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January 1925 Edition
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4 Hurt Sunday In Two-Car Collision


Four persons were injured in a head-on accident between two cars in Hicktown early Sunday morning. Police report that both cars were totaled in the collision. And medical teams transported the wounded to the Semi-Serious Hospital of the Injured in Triage Town.

TENANTS DEFEAT BIG RENT BOOST


Landlord Agrees to Only 5 Percent. Increase After Attending Forum.


Forty-nine tenants of the Last Resort Apartments on Pinball Avenue are happy today. They were facing a 26 to 40 percent increase in their rents. All the leases expired yesterday, and the landlord, Louis Perlstoln of the Perlstoln Realty Company, had been given notice for them to leave. He hoped that they had the option of paying more or moving. Forty-five of them, however, refused either to pay or to move. Negotiations between the landlord and the tenants took place last night for three hours. When they completed talks, Mr. Perlstoln agreed to a five percent increase.

Breakfast Crash! Dairyman Collides With Egg Dealer


Cars collide almost every day, but it's not every day that the driver of one who deals in milk and butter and the driver of the other in eggs. It sounds rather like an omelet on the highway. The accident happened last Sunday night. Just outside of the Green Leaf Breakfast cafe.

Stock Prices


Global Fuel Rate: 1.41

Bell -- $55.73
London Motors -- $29.84
Chevrolet -- $7.11
Ogren -- $35.14
Jordan -- $21.83
Dodge -- $7.05
Willys-Knight -- $29.16
Hudson -- $13.73
Cadillac -- $5.35
Studebaker -- $2.03
Kissel -- $23.22
Four Wheel Drive -- $6.53
Armleder Motor Trucks -- $13.80
Chandler -- $23.60
Autocar -- $4.21




GOLF TOURNAMENT


Hunter Again Wins.


John G. Anderson of Gear City was eliminated this morning by W. L. Hope of Turnberry, 2 up and 1 to play. Anderson was unlucky with his putts, some of the long- ones stopping just short of the hole. He played well but was unable to keep pace with Hope, whose golf was of a high order. Anderson started promisingly. He was two yards from the hole and won the hole, 3 to 6. But he lost the next, where Hope sank a 6-yard putt for a 2. Hope outdrove Anderson, winning the third, sixth and seventh, and turned 3 up, having gone out in 37 to Anderson's 40. Anderson recovered a hole at the tenth with a 3-yard putt. And he had a chance to win another at the fifteenth...

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