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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1922
Page
4
An Iowa era critique tracing Indiana's education woes to outdated buildings, low teacher salaries, and misallocated funds. It cites Rockefeller Foundation involvement, a statewide survey of 31,000 students, and argues state universities contribute to the debt and decline, urging accountability and resignation.
A petition by the Parent Teachers Association of Flackville public school calls for women teachers who do not smoke or wear immodest dresses and who will join the association. Rev. George L. Dech reports 82 signatures and says the matter has long brewed. He sought a vote and county commissioners agreed to send it forward. He cites male teachers who smoke and female teachers dancing as moral concerns.
Mrs John Plumer and Mrs Luther Bault spent Thursday in Morocco. Clint Hawkins and family visited Join Lewis and family. Jean Myer, son of Bert and Mrs Myer, was ill. Mr and Mrs Herman Brandt called on Mrs Bert Bell as Brandt met her mother Mrs West visiting. Alvin Corbin and family called on Gnele Henry Corbin. Everett Wilson returned home ill but improving. Joan Hedrick and daughter Ethel were Kentland visitors. Wil Gentry prepared to use. New barn construction project underway.
A serialized mountain tale centers on mothers and mountain men and a boy’s leap to manhood in life’s greatest test. Tickets 10c for children 30c for adults. Shows at 7 30 and 8 45 P M.
The parish announces Edward Stair leading morning and evening services with classes and gatherings throughout the day. Also listed are Bible School at 9 30 and worship times at the Church of Christ along with invitations to attend. Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of Newton presents leaders and directors for Kentland Goodland and nearby towns. Real News phone listed for visitors and guests.
C Comls Jacob A Keibler and Harry Dillard of Bloomington and Noble F Sallers of West Clinton were sentenced to eighteen months each in the Atlanta penitentiary after pleading guilty to indictments charging theft of twelve pairs of shoes from an interstate shipment. A fifth man William W Burns is being sought in connection with the robbery. They worked for the Monon railroad and were in charge of a freight train to New Orleans when they stopped near Salem, broke into a box car, and divided the shoes.
Advance Petroleum Company of Texas plans multiple wells near Gifford after leasing thousands of acres and securing bank deposits. Local lawyer and Republican sheriff candidate Henry Rouse will drill the first well, with geologists already evaluating county prospects and other investors securing leases in northern parts for notable oil activity this year.
Irene Menges of Bucyrus Ohio, age twenty, was released after six years in a shed on her father’s farm. Authorities say the confinement was imposed by her unbalanced father and occurred with a lantern providing heat and scant clothing.
An advertising page extols Glando Pine as a universal cough medicine that relieves throat irritation, stops coughs, opens airways, and fights germs early in colds. It claims safety for children, a concentrated formula, and a mix-in-syrup method. The page also mentions distributors and unrelated items.
Alice Merchant administratrix of the George A Merchant estate filed her Final Report on April 26 1922 in Newton Circuit Court Kentland Indiana. The court will hear the report May 15 1922. creditors heirs and devisees are urged to appear and show cause why the report should not be approved and the administratrix discharged. Heirs must appear and prove heirship. Witness Chas E B Hosier Clerk.
Real estate transfers show multiple residents conveying lots and farms in Morocco and Jefferson areas between April 1922 and May 1922 with small sums and one large payment. Bloomington notes detail Indiana University zoology exhibit items, including a vast insect collection and professor Alfred C. Kinsey's private gall wasp collection of about 300,000 specimens.
An assortment of notes touches on optimism and self-reliance as lifelines. It includes a Scots tone about breath dust content and a curious 13th century Irish farthing, then reports a juvenile court case in Tampa ordering three boys to buy pocket knives for their home, and mentions diatoms and diatomaceous earth with industrial uses.
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