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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
7
Indiana agricultural statistics show extreme heat and needed rain lifting general conditions. Corn and spring wheat are in good shape, oat crops benefited by showers, alfalfa cutting underway in southern counties, potatoes and truck crops improving, but livestock remain in good condition and wages for farm hands have fallen.
Jury called in Warsaw Indiana to try Virgil Decker eighteen charged with killing Leroy Lovett twenty in March. Decker allegedly struck Lovett with an iron bar and dumped the body on a railroad track to be hit by a freight train. State says conspiracy exists to swap bodies and collect twenty thousand dollar life insurance. Decker family members face separate murder charges in a later trial.
Douglas Fairbanks said no truth to reports that Mary Pickford Fairbanks is preparing for a visit of the stork. He quipped that the only hovering bird is an ostrich they own, for sale cheap, northern California.
The Fortnightly Club plans a Friday afternoon meeting with Mrs Ray Wofford at 410 East Vincennes Street. All members are urged to attend.
Mrs. J. F. Weisman will entertain the Bridge Club Thursday afternoon at her home at Vincennes and Sixth streets East. Members are urged to be present.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the U. B church will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Joe Goodman.
Molly the usher watches a long courting couple drift into theater intrigue then reunites them by guiding the man to the girl seat. The couple’s reconciliation moves Molly to declare Real Life is better than films.
A New York waterfront blacksmith shop recalls when giant bellows powered fires by swaying a lever. The old device has vanished as ships left the wharves and blowers and switches replace manual bellows, though the anvil and sparks remain as spectators watch.
Walt Whitman extols art as the flawless triumph of expression through simple, definite movement. He praises writing that mirrors the rectitude and insouciance of animal motion and the unassailable sentiment of trees and grasses.
Thoroughbred breeders use animal companions to calm nervous stallions and mares. Almost every racing stable keeps a goat, dog, cat, cock, or hen to ease temperamental horses. The custom likely originated in England, where the breed began. Goats are cited as the best remedy for stall walking, a disruptive nervous habit during training.
A humorous exchange highlights a man hailed as a literary genius who also pays his board on time. The quip centers on how the speaker recognizes talent while joking about his punctual payments and financial reliability.
Mrs Corntessel asks if any pigs were sold. Her husband says no, he keeps them for pleasure driving them around to make city people envious. He values the adoring gaze of passersby over money.
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