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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1919
Page
2
The piece urges national unity through direct contact and physical gathering. It advocates expanding geographical intercommunication via highways and railways, noting cars as affordable for workers and farmers, and highlights cross state cooperation to promote road construction.
The German populace has shifted from wartime cries to calls for peace, while Jess Willard weighs 260 pounds, reportedly after reducing to reach this mark. The piece notes a paradoxical shift in public sentiment and boxing gossip about Willard’s weight.
The piece laments Memorial Day being used for junketing and urges keeping its solemn purpose alive. It notes two to three million served to protect ideals, with nearly half making the ultimate sacrifice, and calls for honoring that commitment for young soldiers with graves under a year old.
The piece argues the Mississippi valley’s fertility and rivers reduced the drive for canals and irrigation. It warns abundance can dull impulse to improve resources, urging action to transform obstacles into opportunities, especially as veteran unemployment strains civic stability.
A wartime letter argues fears of friction with Britain are unfounded pro-German talk. It praises Anglo-Saxon roots in law and reform groups from London and cites the Red Cross support. The writer, Private Phil A. Henderson, hints at a homeward return from the A. E. F. and peace on August 1.
Mrs Hinkle and daughter Sallie shopped in Tipton Saturday. Jewatt Hodson and Ralph Watson attended the auto race Saturday. Mr and Mrs C B Jones and Mr and Mrs Wesley Hiatt visited Sunday with Walter Applegate and wife. Ora Jones of Goldsmith spent Sunday with Oscar Hinkle and wife. Marjorie Hinkle hosted friends Thursday with ice cream and cake for her birthday. Attendees included Dolores Greathouse Walter Greathouse Denzil Cross Wealha Johnson Maggie Baker Leon Pickett Lowel Ross Doyle Bolen Roma Brown Blanche Hinkle and Crum Greathouse. Hiram Holmes and wife and Jesse Holmes and wife of Indianapolis visited Thursday with Nathan Mundy and wife Emma Mundy is visiting Sadie Haworth in Indianapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cody Curt Ayres and families and others dined with J. F. Rader and family. Lawrence Harlan and family visited John Sullivan. Francis and Julia Marlowe stayed with grandparents in Indianapolis. A baby girl was born to B. West and wife. A birthday dinner honored Lena’s twenty first. Several local families visited others in town on Sunday.
The war’s price to the United States is stated at over 21 billion dollars. The sum is described as the principal portion of the total cost.
A reflective quatrain ponders who goes to heaven or hell, critiquing hypocrites and pious airs. The speaker jokes that if wrong, hell might be preferable, then shifts to a satirical note about future travel by airship offering speed and ventilation to Europeans.
Ada Miller spent a Saturday night and Sunday as a guest of Ruth Shoe, with casual social hours and shared meals noted in the report.
W M Jessup and family were Sunday guests of Jess Dulin and family.
Notice is given that Thomas L. Harris has qualified as executor of the last will and testament of Washington G. B. Harris of Hamilton County Indiana. The estate is solvent. Notice of final settlement calls creditors heirs and legatees to appear in Hamilton Circuit Court Noblesville on June 7 1919 to show cause why accounts should not be approved and for heirs to prove heirship and receive shares. Clerk Chas J Newby witnesses on May 17 1919.
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