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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
6
Local items show farm sales and land listings by Payne Bros and Payne Pros. Mentions arrivals and visits in Winamac and Knox, church events, school commencement at Francesville and Medaryville, and community notices including baseball plans and a postmaster salary increase.
Our Walking Cultivators. Our Surface Cultivators. Combined Cultivators and Riding plow offered. We guarantee these plows to do as good work or better than the best. Easy to manage. Perfect work. Nothing better in mechanism. Made to meet all demands. See our plows before you buy. L. W. Hubbell & Sons.
Merle Lowery, aged eleven, son of Frank Lowery, west of town, plows a corn field with a J T Case crank shift cultivator and performs with ease. The ad touts J T Case farm implements for durability and simple construction promising lasting usefulness.
Rural Route 2 reports a Sunday of baseball in Hamiltons meadow with a fine time. Mr and Mrs Owena and family visited Hamiltons on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Slife and family from Jefferson called on Oscar Hamilton and family Saturday night.
The McCoy case proceeds Wednesday at 10 o clock after four weeks three days of witness testimony and records. The state rests its embezzlement case against the McCoy bankers with about $600 000 discussed in testimony. The defense begins presenting its evidence in a lengthy continuation.
Notice states the Prohibitionistas of Salem Township will convene Saturday June 2 at 2 50 at Mallon’s store to conduct township business. Ollie Thrasher invites all supporters to vote the prohibition ticket on November 6.
A distorted quote from Wahinaten Star features claims about Plas and Miss Cayenne, with a speaker urging public indulgence in conventional views to preserve their opinion amid unclear context and attribution.
A short humorous exchange from the Brooklyn Eagle notes that in marriage the bottom dollar mirrors the top dollar for a married man, implying a wife’s value equals his wealth. The quip plays on the term bottom dollar as a measure of total worth.
A Yonkers Statesman item notes artists’ claim the left side of a face is more beautiful, while another observer disputes it, saying both sides of some women’s faces are painted.
A collage of short clippings shows banter about sportsmanship and guns from the Baltimore Sun, Detroit Tribune, and Philadelphia Press. It includes quips on gunning expeditions and a joke about press liberty tied to a marriage rumor.
A Chicago Record-Herald quote praises Mrs. Binksley for never going to a hospital for surgery and describes her as an eccentric woman. The brief item notes a promotional line from Nolane '&J about always low prices.
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