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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1923
Page
5
225 miners at the Rawley mine in Sagoache Colorado threaten to blow up the mine unless salaries are paid immediately. The mine has been closed for three days and families live on short rations as months of poor work persist. Steps were taken to raise the money.
William Wilson, 93, living southeast of Carlisle in Sullivan County, says he alone shucked and cribbed 200 bushels of corn this fall without help. He notes changes from Indians on White River to airplanes over his farm and predicts he may reach 100. He has lived in the county all his life except during the Civil War era.
Ex sheriff Wayne Bryan will convene a spring meeting and organize a reunion for Pike County ex sheriffs and their relatives. Pike County has more living ex sheriffs than any Indiana county, including William Muller of Oakland City, and his sons Otis and Harve in Petersburg.
W T Westchafter, an aged farmer in Washington Indiana, is confined to his home with injuries from an attack by an enraged boar last Saturday. The incident highlights dangers farmers face from livestock and the need for caution in handling wild animals near farms.
A stirring scene unfolded in the Senate Public Land Committee inquiry the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease as H Foster Bain director of the bureau of mines refused to say if bids were open to all oil companies.
Police pursue two armed men who robbed a Dayton branch of the City National Bank today and escaped with $8000. One bandit fired as the others gathered the cash.
The fifth annual Indiana Farm Bureau Federation convention opens tomorrow at 10 am in the Claypool hotel Indianapolis expected to host 1000 farmers. A Friday Saturday canning crop growers conference will plan a cooperative marketing association. Features include addresses by W H Settle and Aaron Sapiro.
After two days of clashes the Republicans of the 68th congress united to organize for business. Frederick S. Gillett of Massachusetts was re elected speaker on the first ballot with 215 votes to 197 for Garrett and 2 for Madden. The insurgents from the northwest who pushed to liberalize rules joined the conservative Republicans in supporting Gillett.
President Coolidge will deliver his annual message to Congress on Thursday between 12:30 and 1 o'clock EST. The budget speech transmission will be delayed until Friday.
Hoosier stockmen dominated the international livestock exposition in Chicago with strong results in cattle. Purdue University led by taking reserve grand championship in the fat steer classes with Sultan's champion, while Broadus White Socks, an Angus shown by A. A. Armstrong & Son of Camargo Illinois, won the top honor after defeating Purdue’s Black Marauder.
A group of children in Fall River Mass found a skull in a dump and used it as a ball. Norman Maynard 12 carried the skull home for a game next day. Medical Examiner Blanchette determined the child had been dead only a few weeks and an investigation began.
Nine Carlisle men were fined in the justice of the peace court in Shelburne Indiana after a gambling raid. Fines ranged from 20 to 90 dollars for E. E. Danfer Frank Ward Robert Davison Jim Stakes Will Russell T. K. Johnson John Frederick and John Isbal. The raid site was operated by Russell.
Secretary of War Weeks announced that Congress will be asked to allow General John J. Pershing to stay as chief of staff of the army for as long as he desires. The declaration was made in Washington on December 5 in a move to secure continuity of leadership.
Jud Tunkins notes many parents dress as if their children pick the family wardrobe. He says the trend shows kids influencing family attire and style decisions in daily life.
Washington reports a surge in federal prosecutions and civil actions as the attorney general outlines a year of intensified enforcement. Prohibition cases dominate alongside white slave, tax, land, postal and banking violations with 49 021 criminal and 4 100 civil cases started and 42 870 criminal and 4 109 civil disposed.
Texas Masons leader Michael H. Thomas told the annual meeting in Waco that Masonry has no right to condemn or accept the Ku Klux Klan any more than it would another fraternal order or political group until courts prove it immoral.
Water pressure at two hundred feet prevents a cork from resurfacing after being submerged. The intense pressure keeps it down, illustrating how deep water forces affect buoyant objects.
The uneven phrasing suggests a contested headline about markets or rates turning down. It hints at economic movement, with a metaphorical note about drops and a distant reference to China as a place of consequence. The line implies volatility and potential global spillover.
In Pierre South Dakota the Republican convention backed President Calvin Coolidge for the presidential primary 60 870 to 27 340 over Senator Hiram Johnson of California The endorsement became unanimous on a rising vote Arthur Capper of Kansas was unanimously endorsed for vice president
The Goronado Coal company of Arkansas appeals a 2 222 000 damages verdict won by the United Mine Workers of America after a 1914 strike. C I Finney receiver asks to advance the case on the docket claiming the ruling could incite sabotage by organized labor. The UMW opposes the move, arguing the decision follows Supreme Court interpretations of the Sherman act and is not more public than other cases.
Newly married couple Myrs Frederick McLaughlin formerly Irene Castle and Major Frederick McLaughlin of Chicago left Seattle yesterday in the bridal suite of the steamer President Grant for the Far East.
A short quotation on praise blame and affection as the final reward, attributed to Mark Twain. It emphasizes affection as the ultimate achievement a man can win.
Jonas Waffle of Terre Haute testified for Indiana operators against reducing freight rates from eastern producing fields. He argued Indiana coal faces a serious handicap from eastern rate favors and nonunion labor, risking market loss and harm to workers and communities dependent on mining. Samuel D. Royse led the legal presentation.
Philip Mosecu of Shippensburg sues Jere Keck and Isaac Russell for ridiculing his horse by calling it Spark Plug. The county court dismissed the case as no great damage and costs were divided.
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