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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1922
Page
5
Druggists favor Cham bers Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, with ninety nine out of a hundred recommending it when diar rhoea treatment is sought. They say customers report it can be depended upon, even though some offer other options for better profit.
The speech argues that tax-exempt bonds and high tax burdens threaten public utilities and slow capital investment. It cites a 12 percent rise in Indiana utility taxes since 1919 and breaks down per-line burdens on water, telephone, gas, electric, and traction companies while urging balanced taxation to sustain service and growth.
West Union residents and visitors are listed with family visits and travels. The report names Nathan and Mrs Mathas guests in Clinton, Joe Hobson and family with Albert Lenard, Dr Bennett and wife from New York visiting Garrard family, and multiple calls to Ivan Causey and family. Attendees at the State Fair include Ida Gausey, Sylvester Warner, H. Z. Manwaring and others. The Hunters, Rodman, Linebarger, Armstrong, Sharp, and Cox families are mentioned with various visits and returns from California and Terre Haute.
A quip notes that lightning does not strike twice in the same place because it wrecks the ultimate consumer the first time.
Public sale of horses cattle farming implements and tools on the Joel Hollingsworth farm three miles east and four miles north of Dana and sixty four miles southwest of Newport. Sale begins 12 30 P M Saturday Sept 15 1923 featuring four horses one mule several cows calves lambs farming gear including tractor plows binders planters discs plows engines buggy harness tools.
The writer laments French pastry quality in France noting pasteboard texture sour cream fillings and decors that indicate poor handling. High prices force substitutions while many skilled bakers have emigrated to the United States, where good French pastry is made.
A New York store window exhibit shows 4000 pencil stubs scattered from an elevated tub like corn and pumpkins. The signs note many have been sharpened or gnawed and urge that the last half of the pencil costs as much as the first half. The piece highlights collectors rummaging desk drawers and waste baskets in search of used stubs.
A Youngstown Telegram anecdote notes a bank in peril where a girl in the accounting department informs a customer his account is overdrawn by eight cents. The brief exchange ends with the customer asking if it must be settled this morning.
A playful exchange about Alf Chard and his habit of whistling tunes sparks a light remark about him knowing naughty gongs and being too musical for a friend to trust.
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