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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1917
Page
5
The Advance Hustler announces season pricing of 12.00 per ton for tomatoes and Urges contract signings or phone reservations. Jamestown Canning advertises sale of kettle boiled maple syrup at 1.50 per gallon. Donations requested for Easter Bazaar and a school thank-you note from Lon Stewart family.
A satirical piece mocks modern food trends and dietary experiments. It contrasts beans, peas and spices with bizarre additives like glue, in a tone that critiques culinary fads and college meat science.
An exhortation on pioneering mindset, citing Watt Newton and Woolworth as examples. Encourages readers to start new endeavors, seize ideas, and keep the pioneering instinct alive for personal achievement and progress.
The piece notes that four-fifths of the 1914 loans to Americans abroad have been repaid while the remaining fifth relies on creditors. It adds a humorous aside about a western doctor advising wives on coffee and tobacco cures and comments on retirement, love, and business life.
The program for the S. S. Convention at the Christian church in Advance on Sunday April 1 1917 at 2 p.m. includes orchestra devotional reports address by Prof L M Crist and county president R S Crose and a combined choir with W E Lucas and Mrs Lotta Bratton at the piano.
At the school building last night the county oratorical selected speakers Vernon Purdue first Geo Pratt second Seaton Day third for boys and Letha Whitecotton first for girls Judges were Rev Rector Cecil Kibbey and Val Riggins The program featured piano and vocal solos and instrumental pieces by Beulah Pittenger Eugene Yager and others with a Fred Sullivan quintette listed among performers
A Visit with the Sick Uncle Jimmie Dean notes fewer symptoms this week. Gill Utterback's baby is very sick. Mrs Martha Kersey and Mrs A N Lewis have lagrippe. Born to Mr and Mrs Ogle Melson of Max last night, a boy.
Jake Beaver and family moved to their New Ross farm Newt Wall on Tuesday. George Broshar helped Frank Heady with a cost on Friday. Wm Lasley is building a combined garage and smoke house. Frank Heady and Geo Broshar visited Jamestown Saturday morning. B L Smiley and wife visited Jamestown Tuesday afternoon. Chas E McClaine was stung in the mouth by a bee today and tomorrow will talk Dutch.
Gertha Riggins buys new victrola and Dr. Hall returns from Louisville after attending lectures. Out of town guests include F E Trucksess and Marion Maus with others visiting from New Market Brookston and Lebanon. Ladies Aid meets at Mrs James Roark's for music and refreshment. several residents move homes on Main Street and surrounding properties. Cornelius Coons visits with Mrs Neal Day.
Ora McDaniel publisher of the Advance Hustler sent letters urging more advertising to cover higher living costs and material prices. Merchants answered with a meeting and eighteen men contracted for one year at a 20 percent rate increase, a show of loyalty to the local paper, per Coatsville Herald.
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