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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1922
Page
3
An old advertisement touts P. D. Q. bed bug killer as a 35 cent box that makes a quart, claims to kill bed bugs, roaches, fleas, and eggs, and notes a patent spout for applying the liquid into cracks. It promotes liquid form and sealed bottles of varying strengths.
The circuit court of Greene county Indiana appoints DANN DIXON as administrator of the estate of Albert N Newsom of Greene county deceased. The estate is believed solvent and the administrator is named on June 19 1922 with case citation 27-7-5.
Bloomington hosts a four member delegation from Indiana soft coal districts soliciting aid for miners families affected by a lockout after contracts were refused. F O Wiley, Adam Gill, Jack Smith, and Joseph Llewellyn praised Bloomington Chamber of Commerce Mayor John G Harris and local businesses for generous support ranging from 1 to 25 dollars.
Mrs Norene Baughman of Portland Indiana asks Jay County court for a six month temporary separation from Marvin Baughman her 1918 spouse amid alleged infidelity. Judge William McGriff grants the request with alimony of six dollars weekly during the period while she hopes the affair ends.
Paramount presents Booth Tarkington's Conquest of Canaan at the Grand with close author producer collaboration. Tarkington revised the script and guided scenes with director R William Neill, shaping characters like Judge Pike. Cast includes Doris Kenyon Diana Allen Ann Egleston Alice Fleming Paul Everton Louis Hendricks Riley Hatch.
The text explains Earth's atmosphere as it rises, noting thinning air with altitude, cooling behavior changing after a few thousand feet, twilight ending around twenty miles up, and a hydrogen rich layer beginning at about fifty miles above the surface.
In Indianapolis June 27 a suit for an injunction before Judge Anderson seeks to bar interference by the United Mine Workers of America and District 11 miners at the Peacock mine in Wheatland. Named defendants include John L. Lewis and several officers, plus a dozen Knox county miners, as parties to the case.
The article claims Tuesidians possessed brass knowledge, shown by analyzing an ax head made of copper and zinc.
A former pitman recalls Tammas Sargent, the sole abstainer among his crew at Black Diamond mine, and a night of drunken ruin ending in murder by accident. The narrator confronts guilt, seeks redemption, and learns of a prank by friends that nearly exposes a hidden life. The piece blends a memoir of remorse with a subsequent health column on living long and avoiding folly.
A brief classified notice notes a Citizen Want Ad is available to sell an item. The ad invites readers to use the Citizen Want Ad section to place a listing or inquire about items for sale.
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