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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1922
Page
3
Milady will this summer want to wear the Lenox Sport Oxford whether on the porch with a book, on the lawn with needlework, or strolling the sands. The ad highlights comfort and versatile style for warm weather leisure.
Sullivan county farmers weigh breeding decisions to determine if raising horses is profitable. The piece notes profitability for well managed farms with good pastures and grain crops, emphasizing salable, high quality mares and registered stallions. It cites Indiana laws boosting horse standards and current stallion to farm ratios, arguing for better breeding practices to improve returns.
Advertisement copy states Tanlac helps build up strength by nourishing food. It presents a product endorsement from Dougherty and Walters without detailing clinical claims or side effects.
The county faces chinch bug outbreaks with a practical control using furrow creosote lines to trap bugs and prevent spread, followed by spraying the corn. Black Leaf 40 at one to 500 parts water, or kerosene emulsion, yields effective kill. Timely extermination prevents reemergence from eggs.
An advertisement touts Halwell’s Catarrh Medicine as a two part remedy a local ointment for fast relief and an internal tonic that works through the blood to clear mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A brief notice notes Tanlac ad copy and lingering illness of F H Badger for ten days while Mrs H C Owen from Terre Haute aids in care. Attendance at Sabbath school was high and Bro Johnson plans to attend Inter ant School at Greencastle. Local social visits include Elmer Evinger and Miss Dowdell with Kern Medsker family. threshing may start if weather allows.
A reflective piece questions the value of punishment over education for wayward youth. It argues a young man’s temptations and opportunities can lead to crime, suggesting schools might reform more than jails. The prose uses electric chair imagery to contrast outcomes and calls for better paths to citizenship.
Purdue experiments compare corn alone to corn plus tankage on clover pasture for growing and fattening hogs. Tankage increases gains, saves corn and pasture, reduces feeding time, lowers feed costs, and enables earlier market reach with higher profits.
A collage of local happenings from the Dixie highway region including a Rev. Perkins sharing dewberries with Aunt Sally Hawkins, a potluck luncheon and prayer, kitchen disputes over potato peeling, a barlow knife trade dispute, horse shoe games, harvest labor needs, Love Ann Long’s tonsil issue, a church choir note about a strained voice, Jim Slivers’ fashion mishap, a barn raisin at the crossroads with a dance, a dry one cow dairy, Uncle Johnny Spruceby's heat incident at worship, and Freelove McAllister praised as the summer girl.
A New York burglar known as Lefty Joe ambushed the Phipps home using a planned safe robbery. Police fingerprint and toe-print evidence led Inspector Faurot to identify Joe when a hole in his sock revealed a carpet visiting card. Joe confessed, blaming a faulty darning job.
Praise from Dougherty and Walters calls Tanlac a scientific triumph with proven results.
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