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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1923
Page
2
A column notes local quirks and gossip including Ed Bascombe threatening a No Credit sign at the store if the uplift league protests checker games. Arminta Jones fails to start a tango school. A preacher visits Aunt Sally Hawkins for beans and patch prep.
In an old yard scene, Aunt Becky Jones boiled potato peels to feed the hogs, causing her glasses to crack from the heat.
A column urges drastic changes to prevent divorces including health and character proofs for marriage licenses, single room homes, ending alimony except to mothers with dependent children, barring attorney fees, and restoring whipping posts for abusive husbands.
A compilation of world trivia notes varied topics from economics and geography to culture. It lists hemp markets in Manila, Siberian and Icelandic life, labor wages in Australia, and peculiarities like daylight saving in Mexico City and dogs feasting in summer southern China. It also covers earthquakes in Naples, precious vaults, and a Greenland newspaper publisher.
A snapshot of diverse topics traces Australian coach travel from Melbourne to Castlemaine and the remote interior, notes ant colonies circling their starting point, describes a chimney extension braced with an iron band, shows fence post wire attachment grooves, and explains a metal float to curb drinking in calves to prevent digestive issues.
A detachable theft alarm for a single car uses a switch in a V-shaped floor slot with two spring blades and a movable fiber arm. When the emergency brake is released the arm can be displaced only by the brake lever, closing the circuit and sounding the horn. The system operates independently of the regular horn circuit.
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