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Newspaper
Richmond Daily Register
Location
Richmond, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1920
Page
4
The Misses Sallie Lee and Eugenia Young sold their home on Lexington Avenue for 16400 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burton of Garrard County.
Reports from Fleming Kentucky state W S Honeycutt of Knox County was found intoxicated while riding a horse used to carry liquor. Fleming marshal Willard McKinney arrested him and the horse, which served as the conveyance for moonshine, is held for official seizure by Lexington chief prohibition officers. If convicted Honeycutt may face sale of the horse with proceeds to the government treasury.
Reports from Akron and northern cities describe a flood of job seekers drawn by high wages to mills and machine shops, only to find hundreds idle, crowded housing, and no pay. The Daily Register warns skilled workers about strikes and duplicitous recruitment, urging caution before leaving home for promised opportunities.
Improvements at the Normal School include rebuilt storage sheds and new fire prevention appliances. The coming term will emphasize fire drills by students to meet state laws. Extra precautions have been taken since the institution was built, with compliance ongoing. Electric lines in the United States carry more than ten times the traffic of steam railroads.
Dr. Allen Rogers of Pratt Institute explains sharks eat mostly smaller fish and rarely humans. The article notes sharks travel in schools, follow ships for discarded food, and are found where food fish abound in warm waters near Mexico and the West Indies. It discusses public misperceptions and potential culinary uses of shark meat and skin leather.
Geneva reports an order allowing former Bavarian and Wuerttemberg kings and the former grand duke of Baden to enter Switzerland with their suites without standard frontier checks. Swiss troops and customs officials guard the border as newspapers question whether the government is democratic or monarchistic.
Charles Holcomb of Jackson Ohio who was drafted during the war was rejected for being mute. Illness brought influenza again and he recovered his speech, shocking his mother who suffered a nervous prostration on hearing him tally.
A single day of unusual heat during a critical period could reduce oat crop yield by about 25 percent, according to agricultural guidance. The warning highlights climate sensitivity in grain production and potential economic impact for farmers.
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