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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
3
An advertisement by Harry Welch Funeral Director stresses specialized funeral care. It highlights thorough embalming, dignified handling of details, and reverent burial rites as essential to comforting mourners. The director vows lifelong dedication to service, noting training, experience, and genuine love for fine work as key.
A fragmented text traces multiple name variants from Sullivan to Dugger and Linton, interleaving Sullivan and Dugger with partial segments. The source shows repeated swaps among Sullivan Dugger Linton and related fragments, lacking clear context or events.
The new closed season on bass and bluegills expired yesterday allowing fishing for these protected species. Reports from Linton and other waters note good catches and witnesses say anglers released caught basses to protect spawning. State official George N. Mannfeld says the law boosts natural reproduction and expects a large year class with bass reaching ten inches in two years. Wardens kept vigilant patrols to ensure compliance.
A second picture sermon will be shown at the Baptist church Sunday night using more than forty fine images with the stere opticon. The subject is On the Hillside With the Common People. The program attracts growing crowds as still pictures are praised for depicting scriptural themes. Unlike many movies, the display faithfully reproduces scenes from the life of Christ.
Dewey Frederick, accused of stealing James Davis's automobile and taking it to Noblesville, faces arraignment before Judge Van Buskirk Mortday. He reportedly may plead not guilty and stand trial. George Talbott's shoes were also stolen from the wash house at "Little Betty" mine but were returned by Sheriff Wines. Frederick wore them.
Polov, known as Big Steve, convicted in circuit court for operating a still on the Herman Schloot farm northeast of the city, has paid $500 in fines and $31 in costs through friends. He has been on the pen farm for three or months and officials hope to reduce his term, believing he has been sufficiently punished.
Mrs. Cleo Humphreys of Kokomo, formerly of Linton, reports her 14 year old daughter Areta has been missing since Tuesday. Police search continues as mother heads to Kokomo seeking the girl.
Nick Adkins was fined 50 dollars and sentenced to thirty days on the farm by Mayor Miller after a fight last Sunday in the woods west of the city. Sheriff Wines took Adkins away yesterday.
The text notes that cats have short round muzzles while dogs have longer sharp muzzles, contrasting the facial features used to separate the cat and dog tribes.
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