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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
2
A compilation of pithy quips and brief oddities from Advance Indiana and other urban scenes. Items include jokes about toothaches and canoes, notes on New York beggars, a joke about piano tuners, a divorce suit over weight, and glimpses of safety deposits and musically inspired humor amid urban life.
A Chicago bride may have used lemon blossoms, while a South Pole aeroplane trip is planned despite high risk. An Elgin telegraph operator fears supporting a large family on his salary, suggesting a chicken farm. Pet dogs need water in heat. rabies stay rare where fonts abound. Colonel Krag touts a rifle that can pierce many foes if they stand still.
The hobble skirt caused about three thousand mill workers in Rhode Island to lose jobs due to less cloth. If the hobble skirt is convicted on half the indictments, it faces a life term in storage.
R G Weatherstone discusses hog house floors options including ground with woven wire, welded corncrib wire floors, and concrete with plank overlays. He notes wire floors are warm and dry but dusty, concrete floors may cause cold stress without overlays, and wood floors are costly and poor rat protection.
Practical guidance on pig housing including floor and partition construction to prevent pig loss, rail placement to protect piglets, removable gates and partitions, door dimensions, insulation with burlap, and ventilation strategies. Emphasizes well ventilated double walls, whitewashing for sanitation and light, and draft management for cold weather.
A Kentucky farmer touts windmill use as a hired hand, detailing setup on timber runners, moving by horses, and a pasture pen. He describes water storage in a long gum trough, a 5 foot pump hose, underground pipe protection, and year round pumping for stock and house. He notes a self locking feature, cost of $54, potential mill prices around $27.50, and annual labor savings of about 27 dollars, plus added farm utility with grindstone and churn attachments.
President Worst of the North Dakota Agricultural College uses a striking illustration to show how much water evaporates from soil. He argues that a thorough harrowing will stop this evaporation and save that water, underscoring the value of soil treatment in drought conditions.
Guidance to remove worms and grubs from soil by plowing rolling dragging and reworking. Repeat moisture holding steps and thorough work in September to destroy weeds. Next spring the space may be used for a garden again.
Instructions describe a galvanized iron milk cooler near the well with a pipe from the well to the tank. A gas pipe outlet uses locknuts to seal and an elbow directs water circulation with input at the top and output at the bottom. Water for cattle flows around the cream separator to keep cream cans accessible.
Clubs for farm boys and girls to boost agricultural methods and better farm living now total 144000 members in the United States.
Lesson outlines Jeremiah prophesying during Jehoiakim’s reign, the fall of Josiah, and the deadly involve with Pharaoh Necho. The text contrasts Jeremiah’s steadfast faith with Uriah’s fate, urging revival, personal courage, and resistance to gang pressure encouraging repentance and righteous action.
An article details a labor shortage with 162000 farm hands needed to harvest grain in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It lists government agents offering low railway rates to attract workers and notes harvest starts July 25 with five to six weeks of work and continued demand through November. It highlights potential profits per acre and rising land values in the three provinces.
Hiram Davis of Newburg vanished eight years ago while walking with his father. A late reunion at home surprised his family after police across the east searched the Hudson River and gave up hope. Davis had spent years traveling out west.
In Tuskegee during hard times Booker T Washington plans to use an old chicken house as a classroom. He asks an elder local man to assist at nine in the morning cleaning out the henhouse, while the man jokes about starting work in daylight.
A selfless plan to entertain his niece Rosamund backfires at a golf club. The 8 year old disrupts the course, endangering herself with a marsh, poison ivy, and mud while Uncle Robert hunts her through clubhouse corridors. A mistaken bus chase ends with a searching mob and a missing child, leaving the lone, exhausted uncle to face a late return home.
Harpers Weekly notes a shift in perception of the remark about warriors in dressing gowns and slippers. France’s war ministry equips cavalry with felt slippers as part of field kit, with dressing gowns possibly following, claiming slippers help soldiers rest quickly after hard drill by removing boots.
Ottumwa Iowa resident Mrs Harriet F Vinampler reports relief from lifelong female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. She urges others to try the remedy before surgical operation and notes Mrs Pinkham offers free confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A dialogue discusses firing a cook named A Gunn and cites a city ordinance restricting discharges within limits. The exchange implies bureaucratic hurdles and potential legal concerns over removing a staff member.
The London Truth laments the proliferation of decorations in England noting that many citizens seek titles and wear medals as if at an agricultural show. The piece argues these honours flatter vanity but do not earn true respect for Englishmen.
A mock exchange jokes about czarist dangers and Russian whiskers in wartime style. The片 dialogue uses playful banter comparing a close shave to missile fire and facial hair.
A Florida reader explains quitting coffee and using Positum improves biliousness headaches nerves heart skin and complexion. The letter claims complete health restoration and cites Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan and the booklet The Road to Wellville with the line There’s a reason.
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