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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1925
Page
3
Mitzi Lederer and her husband Gustave were sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of Frank Kudelka, owner of a sausage factory. As a court granted five minutes to bid farewell, tears filled their eyes and they embraced one final time before the judge decreed the execution.
In Crawfordsville Indiana Russell Mahan age 11 used a 22 rifle to shoot at a moving object in his father David Mahan's corn field. The father was wounded in the back but is expected to recover. The boy, startled by the injury, threw the rifle into the corn.
Coolidge enters tenth week at the summer White House, hopeful miners and operators will settle their differences peacefully without public disruption. He maintains government intervention could do more harm than good.
Federal authorities were asked to help investigate warning notes attached to sticks of dynamite left on the doorstep of a store owner and several farmers in Hensley township Johnson county. Recipients are said to have opposed the opening of a park owned by Indianapolis Negroes.
Oshkosh Wisconsin August 24 Daniel Woodward announces candidacy for the unexpired term of Senator Robert M La Follette his platform pledges full support for the Republican party and President Coolidge with unqualified endorsement he aims to win the seat he seeks to represent the state in Washington
A fragmented historical note recounts Brazil being discovered on January 26, 1500 by Vincent Pinzon and Pedro Alvarez Cabral. It mentions a storm guiding them to the coast and the land being called the Land of the Holy Cross before later being named Brazil for its red wood.
The term bank clearings refers to the total value of checks and drafts exchanged among clearinghouse members daily for adjustment. In large cities over 80 percent of commercial business is conducted by checks and drafts, while less than 10 percent uses cash.
The text notes that cooperative societies are more developed abroad. It cites over 60,000 societies inside the United States with more than 95 million members and 1,472 societies in the United Kingdom.
The Dwight Advance reminds readers to feel gratitude for American prosperity. It cites widespread home ownership, car travel, advanced utilities, and modern industry that lets workers become stockholders, urging thanks beyond Thanksgiving day. It highlights gas electricity highways forests mines oil and radio as benefits to citizens.
Mrs. Stephen Slinkard was taken to her home yesterday. Mrs. Minerva Lundy will return home today. Mrs. Lydia Phillips of Bloomfield was brought to the hospital this morning. The infant of Mr and Mrs Robert Raney, operated upon Saturday, is doing very nicely.
Just terrible Toronto reports that Mrs Elizabeth Ord Marshall, secretary of the League of the Empire, says English pupils are being drawn to American films. She urges an empire wide British film industry to uphold British ideals and strengthen imperial ties as she leads a party of English teachers touring Canada.
The best known works written during imprisonment include Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Grace Abounding the King’s Quhair or the King’s Book by James The Review by Daniel Defoe and the History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh
North Carolina becomes the first state to enact a compulsory education law for the deaf, establishing mandatory schooling provisions to ensure deaf students receive formal instruction. This pioneering policy sets a statewide standard for accessibility and educational rights.
All members of Quapaw Council No 80 are requested to bring well filled baskets to the meeting Tuesday evening August 25. A degree stall from the Petersburg Council will be here to put on work. By order of committee.
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