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Diverse Local Snippets Reflect Everyday Life in Indiana
A collage of brief items notes fears of shooting, moral contrasts between labor and laziness, and a snapshot of debt and foreclosures. It cites 6 000 building and loan associations with 1 800 000 shareholders and $500 million assets, plus railroads entering receivership and foreclosures, a neighborly arson incident near Newkirk Oklahoma, rising school enrollment to 16 million, and a Michigan City medical oddity involving a needle. It ends with a Long Beach Eye anecdote about a belt needle eventually exiting a young man’s arm.
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