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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
7
Fragmentary hymn text invoking God as help and guide from ages past. Refrains reference "God our help in ages past" and "our eternal home" with disruptions and misreadings in the manuscript. Attributed to Isaac Watts with corrupted lines and stray phrases.
A 1921 feature essay argues that true wealth is found in love and family bonds rather than money. It extols affection from spouses, parents, and children as priceless treasures beyond price, contrasting wealth with genuine devotion and health.
A meditation on time, duty, and living nobly. The piece argues time matters little to existence unless used to build the future self, linking New Year moral lessons to religion and culture. It contrasts reckless pleasure with purposeful living and notes wicked living ends youthfully.
A short verse celebrates the glad New Year with hopeful lines about joy, peace, and renewing bonds. The speaker invites gathering with loved ones and leaving behind sorrow for a brighter dawn and a gift of a new earth.
A Springfield Illinois Journal column echoes New Year optimism. Dr James Tr Vance urges readers to attempt anew despite prior failures. The message frames the coming year as a fresh start with courage, vitality, and forward march.
A historic recipe combines brown sugar corn syrup water and cream of tartar to a soft ball stage. Dates are folded in then the mix boils to a hard ball, flavored with vanilla. Egg whites are beaten stiff and folded in, walnuts added then dropped by spoonfuls onto oiled paper with walnut halves on top.
Ben J. Buchanan, a Texas ranger, was shot and killed at a Palvo dance by two unidentified Mexicans. They entered during the dance, fired when asked for names, and fled across the Rio Grande. Buchanan had recently investigated border cattle thefts. Officials suspect the killers acted in revenge from the Mexican side.
Newport Kentucky December 28 state troopers guarding the plant since Saturday reported no trouble as the Newport rolling mill reopened after a two day Christmas shutdown. No overt acts or strike sym pathizers were seen.
Waukon Iowa December 28 Earle Throst confessed slayer of Miss Inga Magnuson a twenty year old school teacher of Dorchester was sentenced to be hanged on March 9 1922 by Judge Taylor in District court here.
Madeira governor receives Paris orders to stop former Empress Zita of Austria Hungary from leaving for Switzerland, per a dispatch from Funchal.
Indiana announces new automobile lighting ordinances from 1921 act. No headlight exceeds 32 candle power. lenses produce at 100 feet ahead, 60 inches high, no more than 2 400 candle power. 27 devices approved after tests by the state lighting engineer.
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