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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
11
A garbled reminiscence mentions the Gumps and Sunshine Girls, discussing lack of electricity, old-time items like wash tubs and tallow candles, and humorous images of ox carts and motorized trolley cars. It suggests a man imagines work as a motorman, conductor, or trolley car worker for steady pay.
New York leads 4 to 3 over Cincinnati with Boston 3 and Brooklyn 6 against Pittsburgh and St. Louis 4 vs Boston 3. Today Boston visits St. Louis and Philadelphia faces Chicago. New York visits Cincinnati, Brooklyn plays Pittsburgh. Yesterday Greeneville beat Kingsport 6 to 2, Morristown defeated Bristol 13 to 7.
Social notes from a local Sunday school and community cell detail Miss Nannie Hunt shopping in Kingsport and frequent visits by Miss Hazel Birdwell and Miss Verna Bacon. Multiple entries describe family visits, church gatherings at Rock Springs and Bethel, prayer meetings, and plans for children’s day events amid ongoing harvest activity and illnesses.
Rev Morris filled his regular appointment at Oklahoma Sunday. A rain shower blessed the area. Mrs John Lambert’s friends learn she is worse. Attendees at Oklahoma Sunday included Flora Hicks, Walter Robinnette, and others. Families visited, and several spent Sunday with relatives. Farmers are cutting wheat. Young folks plan activities.
Rural notes from Cooks Valley recount a spell of rain ending drought fears, visits among Shipley and Ladd families, and community updates. Local farming activity continues as wheat harvest nears, with several residents traveling to Bristol and Johnson City for relatives and errands.
Georgia Court of Appeals upholds a Stephens Superior Court judgment awarding $2,000 in a slander case. It rules that even when the initial remark came from a third party and the repeater acted in good faith, each repetition constitutes willful slander.
New York. Mrs. Tillie Dorf of Brooklyn, who says she became a pickpocket at eight, faces sentencing before Kings County Judge McLaughlin after pleading guilty to lifting $10.30 from a Brooklyn department store. Caught by a detective, she demonstrated her skill in jail by removing a vanity case from a reporter. She claims the thrill originated in childhood and that she cannot stop despite promises to reform.
A compact musing notes two literary lines on mind and mood. It contrasts Ruskin’s question about building with good thoughts with Lowell’s idea of sustaining a sunny mood to the end.
A recipe segment outlines Veal and Sago Soup with veal, pearl sago, milk and eggs, plus a quick dinner plan including biscuits, mushroom rounds with tomato, and Hamburg Steak. Stepwise directions cover stock, sago cooking, and seasoning. Includes bread rounds topped with mushrooms, tomato sauce, and parsley.
A 1925 note explains tapioca comes from cassava roots rich in starch. It describes weighty tubers, juice extraction, starch deposition, drying on iron plates, heating to form pellets, and use in puddings and soups. It also mentions cassava bread from the remaining pulp and the pronunciation Ka sa va.
In obedience to a Blountville Chancery Court decree in the Shuttle cases, a farm of about forty seven acres once owned by Mrs Elizabeth Shuttle will be sold at public auction July 25 1925 at 1 PM Central time at the Blountville court house door. The farm lies in Sullivan county fifth district and adjoins Peter man heirs Walter Johnson and others. Sale on six twelve and eighteen month credits with equity of redemption. Notes bearing interest from sale date and good security required. a lien remains on the property. June 18 1925. 6-19-41-Fric
In Sullivan county Tennessee the Chancery Court orders four weeks publication in the Kingsport Times for non resident defendant J Gutman to appear on the first Monday in July 1925 at Kingsport Court House to defend the bill by H M McNeil Receiver. Woriey McAmis Sols for Complt. 5-30-41-Fir.
Kingsport Color Corporation files a bill against McDowell Lyon, a Tennessee non-resident. He must appear by the fourth Monday in July 1925 at the clerk and master's office in Kingsport to defense or the bill will be confessed. Notice to be published four weeks in the Kingsport Times. May 28, 1925. H. M. McNeil clerk and master.
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