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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1922
Page
2
A vigorous exhortation condemns parental and municipal neglect of children. It urges large federal funding to stamp out diseases and venereal issues, promote vaccination, and protect child health, arguing current efforts are insufficient and charters contempt for those opposing public health measures.
The poem speaks of the sun’s heat and the threat of a fiery inferno. It contrasts staying indoors with life outside and contemplates enduring warmth versus a hellish pit. The speaker prefers the tan of the outdoors to an imagined eternal fire and death by scorching.
The text cites six thousand nine hundred divorces granted in a Chicago court in a year and argues this signals moral decay. It asserts marriages require effort, not license as a scrap of paper, and calls for self-reliance to foster a healthier society.
Postmaster Ed Bascomb reports no reply to his three reappointment letters. Lem Fish jokes about adding golf mentions to catch the President’s attention. Zeb Stubbins recalls July and August heat with his mother in law visiting. An epidemic of chiggers spreads after a Sunday school picnic. Aunt Sally Hawkins entertains the preacher with green beans and salt pork then gives jam for the road. Ed Bascomple sells fly paper at low prices. Cy Hawkins returns from Indianapolis causing a crease dispute over pressed pants. A new filling station plans to serve autos as the town grows. Constable Si Plum predicts real estate expansion. The pastor laments reduced fear of hell fire while Uncle Johnny Spruceby offers almanac jokes to the flock.
An advert claims two teaspoonsful of Tanlac in water taken three times daily before meals will improve appetite, well being, sleep, and work performance as stated by Dougherty and Walters.
The weekly weather report from Miss Glenn Yeager cooperative observer covers July 10 to 16. Temperatures ranged from 68 to 93 with days from cloudy to clear and generally warm nights. Tanlac endorsement follows unrelated advertising copy.
A playful note introduces a new simplified spelling det as the compact form for debt. The joke celebrates reducing word length with a wink at spelling reform.
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