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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
3
A Marine who served long in the Orient asks to be reassigned there, echoing Kipling's line that ships him east of Suez reveal a true sentiment of enlisted men. The letter blends nostalgia with a poetical appeal for another tour. Also featured is an Advertisement for Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum as a toilet trio.
A joke exchange shows a doctor promising surgery to a patient with insurance delayed until death. The patient frets about payment while the doctor cheerfully assures Oregon-like, with estate concerns implied. A closing ad claims Red Cross Ball Blue is the finest product.
The text explains the Bank of North America as the first national character bank with a ten year 1741 charter from the confederation, later seeking and obtaining a Pennsylvania state charter in 1788 due to legality doubts. The 1785 Pennsylvania charter was revoked, then renewed in 1787, and the bank was located in Philadelphia.
A widow suing for damages after her husband's railway death recalls ten years of courtship and ten more of pursuit with poker before marriage. She rejects a suggested £400 to £500 settlement, insisting her loss includes companionship and emotional costs beyond bare expenses.
The Seventy-First General Assembly proposed 16 amendments for submission by the Seventy-Second General Assembly. Of these, 13 were adopted and set for public vote on September 6, 1921. Eligible electors may vote yes or no at their usual polling place during voting hours. The ballots will list all 13 amendments numbered 1 to 13.
The document lists multiple proposed amendments and sections across Articles 2 7 and 8 including voting eligibility residency rules Governor veto procedures state superintendent appointment and taxation. It also repeats militia clauses and legal language about law passage and reconsideration.
The ad promotes Bayer aspirin as the genuine choice, urging readers to follow physician directions from 21 years of testing. It claims safety for colds, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, earache, toothache, lumbago and general pain. It notes affordable tin boxes and larger packages sold by druggists.
An eight year old boy, neatly dressed, asks a passerby near Market and Pennsylvan ia streets where Bellefontaine street is. He cannot give a number but says it is a big double white house he would recognize. A policeman is suggested as help. The boy heads toward Massachusetts avenue to find the residence.
General Pershing quotes a good officer turning adversity to advantage. A cartoonish anecdote follows with a young drug clerk overcharging a lady for glycerin and a bottle. The punchline shows the clerk adjusting the price after the bottle fee dispute.
Two miners who never saw golf before watched a fat unskilled player in a bunker. After eight attempts the ball finally dropped into the hole with a gentle roll to the pin, prompting one miner to remark that he’s got a deuce of a job on now.
The text states that a bill passing the General Assembly is sent to the Governor for approval. If approved he signs it. if not he returns it with objections to the originating house. The house then may enter the objections at large.
In London Answers a Breezy exchange features Mabel accusing a man of breaking a promise not to smoke and Phyllis suggesting his outburst proves there is smoke where there is fire. The dialogue hints at social judgment and suspicion surrounding smoking.
Dialogue frames a show as designed for the exhausted business man who will not scrutinize value, relying on fatigue to ensure patronage. The exchange mocks marketing tactics that exploit weariness to secure spending.
Ben Brooks, held at the Indiana Reformatory with his father and brothers, confessed to fatally shooting Amazona B. Montgomery with a shotgun after a dispute at an abandoned house near the Montgomery farm. Officials doubt the knife quarrel tale, citing revenge motives linked to chicken theft charges.
The War department announces federal recognition for Indiana National Guard units. Names include One Hundred Thirty seventh observation squadron officers Wilber M. Fagley Sigmund Thalman Benjamin R. Jacobi John W. Zeigler Ralph C. Owen Stuart B. Davis Carl W H Smith Benjamin A. Gentry Clyde Shockley Wallace E Mayfield Ernest A Cutwell. Also Medical detachment One Hundred and Lighty first field artillery Seymour Ephraim B Chenoweth Ambulance companies 138 Marion Glen D Kimball 187 Marion Otis W McQuown and HQ detachment Madison Horace O Wolfford Don C Essex Floyd Anderson Hayden E Bear Harry R Lister.
The Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive exam on Sept 24 1921 to fill postmaster positions in multiple Indiana towns with listed salaries. Exam sites include Bedford Bicknell Bloomington Evansville Indianapolis Kokomo and others. Only ten of seventy five Civil War veterans attended the Wabash reunion.
An Indian war dance by Miami tribe survivors living in southern Wabash county will be performed during the Blitzroth school reunion at Liston Creek. It marks the first such dance in the county in many years with most participants over sixty years old.
Terre Haute August 29 A road building contract for Leroy Christy road in Vigo county is declared illegal due to lack of competitive bidding. State board of accounts field examiner A L Donaldson reports the finding.
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