30 Aug 1923
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1923
Page
1
Local items report changes in residents, church services, and travels. Miss Pauline Rowe began a clerkship at Morris grocery while families and friends travel to see relatives, attend fairs, or visit in nearby towns. Weather, traffic, and safety concerns, plus a Dublin fair and the Tyner family reunion, anchor a string of community happenings.
The Kellam reunion is set for Sunday in Noblesville with Frank Miller and family of Joliet visiting relatives. Hoosier Hustlers plan a penny supper. Christian church’s board and building committee meet at 2:30. Numerous local residents and guests attend family visits and a Washington township union picnic with basket dinner today.
Ger mantown residents share health recoveries visits and movements. John Kaiser Jr recovers from fever. Miss Ethel Stant and Miss Louise Gipe visit friends. families travel to Sturgis Reed City Indianapolis and Wheeling. The funeral of Frank L. Dalby, a local former service member, is noted in Richmond.
Jacksonburg notes residents visiting friends and relatives across Indiana Ohio and Illinois plus a retirement trip to Canada. The feature recalls Stephen Foster the composer of My Old Kentucky Home and other songs with biographical details about his life and family.
Mrs Thos Butler is convalescing. Mr and Mrs Quincey Bryant are the parents of a baby girl. Mrs Milton Grillin and son were at Madison. Miss Elizabeth Cox of Anison visits Miss Dorothy Walton. Robert Booson and Dorothy Walton to attend Earlham college. M E church will serve meals during fall for Huffman building. Walter Fagan and family of Don Deragille spent Sunday here. Rev Victor Stoner visits her parents in Dublin. Mrs Harry Parker entertained Sunday school class. Herbst Heirs sold property to Rev Sokweto northeast of town. Vera Byba to teach at Bentonville and Ethel Stout near Munnole. Mr and Mrs Orio Lluddleeton visited Rev Leroy Huddleston at Markleville. Frank Hoffman and Carol Ogborn family spent Sunday in Queen City. Mrs Charles Hill of Orlando to visit nephew. Frank Walton, Rev Reuworthy and wives' families spent Sunday with them. Mrs Edward Huddleston will remain in Richmond and host Earlham students. Thirty-five bankers at M E church meeting. supper by Mother's Club. Dr Mokkee reported Riley Memorial Hospital donation from Dublin area at 450 dollars. Mr and Mrs Henry Myere hosted Sunday guests including Eben and Edith Lawson and Barbara Lawson. H L Wolfla dies August 23 1923. services held by Rev A Turner. body moved to Indianapolis for burial in Crown Hill.
In Hoschmann a bequest awards prizes to men who wed the ugliest, the most crippled, and women over forty who have been twice jilted. The ugliest woman gains a $90 dowry, the most crippled $60, and the over forty $50. Trustees may raise amounts if a husband marries an unusually ugly wife.
A Nevada woman’s club staged a vaudeville show at the University of Time. One entertainer left early and, seeking safe return, rode with a prison officer and a convict as chauffeur. The convict offered to drive. she later tried to exit, while he proclaimed he had five gallons of gas and fourteen years.
Excavations at the Rulne of Old Convent on St Alargaret Island near Budapest uncover a Fourteenth century Dominican convent ruins a central flower garden and a fountain with four bull heads plans to restore. Nearby remains of a Premonstratensian church are traced before the 1241 Tartars invasion. Restoration efforts are planned.
Trustees of the British Museum acquire one engraved portrait by William Rogers titled Rosa Electa. Previously only an impression from Sunderland and Bodleian Library existed. A second portrait, from the Last Library at Stafford, joins the collection along with three Queen Susadeth portraits by Regersa.
A Maine landmark near Weterville and Augusts sits the Getchell homestead built over 153 years ago after a 1775 Kennebec expedition where gold was lost and later salvaged. The square house with an L wing features hand fashioned doors, ancient furnishings, and a walnut four poster bed over 200 years old.
An editorial argues that elements may be compounds of simpler substances and traces this to radium research. It cites nebulae as simpler origins and stars as progressively complex, suggesting elements evolved from a less complex precursor and showing growth through radioactivity and decay.
A national commission led by George Washington laid out the District of Columbia as the capital site. Washington opposed the naming, calling it the Federal City. The Washington plan features diagonal avenues cutting a grid, creating numerous circular parks and multiple routes to the Capitol and key buildings.
Leather pieces not badly marred respond to almond oil on fine cloths while portraits may be wiped with a damp cloth followed by almond oil. For gilt frames a dry brush and soft cloth are safest. a traditional remedy uses flour of sulfur with water and onions to renew badly worn frames.
A Blackburn vicar criticizes a Good Friday football match with Glasgow arguing the day should stay devout. The piece notes European customs and past English processions, including war era united Protestant processions led by London's bishop with Salvation Army involvement at London Mall.
A brief excerpt attributes to Holland a maxim that work should serve man, not the reverse. It argues work is the servant of the worker and the world, warning against the universal perversion of reversing this relation.
A short quotation laments a decay of virtue in a nation, noting a lack of real interest in the country’s welfare. The aphorism cites the need for citizens to pursue the common good to sustain national integrity.
A brief editorial urging public servants in Avenue, O to never reveal emotion when seeking a thorough investigation. The piece stresses measured conduct and steadfast pursuit of due process in state matters.
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