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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1924
Page
2
Reading notices and rates for classified ads are listed, including single column inch pricing and per insertion charges. Obituaries and cards of thanks appear at regular line rates. A column quotes Sir Oliver Lodge on rainmaking and remarks on Indians and Dawes.
A cautious note on timelines for prophecies about the Soviet Union. The president plans a trip to Chicago for the stock show aboard an ordinary Pullman for a simplicity program, with an upper berth to be used. Cal is noted for his advertising prowess.
A Citizen man finds traveling salesmen uniformly praise Linton as unusually prosperous for its class. With coal waning in Terre Haute, Linton’s economy shifts toward manufacturing and small scale industries. Local inventors offer ideas ready for capital, urging businessmen to join forces, capitalize plans, and launch new enterprises.
A 3000 year old clay tablet from Chaldea reveals a love letter from Gimil Marduk of Babylon to Kashbuya of Sippera. The fragmentary text asks after health, requests news of her arrival, and seeks eternal life from the Sun God of Marduk. Both correspondents remain unnamed beyond their cities.
Miss Anna Simms, held on a $500 bond, faces a preliminary hearing on a charge of writing fraudulent checks. Police say she matched a pattern of passing or preparing checks at various businesses in the city. Some victims could not identify her, while others note handwriting similarities to the forged notes.
William Edward Hensley Jr four months old died at the family home 8244 North 28rd street Terre Haute. Remains taken to Linton to Edward Hensley home Ninth and B streets southeast. Survived by parents and four grandparents. Funeral held at 2 this afternoon with interment in Fairview cemetery.
Small fire at the home of Dr. Bruce Fleetwood on East Vincennes street was discovered early this morning around 9 53 o clock. Firemen extinguished the blaze with chemicals after the roof was damaged about one hundred dollars, probable origin from chimney sparks.
The city council will hold its first meeting for the month this evening at the city building. Monthly claims against the city will be acted upon and the paving assessment roll for C street south likely to receive final approval. Other miscellaneous business may come before the body.
Funeral services for Loutrissia Goad, killed by accidental burning near Marco, will be Wednesday at 11 am at 390 First Street SW, home of her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Levi Davis. Rev Kidd will officiate. Burial follows at Walnut Grove cemetery.
The Plimsoll line marks a ship’s safe loading level. Sammel Plimsoll, a British MP, proposed a merchant shipping act enacted in 1876 to curb overloading. The act formed the basis for longitudinal load marks on vessels, later amended but still influential.
In western forests many fallen logs show ant activity with sawdust piles indicating ant homes. Ants burrow tunnels into logs as part of their nesting behavior, leaving visible signs along the log rims.
The passage traces coffee origin in Abyssinia during the fifteenth century and its spread to Arabia where cultivation began. It notes coffee becoming a national beverage in Arabia, likening its cultural tie to that country as strong as teams with China.
The poet Whittier was one of many Americans who found fame without marrying. He led a long active life as editor author legislator reformer and poet and showed little interest in marriage.
Classified notice for a Majestic store item used two seasons in good as new condition priced at 75 dollars. Contact phone number 340 for details.
The text argues that not all major life outcomes are controlled by will power, noting sickness and love arise beyond sheer will, and marriage often follows ease rather than resolve. Death ultimately ends the stage of life, even for those with strong will.
Pumice is a volcanic scoria or lava with a spongy texture from gas bubbles. It forms during lava liquidity and is used as a polishing material when powdered. Minute fragments show an exceedingly wide distribution across earth’s surface and occur in deposits covering the deepest ocean floors.
The Nile valley in the Sudan grows increasingly rich in cotton. The region has first access to water from the White Nile and Blue Nile sources and could become a rival to Dixie as cotton production expands in Anglo-Egyptan Sudan.
A reflective aphorism notes that true friendship hinges on aligned aims and desires, warning that unity without honesty breeds deception. The saying suggests mutual purpose strengthens bonds while shared goals expose falsehoods in trust.
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