Denver Voices on Banker Green and Local Bank Failures
Denver residents share mixed views on Banker Green after Andrews and Avilla bank failures. The Kokomo Dispatch debates whether Banker Key, the Andrews forger, will face punishment and serve time. A moral quip on parental guidance contrasts harsh discipline with youth behavior. Weather chatter mentions intense heat in Denver and far harsher droughts in Kansas with humorous images of water scarcity.
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Andrews
Avilla
Kokomo Dispatch
Banker Key
Johnny
Education is Key to a Boy’s Future Says Writer
A renowned writer condemns keeping children from school to work. He argues that education during youth is indispensable, noting a man can sacrifice much but should prioritize schooling. He cautions that self-reliance comes later, while schooling now prevents lifelong handicap.
Value of the near and familiar homes and ties
The excerpt urges recognition of undervalued everyday blessings within reach such as the home and simple relationships. It argues that people neglect nearby, readily accessible sources of strength and joy, treating rare or distant things as more valuable than what is right before them.
Homely virtues valued over splendor in rural wisdom
Jeffersonville Reflector urges readers to value simple, practical skills at hand. It contrasts farm competence with social polish, noting plow setting and bread baking as true country virtues far more useful than fashionable manners. The piece lauds home life as training in virtue and healing for the spirit.
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Jeffersonville
The Orange Phrase in a Legal Form Pops With Wit
A Toledo judge notes the hollow flourish of legal diction as he cites a tongue in cheek exchange about an orange. He mocks how lawyers draft cumbersome phrases to convey a simple gift, listing every part and right with exhaustive legalese.
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Foote
Topeka
General Wallace and the Armenian Lovers
General Lew Wallace, famed for Ben Hur, entertains a real life romance case in his Indianapolis Blacherne apartment. A young Armenian visitor seeks aid after his brother fears Sultanate danger and plans to return to Constantinople to see his beloved. The tale hints at peril and cross-cultural romance within a distinguished historical figure’s private life.
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Gen. Wallace
Blacherne
Indianapolis
America
Constantinople
Gen Wallace Intervenes to Free Armenian Prisoner
Gen Wallace used letters with a Turkish official connected to his time as minister to Turkey to learn an Armenian youth faced a dangerous plot accusation and likely harsh fate. He persuaded high Sultan officials, receiving notice of release on condition the prisoner leave the country. A liberal donation funded travel for two to Indianapolis for a marriage and return to America.
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Tan
Gen. Wallace
United States
Turkey
Wallace
Constantinople
Indianapolis
America
Secret Is Out. Health Breakthrough Attributed To Doctor King
The Whitaker family credits Dr. King's New Discovery with curing Mrs. S P Whitaker of chronic bronchial trouble after long suffering. The husband praises the remedy for also curing their granddaughter of a severe whooping cough. Guaranteed bottles 50 cents and one dollar. Trial bottles free at Piper's drug store.
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S. P. Whittaker
Piper's
Journal boosts subscribers after price cut
The newspaper notes a weekly issue raising Sundays to five cents extra yet reports a gain in subscribers since the price reduction.
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