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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1920
Page
3
Fragmentary urban chatter from Boston references everyday talk about bets and bragging. The text mentions Bees and Kissime with playful banter and remarks on singing high notes straining the throat and neighbors, conveying a lively if distorted street scene.
The piece notes towns in South Carolina with low numbers of unmarried women, linking high mill employment to marriage patterns. It cites Greenville as a center with a YWCA industrial secretary and 18 mills. Mills employ about 62,904 of the 1,501,000 state population, with a $7 million mill valuation and $100,000 weekly payroll.
Alfred Westfall of Colorado Agricultural College asserts the telephone, an American invention, powers rapid business, social, and domestic life. He notes four-fifths of global lines are in the United States and praises the rural system and exchange efficiency compared with Europe.
A camp scene recalls a young soldier in tears while a companion asks if he is reading a letter from home. The exchange highlights the impact of letters from loved ones on weary troops.
A toan confronts a foe who once stood as ally before circumstances stripped their ability to collaborate. The conflict centers on shifting loyalties and the unraveling of a previously trusted partnership.
Indiana reports a mixed harvest with sugar beets selling for low prices to Holland St Louis in Decatur while sugar markets sag. Livestock diseases, frost damage, and cattle losses affect Teersville and nearby farms as corn and wheat yields trend down. Officials warn about coal rationing measures, rail and road voting issues, and plans to boost stock raising and purebred livestock campaigns amid bank resource growth and turkey shortages noted for Thanksgiving.
In a summer night scene Jack reveals he was briefly involved with a laundress in France. The jealous fiancée demands full details while Jack promises to explain the entire situation. The odd confession centers on a 12 franc debt and a buried past.
A dialogue compares a woman's tongue to an engine of action and its exhaust. It notes London as a city using trains and transport more than any other global metropolis.
In Richford a mean man left a small fortune after a humorous church supper incident. John D Rockefeller’s old adage about wealth frames the tale as townsfolk skim coins. A parson uses a two cent stamp to stop a cut, and a squire adds a penny to save a penny.
A backstage exchange reveals one actor claiming credit for saving the show while admitting hogging a bit. A friend counters with a blunt gag about looking like a pig in a poke.
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