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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1922
Page
7
A businessman's wife suffered two years with sore watery eyes and pain day and night. She used Lavoptik eye wash with camphor hydrastis and witch hazel, and relief came at once. A second user reports it leaves eyes cool and fresh and a small bottle helps weak or inflamed eyes. Aluminum eye cup free by W. J. Hamilton, druggist.
Experiments reported to the American Physical Society show a fixed sound travels about four times farther over water than over grass under equal quiet conditions. Water is not a perfect reflector nor grass a perfect absorber, and the result has practical implications for sending sound across grassy plains.
Scientists dispute the idea that sole skin is thicker due to walking. They trace thickened foot skin to ancient animal ancestors like the amphibious mud puppy. As humans evolved the skin on the soles remained naturally thickened, reinforced by walking.
A merchant and a parson played calf together with the parson often losing. The merchant quips that one day he will preach the funeral sermon and the parson will get his revenge at that hole. The exchange ends with gloom and dry humor from both.
Editor Dempsey recalls a Jasonville scene where a woman protected chicks from a downpour by placing them in a barrel. The mother hen resisted, the chicks wandered, and the scene ended with the flock returning to the barrel as rain battered the yard. The tale yields a lesson on timing and hens.
Theo dore Dyer was found unconscious Monday night near Matt Calvert's residence. Dr. J. W. Clifford saw no external injuries. Dyer awoke Tuesday morning at around six after recalling leaving Frank Hoese's home and could not explain the incident.
Market notes from Indianapolis show wheat prices around $1.10 to $1.12 a bushel and oats at 40 to 45 cents. Timothy hay trades near $12 to $13 per ton, with stock and cattle values for steers and bulls listed as strong indicators of demand.
Oscar Fitzpatrick returns from Minneapolis after a business trip and stops in Milwaukee for the eighteenth annual session of the Associated Advertising Clubs. Delegates from across the United States and several foreign countries attend the week long convention. He receives a sixty four page program of the proceedings.
Paul Schanlaub, captain of the Wabash College basketball team for four years, is hired by the Linton school board to teach mathematics and coach athletics at Linton High School. Lyons Herald notes Lyons will challenge Linton next term with a new gym and coach.
Telephone bills are due at the New Home Telephone Co. office between the first and tenth of each month. Service may be discontinued if payment is not received on or before the 15th.
The Marquesa islands show a drastic population drop from 80,000 thirty years ago to 2,500 today. Some attribute the decline to introduced clothing by missionaries, while tuberculosis rapidly spread, a disease previously unknown in the area.
Bruce and Miss Massy confess their past crimes to Anne Maria in a treehouse. She forgives with wit, accepting a future with no strings while hinting at a marriage to West. The trio acknowledge shared guilt and vow shared risk, ending with Anne Maria revealing plans for a new New Year.
The piece recalls Henry VII briefly easing oppression by freeing Cornish rebels earlier and notes Henry VIII's reputation for harsh divorce practices. It mentions Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne, who was executed after fraud. It also notes 1585 relief efforts for the poor begun by Henry VII.
The term shyster, used for unscrupulous lawyers, may derive from a New York Essex Market court figure named Scheuster. Justice Osborne reportedly labeled Scheuster practices as such, leading to the broader adoption of the phrase. The Sun notes this link as a plausible origin of the slang.
Chauncey Depew recounts a tale about Melville E Ingalls who rebuilt bankrupt lines then rested in his Maine birthplace. In a country store the farmer jokes that Ingalls earns ten thousand dollars yearly and Ingalls confirms the figure. The farmer notes luck and nerve can yield such results.
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