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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
3
A terse local note questions if terror laws to lower living costs have benefited anyone while referring to Mose Riley and Jedediah Jenkins as a buyer foresees a sale. Public interest centers on who profits from such statutes and when the event occurs.
Republicans in Boone County gear up for their County Convention led by Chairman Lee Bratton. Expected speakers include Job Freeman for State Treasurer and Newt Brown for Auditor of State, with Will Adams, Lucius Embree, M A Chipman, and Fred Purnell listed for key judicial and congressional posts. The event promises strong music and a confident party outlook statewide.
Paris Martin notes Austrian flyer Konschel shaved at 25000 feet after a bet. Cyrus Durham in Skowhegan Maine uses a bell and string to frighten crows from his cornfield. William A Shaw of Sidney Maine is one of the oldest Masons at eighty five. Neil Conley of Minot Maine killed a porcupine he spotted in his plowed field after mistaking it for a black fox.
A Rockland Maine resident notes four hens all ten years old still laying intermittently. Washington plans a daily prohibition paper with December start and 200000 dollars funding plus 100000 circulation. A Maine tabby named Sarah, blinded yet sharp, wears spectacles to hunt mice for her family.
A Dover England cat nurses a brood of five chickens and a kitten. The young chickens cry for their foster mother when she moves a few yards away, illustrating animal care across species.
Harvard experts attribute growing grocery debt to poor bookkeeping and note many people prefer paying millinery or whiskey bills over groceries, leading to higher unpaid accounts.
Kansas City real estate dealer Frank D. Parsons reports his horse Gypsy has a four month annual vacation each year. Gypsy, owned by M. Parsons for fifteen years, loses her horseshoes December 1 and rests in a stall or pasture for four months, a practice deemed her rightful rest.
Geo Galvin of St Charles Missouri swam four miles down the Missouri River after missing a train. He wore his clothes and hat throughout the trip and never left the water, claiming swimming moves him faster than walking. The piece questions how many St Paul boys would match the feat against the Wanderlust Club on a four mile Mississippi descent.
John Booker and wife and mother Mrs Martha Hutchinson visited Friday night. Virgil Morrison and family spent Sunday with George Canada and family at Advance. Doosa Butler and Pauline visited Wm Butler and wife Sunday. Mrs Carrie Endicott and daughter Martha returned to Peru after visiting Martha Hutchinson. Bettie Hinton and son Guy visited Tommy Becklehimer Sunday. Donnie Butler visited near Linden over Sunday. Mrs Charles Day and sons Everett and Dorsa returned to Brownsburg after visiting William Batler family.
Local managers planning Greencastle chautauqua next week seek Rev Billy Sunday as Sunday speaker. Rev Airhart and Mrs Airhart attended an all day meeting near New Market with two sermons delivered. News notes cover health warnings, farm sales, alfalfa foods, resignations, bank cornerstones, and vacation plans.
Ward Bert Swindler visited Wallace Yager and family in Indianapolis Sunday. Mrs John Swindler and family and Henry Swindler attended Edith Graham’s funeral at Dover Friday. Chas Bean and family hosted dinner Sunday with Raymond Faulkenberry and family and Roy Swindler and family. James Swindler adds a barn wing. Roy Swindler, Ceas Routh, Oscar Urp, Wm KinCAid and Roy Swindler shipped a carload of hogs to Indianapolis Monday. Chas Bean hayed Monday. Ice cream social at the local place drew a good crowd Saturday night.
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