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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
2
A weekly Advance note urges limiting graduation festivities to three days and cutting costs for town graduates. It calls for students to perform only their strongest talents while avoiding expensive subgroups, and stresses value of fellowship over showmanship. The piece advocates frugal, democratic, traditional practices for future commencements.
Wallace Ashby of Ladoga, an elevator and lumber businessman with a large farm southwest of town, has purchased a new gasoline motor gang plow that has attracted much attention in the area. The device, noted for its size, marks a significant agricultural equipment purchase.
A thoughtful mother rebukes friends who scoff at her daughter’s prospects, arguing that their methods fail due to poor timing and overexposure. She claims a disciplined approach will yield better results, illustrating the adage that good wine sometimes needs a bush.
A Montgomery County inventor, Mr. Ashby, operates a gasoline powered plow with five attached furrows that turns seven foot strips. He claims it can do the work of fifteen horses and plows sixteen acres in ten hours. The machine includes a drag to level ground and a cab with lights for night use, priced at 8000.
A nostalgic lament for vanished kitchen and home features such as the ash hopper, soap kettle, roller towel, and open fireplace. The piece contrasts old methods of soap making, cooking, and life around the house with modern prospectuses and new habits, celebrating simpler times and familiar objects.
Early crops reduce feeding costs and improve egg production by providing succulent food. Prepare spring crops as soon as winter crops are depleted, with oats wheat rye barley rape alfalfa clover and other suitable plants.
The text notes that incubators or hens fail to produce optimal hatches if kept in cold wet or dark places. It emphasizes that some light reasonable warmth and relative dryness are needed for best results.
May Belleville Brown of Salina writes from Kansas about a town once filled with 15 saloons now home to a modern high school. She contrasts childhood memories of alcohol with the current scene where regulation gave way to elimination and a peaceful, productive community centered on education.
A physician warns alcohol harms, recounting a man driven insane by drinking and his sons who avoided or succumbed to alcohol. A Boston charity leader urges hostesses to require medical knowledge of guests and ancestors before serving social liquor.
A historical critique cites estimates of billions wasted by alcohol commerce, including lost product value, mortality, crime costs, and public care expenses. It argues the social price far exceeds any tax or license revenue, urging conservative statistician led investigation into the harms.
A Chicago temperance movement known as the Bartenders' Union circulates a circular urging bartenders to abstain from drinking on the job. It argues drinking harms performance and warns that those who drink will be penalized by coworkers. Members are invited to join the club at home.
A saloonkeeper argues that beer causes more intoxication than whisky among young men and claims beer is the first intoxicant they encounter. He asserts beer drinkers become as drunk as whisky drinkers and that fifty glasses of beer are sold for every glass of whisky. He offers to prove his point.
About twenty teachers from various German schools arrive in New York on the steamer Fatherland September U They will tour several cities including Boston Buffalo Cincinnati Indianapolis Chicago and Washington to observe playground systems schooling methods and other aspects of American education Led by Professor Pritz Grob of Leipsic they depart for Germany on October 2. A separate note discusses proper egg storage and preservation timing.
Connecticut Agricultural College in Storrs outlines a waterglass preservation method for eggs. Use a stone jar or galvanized container, five gallon capacity holds twelve to fifteen dozen eggs, mix one quart waterglass with ten to eleven parts water, keep only fresh clean unwashed eggs, avoid cracked or dirty eggs, and fill container after pouring the solution.
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