29 Apr 1920
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
1
The Tri State Butter Co. urges buyers to act as agents, promising to pay freight and guarantee cream and cane in transit. It notes American butter faces cheaper foreign competition and stresses securing revenue as feed prices stay high.
Mr and Mrs Frank Florea returned from Florida to their home this week. Olin Ferguson and Ralph Marson visited from Purdue for the weekend, returning Sunday afternoon by auto. Willard Petro remains to move to Church Street on May 16. The Jackson Township Farmers Federation holds its second quarterly meeting May 4 at 8 p m in the Carmbridge City news hall with Chas Patterson of Indianapolis as speaker and County agent Murphy in attendance. G Dunbar, 71, prominent Centerville businessman, died Saturday after a pneumonia-linked decline. his wife died the prior Monday. He left three children O K Dunbar Walter Dunbar and Mrs Donald Lantz and two brothers and a sister. Burial Tuesday morning at home.
A Detroit News note discusses critics who claim Boston’s December 16 1773 tea party was really a beer party. Defenders rebut by noting John Duggan the saloon keeper was not in America then and the claim collapses on that point.
The article surveys Grand Street from Third to Clinton, describing a mosaic of vendors from many nations. It notes how faces reveal ancestral roots from Tartar to Hungarian to Wallachian, with Teutonic traces and a Moroc can prince selling wares. Language blends into a unique pidgin English forged by centuries of travel.
A quotation compares forging metals and forming character through heat and repeated hammering. It argues that varied life experiences fuse traits like habits reasoning imagination memory faith and loves into a person, with hammering shaping strength and temper.
A New Jersey pastor, famed for odd methods, faced noisy choir boys during a Christmas sermon. When shells crackled, he paused and sternly urged them to stop crunching peanuts in church, then returned to his sermon.
The Maine law began in 1851 to ban drinking houses and tippling shops, signed June 2 and first enforced July 4 in Bangor. It was reenacted in two parts in 1868, strengthened in 1867 and 1870, extended to cider and wine from state grapes in 1872, and an 1884 amendment prohibited intoxicating liquors statewide. The term Maine law then referred to any state prohibition effort.
It is noted that farmers buy new cars, yet many farmers keep aging vehicles. The main fate of used cars lies in repair and resale to makers or parts divisions. Small tradesmen repurpose them for commerce while major buyers disassemble vehicles for reusable parts, reducing new parts production needs.
In a winter conversation a Southern planter laments many antebellum mansions falling into ruins. He notes the South claimed progress but calls the homes long on rock and short on comfort, illustrating social and economic change.
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