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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
3
A narrative about two polar bears and two brown bears living side by side in cages with yards and pools. The bears discuss weather sensing, rain enjoyment, fur upkeep, and playful exchanges while weathering a rainstorm with light humor and animal chatter.
A Chicago American quotation urges embracing regular work with cheerfulness and integrity. It extols honesty, temperance, and faith as core guides, and says true escape from worldly unrest comes by deepening life and faithful commitments despite cost.
A collection of curious, practical notions from old times includes boiling hay to remove rust, breaded eggs in brick ovens, and evaluating lightning’s energy value at 29 cents. It mentions water heaters linked to gas stoves, steaming plants with submerged leaves, and buoyant bathing caps with air bands.
Four hundred boys at the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture fund their own education. Most work on farms in summer and earn and save more than enough money for six months of schooling.
A quirky list of guidance topics includes writing a film, earning pay, choosing a wife, preventing quarrels, optimal eating, umbrella timing, fuel in the tank, excuses for lateness, and nautical sailing notes.
Aluminum kitchenware can be polished by boiling tomato parings. Much American cutlery uses rustless steel from English origins. Tea compressed into plug tobacco blocks is sold by an English firm for tourists. A clock device records each machine’s running time at a central factory. The French government runs at Cellaro an agricultural school training wounded soldiers as modern farmers despite injuries.
A selection of reflections contrasts Brilliants with iron corruption and envy, notes how character reveals itself in what is found laughable, and laments the era’s imbalance of giving back to the world versus receiving.
The piece notes that many people can spot objections but few can conquer them, suggesting the average man’s strength lies in his weak point. It implies a surplus of naysayers compared to problem solvers.
Four dozen pajamas sheets and pillow cases made by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones for the American Red Cross have been distributed equally to the British French Italian and Canadian Red Cross societies. The effort is praised by Eliot Wadsworth and supported by wives of officials including Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Lane.
Gingham is in vogue for hats this summer with plaid patterns and gray tones often faced with black or bright swashes. Dimity fabrics also appear with gingham and attract attention.
Fashion notes for late summer to early autumn hats emphasize light felts and velours, in shades like light blue, pale rose, and apple green. Velvet hats with flexible crowns and soft trims appear with three sample styles, while sweater-tone velours and red white blue accessories hint at patriotic fashion.
Brown patent leather is used to fashion feminine shoes. It offers notable softness and pliability and lacks the size-enhancing highlights seen in black patent materials.
In Ezekiel 26 to 24, the Babylonian siege ends with Zedekiah’s flight and execution of his sons. Jerusalem is burned, walls torn, and the temple looted as captives and wealth go to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah. The remaining poor are left to tend vineyards and fields.
Lawrence Bros of Vera Saskatchewan recount their migration from Calgary to Battleford, filing on homesteads in 1906 after selling a shotgun for ten dollars. They now own a section and a half, rent three quarters, with crops of 30-35 bushels wheat per acre and 40-80 oats per acre. They herd 1,700 sheep 70 cattle and 60 horses. The article notes widespread Western Canadian farmer success, rising automobile licenses in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and a Canadian Bank of Commerce bulletin praising prosperity and farm modernization including machinery and motor cars.
Jones, long unemployed, takes a new job as an enrier. He straps a two-wheeled spring cart to a horse and pushes on. The horse buckles under strain, stops on the ascent, and Jones retreats to his pioneer asking if the horse is tall enough for the work.
The ad touts Cuticura Ointment for dandruff and dandruff related itching, claiming quick results. It instructs applying Cuticura Soap as a hot shampoo, notes a gendered routine, and offers a free sample by mail from Boston, Dept. L.
A chatty social snippet notes a suitor who has been engaged three times before proposing. She accepts but demands an immediate marriage to avoid another broken engagement, citing experience of other girls.
The piece compares protein percentages across foods from potatoes at 2.2 percent to navy beans at 22.5 and soy beans at 34 percent. A business man quips that readers neglect ads as a statement about American art and poetry.
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