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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1925
Page
2
Advertising rates and notices mix with editorial quips about crime, aviation crime and Prohibition era politics. Mentions include Indiana post office subscriptions, rates, and local classifieds along with brief sharp social commentary. References to Henry Ford, Princeton Theological seminary, Colorado primary changes, and auto crash casualties in 1920 appear among terse observations.
May 7 report notes the Jones family entering the Indianapolis 600 mile race at the speedway on May 30 with the Wade Special driven by a rising talent who left a drug store cler k job to pursue auto racing. The Smiths also field a driver in a bid to challenge the Jones entry, with both factions eager for the big season showcase.
A dynamite blast last night damaged transformers at the Consolidated Coal Highland mine near Shineston, West Virginia. Police suspect an attempted wreck of the Francis mine of Montfair Gas Coal and the Victor mine of Monongahela Fuel, aiming to sever a high tension line serving multiple properties. Bloodhounds aided police and searches spread through the area as investigators assess motives and outcomes.
A critic argues the US has more laws than England but not more enforcement. Delays in trials let criminals evade punishment and encourage further crimes. Quick disposals of murders thefts rapes incendiarism and banditry are proposed as deterrents.
Indiana shows a higher birth rate in 1924 than 1923 and a drop in death rates, per a Census Bureau report relayed by the state board of health. Urban Indiana death rate was 12.4 per 1000, rural 2.1, with birth rates urban 28.3 and rural 21.4 in 1927.
Chicago May 7 Dr J B Jenney of the Quadrangle club held a perfect hand second time in recent months bidding seven with 16 hearts backing it. Four months earlier a University of Chicago professor, also a club member, possessed a perfect hand. experts say such a hand may occur about once in 600 million deals. For sale several used sewing machines by Singer Sewing Machine Co. Also wanted to buy wardrobe via phone 211 Tp.
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