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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
4
A poem style column reflects on civil conflict with a wartime frame and social slang terms. It contrasts passionate verses about soldiers in Spain with lines about daily life and music while noting commissions and labor roles.
A verse about a hungry homeless tramp dog named Rover returning to the bar scene. The speaker urges mercy for the lonesome animal, noting burrs in fur and mud on feet. The poem contrasts condemnation with compassion for the roaming canine.
A 1938 column wryly notes Barbs Rime Minister Chamberlain as a go-getter for peace, Secretary Wallace’s 57-cent coin loans beat the President to a Thanksgiving proclamation, and editorial quips on voting booths, Japan using bees for messages in China, and a fast-talking husband convincing his wife no winter cold.
An ad circulates a Bluebird cedar chest as a future gift idea. It promotes the chest as a lasting reminder of thoughtfulness and urges buyers to choose now to please someone forever.
Notice of partition action in Greene Circuit Court in Bloomfield Indiana. Defendants listed include Flo Culwright Gwyneth Franks Nicholas Franks Walter Poe and others as assignees of Jainten Truet Comins Nowcomer. They are urged to appear by November 60th term, otherwise a decree will be settled in their absence. Clerk LEW GOOD and attorney George FR Jackson sign.
Des Moines reports indicate liquor permit books used at state stores cause banking delays as holders attempt to deposit money on the liquor accounts. A teller recounts four such attempts in one week, noting the permits resemble bank books with dark red imitation leather covers.
Mr and Mrs Garrett H Buck and daughter Marilee entertained at dinner at their Pleasantville home for Mr and Mrs Fred Gab bard Mr and Mrs Edwin Tendick and children Bobby Lou and Cora Lee Miss Ruth Gabbard and Angel Maribel of near Linton and Mr and Mrs Ora Faint of West Atlas community.
In Greenwich Connecticut December 8 the 70 foot ketch Ahto sails with skipper Ahto Walter 27 from Esthene and his wife and infant aboard heading for Jamaica then Panama Canal and New Guinea as the crew of landlubbers includes an industrial designer a doctor and students. The voyage spans 18 months with a crossing of the South Atlantic to the West Indies and a Pitcairn Island stop.
Paul Good 22 year old senior in Ohio State University's College of Agriculture and native of Van Wert County has become a full fledged college auctioneer at Columbus Ohio, proving live stock auctioneers need not be older.
An advertisement urges relief for lingering coughs and chest colds with Creomulsion. It promises to ease inflamed mucous membranes and expel phlegm, claiming refunds if not satisfied and stressing to ask for the genuine Creomulsion.
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