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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1922
Page
4
The piece mocks Sam Gompers for promoting half baked anarchic views and contempt for courts, asserting that his ideas are ignored by the healthy majority of the nation’s citizenship.
Reports to the USDA detail 4 300 exhibits of farm products at community fairs and 6 000 exhibits at county district and state fairs last year as boys and girls in extension clubs grew or prepared items under county extension demonstrations.
The notice explains that you must register to vote in November and that the next registration date is October 9. It states that if you did not register on Saturday you must register October 9 and that this year’s registration is intended to be permanent with future elections requiring registration only if you move or a new petition is filed by two percent of voters.
The article notes substantial federal savings under Harding in 1922, citing July 1922 costs $157 million lower than July 1921 and an overall first year reduction of over 1.5 billion dollars, arguing this supports conservative policy despite opposition claims.
The Maine results show a substantial Republican plurality, widely above normal margins, suggesting continued GOP strength and signaling a likely large Indiana majority to follow. The piece cites the slogan As Maine Goes So Goes the Nation and notes no evident shift toward Wilson or other Democrats.
Hale and Baxter lead Maine ticket with large majorities, while four Republicans win Congress seats. The piece argues high local spending drives taxes, cites Sullivan county as tax burden, and urges scrutiny of board expenditures to lower tax rates. It likens taxation woes to Mark Twain while urging accountability.
The author argues Republicans stay ahead on major issues while Democrats repeatedly change positions. It cites money questions with greenbacks and free silver, imperialism, government ownership, and the league of nations as examples. The piece forecasts future shifts and questions the Democrats’ transparency.
The Binghamton Sun notes a near three billion bushel corn harvest worth about 60 cents a bushel, yielding over 1.75 billion dollars for growers. It argues the coming year will boost meat, dairy, eggs, and animal labor, with Republican policy aiding prosperity.
The article notes William J. Bryan's Washington meetings with Democratic leaders and his pledge to influence the upcoming campaign. It criticizes his claim that the GOP tax bill shifts taxes from the rich to the poor and recalls his 1896 charge about goldbugs in Congress. It mentions tariff questions as a possible campaign issue.
A Genealogical review notes Bryan’s early role on the Ways and Means Committee backing the Wilson tariff. It contrasts his 1894 pledge of prosperity with later disillusionment, and ties his rhetoric to Democratic aims in 1924. The piece then details the Republican push after 1918 for World War I veterans relief, including the Veterans Bureau creation, hospital expansion, vocational training, and extensive cash and insurance programs.
The article recounts Lewis Wetzel born in Virginia in 1782 and his early killing at thirteen. It covers his family's tragedy at Wheeling, capture by Indians, escape deeds, and his rise as a famed scout known as The Death Wind. It notes his raids on Indians, later imprisonment, and his death in 1808.
The ostrich is the largest bird on earth with a brain of about two ounces. It weighs as much as a cow and lives about ninety years. Despite these traits it is not stupid.
U S Representative Carl W Riddick Montana a member of the House Committee on Agriculture urges that veterans are the best treated in the world and notes that the Republican administration spends more on world war veterans than on any item except the public debt.This summary captures the main assertion and the speaker.
Over the past 15 months the Department of Justice under Attorney General Daugherty achieved a high workload with reduced funding, reorganized operations, and aggressive war graft prosecutions. Key hires include Charles S. Thomas and C F Reavis. The department has unprecedented anti trust prosecutions, 109 Supreme Court wins since March 4 1921, 110 wins in 166 trials, and notable claims in the United States Court of Claims totaling billions in suits with modest awards.
Chairman John T Adams outlines the 1920 agricultural crisis and the 1921 act expanding the War Finance Corporation. The loan pool, new authority, and resulting $546.9 million in agricultural loans stabilized prices, prevented farm sacrifices, and extended the corporation’s life to 1923.
The article cites the Labor weekly as a radical force linked to the Plumb plan and bolshevik ideas, accusing Washington labor leaders of Democratic and Socialist control. It argues that Republican workers are misled, unions are politicized, and industrial strife is orchestrated to aid socialist aims and campaigns.
Eight widows in Auxerre France receive a royal grant dating to King Charles VII. A wounded knight credited the widows for nursing him after Cravant and funded their refuge in his Auxerre mansion. The king later codified the provision ensuring the house remains a haven for eight widows in perpetuity.
The fourth commandment enshrines the seventh day as a day of rest. Early Christians kept the seventh day by law, but Jesus rising on the first day shifted worship to that day. Over time believers gathered on the first day of the week for Christian fellowship.
Herodotus notes Egyptians shaved constantly and grew hair and beards only in mourning. The barber, called the hay, used various tools including a razor shaped like a small short hatchet with a recurved handle and knives of other forms.
The piece cites cruelty in steel-trap trapping with up to 25 percent wasted and 15 percent escaping by chewing off a limb. It notes many die from predation and prolonged suffering. The American Humane Society offers $300 in prizes for essays to expose cruelty and suggest remedies.
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