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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1933
Page
3
Executrix appointed by Rush County Circuit Court Indiana for the estate of E Carroll Williams deceased. Court records indicate the estate is solvent. Dated May 23, 1933. Attest Dale Fisher, Clerk. Ratliff Ratliff attorneys 312.
John Goode a Democrat of Mays was re elected by the Rush county board of education on the first ballot over Claude Sipe a Republican of Orange. Eight of twelve trustees attended with four Republicans absent. Goode received six votes from Tevis Leisure Wilson Noble Peer Nash and Woods while Sipe drew two votes from Cooper and Reddick.
The text compares Britain’s temperate climate with Labrador’s severe cold and stormy conditions. It notes Labrador’s forests thin toward the north to tundra, and that Labrador winters, though harsh, are bearable and healthy due to dryness.
The harpsichord, once popular, fell from fashion with the piano forte. Its appeal lay in the sounding mechanism where a jack with crow quill or leather acts as a pick to strike the string when a key is pressed, producing the shrill tone the instrument is known for.
The article states for fourth class offices paying under 500 dollars per year the age limit is seventy. For first, second and third class offices and for fourth class offices paying 500 dollars or more, the maximum is sixty five. The limit is waived for postal service veterans of two years prior to the filing date and for those with military or naval service credit.
Indiana residents must file first gross income tax returns between July 1 and July 15. The law imposes penalties for late or incorrect filings, with blanks available June 15 and 60 field auditors aiding taxpayers July 10–15. Rates vary by business type, with exemptions and separate accounting allowed for mixed classifications. From Keith L. Johns Public Relations Division.
Path finder Magazine notes that blue eyed parents can have a brown eyed child due to mixed ancestry. It explains that blue eyes may persist for generations before brown eyes appear and that all babies are born blue before eye color shifts to other shades.
Lanterns Des Morts or Lanterns of the Dead stand along a road between Angers and Poitiers near Fontevault. An ancient abbey town, famed for English kings’ desired burials, houses tall funerary lanterns. Their purpose, once unknown, is cited by Peter the Venerable, a 12th century Cluny abbot, as lit in homage to dead Christians.
More than half a million ships pass the Thames yearly under the guidance of Port of London pilots who board vessels to steer them through dangerous channels and assist in entering or leaving harbor. On practice runs they command the ship and sometimes must undertake long voyages when weather prevents boarding the pilot boat. A liner leaving Queenstown once required a pilot to proceed to New York due to heavy seas.
The article recounts James Monroe the fifth U S president born 175 years ago. It highlights his Monroe Doctrine as well as his view that his greatest public service was advising Jefferson to acquire land in Paris and buying the entire Louisiana territory following Napoleon's willingness to sell.
Notice of sale under a decree in Rush County Indiana ordered by Bush Circuit Court. Plaintiff Waitsell M Heaton seeks $8 445 60 plus interest costs with rents and profits from a 195 85 acre tract and a 156 24 acre tract totaling 344 04 acres after railroad land deduction. Sale at public auction at courthouse north door between 10 AM and 4 PM. If insufficient, both parcels offered together to satisfy the decree.
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