04 Jun 1923
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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1923
Page
1
An advertisement urges readers to open a thrift account and save. It claims thrifty savers earn more than just living, promising enjoyment through financial planning and reduced worry. Start with as little as one dollar.
Thorntown hosts Legion dancing party at the Dunbar Park pavilion with Macks Melody Makers from Lebanon providing music. Flannigan Kashner reunion at Dunbar Park follows a bountiful dinner. Mechanicsburg Beach reports busy weekend with improvements and child-friendly sand pile. Sunday at Dunbar Park draws crowds for first swim of season. boats active and horse shoe games attract many. Churches in Thorntown report varied services with notable farewells, sermons, and special music across Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Friends congregations. Personal notes cover travel, family visits, and local residents seen in nearby towns.
Mrs J E Leatherman and Miss Myrtle Roark visit. Mrs Watson Masters of near Thorntown visits sister in Atlanta. Miss Helen Masters returns from Hartford City teaching. Lara Taylor graduates. various residents visit Indianapolis and Lafayette. Purdue alumni Arthur Masters and Eldred Long with relatives. Utterly local social roundup with travels to Carmel and Gary. brief note on Japanese premier Go to Russia trade talks.
Tokyo observers foresee a possible triple alliance of Russia Japan and Germany following a preliminary conference to be attended by Commissioner Joffe representing the Russian soviet government. The Hochi notes that Japanese leaders may be shaping for the future and credits Baron Goto the former Tokio mayor with promoting the campaign.
The semi monthly crop report by USDA agr stat George C Bryant notes temperatures eased below normal earlier with heavy rains, but recent warmth aids progress. Strawberries are shipping, transplanting cherries and tobacco underway, corn germination delayed yet most fields productive, rye headed out, oats backward, hay and pasture good, livestock in good condition, farm labor scarce, some farms idle near industry. Crop conditions across Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin show mixed moisture, corn planting 84-85% in Indiana, 50% in southern Michigan and Wisconsin, with replanting needed due to cool weather. Warm weather needed to finish growth.
Growth is brief due to cold weather. Michigan and Wisconsin report very poor crops with slight gains in Illinois and Indiana. Hay fields improve except Michigan where hay outlook is discouraging. Pastures mostly better and provide ample feed. Transplanting tobacco and melons underway in Indiana and Dines. Beans and sugar beets planted large in Michigan amid generally later fruit crops. Livestock in good shape. Labor shortages may leave many farms idle near industry, mining, and quarry areas.
N R Powley of the Southern California Telephone Company reports strong population growth in Los Angeles. He cites statistics showing over 40 000 already settled since the year's start and predicts a total rise of about 100 000 this year, with last year adding 80 000.
Lima Ohio resident Charles W. Westhbas says teaching should be a stepping stone not a permanent position amid dissatisfaction and uncertainty. After 42 years in teaching, he resigned from the school system and will receive a pension of 340 dollars monthly for life.
Notice in an old newspaper advertising a detachable coupon for Foley products offering a trial package including Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets mailed upon sending name and address to Foley & Co.
A New York elevator operator shot a tenant who rang the door twice. Police say the killer acted after the tenant rattled the door and the confrontation ended in deadly violence at a building entrance.
A Malland church wedding features a bride who enters on the right arm of the groom and exits on his left, following a traditional ceremony arrangement. The timing and participants were reported in the area’s society notes.
Cocecion, an Anglo Saxon poet who flourished around the mid seventh century, is recognized as the Father of English Song for his enduring contribution to early English literature.
A brief, obscure remark by C J Weber dismisses history as satire and as mere effort in human affairs, framed as a doctrinal musing on the value of study and interpretation.
The article describes a phrenology view linking ear to crown and back head shapes to personality. It suggests a rounded back of the head increases affection and kindness, while a jutting back is described as more affectionate but the wording is unclear and biased.
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