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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
2
The notice outlines advertising rates for the Linton Indiana office including per inch and per line pricing and subscription rates for city carrier and mail subscribers. The back page editorial comments praise Russians resisting seven hour workdays, endorse abolishing the electoral college, note a job for every man, and close with pride in Linton and its citizens as the new year begins.
The family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during father Andy Smiths illness and death. Grateful for flowers car rides and any assistance. Special thanks to Rev Heitmeyer and the Baptist church quartet and Earl T Aikin for consolation and kindness. Children
Misses Beulah Ellis and Helen Stewart have returned from a camping trip on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ellis.
A square dance is announced for New Year’s night at Moose Hall. Former invitations holders are invited to attend.
Mr and Mrs John Smurdon returned last evening from Chicago where they spent Christmas and attended the Smurdon family reunion.
Mrs Horner Day is ill with pneumonia since Christmas evening and has remained confined to her bed.
Mrs Martha J Freeman died in New Smyrna Florida after a short pneumonia illness. Her son Clarence and son Will Freeman of Terre Haute endured the loss with daughters Mrs W A Craig of New Smyrna and Mrs Jasper Schloot of Linton. Survived by three adults and a sister Mrs Margaret Carr, burial planned in Fairview cemetery after funeral at First M E Church in Linton. Her husband Job Freeman died four years ago. She lived a Christian life and was active in local church circles.
Miss Mabel Bray daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles W Bray of 160 Third Street Northwest leaves this morning for Indianapolis to begin a three year nurses training course at the Methodist hospital.
The U B Aid will hold a bake sale at the Overland parish on A street northeast this Saturday. Cakes pies bread potato salad hot doughnuts baked beans pumpkin pies and candy will be sold.
The men’s Bible class held a rare gathering at the Reform church with a debate on whether surroundings and associates influence life more than the individual. The affirmative team included Russell Huber Ed Stoeckel and Jacob Hahn, while Henry Bredeweg Maurice Doidge and Henry Kramer Jr led the negative side. The judges ruled the negative won, but excitement continued until a table with hot coffee wieners cheese ham and pickles was served. John Short led the cooking and the group requested more such meetings in the future.
The Saron Reform Church invites members to close 1921 with worship at 10 30 am and a sermon Abide With Us. Sunday school at 9 30 am, Christian Endeavor at 6 30 pm with Lessons From a New Year Psalm. Election of officers and envelope return noted by year end. A Happy New Year from Pastor A R Fledderjehann.
Mr. and Mrs. Guido Schloot and their young son returned to Indianapolis last night after spending the holidays here with relatives.
In a Richmond Times-Dispatch piece a character named Charcoal Eph recalls having many friends once who lent him a dollar and told all, lamenting how lonely he has become now. The quote highlights social loss and personal loneliness.
A study shows Newton is the most common place name in England, appearing in at least 72 distinct locations across the country. The finding highlights Newton’s pervasive historical footprint and regional distribution, underscoring its enduring toponymic prominence.
A concise aphorism by A H Clough on knowledge as a tradeable good. Grace is given of Gog, yet knowl edge is bought in the market, highlighting the tension between grace and earned learning.
The article notes that in hundreds of thousands of years of human history, only about three hundred plant species have been cultivated from over a hundred thousand known to exist, highlighting the vast potential still untapped in plant cultivation.
An uptown haberdasher shows autumn ties in a display brighter in color than a Turner landscape. A window card reads Listen.
A brief note notes a misread entry in a young wife’s household account spelling Hootmeal as a 15 cent item. The Boston Transcript identifies it as evidently the Scotch kind.
Arthur M Grass offers an evening penmanship course for upper grades adults, starting Monday January 8 for sixteen weeks in the new high school building. Classes run Monday to Wednesday from 7 to 8 15 pm, fees six dollars for four months or three dollars for two months, payable in advance.
The M F Dancing club hosts a regular dance Saturday night at the K of P hall 2712 with a six piece orchestra. Dancing runs from 9 to 12. Ladies who did not promise to bring pies or cakes are asked to bring sandwiches.
A brief notice urges readers to register by next Saturday at 2 p m for a floor lamp promotion at Welch chapel. The lucky registrant will be rewarded.
If atomic energy problems were solved, a walnut sized amount could replace a thousand tons of coal to drive a steamboat from Liverpool to New York, illustrating the potential efficiency of atomic fuels.
The statement asserts that no action is blameless unless the will directs it, tying responsibility to the will behind the act and implying legal scrutiny of intent and directive authority.
A crab proves its strength by lifting 490 times its body weight on average, surpassing typical crustacean feats and marking it as a premier lifter among its peers in the animal kingdom.
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