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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
2
The Vienna bank warns that weekly issues of old tematic fivers and Kronen notes hold little value amid hyperinflation. A guide by Annermente Groner notes a rough rate of one cent per hundred Kronen and shows a tank image with collateral. Official reports mention about two and a half million in circulation.
Public-spirited Parisians protest bold signs resembling Broadway displays along the Champs Elysees and a move is under way to pass laws banning such signs in other residential districts of the world’s capital.
A doorfront encounter shows a blind man asking for help while the householder recalls a prior dime request. The beggar insists he has been born blind for seven years.
The Maryland battleship becomes the first warship to carry 16 inch guns marking a milestone in naval armament. Elsewhere cultural tidbits note long ears as beauty for Peruvians and Russians favor large glass tumblers over cups. Feudal England mandated knights for every 500 acres of land.
Governor McCray announced a plan to purchase 1036 acres near Pendleton at 163.63 per acre for a state reform institution moving from Jeffersonville. A selection committee ranked sites, Pendleton second to Crisel, with other proposals including Neto Go Clayton and Pogebrbile. The Princeton deep vein coal mine disaster was reported with 37 mules rescued after a rock and earth collapse and a damaged hoist shaft.
William Livengood, recently retired postmaster of French Lick, and his seventeen-year-old daughter Miss Michel Livengood were killed when their car overturned in Mitchell Laawrence county on the Dixie highway. Elvis Parks, 22, from French Lick, with Newton Stewart and Miss Geneva Rogers, escaped serious injury. The crash is believed caused by ice and snow on the road.
Dewey Mails, age 22, found guilty of stealing chickens from Amaven DL Montgomery’s farm near Sey mour. Montgomery was killed on the farm last spring. Mails fined $10 and sentenced to one to six years at the Indiana State Reformatory by Judge J A Cox. Lyman and Henry Brooks, part of the same charge, were arrested and convicted, Sylvester Brooks also convicted, Ben Brooks awaiting death sentence for Montgomery killing.
Columbus March 6 A Mrs Mary Johnson Donner who gave Donner park to the city will be remembered by a large stone arch at the park entrance. The arch will be carved elaborately and bear Mrs Donners name and a record of her gift.
A London Telegraph item notes an office boy suggesting he trim letters with scissors to save filing time. The exchange highlights clerical impatience and a practical shortcut in a busy office.
A vintage advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a safe remedy to cleanse the liver and bowels in hours. It claims a single teaspoon heals constipation and bilious symptoms, urging mothers to buy the genuine product from druggists with the name California to avoid imitations.
A terse exchange features a futurist fortune teller predicting four marriages for a woman, while an actress dismisses the focus on the past and seeks future insights. The fragment from Wayside Tales suggests a playful or prophetic vignette about destiny and romance.
An elderly Frenchwoman left most of her estate to charity and a large sum to her cat Minnette. The tale notes that pets have often received legacies, recounting 1671 harpist Jeanne Felix Dupuis who provided two cats 30 sous weekly for meat broth served on individual plates.
A Boston Transcript excerpt describes Madam Margot with striking facial imagery. The tall man with an unpleasant taste and a woman whose face is a beautiful blasphemy are invoked as vivid likenesses in the narrative.
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