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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1922
Page
2
A speaker decries twenty five million American children outside Sunday Schools and urges parents to ensure regular church attendance. He argues mothers and fathers commit a crime against their child by neglect, promoting salvation through Christ and Bible teaching in the orthodox church.
A preacher decries parents who fail to bring children to Christ citing costs of crime and crime prevention. He warns that fathers using Sundays for golf or auto trips curse their kids and burden government, calling for fathers to attend Sunday School with their children.
A poem reflecting on the unemployed as a perpetual puzzle. The speaker laments the lack of work and leisure, gazes at the vast problem, and pleads for a job and rest amid life’s busy cycle. The tone blends wonder with frustration over scarce work opportunities.
A reflective riff on fame and memory, naming the bird that warned of fireless warmth, the gold hoarder, the stone digger, the wordmaker, and the gang’s talker. The piece ends by stressing the urge to have one’s name in print and build a reputation.
Desiccated vegetables stored airtight at room temperature retain color and flavor if moisture stays below a critical level. Cabbage requires 3 to 3.34 percent moisture, onions 5.74 to 6.64 percent. Higher humidity at lower temperatures causes more injury than dry air.
The article states piano leather is the most expensive leather in the world and notes its prized status among luxury hides. It discusses its rarity and high value for luxury goods and crafts.
Two naturalists describe a wasp closing a ground hole to reach a stored cache by tamping earth with a pebble it holds. At Grays Harbor Washington wild bees raid tame hives, stealing over a third of district honey.
A curious note suggests a sleeve wrapped around the neck with a young lady's arm as a remedy for tonsillitis, presenting an odd traditional belief rather than medical advice.
The piece argues farmers must treat the farm as a factory where every animal and crop serves to minimize costs and maximize profit. It warns against overemphasis on high prices, urging savings of even small amounts as equal to earned dollars.
Sullivan County Farm Bureau and other farmer organizations experiment and demonstrate improved farming methods to boost efficiency and profits for owners.
Tanlac’s standing as a top medicine is credited to actual outcomes rather than promises. Dougherty & Walters advertise the remedy, urging readers to try it.
About 75 relatives and former neighbors gathered Sunday July 16 to celebrate Hosea M. Drakes 38th birthday near Sullivan. Attendees included Grover C. Drake Lucius Caton Roscoe Johnson Frank Larr Commodore Smith Pugh Ransford Pound Caton and others sharing baskets and fellowship.
An advertisement extols Tanlac as the invigorating tonic for rundown systems. Dougherty and Walters promote the remedy with promotional language.
The column notes Lem Hamilton’s playful affection for Love Ann Long and a window peep episode. Local color covers coon hunts, sheep killing, a joking epidemic, yarn purchases, dog barking, whooping cough in twins, a Ford repaint, apple dumplings, a left handed horseshoe champ, a new gas station, and a thwarted hammering mishap at a smithy.
The stomach regulates the condition of the blood and is the foundation of good health or disease. Keep in good shape by taking Tanlac. For sale by Dougherty & Walters.
Publicized deeds show multiple transfers across Cass Township Fairbanks Gill and Haddon townships with buyers including Daniel Spencer Estella Marford Beck Wake Giles Henry Hayes and Alice Chapman among others. Amounts range from $1 to $19 000 with parcels including acres lots and elevator property noting coal exceptions and easements.
A letter from Purdue University Dean J. H. Skinner to H. S. Benson highlights the need for more boys to take the agricultural course at the state institution. He notes many engineering students have rural farm experience and that the agriculture freshman class is growing slowly. The School of Agriculture offers a booklet on teaching agriculture at Purdue, available through county agents or the School of Agriculture at Purdue.
Indiana maintains a special assessment for forest land under recent legislation to reduce taxes on eligible timber lands. The system aims to encourage conservation by offering lower levies while preserving land use.
County Agent Benson reports from Chas. C. Doom that timber land owners in Sullivan county should apply for a lower valuation at the fair likely held in late August. Applications must include name address location nearest town township and section of the woodland. The land cannot be used for any other purpose nor grazed.
Since the Hoosier ton litter began the tour on June first, favorable reports come from club members. Several expect to reach a ton or more in six months, with one litter of ten pigs weighing 1500 pounds and nearly two months remaining.
Army surgeons report many regular officers exhibit deterioration from war strain. A large percentage display abnormally high or low blood pressure, indicating health impact of service.
In a church on a warm Sunday morning a visiting minister preached while the regular pastor, who had seated himself at the pulpit, was found asleep as the benediction was requested from the visiting speaker.
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