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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1919
Page
2
The text notes improvements at Center Ridge cemetery including a suggestion to buy lilies and goldfish for the pond at the main entrance. It also contains scattered verses about travel and a world’s largest bar claim in Hong Kong. The readable items mix local scene notes with travel and literary fragments.
A fragmentary item sketches a colorful scene with a hand made complexion in a ring and a name change for The Devils Punch Bowl in the Rockies. It notes a post office visit for home life and hints at a Kentucky election and a president’s double as a composer.
A playful note describes muf fling roasting ears and gurgling watermelons as the day’s trend in the locality. Loose leaf cabbage and kimono are also noted as in vogue in this brief social sketch.
Fragmented reminiscence about Henry Ford and small earnings adding to vast wealth. Mentions bathing beach workers earning a bare living, silk clothing costs, gasoline affecting motor operation, and a boy who knew when Saturday night arrived. Ends with a fatal injury and a reference to a rest after illness.
Former Birmingham Mayor Frank V. Evans writes in Atlanta praising Tanlac as a cure for gastritis and related symptoms. He notes improved sleep, appetite, and strength after starting the medicine, urging continued treatment. Local distributors are listed in Sullivan Shelburn Hymera Dagger and Merom.
A 25 year old warning about woodpeckers and elm trees predicts future destruction as elms fall first. The speaker urges stopping harm to trees and increasing breeding of these vital protectors to save forests.
Albert Sidney Burleson Postmaster General of the United States endures fierce opposition from union labor publishers wire operators and employees and members of his own party. He is targeted as the chief adversary of government ownership and operation of public utilities, with sentiment against the policy growing.
Coral reefs and islands form by the coral-building polyp. These animals live only in clear water up to about twenty five fathoms deep and in temperatures not below 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Reverend J H Ralston warns readers about cultural drift in personal choices society and churches. He critiques pleasure seeking theaters bars and sports as winds pulling people toward danger and urges staying grounded in scripture and personal surrender to Jesus Christ to avoid moral and doctrinal drift.
The piece argues that originality in Sunday school teaching comes from freshness in approach rather than newness of content. It likens an original teacher to Columbus, noting that methods may be old or new, but appear new to the teacher and delight pupils as they explore a wonderland.
A reflective note portrays Queen Elizabeth gathering notable phrases by reading and pondering. The passage frames this as a personal project to preserve wisdom in a mental repository.
The full grown hookworm measures one third to one half inch long and about the thickness of a hairpin. It resembles a tiny earthworm to the naked eye.
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