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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1922
Page
8
The piece links car trouble with mortgage strain and hints at reform through satire. It asserts a single change may not fix issues, while minor amendments could cause major consequences. It also offers social quips about aging women and marital harmony. It closes with a call to apply a motto to post offices as well.
A rambling, comic clipping notes social quirks and gossip from Graysville. The piece lampoons courtship, fashion, hair and beauty parlor costs, appetite for gossip, and playful jabs at men and women, all set amid local references and humorous observations.
A fragment notes October changing from poets songs to a kitchen scene with half of one mentioned, preserving a historical newspaper mood in terse phrasing.
A clipped, opinionated note mentions Republican leadership and critiques criminal laws as lax. Tangential lines reference poetry, fashion, bootleggers, and various scenes, including a Senegalese figure and a Fairbanks bean dinner, all in a scattered, overheard tone.
Mrs Carl French entertained seven little girls Monday afternoon for Lois French seventh birthday. Ice cream cake and lemonade matched pink and white decorations. Guests included Leota Turpin Margrete Wells Mary Burnett Delea Pirtle Fern Wright Ada Pirtle Blanche Templeton Pauline Barrick and Lois French who received many gifts before departing at six.
A faded notice in an Earlville millinery shop proclaims a Young Woman Wanted to Trim Rough Sailors, reflecting a blunt hiring sign tied to naval service and local labor humor. The quirky ad echoes maritime culture in a small town.
A brief, chilly dialogue features a man asking if ignorance is bliss and a woman replying that he looks happy, capturing a light hearted moment of conversation in a cold setting.
An automobile meeting at town edge leads a Midvale man to invite a woman for a ride. She declines, noting she is just walking back from one.
A playful jumble of puns and absurd lines about dumb bells, a Dodge Bros billboard, Sing Sing as a voice studio, and references to Harold Lloyd. The piece ends with a schoolyard joke about Johnny's lateness and a promise to do better.
A humorous exchange features a suitor pressing his suit on bending knees and a quip about an ironing board, capturing a playful newspaper moment with lighthearted banter.
In an Indianapolis hotel a reunion of war veterans drew the head clerk a former first lieutenant. He directed the porter now captain and the waiter now lieutenant colonel to eject the former general a lobby loafer from the gathering.
Rex Ingram’s 1 000 000 production The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse opens at Sherman Theatre with Metro release. Vicente Blasco Ibanez novel, acclaimed in major cities, is brought to film by June Mathis and directed by Rex Ingram.
Miss Glenn Yeager reports the county weather for the week beginning October 1 with daily high and low temperatures and a brief note on the kind of day. Weather ranged from 25 to 86 degrees with days described as clear and partly cloudy.
Look concrete block contractor. I have blocks to build foundations basements garages yard walls and porches. See me before you build. Plant one square north of C. and E. I. depot. Fred Grubb manufacturer and contractor in blocks. Phone 609 B.
Indebted parties are urged to call immediately as the seller demands payment for amounts owed to John A. Mattix. The notice emphasizes urgency and fulfillment of the debt.
On Monday November 6 1922 bids are invited for furnishing coal to the county court house jail and infirmary for the year ahead. Bids must specify good screened coal and good mine run. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Ward Griffith who has run the drug business in Oak Town for years has leased the Coffman House in this city and assumed control Monday. He succeeds Clarence Shrum as manager.
Mr and Mrs Frank Nicholas and family traveled to Milwaukee to see Howard Nicholas who works there. The trip highlighted family reunion and work connection in the Wisconsin visit.
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