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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1926
Page
2
The piece urges honesty service and cooperation over cutthroat rivalry, praising the Greater Linton club and local merchants for building trade through value and mutual support. It notes voters shifting away from party lines toward faithful service and urges support for incoming Greene County officials based on merit.
After tomorrow some new faces will be seen behind the desks in several county offices in Greene county. In our democratic form of government this comes to pass often. We change our public servants. We change them not always for the reason that out-going officials have not rendered a good account of their stewardship, but because of the personal desire of those who have ren-
United Press Dispatch reports in several Indiana towns a quiet year end. In Warsaw two drunkenness tests were recorded by police chief. Huntington notes a custodian Santa Claus fell, breaking a rib. Plymouth crowns Velda Mae Whited poet laureate after best store poem prize. Wabash man Howard Accomb paid 110 dollars for a bad check to a shoe store clerk. Kokomo reports a man bidding for “meanest thief” title after stealing Christmas tree lights from Trinity church.
Hartford city reports John Willman of Martford receiving a bushel of sweet potatoes averaging four pounds each from a brother who raised them in Arkansas. Frankfort notes a raid on a blind tiger where police were doused with sour mash during champagne bath scenes and beer showers.
The original Salem Mass deed to the land is vaulted and a photographic copy displays where the original stood. The crown-era disputes over land led to Indians signing in 1686 for 20 pounds. Today the land is valued at 100 million dollars. During the 1914 fire Mayor Hurley rushed to city hall to safeguard the relic.
The first regular theater in Sydney, Levey's Royal, opened October 6, 1833, behind a public house run by Barnet Levey. Earlier plays were staged by convicts on Church Hill from 1798, who faced banishment for impropriety. Reports say theatergoers were robbed by criminal exiles allied with the theatre bull, leading to closure and razing of the building.
A garbled early hour fragment shows unclear speech about persons and events. Readable names or places are not discernible, leaving the exact subject and context uncertain.
Mrs. Fannie Bain of 210 C street northeast declares she now offers mineral baths massage motor traction and other modern drugless therapies with appointment phone 331. Also notices seek shoe repairs apples real estate office move coal hauling and multiple sale rental or trade ads from local residents.
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