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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1920
Page
3
Community notes detail sales, visits, and gatherings across Galveston, Kokomo, and surrounding towns. Residents like Fred Applegate, Mrs Guida Reed, and Henry White are noted with visitors, while church and club events run including Brotherhood class and missionary society meetings. A hospital transfer, a broken finger, and a threshing machine accident are among the local incidents.
A 100 dollar reward offer from F J Cheney and Company of Toledo Ohio claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages by acting through the blood. The advertisement urges readers to send for testimonials and states the medicine is sold by all druggists.
The article lists illustrious French writers and their current trades in Paris streets. Lamartine is a butcher on Rue Harlitte, Musset a barber on Rue Mabillon, Balzac runs a laundry on Rue Hippolyte, Sainte Beuve a timber dealer on Quai Jemmapes, Dumas a hat dealer on Rue des Pyrenees, Gautier a billiard ball maker, Corneille a wine merchant, Racine a butter dealer, La Fontaine a corset maker, and Moliere a grocer on Avenue d Orleans.
In US Public Health Service experiments about 5000 captured mosquitoes were sprayed with a DT 6 per cent methylene blue solution. The survivors about four fifths were released at a central point. After 60 hours the team began recapturing the diverged mosquitoes. Only ten were recaptured with one straying a mile and another three quarters of a mile from the release site in an Arkansas rice field.
A fragment from the Courier Journal notes a quirky exchange about flour and apples. A character teases a girl about finding a husband through baking while Uncle Heck pushes pie making as a path to marriage. Louigyite adds a final quip.
A dialogue contrasts two farmer citizens debating collective bargaining. One side seeks maximum salaries and dividends, the other aims for the highest wages, reflecting competing views on earnings.
Dialogue reveals a dispute where one man questions another about a £5,000 settlement with his wife. The reply argues the money sufficed, but the wife proved to be the greater burden.
Wm Liston returns from Cleveland Ohio. Otto Gwinn did a business trip to LeRoy Illinois. F H Thomas moved to Galveston and will live with De H H Miller and wife. Numerous friends and relatives visit Kokomo, Tipton and Lake Bruce. W C T U to meet Mrs Ella Loop. Esther Downhour visits Miss Beulah Walker. Fred Myers of Indianapolis visits Jas Myers family. Ed Young and wife visit Kokomo. Sam Sprinkle and others spend weekend at Lake Bruce.
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