22 Jan 1921
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1921
Page
1
Local advertisements describe the Indiana Evening Gazette as the county leading newspaper with over three thousand patrons. The paper emphasizes its role as both news source and advertising medium and invites subscriptions and carrier delivery arrangements.
The article discusses forged passports as more dangerous than counterfeit money, enabling sedition and social unrest. It notes passports legitimize travel under government sanction, aiding those challenging authorities, and mentions an international effort to simplify passport procedures. Despite reforms, frontier safeguards remain crucial amid wartime instability and regional corruption.
Demand and movement in the produce district was fair with good inquiry for apples and moderate for cabbages, while potatoes and onions showed slow sales. Florida cab arrivals, New York cabbage prices, and wholesale figures for various fruits, vegetables, and meats are listed, alongside live stock prices and dairy products. An unrelated note laments visa chaos for travel to Paris via Istanbul and the onerous frontier inspections.
In Vienna the first food drafts to aid Austria prove genuine as hundreds arrive. Drafts in $10 and $50 offers supply flour beans bacon milk lard sugar cocoa and more, easing hunger where prices soar. The plan, led by Mr. Sloover, funds the European Children's Fund to save two and a half million children through American generosity.
Mellon, Pittsburgh banker and district executive member, described Austela j crisis as desperate with mobs and possible pillaging. He warned the state payroll failure worsens hunger and urged continued relief. The Council seeks 28 million for food and 40 million for medical care as 100,000 volunteers aid international relief and feeding stations for 8 million children.
A garbled Indiana University report notes Ernest Indiana winning another game amid varied plays and lineups. Mentioned are Susie, Mutant, and Ram exhibitions, plus listings of players Apple Dodsong Tanner and others, with references to guests, visits, and a nearby island rental named Island Kingdom for Rent. The piece includes stray names, places, and minor event mentions, mirroring a cluttered page segment.
Church notes list services for St Bernard’s, First United Presbyterian, and Evangelical groups. Highlights include Sunday worship at 11:00 and 7:30, Sunday School times, Junior Union and Christian Endeavor meetings, Catholic services at St Bernard’s, and an evangelistic revival closing with Sunday evening service at 7:30 led by Rev. and Mrs. Reno.
The second regional W C T U conference met yesterday at Smithfield Street Methodist Church drawing nearly 400 delegates from Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia. Amerization dominated discussions with Chicago director Celia Vayhinger stressing language learning and citizen rights for diverse races. Pittsburghs Jean Buchanan Wylie warned Bible reading shapes future generations in public schools and child welfare advocate Elizabeth Perkins urged every child’s right to a healthy birth. Maud Perkins outlined youth outreach methods and Elizabeth Middleton urged continued temperance education in public schools as key to preparing the coming generation.
Miss Belma King aged twenty five of Haswell Colorado is declared a leper by the state health department. Officials discuss removal to a leper colony and possible transport options including train with guards or automobile by relatives. The case attracts federal interest and debate on costs.
In Memory of Mrs Martha Lillian Beer wife of James M Beer of Phinvilly who died at Indiana Hospital January old 1021 at 6 15 P M Dearest loved one you have feft me You have crossed the deep blue sea But I pray that I will meet you When I leave this earth ay thee Husband
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