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Newspaper
Washington Washington Democrat
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1925
Page
9
Dr. Harry V. Wardemann notes most people have underdeveloped eyeballs needing corrective lenses. He links eyesight to learning, work efficiency, and safety, and advises rest and distance viewing to reduce strain.
In Hartford City the remains of horse and buggy times vanish as hitch racks are torn down to string wire for a silent police man at a street intersection. Greensburg reports a disappointed sheriff as Decatur County jail renovation yields only one visitor who was too drunk to notice the improvements.
Elwood State Policeman A. H. Ayres of Portland jokes about the saying where there is smoke there must be cigarettes as he searches for 20,000 fags stolen in Portland in this city.
Wabash Forty and Methodist ministers condemned local papers for an antagonistic attitude toward prohibition, accusing newspapers of publishing anti prohibition sentiment and criticizing coverage.
In Bourbon a warning to new garages signals scrutiny after thieves struck A W Motors with 760 dollars in accessories missing. Decatur reports a sugar plant payroll jab while Fricke notes tire slashing. Elwood signals domestic humor with Mrs Jenner’s wringer mishap. Greensburg’s courthouse custodian John Boyle peddles maple leaves. Salem endures a dark spell as Interstate Public Service cuts the courthouse clock lights.
John Groh and Candace Gobble surprised friends with a Thanksgiving wedding in Bluffton. The ceremony occurred on Turkey Day adding a light touch to the couple's nuptials, with celebrating guests noting the seasonal theme.
A Ute man Platt f is freed from a murder charge after burying his 17 day old papoose alive in its mother’s grave, claimed to act on instructions from Mormon Joe Cuthair. Cuthair, aged Ute medicine man, is serving 25 years for killing a jail guard who taunted him over May’s child death.
Stations from Baltimore to Washington announce a night of orchestral solos and choral works. WBCO Minneapolis WJZ New York WEAF hook up 12 stations at 9 p.m. EST for a U S Marine Band program.
Mrs Versa Ritter visits relatives from Evansville while Mrs Ira Birt calls on Mr Frank Colglazier. Neighbors share Sunday visits among the Benningtons Wades and Colglaziers as illness and events ripple through Evansville Terre Haute Vincennes and Odon area. A Daugherty sale at Odon draws crowds and a farmers meeting at Epsom draws a large turnout.
In Linton Indiana a 22 year old woman Clarette Denman was jailed for six months on the penal farm and fined ten dollars after she failed to ask owner Grover Lynn for the loan of his Maxwell sedan. The incident occurred last night.
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