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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1921
Page
8
A collection of quips and observations on fashion gossip and social behavior. The column jokes about stockings bobbed hair and post office radio plans while mingling satirical bits on work, drink, and manners with local references and humorous asides.
The writer riffs on income of twenty five dollars monthly and tax effects in a satirical voice. They mock consumer costs for women products and gas for cars, mention the Arbuckle case drinking, Edison sleep claims, and a joke about a neighbor with a sleep limiting machine.
A Sullivan woman unfamiliar with early 20th century slang read about the Arbuckle case and misunderstood a witness statement that Miss Rappe had a bun on. She asked a friend for help and learned that bun meant intoxicated in that context.
A quirky collection notes four train loads of raisins east from Fresno and a mishmash of verses and wry observations. It mentions a county superintendent of schools visiting after 444 years, a joke about Henry Ford and Jewish sellers, and light moralizing on cheerful folks versus nosiness.
John W. Bennett of Farmersburg sues the C. and E. I. railroad in circuit court seeking 25000 damages alleging an oncoming train struck a plank and injured him at the Farmersburg station. Mr and Mrs John A Mattix plan to spend winter in Mesa Arizona with daughter Irene now in Arizona.
Help wanted advertisement from New Lebanon Indiana seeking a middle aged woman to do housework in a small family. Contact Q O S Irvin at phone 3 for details.
Music teacher seeks pupils for band and string instruments teaching all day Saturdays at Woodman hall over Walter's drug store south side. Russell A. Boles.
A local ad offers to repair or replace car tops with a new top available for seven dollars. John A. Mattix announces the service and sales option.
An Eagle Hosiery Company advertisement from Darby Pa offers $36 per week for full time or 75 cents an hour for spare time selling guaranteed hosiery. Agents can earn $75 to $125 weekly. Advertises fall line ready at pre war prices and promotes hosiery as an essential easy sale.
Imoneath Thomson teacher of piano and harmony at Studio 524 North Court Street advertises lessons and invites prospective pupils not under instruction to enroll.
Wanted to trade a Buick Six Touring Car model 445 for a building lot in Sullivan. Call 520 West Johnson Street.
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