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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
3
The advertisement claims R. Long recovered from neuralgia caused by upset stomach through Eatonic. It urges readers to keep a healthy stomach, notes Eatonic relieves acidity and gas quickly, and offers a big box at a small price with a druggist guarantee.
Professional critic Edwin T Emery based in New York City at 130 West 47th Street reads manuscripts including plays and farces. He offers criticism and advice as a professional expert director.
Tanlac is produced from roots herbs barks and flowers gathered worldwide including the Alps Andes Persia India and Mexico. The largest pharmaceutical laboratory in the United States at Dayton Ohio handles production with a daily capacity of 50 000 bottles and over 20 million sold in six years.
After a club gathering two members trade a macabre joke about Uriah Hampson whose wife bought a house with his insurance money. The widower remarries, then again after her death, leaving him to feel displaced as the man living in a house he never saw.
A vintage warning notes that true Aspirin bears the Bayer name on packaging or tablets and warns buyers to avoid counterfeit. It says Bayer’s aspirin is prescribed and proven safe for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. Small tins of twelve tablets cost a few cents and larger packages are sold by druggists.
The original inventor William Church of Boston patented a typesetting machine in England in 1822. Mergenthaler later revolutionized the field, with 20 prior machines rendered useless by his invention.
An arrest of a sailor is reported amid wartime naval tactics in a New York Evening World snippet. The fragment hints at discipline actions within the fleet and a sharp naval atmosphere surrounding the incident.
George D. Foster a former corporal of the Fourth Engineers found a gilt Roman coin from 306 A D while in France near Sergy. A college professor values it at more than its weight in gold noting its Trier mint origin and Emperor Constantine inscription. Foster now serves in the American Legion in Oregon.
The American Legion observes military funerals for fallen service members returning from France. A ceremony at Carl Anderson Post in Cloquet, Minnesota honors John De foe the first American Indian from the state killed in action. The tribe supported a burial befitting his service and bravery.
Former Private Paul J. Healy now head of Chicago Grain Products directs that only ex service men be hired for a new distillery project and that veterans receive priority in company payroll. The article notes Legion activity across multiple states including Chicago St Paul New Orleans and Kansas City detailing aid to unemployed veterans and campaigns for loyalty amid labor unrest.
The American Legion reports strong support from members and communities. A Saint Louis donor gave 5000 dollars to aid disabled ex servicemen, and Minnesota posts contend over the oldest Legionnaire on rolls. Congress debates alien service member entry rights amid wartime nostalgia.
Virgil Decker 19 of Elkhart, guilty of first degree murder in Kosciusko County for Leroy Lovett’s death, will await sentencing after his mother Lydia and brothers Calvin and Fred Decker face murder indictments. Jury verdict came on first ballot after hours of deliberation amid claim of a plot to pass Lovett’s body as Decker’s to claim a $24,000 life policy.
Bloomington June 13 At the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Indiana School of Religion in this city an excellent report of the work and progress was presented by Dr Joseph C Todd the dean Directors present were Rev EB L Day Marion E M C Hobbs Indianapolis EB S Boe Bingen A Smith R D promotional secretary who will begin work June 15 and place his headquarters in Indianapolis.
David Tipton twenty one a World War veteran was struck by lightning while plowing corn on his farm three miles west of Nashville the team of horses pulling the sleigh were killed Mrs John Day a neighbor witnessed the tragedy Tipton son of Charlies W Tipton and his wife lived on the family farm with four brothers and one sister surviving.
Alexander Hanners a 24 year old farmer living seven miles southeast of Seymour shot and killed himself. He bid a neighbor farewell saying he was leaving and did not know where he was going. In a note to his wife he explained the intent but gave no reason. The widow and a small child survive.
Benjamin J. Burris, four years assistant state superintendent, is appointed head of the state school system by Governor McCray to succeed L. N. Hines. Burris assumes the post October 1 as Hines retires to lead the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute.
Ninety one students from 26 states and Cuba Peru and the Philippines will receive degrees in arts and letters commerce science and law at Notre Dame’s commencement tonight. United States Senator David I Walsh of Massachusetts will deliver the commencement address.
Claude Wilcox one of Wabash county’s first World War casualties was laid to rest in Urbana Sunday afternoon. Local American Legion members officiated as his body, shipped from New York last week, arrived at the parents’ home on Saturday. This marks the seventh fallen serviceman returned to the area.
A dialogue between Mr Eagle and Mrs Eagle discusses companionship and the meaning of celebration. Mr Eagle explains birthdays as special days with cake candles gifts and parties, noting an upcoming day of great importance. The exchange emphasizes devotion and contentment in their partnership despite fragmented text.
The passage celebrates Independence Day with fireworks, parades, and flag waving. It extols the Bald Eagle as the national bird chosen for its strength and freedom and notes widespread eagle imagery in national life. The dialogue frames patriotism and national identity through a family conversation about symbols and liberty.
A schoolteacher recounts Columbus’s discovery of America as happening over 400 years ago. A student responds with a witty line about the teacher’s memory, highlighting the classroom humor in a historic tale.
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