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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
2
Weekly publication entered as second class mail matter on March 3, 1911 at Advance Indiana post office under the act of March 3 1879.
The Senate agreed to a House resolution urging the President to proclaim National Mothers Day. The plan designates the second Sunday of May as Mothers Day and sets future observances on that date.
Editorial notes that band audiences show loyalty through attendance and contributions but withhold applause. It urges listeners to express approval or refusal with a hand vote after concerts to guide the band’s future selections and cooperation.
Reflections on the habit of making excuses, contrasted with H. Clay Trumbull’s firm stance against excuse making. The text argues excuses evade responsibility and hinder learning from mistakes, urging self discipline and accountability to prevent repeating errors.
The author discusses women who prioritize husbands over children, citing two or three cases from twenty years of observation. He describes a neglectful mother whose son receives more attention, and two daughters degraded by a self-effacing upbringing. The piece argues the mother’s focus on her marriage harms domestic happiness and maternal duty.
A columnist extols the devoted role of mothers balancing love for children and husbands. The piece praises maternal diplomacy, selflessness, and long-term sacrifice, citing practical duties, emotional labor, and the aim of harmonious homes amid family duties.
At the twenty fourth annual convention in Cleveland Hotel Statler President John B. Hovland of Chicago urged an end to freak styles and praised a return to sane fashions. He predicted that after next fall men will be proud to see their wives wear the season’s best outfits.
A joke from The Youths Companion about an Irish worker dismissed at Baldwin Locomotive Works. The foreman writes the order to avoid discussion, Pat later asks if he read the letter and replies he read it inside and outside. The inside said fired, the outside ordered return in five days.
A portrait of an aging woman who faced life with cheer and compassion. She used her abilities to help others, kept hopeful illusions, and believed in the power of kind words and a smile. Her generous spirit earns affection as age brings admiration.
A brief meditation on motherhood as a demanding ongoing duty. The piece notes that as children grow older both boys and girls raise new challenges and that mothers must stay engaged, often disguising their managerial role as if it were the children handling affairs.
A judge sentences a husband in a drunk arrest, addressing the weary wife whose sorrow reflects the social cost of liquor. The wife asks whether releasing the saloon husband would help the family by letting him go to work.
A short feature profiles an elderly woman praised for grace and serenity. It cites habits like forgiving, keeping calm, speaking kindly, and not demanding too much from friends as keys to lasting beauty.
A poetic reflection on home as the brightest jewel centered on mother. It contrasts a world of strife barred out with a world of love confined in. Home is the blossom and heaven’s fruit, the only place where faults of others are softened by kinship.
A short piece notes northern Wisconsin has about a hundred miles of railroad with a single saloon town on the route. It mentions the station keeping its “web neas” at the last election by a margin of four votes and points to the region as home to foreign emigrants, lumbermen, and copper and iron workers.
A period exhibit in a Quincy shop window shows two lessons from daily saving. Henry saves one dollar weekly to fund a building project and ends with a fully paid home after 25 years. John spends a dollar weekly on beer and ends with a pile of empty barrels he does not own after 25 years.
Practical household tips cover cooking with beans salads and lemonade, footwear dust for moist feet, shoe bags for sick beds, separating stuck glass, cleaning enamel furniture with soda, potato peeling with soda, drying tins, skewering onions, rehydrating dry nuts, a pineapple dessert, and cottage cheese curd preparation with melted butter and salt.
Fragmentary note questions whether wives and husbands have changed due to saloons and poverty. It ponders if homes now become places of light and happiness and mentions a son and a neighbor in the neighborhood. The text asks if the Nejiwaskalea slocn can withstand this test.
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