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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1920
Page
4
After months of anxiety, economists say no financial crisis looms and prices are readjusting downward. Steel and iron, a key industry barometer, show a drop while food and retail prices follow. Retailers bear last spring stock costs, delaying wholesale reductions for customers.
A reader asks who arranged the stage setting at the Opéra House the night the Republic Quartet performed. The notice offers a reward for information leading to arrest and invites callers to contact the editor with details.
Central Life Assurance Society of the U S sues J S Crowder and John W Frazee. Alva L Long sues Wilson Button et al. Daniel V Richardson named administrator of Alfred H Richardson estate with $5,000 bond and Edgar M Blessing as surety. John Hendricks named administrator of Jennie T Hendricks estate with $8,000 bond and Stanley M Hendricks as surety. Era J Brooks named guardian for Rosalie E Brooks with $200 bond. John C Taylor named trustee for Jewel Blaine Leachman and Elisabeth Frances Leachman.
Report of sale of real estate in the James A Downard bond case and the Crone estate with sale to John Wesley Price for 1930 dollars. Inheritance taxes fixed for Thomas J Cofer and John R Garner estates, with service fees to Robert M Shirley. Report of sale for Charles Kersey estate with Morton Archer and William Leitzman buying for 25 dollars. Marriage license issued for Theodore S Taylor and Matilda Ellen Childers.
Russian girls fleeing Siberian turmoil disguised as Americans to obtain husbands embarked for Manila but were detained for deportation. Some married at the pier, gaining U S citizenship to stay, while a woman in male disguise offered to marry for survival. The government plans to bring 300 or more war brides to the United States for distribution to army camps and posts.
The Justice Department faces possible loss of billions in Texas oil lands if historic documents and annexation treaties are deemed invalid. Palmer seeks Supreme Court ruling on Spanish mineral law, international treaties, and U S acts, with key papers from 1836 to 1920.
A Turkish woman abandons the veil amid Western influence. A relative fires, wounding her, later treated at Pritrend American Red Cross hospital. In Chicago Aberdeen Street, a quarrel between Pat and Frank Sullivan leads to disorderly conduct charges, then release by Judge Sullivan with warned caution.
France’s celebrated actress Mile. Misstinquett wears a remarkable dress of silver and deuteve lace designed by Alice Bernard, drawing attention at a public appearance.
A California woman near Rio Vista stored 48 eggs near a warm water pipe to wait for higher prices. Instead 42 hatched into chicks after the heat sparked unexpected incubation, prompting an official investigation.
Pandemonium erupted in Huntington West Virginia when a ferret used as a rat catcher escaped its cellar post and ran upstairs in Fountain drug store. Four girl clerks vaulted the counter and remained atop their landing until a male clerk sent the animal back to work.
Mrs Peggy McDaniel marked a milestone birthday entering her one hundredth year attended by about 200 guests including Mrs Winnie Carter and others. The celebration took place at the McDaniel home about ten miles from Jackson.
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