Wheat loss tops two hundred seventy thousand in Johnson county
Johnson county reports total crop loss estimated at 270000 dollars after threshing ends. production costs per acre average 24 dollars with receipts at 17.25 dollars per acre, yielding a loss of 6.75 dollars per acre on 40000 acres. Local farm bureau committee provides detailed expense breakdowns and notes this is the heaviest wheat loss in county history.
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Franklin
Johnson County
County Farm Bureau
Lafayette
Henry W. Marshall
Lafayette Journal Courier
Purdue University
W. E. Stone
Canadian Rockies
Marshall
Helen Hand
Richard Stone
Docetor Stone
Indianapolis
Jacob D. Miltenberger
Indiana Taxpayers’ Protective Association
Mach
Terre Haute
Seelyville
Frank Tigenbotham
Clinton
Southeastern Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee & St.aul Railroad Company
Offehals
St. Paul Road
McCray
State Department of Supervision and Inspection
State Legal Department
State Department
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Vanderburg
Shelbyville
George Carlisle
Shelby County
Dunkirk
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Drackfort County
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Goshen
Ralph W. Cripe
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Cletle W. Smith
Wabash
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Delaware
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Letre Haute
Letre Haute Central Labor Union
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Gompers
South Bend
Iee
Bluffton
Cearl
Poe
Allen County
Echo
Wells County
John J. Pershing
The
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Wasbash
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Benjamin Basse
Basse
Petersburg
Petershburg
Pike County
Vincennes
Knox County
Wailers
Oaktown
Tafayette
Dprof
Alfred Monroe Kenyon
Medina
Galion
Lifayette
Funerat
Break Up Boy Robber Gang in East Twenty-Second Street
A juvenile robber gang led by Patrick Murphy known as Paddy the Kid is disbanded after arrests at a public school desks and a gas plant break in. Members include Jimmy Valentine, Skinny, The Polack, and The Dummy with a loot of $1.08 per member.
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New York
Paddy the Kid
Paddy
East Twenty-second Street
Walter Michaelsky
the Polack
First Avenue
John Rubsha
the Dummy
Twenty-second Street
Meyers
Giidian
Standard Gas Company
Murphy
Joseph
Empire Hut Company
Chicago woman rescued after Fiji kidnapping by husband posse
Mrs Ives Whatley of Chicago recalled being abducted in Suva by eight natives who tied her hands and feet and carried her into the back country. Her husband organized a posse, trailed for six hours, found a hut where she was held, and freed her after a final skirmish. The tale notes the hair fascination of the captors and a successful rescue.
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San Francisco
Klimaped
Fiji Islands
Ives Whatley
Chicago
Suva
Moonshine aiding her sons sparks jail and fine
In Portland Mrs. Lanna Mayson testified she turned to moonshine whisky to support her two children through school and buy clothes. Judge Delek rejected the plea, convicting Mayson for profit from liquor and sentencing her to five days in jail and a $200 fine on the eve of the youngsters’ graduation from the area’s senior school.
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Portland
Ore
Lanna Mayson
Delek
Jris. Maysoov
Er Amimar
Girl Sues Minister Over Forcible Headstand Claim
Mrs. Annia M. Lowndes, 17, sues Rev. I. Duckett for holding her prisoner for 30 minutes and standing her on her head. She seeks 10000 dollars in damages alleging great pain and mental anguish. Washington report notes the incident involving the minister and her son.
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Sues
Washington
Annia M. Lowndes
Rev. I. Duckett
Black Bear Interrupts Ball Player in Pennsylvania Trout Stream
John Novak, a professional baseball player and former football star from Preeland, Pa., fishing in Hays Creek, heard a rustle and saw a full-sized black bear jump into the water and swim toward him. The bear drank from the stream before retreating into the woods. Mayak yelled, and the bear fled, leaving the area quickly.
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Preeland
John Novak
Hays Creek
Mayak
Hermit Life Defies City Pleasures in Arctic Wilderness
W D Clark, a hermit for about 25 years, asserts solitude suits him best. He lives at Peel river headwaters near Heesehel ishind, 180 miles away, with Eskimos and Indians rarely visiting. He notes ten thousand square miles of tundra without fakirs or thieves, claims 70 000 caribou herd visitation, and says the climate, though 30 degrees below, is healthful and free of sickness.
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W. D. Clark
Mr. Clark
Tam
Peel River
Heesehel Ishind
Fort McWherson
Ato Sehafer
Clark
Chirk
Areve
All is not fish that swims reflects sapient thinker
A dated excerpt discusses the word fish and its meanings as a philosopher observes a summer girl at sea. It contrasts animals that swim with kinship, notes how fishermen use the term to describe the act rather than the catch, and mentions Izaak Walton.
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Seine
Paris
Izaak Walton
Bigamy conviction in search for housing in Paris
A 55 year old man in Paris received a two year sentence for bigamy after he married a 75 year old widow who offered him housing in her cottage under the condition he marry her. One wife was dead but another live wife was later found and had deserted him. The court noted his housing crisis had been resolved.
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le Mans
Crise de Logement
Paris
Blackbird Fed Thrush Caught In Bird Trap Tale
A bird-loving woman in Venzince observed a blackbird and a thrush visiting her lawn. The blackbird fed the thrush by carrying bread pieces to its beakless mouth, suggesting the thrush had its beak cut off by a trap. The thrush could not feed itself.
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Venzince
W. H. Hudson
Cornwall
Osmiridium Discovery in Western Tasmania Rivers
Exploration has uncovered vast osmiridium and gold-bearing gravels in western Tasmanian river valleys. Tasmania is the sole large-scale osmiridium producer. First half of 1920 output reached 1,093 ounces worth £41,642, with March 1920 price at £42 10s per ounce, per the London Times Trade Supplement.
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Tasmania
London ‘Tines
Unusual domestic dispute over war hero marriage
A Birmingham Age-Herald snippet notes a young widow who married a bo gus war hero seeking a divorce. The tale hints the man has grand ambitions claiming to have won the battle of the Marne, a flashy boast in this domestic dispute.
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The
Marne
Birminghaum Age-Herald
Reward of Merit The Farm Life Attracts City Folk
A Birmingham Age-Herald reader quotes a city dweller praising farm life. The agriculturist affirms the appeal as knocking off work on Saturday and going to town in the driver.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Change of Life Testimony Promotes Vegetable Compound
Hopkins Minn Mrs Rep Block writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her hot flashes and other symptoms during menopause. She urges others to try the remedy and offers to publish the testimonial. She notes doubt is answered by a woman at Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co and invites letters for confidential help.
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Mrs. Block
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.inkham
Thomas Obstacle Metaphor Inspires Jump at Conclusions
A quirky athletic note quotes Thomas on life as an obstacle, and Brett-TIs line about jumping at conclusions. The fragment hints at motivational themes and rival banter within a sports or school context. No clear event, date, or participants identified in the readable text.
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Thomas
Brett
Aspirin Bayer Warning and Medical Claims
An old advert warns to only take Aspirin when the Bayer name is on the package or tablet, claiming physicians prescribe it for twenty one years and it is safe. It lists uses from colds to neuralgia and pain, notes cheap twelve tablet tins, larger packages from druggists, and identifies Aspirin as Bayer’s trademark. It ends with a quip about Darwin theory followers transforming into monkeys.
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Bayer
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