific American.
The first lifeboat ever made, built in 1802 to save lives at sea, remains in existence in Yorkshire. A poor shipwright designed it. Parliament awarded him 2000 dollars in recognition of his skill and labor.
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