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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
2
A local Advance Indiana weekly excerpt compiles a patchwork of wry aphorisms and social curiosities from March 3 1911. The collection riffs on honesty luck money and knowledge with quips about radium poetry astronomy and human foibles.
A New York woman paid one thousand dollars to have her husband released from jail. The article notes the high cost of securing release and suggests husbands are scarce in the city. It also comments on public attitudes toward experience in life and a satirical jab at sports and wartime crowds.
A speaker argues residents should give local storekeepers upfront capital to buy goods for them, mirroring mail order practices. He says this would boost local prosperity, taxes, schools, and municipal improvements while critiquing consumers for funding distant catalogs.
A clever schoolboy, warned of punishment for fishing in forbidden waters, devises a plan to dodge detention. He hides a padded outfit with a brown pathe sheet, two copies of the Scout, and a chest protector. At five o clock he presents himself. the headmaster contemplates punishment but delays.
Ladoga Electric Company adopts a new nitrogen lamp street system with a regulator to maintain constant current. One lamp at every street crossing and downtown alley, with some lights hung center street or on brackets. Installation aimed to finish by October first under a new lit contract.
A passenger quarrel erupts on a tram as a gate shut in a group of youths. The car doctor tries to calm the incident while Gentry helps a woman alight. The conductor apologizes and points out Granville road is half a mile ahead.
A penniless man visits his wealthy cousin who offers to pay him to mark a football ground for a cup match. He declines, insisting that the cousin pay the worker fairly, choosing honesty over profiteering and preserving the other man’s job.
Joshua Davis of New Ross files to obtain a license to sell intoxicants in New Ross, citing a room in W. J. Inlow's addition. A large brick building near the New Ross bank prompts talk of a saloon, with remonstrances circulating among Walnut township voters as an election on the issue looms.
Denatured sugar substitutes for mortar in ancient and modern construction. Sugar costs differ by region, with Europe paying more than the United States. It serves in lime sand mixes for scouting mortar and is used in dyes, leather filler, soap, explosives, and ink production.
The article urges not to mix breeds on a single farm and stresses selecting high quality fowls. It notes the value of well-bred males, rejects scrubs, and advises clean dry housing with straw for resting birds. It highlights care during bad weather and proper management of poultry varieties.
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