26 Aug 1915
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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
1
Warning against opticians offering cheaper flat lenses that harm vision. Consumers are urged to insist on large curved lenses for proper eye protection and clarity, and not to be swayed by cost-cutting practices.
Promoters advertise government land rail access and free schools with 31 year farm finance for alfalfa corn grains and fruit ventures. They claim California like climate and ample markets and note a special excursion organized by T C Colby via Roy Ailes Advance Indiana. Free information literature from F T A Fricke. Government Representative from Victoria 687 Market St San Francisco Box 116.
Gets High Position Island Burroughs son of Thomas Burroughs of near Advance has been elected as teacher of English and public speaking at Kansas City High School. He is a Lebanon High School 1909 graduate and a 1913 Wabash College alum. He coached, won multiple oratorical prizes, and will move to Kansas City at once.
At a Christian Church meeting last week officers were elected including Clerk Grace Whiteley and Treasurer Wm Johnson. Trustees chosen were J R Sullivan Frank Riner and Albert Akers. Collectors Sam Woods Emery Profit. Delegates to Conference Mr and Mrs Dave Hodge Mrs Hazel Capinger and Emery Profit. The Duplex envelope system adopted. The church invites the next conference.
Jackson township showcased strong support for county work with eight Sunday Schools contributing to a grand convention in Thorntown. Delegates arrived by auto at 15 mph, banners honored each school, and Ora McDaniel led a noon mass meeting for both children and adults.
A slangy sales pitch lists various product suggestions to boost mood and energy, from coffee and tea to sugar and soap. It promotes buying breakfast foods, baked bread, ground coffee, and other household items with humorous misprints and stray phrases.
Fragmented report lists eight schools and seven superintendents with counts of people and automobiles. It notes Jackson Township contributing 172 and 542 registered attendees at a convention.
Subscriptions recorded for Claude Mangus Jamestown Warren Bratton New Roas Cecil Hendrix Flora Mre Rosa Burris Shannondale Geo Zimmerman Jamestown John Routh Thorntowan Ora Swindler Indianapolis L. W. Purdue Advance Caroa Smith Artie Brown H. C MacConaughy Loney Threlkelc Wm Swisher A Caudsa Litton Otis Spohr Advance ee H J Frazier completed barn repair on the Governor Ralston farm.
The town readies for Governor Ralston to speak at 2:30 PM and a state executive address. The Advance Band rehearses for an afternoon concert and a singer will perform at night with songs including Sing Me the Rosary. Citizens are urged to decorate homes and participate to mark the big day. Walter McDaniel, a renowned local figure, is noted in death.
A memoir excerpt from Boone County Indiana born 1840 recalls her first earnings dropping corn and the frontier work of planting with a bee hoe. She describes old times including linen and wool production and a log school with puncheon floors. She notes fathers paid for schooling and hints at a return.
Trene Caldwell returned Friday from a visit in Ladoga. Carmen Ross, recently at tending school in Ade Ohio, arrived home last week. Olin Brown is on vacation and Artie Brown his substitute delivers the mail. Mrs R Burrin has a letter from her North Dakota sister noting extreme dry weather with no rain for five weeks. Lawrence Revercomb and family of Cincinnati and Jesse Revercomb of Anderson spent last week at J M Nicelys farm. George Zimmerman displays at this office samples of Red Wave wheat yielding 38 bushels per acre. Wiley Baldwin of Bankis Illinois visited from Thursday to Saturday with J W Waters and family. His wife and young daughter remained with him.
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