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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
2
A widowed Methodist minister returns to Mount Mark with five daughters Prudence Fairy Carol Lark and Constance after a burglar scare. The girls draw local attention at church events and a five hundred dollar reward funds a family division to Prudence and her siblings.
Prudence rides a bicycle at dawn and crashes into a mule on a country path. A young man arrives to help as she fears a broken ankle and possible leg injury, mutely confessing pain and reliance on a stranger.
Prudence injures her ankle after a fall from a bicycle and is aided by a man who carries her to a makeshift bed by the roadside. He plans to fetch a wagon to take her home to Mount Mark four miles away while staying with her until she feels safe.
The prompt asks whether Prudence could be persuaded there exists love at first sight. It examines belief susceptibility and emotional perception without asserting a factual event.
A new mirror from an Erie Pennsylvania maker magnifies at any distance without distortion. It suits mechanics for viewing under or behind objects and serves as a practical household item. The white light reflection aids examination of internal parts and may be used to inspect throat teeth mouth or eyes.
In a playful yet pointed note from the Indianapolis News a caption warns that a governor's staff is not a support for flattery. The piece humorously contrasts public service with vanity while noting a genealogical statistic.
The pearleaf worm harms Pacific coast pear orchards but is tamed by sprays. A contact spray during late blossoming uses fish oil soap and nicotine sulfate at 25 gallons water per pound soap, while severe infestations call for lead arsenate at 4 pounds per 100 gallons.
A Missouri agricultural note warns that fire blight attacks apples pears and quince, blighting shoots and fruit. It overwinters in pear trees and is spread by insects from honeylike exudates. cutting out blighted tissue and painting wounds in late winter or early spring is advised. Salt calomel and iron are ineffective.
Attractive practical forms of smaller tractors are now on the market and gaining favor in communities where demonstrated. Although unlikely to surpass the farm horse entirely it seems certain the tractor will relieve him of plowing and much of the hard costly labor he has done in the past.
The table, compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture, draws on farmer and gardener replies across the county. It shows average seed amounts planted in various localities, excluding extremes.
A digest of varied points covers Spain supplying Cuba cards, early Japanese metalwork weapons, U. S. cinema attendance exceeding 25 million daily, a Michigan inventor's six size gravel sorter, Nez Perce petitioning for bone-dry law, soil heat and humus factors, a hollow angle soldering iron, a 17 ounce opal valued at $300, an American sterilization plant planned for Lima Peru, Lima water system reconstructions, and Porto Rico sugar exports totaling 106283 tons up to March 4.
United States welcomed 300000 aliens in 1916. California harvested 680000 acres of sugar beets. US mined 1916 manganese ore worth 520000000. California kelp harvest 210396 tons for potash. US lead production surpassed 622000 tons. New York 1916 auto deaths 729 with 392 in NYC. US losses from disease and insects reach 700000000.
A compact reflection on self belief and ambition. It notes the appeal of education and effort, warns against vanity, and suggests even an ordinary person can rise with proper strategy and persistence. It uses metaphors of paths and instincts to urge disciplined progress.
An optimist is a grippe victim who believes recovery is near. The piece muses on whether judgment improves with time and questions the fate of old fashioned girls. It notes that family disputes end with a slammed door and suggests politeness is sometimes less profitable than honesty.
An English inventor shows a belt driven auto with speed changes by shifting the belt between pulley sets. The US Army holds a seven pound wireless airplane transmitter patent claimed to reach seven miles. Government wireless stations in Indo China are planned to cover over 3 000 miles.
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