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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1920
Page
5
Merom residents and visitors are listed with weekend travels. The Merom Independent basketball team defeated Paxton 49 26 on Tuesday at the college gym, while Merom lost to Graysville Saturday night.
The Graysville column reports intense cold and heavy snow slowing wagon drivers. It covers basketball rivalries with Fairbanks Victors and team excuses about latitude and hall space. Social and church news lists officers at Union Sunday school, visits, travel, auctions, census work, and local residents attending meetings and events.
The railroads and farms boost output through ongoing capital investment in labor-saving machinery. Fair crop prices attract new capital, expanding facilities and reducing unit costs. Prices sufficient to yield returns encourage growth and prevent traffic congestion and poorer service.
The column notes Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo swears to a $100 reward for cured catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It also lists social visits, a Bloomingdale basketball win 27 to 24 at Pounds hall, a high school basketball loss at Hutsonville, fox hunting counts, and upcoming school entertainments featuring the Gypsy Girls Quartette.
A jumble of quips and verses comments on Prohibition laws, beer rulings by one vote, currency and dough, a bakery investment, and political figures like Bryan. The piece threads jokes about sugar pricing, hair color, Cuba booze, asbestos suits, and public figures, in a satirical column style.
Alonzo B Thurber now in Mountain Air New Mexico sends greetings to Sullivan friends. Claude Hoskins visits Merom Station parents. he works freight for Chicago and Northwestern Ry. Winner SD is Rosebud line terminal in the state’s south end. Multiple residents plan wintering in Florida and Georgia. a Greek Candy Kitchen founder seeks US citizenship.
Governor Frank C. Lowden of Illinois joins the Republican presidential candidacy surge as he appears in Washington before the Senate committee reviewing the national budget. His hat is in the ring amid other GOP contenders.
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