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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
5
Fragmentary sale notes list various canned goods beans pork apples pumpkins and vegetables with prices in the low cents per unit. References include vinegar peas biscuits pancake mix and buckwheat with implied customer purchases and shop display.
Jury deliberations focus on wartime price controls and farm shipments as Norborne Vole Producers Association challenges suspected violations by Victor Company distributors. Authorities probe commodity deals and assess penalties while farmers continue protests and shipping actions.
Colonel Chester Harding, U S Governor of the Canal Zone, arrived in New York and urged a $17,000,900 expenditure for maintenance and completion of the Panama Canal. He said 23,000 workers are needed for years, Culebra Cut clearance is complete, and November tolls totaled $450,000, exceeding operating costs. Harding plans to petition Congress for funds.
Classified ad fragment promoting a Christmas Savings Bank at BEN DOOLITTLE'S DRUG STORE and a separate salesmen wanted notice in Clark County Indiana. Includes references to Stetson OH Co Cleveland and The Whig with dates 12-7 and 11-35.
Holiday money available when needed through the Citizens Trust Company as part of a cheerful Christmas promotion. An advert encourages purchasing a Singer sewing machine as a Christmas gift with contact details and location at 419 Spring St.
Referee Phoenix Tograham reports that Joan Sawyer the dancer and model caused trouble in the divorce suit of Bianca Errazuriz versus John Longer Desaulles a famed Yale quarterback. Testimony shows Miss Sawyer attracted Desaulles during his wife’s marriage.
Desaul and Mrs. Desaul are cited in a divorce action linked to a high powered watermobile race that drew attention from amateur speed enthusiasts. The referee orders the divorce be granted to Mrs. Desaul in the proceedings.
A Reuters telegraph dispatch from Petrograd says Russia has given Germany a fortnight's notice that Russian officer prisoners in concentration camps must not receive food from local purchases. With no German reply after the period, Russia begins applying new regulations barring outside food and restricting officers to state rations.
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