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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
2
Enumeration of county school children begins Monday with township trustees handling rural areas and school boards overseeing incorporated towns. Each child six to twenty one must be counted as state funds hinge on accurate totals, about six dollars per child. Enumerators must obtain sworn parental statements. reluctance stems from tax fears, but higher counts lower taxes.
Public notice warns all display ads must reach this office by Wednesday for current week publication. Late submissions will miss the current issue and appear in the following week.
Last week the County Commissioners approved licenses for Edward Ceaxley John Noor Welom Korat Dawite Lasgelles Box and Wicit Jordner Brownsburg. With seven saloons now allowed in the county the temperance cause suffers a blow as an application is expected at the May term.
A bookseller places old sermons and theology volumes outside his shop and a well dressed man arrives asking for books with a shield bearing a family name. He buys ones from that house, remarks on his own name, and muses a possible family link as he heads back to Chicago.
A British cavalry officer argues free choice favors temperate, quick learning roan and dark horses, especially dark grays, blacks, and dark chestnuts. He warns light chestnuts and light bays are nervous, a rusty black is sulky, and white stockings affect reliability. The London Spectator contrasts old and American proverbs on white feet.
In his law career Sir Robert Perks devised a clever alarm to force waking before 5 AM. A water-filled glass tube balanced over his head triggered by a string clock would pour water on him if he slept late, ensuring he rose to study.
A noted downtown blacksmith, famed for ice tongs, insists he can handle any iron job. A caller tested him with ice hooks and hinges for a stove, prompting a snide quip about fame and gasted jewetery. The piece notes a Woolworth site cost of $2,000,000 with total investment at $7,000,000 and a 1912 completion goal.
New York reports the Woolworth building will stand 625 feet high with 45 stories above ground and three floors below. The $5,000,000 skyscraper will occupy Broadway and Park Place, surpassing most structures in height except the Metropolitan and the Eiffel Tower.
Fragmentary notes describe ancient naval salutes with right hand to brow signifying respect or friendship. It recounts a tale of Charle II era gallantry, a tailor-made necktie joke at a hearth, and a dentist summoned to pull a tooth. It ends with scattered figures about Canada forests and the Amazon basin.
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