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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1925
Page
3
A scrambled instruction article explains filling letters into white spaces by horizontal and vertical clues. Each number marks a word that fills until a black square either to the right or below. Only dictionary words used. proper names and abbreviations excepted.
A compact cross word puzzle item listing numerous horizontal and vertical clues with numbers, including mythic figures, place names, everyday objects, and literary hints, plus a teaser note about a jewel solution appearing in the next issue.
Material components for a piano exceed a thousand items from felt to wood and various metals, forming a high grade instrument.
Local vendor H. A. Anderson advertises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a safe cough remedy with no narcotic substitutes. The carton clearly lists every ingredient and is for sale in town.
A Chicago area reports a tornado with extreme damage across Missouri Illinois and Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee killing about 1000 people and injuring 300 as towns like West Frankfort Murphysboro and Desoto lose buildings relief trains with doctors nurses and supplies move quickly from Chicago and St Louis to aid the stricken regions.
Pontiac Oakland county supervisors will meet March 27 to finalize a site for a proposed county tuberculosis hospital, likely in Waterford township. Owosso shifts to new city hall costing 110000. Eight hundred in mates to work on state highways this summer per parole commissioner plans. Newberry fire kills one, leaves another missing at hospital cottage. Ann Arbor Railroad reports 2 million spent on improvements, seeks 1 million in notes.
Wm Kube and Guy Beard attended Harry Clevelands sale last Tuesday. The school district No 4 box social drew a good crowd with proceeds about 11 dollars and 70 cents. Numerous residents joined the auction at W C Fullers last Thursday. Delos Dunkle and son Austin visited Greenwood on Saturday. Various locals visited or were visited Sunday with neighbors from Lake George and Mann Siding. Harl Dunkle bought a fine team of horses and Mrs Kube remains bedbound.
An earthquake of notable intensity rattled Quebec again, with tremors felt in the St Lawrence and Saguenay valleys and parishes including Baie St Paul Murray St Simeon St Sauveur. Telephone service partly disrupted but no injuries reported and damage kept modest.
Baron Giacomo de Martino the Italian ambassador switched on the Western Union Cable office signaling the opening of the first direct cable between the United States and Italy. The first message to Rome carried President Coolidge's greetings to King Victor Emmanuel III.
President Coolidge plans a September special session of Congress to consider further tax reductions. Senate finance chairman Smoot and House Ways and Means chairman Green notified their members to be ready for a fall session in late July or early August as they prepared to close offices for the summer.
In Steelville Massachusetts a citizen posse engaged five bandits trying to rob the Farmers Bank. Two robbers were killed two wounded and captured, a fifth escaped. One citizen was wounded. The robbers' driver, who had warned the cashier of First National Bank about the plan, was killed.
Former Texas senator Charles A Culbertson died at his Washington home at age 70 after years of invalidism. He served 23 years in the U S Senate and was a political leader in Texas for three generations.
The 15 year old Sonny Willis admitted to aiding his mother Margaret Willis to avoid the penitentiary for the murder of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin. The confession followed hours of close questioning by district attorney investigators.
The school house program Friday night was well rendered and enjoyed by attendees. Box sales totaled 8.60 to fund curtains for the school house, while illness kept some away. Al Purdy’s dehorning mishap after a near hit on Trunk Line 20 is noted, with no license plate found.
Mrs. R. Morgan of Homeward Illinois says Foley's Honey and Tar Compound stopped her cough quickly. The medicine has stood the test of time and is the largest selling cough medicine in the world, for sale by EB A. Anderson Ady.
The Probate Court of Clare County Michigan alerts creditors that four months from March 27, 1925, are allowed to present claims against Martha A. Gilmore deceased. Claims must be filed at the Harrison probate office by July 20, 1925, for examination and adjustment. The hearing is set for July 27, 1925, at 10 a.m. by Judge Thos. S. Dorsey.
The item lists annual rates to Michigan and other regions, Canada and single copies, 5c each. It notes Friday issues, post office entry as second class, display ad rates on request, and rates for notices and obituaries. It also mentions liners, fillers, headings, and per line charges.
Proceedings of the Common Council record the February 16 1925 session in Clare with Mayor Thompson presiding. Members present were Aldermen Huntley Jennings McKnight Kratz Smalley and Thompson. none absent. Resolutions include filing payment requests from Alert Pipe & Supply Co for 1923 24 and extending the 1925 special tax deadline 60 days to April 10. Bills from Michigan Telephone Co Clare Realty Co and others are approved by the finance committee and the council adjourned.
The Lexington Leader notes progress in spreading democracy as a recurring theme, contrasting past limits where power was held by a monarch and discussing implications for society and governance.
The text notes Boccaccio, famed author of the Decameron, as an intimate with Petrarch. It says Petrarch’s death is believed to have hastened Boccaccio’s decline.
A new cotton variety called tan guis has appeared in Peru. Descended from a single perfect plant in an infected field, its seed produced other true to type plants. The crop yields about 800 pounds per acre and shows immunity to wilt.
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