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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1925
Page
10
Public notice states advertising rates available upon application at the Kingsport Tennessee post office. It notes second class mail status and urges inquiries to the local office for current pricing and eligibility.
The Times invites reader letters signed with full names, with the option to withhold names upon request.
Kingsport voters will decide on a bond issue not to exceed 50000 dollars to expand the sanitary sewer system. The plan includes a trunk line from Highland Park to the Holston river serving residential areas along Bristol Highway and surrounding developments to relieve the overloaded current line. The special election is set for Wednesday October 14 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the City Court Room.
Rummage sales raise funds for churches and charities by sorting discarded clothing and household items into cash value. They benefit families with limited means, offering affordable goods and promoting thrift while turning unused goods into useful assets for public causes. President Coolidge would call rummage sales a useful feature of national economy.
The Camp Fire Girls propose renaming the flapper to Modern to spare 160,000 members from stigma. Critics question the logic, noting the name change won’t curb traits or reform, and compare cultural pressures in New York and regional views.
The Board of Temperance and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church questions whether New York poses a menace, presenting a lurid catalogue of perceived iniquities that supposedly lure young men from home and cast judgment on contemporary art and public morals.
A collage of brief computer era era humor and small town gags features a showman boasting a magic trick for a quarter, a couple bantering about balancing books, a farmer who overhears art sale profits, and light exchanges about marriage and domestic life. The vignettes include mischief, miscommunication, and sly observations from local columns and joke pages.
A fragmented OCR item hints at a story about the lighthouse keeper's wife driven to madness by loneliness and isolation. The readable bits suggest themes of solitude, weather, and mental strain without full context or precise details.
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