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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1925
Page
3
United Press Dispatch reports July 14 in Indianapolis hog receipts at 7,000 with prices for heavies at 14.15 to 14.25, medium and mixed 14.25 to 14.40, and common to choice 14.60. Cattle receipts 1,300 with steers 9.00 to 12.50, cows and heifers 8.00 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 600 steady with top at 6.00 and lambs at 15. Calves receipts 900 steady with tops at 11.00 and bulk 10.00 to 10.50.
A citizen wants to place a local want ad to sell items quickly. The notice requests readers to contact the advertiser for details and pricing, highlighting a straightforward sale through community classifieds.
The Ladies Aid society of the Saron Reformed church meets with Miss Florence Haseman tomorrow afternoon at 2 o clock.
A two day exhibit of boys and girls club work with a county farm bureau picnic on the second day will be held at Worthington park on September 2 and 3. Winners from each club will compete for sweepstakes prizes in calves pigs chickens potatoes garden products sewing canning and baking. A county farm bureau speaker of prominence will address the event, expected to draw hundreds.
A large crowd of gay picnickers gathered at the Bou house east of Plummer for an evening outing. They enjoyed a bountiful fish supper and swimming. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Pike of Detroit, plus numerous Bloomfield, Linton, Bicknell, Pleasantville residents and their families.
For sale a nearly new eight room bungalow with a garage in a good location. Cash price about $4,500 from seller Jon E. Beasley. Contact Beasley for details and viewing.
The condition of little Tommy Lynn Shouse is much better today at City Hospital. Hospitals and doctors provided a positive update on his health, noting steady improvement and ongoing care.
British scientist J A Lloyd argues that the traditional day length was a four hour cycle. He contends the daily period once existed as a brief phase, impacting historical time reckoning and natural rhythms.
Open house will be held at the new Baptist parsonage tomorrow afternoon from 2 30 to 5 o'clock after prayer meeting. Following the service, church members and friends may attend from 8 30 to 10 o'clock. Rev O A Cook and family extend the invitation for congregants to view the parsonage.
The stage loses two famed Shakespearean actors. Sir Henry Irving, performing in Becket, dies at his hotel after collapsing without regaining consciousness. Edmund Kean, acting in Othello, sank to the floor after uttering a farewell line, dying on stage area.
Eminent biologist Julian Huxley notes that flies show manners. A fly in a box devours an insect, but when a female is present the male kills and feeds the mate, then remembers to save another insect for his wife after she is removed.
A 60 foot long loaf claimed as the largest ever baked in Minneapolis weighed over 400 pounds of flour. Bakers say the huge bread drew curious spectators as it cooled.
Clarence Darrow drew praise from a hotel route crowd after his courtroom appearance. Mrs Darrow urged him to change shirts as he faced sun and heat. General Ben McKenzie, once an opposing attorney, called the speech the greatest on any subject.
Two Boston residents required a policeman to shield them from a colossal rat that menaced them in the street. An editor’s quip adds humor about the bean pot lid missing amid the uproar.
A historical description notes Peking's walled city with a wall fifty feet high and forty feet thick. The walled portion measures about sixteen miles in circumference, marking one of the few large ancient walled cities remaining intact.
Nature Magazine notes the Baird cormorant avoids top rock ridges and uses inaccessible sea wall crevices for nesting. The subject proves difficult to interview in close quarters.
The output of pin factories worldwide totals about 84 million pins per day. If laid end to end the line would stretch halfway across the Atlantic, and over a few weeks could encircle the earth.
The Silver Bible, Ulfilas translation of the four gospels, is the only extant Gothic language writing. About 1,400 years old, it is preserved at Uppsala University in Sweden.
A written note describes London as a network of many parks surrounding houses, with an American observer remarking that the city resembles “a series of parks with some houses between.”
An ad touts a S5c package of Pesky Devils Quietus P D D Q claiming it will produce a chemical called Papesuls to eliminate bedbugs and insects in hotels hospitals and dwellings. The product is sold in sealed double strength liquid bottles.
The body of Carlos Brown eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Robert Brown of Jasonville was recovered from White river between Bloomfield and Worthington around 11 36 yesterday forenoon. Sheriff Ervin Ray and helpers used dynamite to surface the body about forty feet from where it vanished. The family were drowned when the father tried to rescue the wife and mother. Henry Wesnidge of Jasonville found the body. Funeral services are planned in Jasonville tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs Mack Denham hosted a birthday gathering for their daughter Arietta Music Denham with dancing and contests. Guests included Aileen Brown Delimah Dixon Katherine Kunkler Virginia Small Alverna Turnbull Zenobia Arietta Denham Earl Duncan Willard Page Guy Hays and Herbert Brown as friends offered best wishes for many more birthdays.
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