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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1922
Page
8
A collage of offbeat notes and wry commentary references local people and humor. Anecdotes touch on fashion, a coal strike, commentary on broadcasts, social clubs, a park incident, romance, and everyday life with regional color and playful headlines.
The observed rise in spring paint purchases is tied to work on buildings. Homeowners and contractors buy more paint as temperatures rise and renovations resume.
A cautionary line highlights the importance of stopping at crossings to let trains pass, preventing deadly outcomes and safeguarding lives.
A colored woman buys a three-gallon bucket at a sale and rests by turning it upside down on her way home. A newsboy asks for a paper and she replies she is just resting.
The piece contrasts beauty and pigment with multiple observations about letters from married men and pre marriage notes. It notes Conyan Doyle receiving messages from the dead and Mr Tumulty buying garden seed to seed a patch for chickens. The city may ask Doyle to relocate an artistic traffic post by the square southeast corner.
A satirical column jokes about lovers of words becoming writers of dull prose and predict a radio bill. It riffs on money’s evil root and a pun on Barleycorn during a pennant season death struggle.
The Johnson family thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy during the illness and death of husband and father J Dana Johnson. They praise the Masonic Lodge Eastern Star Chapter relatives and friends for offerings and the Kingsley choir for hymns and Rev Fuson for kindness and comfort. Mrs Lucretia Johnson and infant daughter Lila Mae distressing loss.
A trilimum variety named squaw flower is described also as bath fleswwer birth root and three leaved nightshade. It grows coarse and rank next to wake robins with dull red blossoms and white stamens. Leaves are larger than painted tril ium but share a diamond shape.
Reader note quotes a line from The Ghost Girl by Mary Marlowe describing a man clarifying his misunderstood self as a sign of favor. The vignette reflects dated romance prose and social expectations.
The article traces the appearance of gipsies in Europe around the early sixteenth century. It suggests Hindu origins or exile due to religious belief, or flight from Tamerlane's persecution. It notes European belief they were Egyptians and explains the common name derivation from Egyptian.
Vernon Lushington argues that memorizing a single true poem exposes how much is overlooked by passive reading. He says one well chosen line or phrase unlocks beauty in music, suggestion, and insight, like viewing nature’s wonders through a microscope.
The Boston Transcript questions Thackeray's grasp of feminine nature citing his remark about Eve and happiness and whether perfect happiness would have made Eve refuse the tempter. The critique explores gender assumptions in his reading.
A photograph from the Atlantic City parade shows a hula-hula doll amid flapper society crowds, illustrating the era's playful fashion and street spectacle.
The Mary Pri biennial cruise program featured Roy Drennan with a solo, Wilson McClellan declining to perform, and jokes about Cass county politics. Charley Railsback delivered a satirical poem about local candidates and election woes, with others like John Bunch and Bob Calvert contributing songs and verse.
An English professor claims parishioners grow sleepy during sermons not from inattention but from overattention. He says people hypnotize themselves by fixedly gazing at the preacher, turning jokes about sermons into boosts for the speaker.
A congressional committee argues unprofitable coal disputes show the need for a Bland bill creating a fact gathering agency. The agency would collect data without regulatory power to aid federal and state action while coal producers resist information sharing citing interstate commerce concerns.
The oil age in the United States starts in 1858 59 when George H Bissell and Yale professor Benjamin Silliman Jr analyze crude oil for illumination and Edwin L Drake drills a Titusville Pa well producing oil in quantity. Earlier, oil was skimmed from creeks and pools as a household remedy for ailments.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a dining room moment where a six year old girl warned a guest to be careful with the house’s finest table glasses. The child’s admonitory remark reflects family etiquette and dining room decorum.
Ed Stanifier and William H. Moore of Shelburn pleaded guilty to buying a stolen automobile and transporting it to another state. Before Judge A. B. Anderson in Indianapolis they received 18 months in federal prison each.
Matt Twain recalls Bret Harté arriving in 1870 to edit Lakeside Magazine in Chicago. His cross continental journey sparked national interest akin to a viceroy of India or a reincarnated Harley’s comet after 75 years.
Historians note that olives were not native to the Western Hemisphere and were brought by Spaniards during early migrations. The trans planted trees likely originated in the Mediterranean and were established in the new land through colonial exchange.
Si business ad notes Watson Electric Shoe Repair Service at 415 East Jackson four blocks east of the Trust Building. It promotes repairs as economical and keeps well dressed people from being run down at the heels.
Four-year-old bay mare partly broke weighs about 1700 pounds sound and all right. Contact Simp son Edwards at New Lebanon phone.
Clara Rapp advertises bronze turkey eggs at 12 for 4.00 and Barred Rock Buff Rock baby chicks at 16 cents each in Carlisle Indiana.
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