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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
3
Parisians object to flamboyant signs along the Champs Elysees and a move is under way to pass laws banning such displays in residence districts of the world capital.
A beggar pleads for help at a doorstep claiming he is blind from birth for seven years. The householder recalls a previous encounter asking if the beggar was the lame man who begged a dime yesterday.
The article notes the battleship Maryland as the first fighting vessel to carry 16 inch guns. It also mentions long ears as a beauty trait in Peru and the custom among Russians to drink tea from a large glass tumbler in a silver holder. It references feudal England where military tenants owed a knight per 500 acres.
Governor McCray announces the state will buy 1 036 acres at 168 63 an acre for a new reformatory 26 miles from Indianapolis near Pendleton. Location chosen after six site proposals, Carmel led with 74 points, Pendleton 7 0. Mooreville Acton Clayton Roachdale ranked lower. Allocation includes near railway lines and adequate water supply with immediate possession uncertain for some building sites.
William Livengood retired postmaster of French Lick and his seventeen year-old daughter Ethel died when their automobile skidded on a snow covered Dixie highway north of Mitchell Indiana and overturned. Elvis Parks Newton Stewart and Geneva Rogers of French Lick escaped serious injury while en route to a sectional basketball tournament in Bedford.
Dewey Mails found guilty of stealing chickens from the Montgomery farm near Seymour Indiana. He was fined ten dollars and sentenced to one to eight years at the Indiana State Reformatory by Judge James A. Cox. Relatives Lyman Henry Brooks and Sylvester Brooks were convicted on the same charge and Ben Brooks awaits death on the killing of Montgomery.
Mrs Mary Johnson Donner who gave Donner park to Columbus will be honored with a large elaborately carved stone arch at the park entrance bearing her name. The structure will memorialize her gift and stand as a lasting tribute in the city.
A London Telegraph joke notes an office boy asking if trimming letters with scissors would be easier than filing, reflecting humor about clerical work.
A nostalgic ad touts California Fig Syrup as a safe remedy to cleanse a child’s liver and bowels. It promises dramatic relief within hours and urges mothers to use the genuine product with labeled directions for all ages.
A playful exchange from Warside Tales features a futuristic fortune teller telling an actress she will marry four times, while she questions predicting the past instead of the future.
An elderly French woman bequeathed most of her estate to charity and a substantial sum to her cat Minnette, prompting a 17th century note that cats have often been legatees. In 1671 Jeanne Dupuis left two cats 30 sous weekly for meat broth served on separate plates, a detail relatives contested as proof of her diminished mind.
The piece quotes from the Boston Transcript describing Madam Margot with vivid phrases. It notes a tall man with an unpleasant face and a woman praised as a beautiful blasphemy, comparing her to a self-portrait rendered in iron.
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