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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
6
In a crowded scene a hurried cook spreads a vast array of dishes across a long cool dining room table. Soldiers or workers, dirtied and exhausted, wash and joke outside before the women pick through the remains and linger over the aftermath.
The Post Office announces the first Great Circle trans Atlantic airmail flight leaving New York June 24 and returning from Southampton June 28. Covers must bear country postage and may be sent to Pan American for stamping with handling charges. Westbound routes include Moncton Dublin London and Botwood with specific per half ounce fees. No dispatch between London and Dublin.
A vivid scene of threshing in the fields with workers finishing the last load of wheat. The thrashing engine quiets as dusk settles, leaving a gleaming straw stack and unbroken stubble across broad acres. The farmer’s wife pledges help once threshers are needed again.
Mainliner, a mongrel dog dubbed by airport staff, was struck and killed on the airport road as it darted in front of a car. The familiar welcome bark will be missed by arriving passengers.
J Lowrie Mattox, Stockton Township trustee, explains funding gaps and payroll delays for teachers, janitors, and bus drivers. He cites June draws, state aid cuts, declining tax collections, and nontransferable funds as causes, urging resignations only if a teacher cannot serve pupils.
Miami residents largely back curb service praised as time saving and expansive. Motoring customers park, horn, and a clerk delivers items from shops including drugstores, restaurants, laundries, and grocers. The trend, traced to 1926 origins, expands from barbecue stands to barbers and laundries adding driveways and uniformed attendants.
The passage notes storefronts extending 200 feet or more with minimal depth, using curb displays to showcase fruit, furniture sales by curbside salesmen, and a drive in movie theater where motorists park to watch large screens. This reflects a late 20th century urban retail scene.
Noel Limquin, last Micmac medicine man, died in Havelock New Brunswick. A Woodstock era performer, he toured with a medicine show and claimed to have learned his craft in a large New Haven factory run by many workers.
A partition suit was filed in Greene Circuit Court Bloomfield by Anna Murphy and others against John Sharr and others. The lands belong to the late Sarah Long, now deceased, with her heirs as parties. A marriage license was issued to Troy W Hash and Ruth P Combs of Bloomfield.
Two thieves drained gasoline from a steam shovel at a vacant excavation site. They began their work in the early evening on a warm night as Police Chief Meade K. Bates and Identification Officer E. C. Fuller sat on adjacent porches across the street, observing the scene.
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