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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
3
A 1920 column extols pushing people to greater effort over praise and comfort. It reflects on Roosevelt era leadership and calls for continued zeal, justice, and civic duty as a guiding light for future generations amid public praise of notables and local newspaper loyalty.
Louis A. Coolidge of Boston paid a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt at the Gridiron Club annual dinner in Washington. He called Roosevelt the spirit of America and said his call urged the group to lofty heights and higher deeds.
A frustrated individual loiters at the post office lobby for an hour or two awaiting the Gimlet and paper delivery. Upon delay, the person vents angrily about timeliness, then repeats the behavior when the Gimlet arrives on time but not the local paper.
Families living along South Center Street form the “Southside Bluebloods” group meeting at various homes to share evenings with refreshments, fostering neighborly ties though not claiming any royalty or formal status.
A neighborly gathering at Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Hagee’s home featured B. R. Inman reciting an original poem about the local families nicknamed the Bluebloods on the Southside. The verse salutes Mayor Holsclaw, the Hagees, Inmans, Vestals, Hattons, and other neighbors with playful caricatures and hints of changing fortunes.
Electric fire logs made of imitation wood with three or more logs grouped for interiors and outdoor camps. Translucent material with asbestos reinforced metal and hollow for bulbs. Logs are hand painted to resemble partially burned wood and glow when lit. Also offered as a large ash-heap style wood log for old fashioned fireplaces.
In Portland Oregon a unique school trains 36 students in grain grading under federal standards set by the U S Department of Agriculture. The class meets weekly outside business hours and includes grain dealers dock superintendents foremen and state grain men with no degrees and no truancy officer.
A terse aphorism from the ao exchange notes that prohibition cannot prevent the moon from full illumination nor fog from dissipating, mirroring wartime or civic rhetoric in New Haven.
Fifty two U.S. Y W C A town secretaries organize recreation work for girls and the community in towns under ten thousand. A single room or a whole building may serve, with a recreation room and reading and writing rooms if possible, becoming a community center for all women’s groups.
Over feeding causes calf failure and scouring. Reduce milk quickly and stop feeding during the illness until symptoms subside.
The article argues that poultry products are worth half the nation’s corn crop and suggests it would be easy to double poultry output to make the two sectors equal in value. It emphasizes poultry as a growth opportunity for national agriculture.
The Hendricks Circuit Court order in Lydia H. Cope et al. v Amos Carter et al. directs a private sale of real estate in Plainfield Indiana. On February 2 1920 at 10 00 a m at the Plainfield law office of Horace L Hannon the public sale will offer parcels 4 8 9 10 and 11 in Sarah K Ballard's Addition cash terms, whole or in parts, continuing daily if needed. Benjamin W Anderson Commissioner.
For sale a house with five rooms and a large sum teeta. Includes a good cellar, electric lights, large woodshed, city water in front of the lot, a nice front porch and fruit trees. See Elwood Stepherison.
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