05 Jul 1928
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1928
Page
1
A brief catalog fragment notes the title The Double Cross with copyright details from Dodd, Mead and Company and a service imprint.
Jim Stanley and Rollin Waterman both seek Doris Colby as Nina Morgan, Waterman’s secretary and mistress, overhears their plan to win her. A coin toss decides who will propose first while Nina schemes to expose Waterman’s intentions. Doris grapples with choosing between the two suitors.
Nina Morgan confronts Doris Colby at Colby House claiming to reveal a life wrecked by Jim Stanley and seeking secrecy. Doris agrees to hear the tale under oath, then Nina exposes her motive to protect her own happiness and future, risking scorn and danger as the scene shifts to a tense aftermath.
Miss Marie Elwell hosts a bridge party at her Central avenue home with guests from Redland California Dover Delaware and nearby towns. Four tables played and a two course luncheon followed. Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs C A Leverton and family. A daughter named Phyllis June was born to Mr and Mrs Ivan Stratton.
The piece contrasts the Cambridge City shoe market with a hypothetical shoeless era, noting three stores and ample choice. It laments a world without footwear, highlighting local access and affordable options as a communal privilege. It ends by emphasizing the comfort of present abundance versus deprivation.
Local residents and visitors gathered for surprise parties and dinners across Wayne County. Highlights include multiple households hosting relatives and friends from Richmond, Centerville, Columbus, and Connersville, with trips to Niagara Falls and a piano violin recital at Richmond.
Rev and Mrs E A Bunner and daughter Virginia Ruth return to Forest Indiana after a week with S P Bradway and I O Stant. Miss Geneva Moore hosted Gretchen Kirby of Straughn. Lola Catherine Brown returns from Columbus. Virginia Ruth and George Stant with Katherine Stant visit Richmond with Mr Okel and Julia Ann. Sam Gerber visits Union City. Albert Cole stays with Grace Cole family.
Mrs. Ethel Henley and Mrs. Flossie Howard visited in Straughn. Several residents traveled to Cambridge City and Richmond on personal business. Frances Fryman recovers from measles while Chester Langston returns home after surgery. The July Dudley township Farm Bureau meeting is postponed due to the Fourth. The poultry disease coccidiosis appears locally with limited medical remedies so far.
Goldie Moore and family from Florida spent last Wednesday and Thursday with Mr and Mrs Nat Moore and daughter. Mr and Mrs L Lose of Milton visited Sunday with Lewis and Dalrymple family. Rayl also spent Sunday with the Dalrymples.
A reader from Fort Scott expresses nostalgia for the town in a June 25 Feeds letter to the Tribune. She notes forty five years since leaving for the west and sends regards to editors and readers with a wish to be in Kansas when the sunflowers bloom.
Mr and Mrs S S Ballinger were guests of Mr and Mrs Luther Mendenhall at Greensfork Sunday evening.
William Hindman formerly of Hagerstown aged 63 died at his New Castle home. Burial planned in Hagerstown Sunday.
Edmund Dare aged 83 died at his New Lisbon home on Saturday after a week long illness from paralysis. Survived by two sons and two brothers.
Mrs. Cora Bailey and Miss Ethel Zehrung end a two week journey through the east with their brother Harry Zehrung and his wife of Connersville.
Mrs J W Young entertained with a luncheon bridge on Monday. Attending were Mesdames A Boyd Ethel Middleton Robert Hughes Robert Hicks Chas Kniese and Edith Scott.
Bertsch Craig 49 died at home in New Lisbon last Thursday from a stroke. Survived by his widow two children and four stepchildren.
For the farmers of Weshbogies township a humorous play The Lay of a Hen will be presented free at the I.O.O.F. hall on Wednesday night July 11.
The ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Centers on the Snyder farm southwest of town accidentally shot himself in the back of the head with a revolver Monday morning. He was hospitalized in serious condition.
Floyd Poe and his wife of Indianapolis visited J. and Mrs. J. H. Patton this week. They were en route to Greenville Ohio. Mr Knight, in his youth, lived here with his parents and studied under Superintendent Robert Hall.
The Rev. John A. Rodutskey moves from St. Elizabeth's church to Christney, Ind in Spencer County. He assumes the new pastorate this Friday. his successor at St. Elizabeth's was not announced at the time of the report.
Last Wednesday evening Mr and Mrs I J L Harmeier Mr and Mrs Fred Masterson Mr and Mrs Rollie Grigsby and Mr and Mrs Ross Hutchinson gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Sepeans to listen in on a convention and mark his 48th birthday with a real surprise.
Mr and Mrs John Bragg and dance Winchester Mr and Mrs Miss Marie Moore Miss Edna Gerber Mr and te ne lig ry Adams na Eary t Galdie Moocs Mrs James Sosai is listed among attendees at a neighborhood social gathering with family and friends present.
The new market in the Crockett building opened last Saturday and was well patronized. Miss Eleanor Newman, a Central school teacher, left Saturday for Minneapolis as Indiana’s delegate to the National Educators Association meeting this week.
Miss Kathleen Ressler who taught at Coalmont for two years was re elected for the coming year but declined. She has contracted to teach English and dramatics at Sheridan with higher pay and a larger school.
William Haler via F C Mosbaugh presents to the library an 1840 Chas W Sanders first readers copy. It has circulated through several generations of the Haler family and contains short engaging stories for children.
The Tribune presents Chapter 4 of The Double Cross by a leading today era writer, secured via the Western News Paper Union. Readers are invited to follow the high class serial this week.
Mr and Mrs Leé Florea entertained Saturday evening with a bridge party attended by couples including Mr and Mrs Alvin Bertsch, Mr and Mrs Carl Caldwell, Mr and Mrs Floyd Chafee, Dr and Mrs R M Dearmin, Mr and Mrs David Byrnes, Mr and Mrs Fred Bond, Mr and Mrs Harper Lindsay, Mr and Mrs Max Feemster, Mr and Mrs Harry Caldwell, Mr and Mrs Russell Worl, and Mr and Mrs Xen King.
Mr and Mrs F C Mosbaugh returned from a three day visit with their son Dr R P Mosbaugh and family at Oxford Ohio. The doctor and his family will leave today for Gull Lake Michigan to occupy the cottage owned by his uncle Frank Lackey for ten days then travel into northern Michigan and possibly into Canada for a thirty day vacation.
On the back page this week a new feature appears a classified directory listing business and telephone numbers of professionals. The column aims to be a ready reference for readers needing services and will run throughout the year on the back page.
The article notes June rainfall for this year at 7.22 inches, the wettest since 1881’s 7.82 inches. Ten year June averages sit at 3.51 inches, with 1928 only 3.71 inches above average, and historical June totals from 1880 to 1924 shown as varying highs and lows.
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