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Newspaper
Indiana Oxford Gazette
Location
Oxford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1923
Page
1
A playful verse urges maintaining cheer to counter pessimism. It warns that dour talk irritates neighbors and voters, while a bright demeanor inspires and wins admiration. The piece contrasts sunshine with the Kaiser's gloom and mocks grumbling agents.
Sheriff Crabbes deputies arrested E. J. Murray in Oxford after a Rochester shooting left a police officer wounded in the hip. Murray linked to thefts via a Detroit car check and depot grip letters. He faced charges connected to a fast gang. his wife and infant left with uncertain support. Murray is described as a skilled plumber.
A survey of campers shows 23 percent of boys at Camp Roosevelt exceed sisters in cookery. The LaPorte Indiana encampment emphasizes camp cuisine, wood craft, and orderly living, with sessions on meals and dining room service. Camp runs July 2 to August 18.
Mrs. May S Wann clarifies that the WCTU of Oxford did not donate cigarettes for World War I comfort kits. She says the cigarettes were placed by others, not WCTU members, and notes the habit spread among thousands of boys entering service, with a sobering tale of a French front box that led one boy to reject tobacco.
The piece notes growing U S responsibility with Cuba the Philippines and Puerto Rico and predicts a larger army. It lists the army strength rising from 25 000 to 199 500 with 195 000 likely in the field by June 1. Indiana volunteers at Chickamauga adopt pets with a rabbit in C company and a pig roast after its death at the guard line.
A doctor argues medicine is oldest due to Adam’s rib operation while an architect contends ordered building predates. A bolshevik asks who supplied the chaos, prompting a parable on origin of work. Western Christian Advocate.
The Gazette rejects the Review's claim that religion influenced the Bolivar trustee contest. A knowledgeable source says Catholics avoided Burns and Methodists avoided Lugar, but voters overall act on personal preference rather than religious affiliation. It is improper to mix politics and religion in voting.
A gushing matron plans an afternoon event and assigns an elderly helper to pour tea and manage the lemon slices. The damsel questions the insinuation with a sharp remark, exposing tension over implied duties.
A 1866 May 24 Grand Review in Washington inspires a poem revealing a vision of two hundred thousand blue soldiers, a spectral Capitol, and a marching Nation’s dead from Malvern Hill Gettysburg and other battles. The narrator awakens when a blue cap signals a return to awareness.
The Benton Review advocates using movie apparatus in churches to illustrate sermons. The idea aims to attract attendance, noting churchgoers attend films more than services and suggesting testing the plan to reduce nonchurchgoing habits.
In a New Orleans theater a man asks a woman to remove her hat obscuring his view. She refuses, repeats the demand, then snaps back that there is no demand for her daring hat. After a brief scuffle she remov es the hat as audience calls grow.
Mrs. Shortley chats with a young caller about fashion trends. The young woman notes her father prefers gowns that cling, joking that one might cling to her for about three years.
Sunday memorial exercises featured Rev. Frank Collier at the Presbyterian church and a program at the opera house with Phares White presiding. Harry P. Schultz spoke on Nationality using the Jewish race as an example, urging cautious support for a world court and noting weather interrupted cemetery visits. The Gazette urges observing Memorial Day as a solemn duty despite competing auto races.
The library adds recent fiction including Train His Children's Children and Emily Post etiquette. New picture books for young readers include Book of Cheerful Cats Golden Goose Book Under the Window. A selection of children's titles such as Wilderness Castaways Bob and the Bie Road and Reggie and Reggie stories accompany adult nonfiction and journals by Irvin Cobb.
A veteran banker says his key tactic to push deflated firms toward action is a bedtime tale about an alligator chasing a turtle. The turtle escapes by surprising a tree climb, prompting the boy to ask how a turtle climbs a tree, to which the father quips he had to.
Retailers must count on hand gasoline by June 1 as the 2 cent per gallon tax takes effect. State Auditor Robert Bracken says he will collect the tax and provide information from the State House. Unpaid gasoline sales will incur prosecution for sellers and buyers who use untaxed gasoline.
The assistant details a stage scene where the heroine stealthily approaches, dagger drawn, and stabs the male lead amid purple flowers. A spectator notes the woman wore a hat the entire time, shaping the vivid but unusual memory of the moment.
The passage notes a sequence where pronouns and verbs shift case forms from nominative to dative to accusative and beyond as a narrative describes a couple walking home. It references grammatical shifts and time tense changes as characters discuss the future. Ohio Northern Review.
In a heavy rain Sunday evening Jake Ritenour and Russell Carlson collided at Reynolds corner west of town. Ritenour suffered head bruises while Carlson’s passenger Henry Fishback lost teeth and cut an arm. Carlson’s car rolled twice before stopping. Fishback escaped with injuries. Rain cited as cause. Carlson drove his car home badly damaged.
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