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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
3
News from Indiana reports a Dunkirk vigilante group forming a yegeman police squad with citizens armed and ready to capture or shoot suspected yegemen on sight. The item notes related agricultural, dairy, and public safety developments across the state, including elections for the state board of agriculture and county crop contests.
Classified column lists wanted workers and partners, insurance hosiery sales, bicycle tires and repairs, Basye's Drug stores stock, clocks jewelry watches and pipes, river bottom farm and 100 acre tract for sale near Rockport, Candies in boxes from Basye and Liggers Chocolates advertised in magazines.
The piece traces bulldog origins from bull baiting, noting dogs seized bulls by the nose and hung on as bulls gored. Bets and contests rewarded endurance and strength, shaping a short-nosed, bow-legged breed with strong shoulders and brief teeth to avoid injuring bulls.
A melancholy man enters a photographer’s shop and asks for a portrait of himself weeping beside his wife’s grave. The photographer jokes about the grave being in New York state, and the man proposes fitting a grave in the shop so he can cry there. The tale appears in Everybody’s Magazine.
In the Bank of England crisis a balance showed a deficit of a hundred pounds. A clerk suggested the packing for shipment to the West Indies near Southampton. The telegraph halted the Mercator and weighed boxes, revealing a pound ten ounces heavier box containing the missing sovereigns. The ship was allowed to sail.
In the last year Indiana building and loan associations completed 2 314 homes and 8 798 improvements while 9 040 houses were sold on payments. North Vernon reports a $500 English pointer sale to a Columbus buyer for hunting, destined for Alabama. A fire in Point township killed two children, Laura Elizabeth Elliott and 17 month old Robert Charles Elliott, likely from an exploding lamp. Yeggmen robbed Parker post office and American Railway Express in Randolph county. A Mansfield jury freed Mc Laughlin, widow of 28, formerly jailed for murder. Brown county farmers refuse corn under a dollar. Muncie Gasket company buried Levi J Hurley in the largest coffin made, a 34 year old who weighed over 900 pounds. Luther Mottler attended Evansville opera.
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