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Newspaper
Monticello Herald
Location
Monticello, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1923
Page
4
United States and Canada readers pay per line for cards of thanks obituaries memorial cards and resolutions of respect The rate is 2 50 per line plus 50 cents for tune or 3 cents per line for obituaries and memorials Type averages five words per line
The article argues the United States will wipe out its 26 billion war debt in 25 years due to the budget system and efficient Washington management. It credits the Harding administration for paying over a billion of the debt and asserts actions prove the party’s competence.
A European returnee reports Americans put about five billion dollars into German marks as a speculative bet. If German authorities demand repayment, much of this capital likely remains in the United States, awaiting a safe exit. The situation could cause a marked shift as Germany seeks to repatriate funds.
The Lafayette Journal-Courier notes a shift as Democrats once cheered Bryan for peace and anti alcohol talk. With Smith and Tammany gaining power, the liquor issue returns as a rallying point, angering Bryan and reigniting a fiery debate.
Three voter classes are targeted in the campaign strategy: those opposed to joining the league of nations, opponents of government ownership, and the drivers. The text outlines efforts to drive these groups from the party.
The remark notes that months to discontinue advertising are those whose names contain a percent symbol in spelling. It suggests a playful rule about timing ad campaigns tied to the punctuation mark.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindnesses after the passing of Mrs. Georgia Anna Reynolds and thanks to Rev H T Wilson and the choir for services and flowers. For sale describes a bar gain on 14K acres and 114 acres tilled, brick house, gas, outbuildings on a stone road near Newark Ohio, asking 13000, contact S A Shoup Merritt Bld Newark Ohio 6 14 31.
Mr. Farmer advertises an amortized loan offering savings of 8141.75 per $1000 borrowed over either Federal or Land Bank terms. He invites readers to come in and demonstrate. S. Water, Lafayette. 5-17-1f
Special reduced prices on shoes and ladies hats at The Exchange Store as noted in a June 14 1961 item. Roofing company Geo C Loy Roofing Co of Delphi Indiana referenced in brief context.
In 1859 White county saw mail service reduced from daily to three trips weekly. Bert Small, born in White county, joined the White County Historical Society two years ago and published a genealogy of the Robertson and Small families in 1907, tracing lines to early Scottish kings. The Robertson Small work remains one of the era’s most complete genealogies. Bert Small supports the Herald Local History Column.
A nostalgic look at the golden age of cheap books and penny papers. The Nation notes that affordable editions opened worlds of Balzac, Hardy, Don Quixote, Faust, Carlyle, Ruskin, Emerson, and more in series from Munro to Cassell. The Everyman Library at 35 cents per volume marks the era’s peak.
The piece catalogs humorous, satirical views on love from roles like the Married Man and the Chorus Girl, lampooning romance across age and social types. It notes love as illusion, a myth or a reward, and ends with a wry remark about universal pursuit and dissatisfaction.
A two and a half year old boy missing from Kerrhead near Solway Firth was found by a collie from Chaighouse stead. The shepherd, who had searched with his dog, followed the dog to the child hidden in rushes after an initial three day search. The boy’s mother had left him near their cottage while peat was cut.
The write up notes that nearly all jade comes from Burma with New Zealand a notable producer. China consumes almost all the output. In Burma the mining privilege has long been held by the same Indian or Shap tribe for generations.
A lyrical passage invites readers to wander springtime scenery from mountain lakes to calcareous streams. It evokes tender transitions from winter to bloom, with violet banks, primrose, daisy, blossoming trees, bees, trout, water birds, and May fly contests, ending with thrush songs and paternal affection in rose and woodbine thickets.
In a quiet town a dry goods merchant and others discuss buying from mail order houses as a visiting printing firm tampers with drafts and letterheads. Bankers grocers and Victrola sellers join a meeting at the town hall opposing out-of-town catalogs and pledging support for home merchants.
J W Hamilton of Frankfort retires from education after twenty two years as Monticello superintendent and forty seven years of teaching. He began in 1870 in Carroll County and later led Frankfort First Ward school before serving in Monticello and returning to Frankfort. Hamilton once led the Indiana State Teachers Association.
The Norway dam draws large Sunday crowds as Frankfort residents visit and try for channel catfish below the dam. The completed dam will form a substantial lake when gates close, benefiting nearby Monticello with new industry. A Fourth of July celebration at Norway beach includes bathing, boating, kiddie attractions, a balloon ascent, and other features for a record crowd.
Montreal Family Herald reports two scientists using a carbon microphone and Rochelle salt crystals to detect the faint steps of a spider. Mrs Russell and Mr Cotton transduce tiny vibrations into audible sounds, noting the spider’s footfall likely resembles a shuffle more than a dance.
The list clarifies common misuses such as deciding versus decisive, one another versus each other, and party versus person. It explains further as addition and distance, proposes versus purpose, discover versus invent, locate as vulgar, and defines perception and apperception in knowledge.
The Ursuline nuns of Quebec began the first women’s school on the American continent in 1689. Mary Ann Davis, kidnapped at age six during an Abe naki raid on Salem in 1686 and raised with Native customs, was rescued in her seventeenth year by Jesuit Father Rosie and sent to the Ursuline convent. There she became a nun in 1698, the first woman born in the United States to join a religious order.
The article describes Lukchun in Chinese Turkestan below sea level with ruined cities and ancient mines. It discusses Gulf Stream Arctic current shifts creating storms that deflected into Europe, and links the sinking of Atlantis and the North Sea to desert formation in Asia and Africa.
Ernest Rhys lauds Swinburne’s lyric force and rhythmic mastery while noting occasional overindulgence in cadence. The piece argues time will honor his contribution even as critics reassess his work.
Biographer William M. Curtis notes Thomas Jefferson lacked a sense of humor. He rarely told a story and seldom enjoyed one, and witticisms were wasted in his presence.
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