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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1914
Page
2
The edition notes Ora McBeale as publisher Goket Well and indicates weekly second class mail matter with a March 3 1911 postmark at Advance Indiana under the act of March 3 1879.
A collection of humorous aphorisms and quips on war money manners and human folly. Notable lines reference Marconi in wireless trials a congress member returning 382.60 indemnity and observations on appearances and manners from a mid century civic tone.
A salesman was fined for tipping a hotel porter a dime in a southern city. The article notes tipping there is treated as severely as brandishing a revolver elsewhere. It also mentions Chicago judges ready to waive summer vacations to avoid detaining those unable to post bail, suggesting judges may be reconsidering.
A Crawfordsville grocer denounces sugar price hikes as greed of the sugar trust urging the public to boycott. He says sugar is plentiful and prices will fall if consumption drops by a third or half, while hoping the attorney general approves criminal action against profiteers.
A collection of light anecdotes from ordinary life. A young man jokes about Ermstrude’s new car and a mop displaced by machinery. A schoolboy’s potato riddle ends with mash the potatoes. A Brooklyn husband teaches self defense after boxing gloves reveal the eye injury. An Irish maid’s dentist visit ends with humorous confusion about filling material.
A caller in Somersworth NH shouted a rude rebuke after a woman asked for a number and he directed her to a place he would not name before hanging up. The incident was reported to the superintendent.
A man was given twenty four hours to issue a proper apology or have his phone removed. His wife urged compliance, but he refused. It was warned he would lose many customers without the phone. A whispered exchange followed with a calm Mr. Indy confirming he need not go.
An unnamed farmer shares instructions to protect corn cribs from rats and to trap them. He describes building rat proof cribs with cement floors and perpendicular siding, using iron linings, and crafting a trap-reception setup that captured 41 to 47 rats in trials. He argues against relying on poisons or common traps and notes past failures on other farms.
W H Johnson writes from Fraziers Bottom West Virginia Aug 12 1914 describing a trip from Indianapolis Aug 6 by rail to Woods and meeting his aging parents. He notes dry crops fruit abundant boiled fruitless saloons dry law since July 1st rural mail carrier using a crow bait cart and other small observations before planning to return home.
Bert Cutting a nineteen year old blind boy from Indianapolis recently reported Governor Ralston's Indiana address using a universal stenotype system that prints words plainly for any reader. Once sightless, Cutting adapted to the new touch writing machine to become self supporting.
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