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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
2
A collage of light satire and human oddities from the Advance Hustler features lines about fashion, crime, and daily life. Jests touch on hats, dancing, policewomen, and the perils of modern technology, with quips about money, alimony, and school-age marriage laws interspersed among social sketches.
Farmers seek easy movable fencing using hurdles or panel fences to separate hogs sheep and calves as pastures change. Wisconsin Agriculturist explains base supports four foot cross pieces notched to fit, with panels 12 or 16 feet long, built of four or six inch material. Proper care ensures long service and cost efficiency.
The Missouri experiment station coordinates cooperative farming across 105 of 114 counties to find best soil use crop varieties and farm administration. In 1911 three thousand seed packages and over twenty thousand pounds of fertilizer supported alfalfa trials while dairy and orchard work boosted profits and farm organization.
Advice suggests adding a pinch of copperas to the watering trough monthly or scrubbing it clean and spraying with a copperas solution for sanitation.
A trial of new dry beet pulp feed at a New Jersey station used two cow lots over two 15 day periods. Milk cost per 100 pounds was 2.8 cents higher with pulp than with corn silage, and butter fat cost was 61 cents higher per pound. Pulp raised milk yield about 10 percent versus silage.
Farmers Bulletin 611 from the Department of Agriculture outlines core bookkeeping principles for farms. It urges treating land and buildings as one unit, paying household labor in cash, and separating farm product use from cash sales to avoid confusing accounts.
A discussion extols the hoe as a fundamental and indispensable tool for gardeners and farmers noting its comfort and versatility across many tasks.
The article notes that higher costs exist but the results do not prove the pulp would economically feed farms without corn silage. It discusses uncertainties about practical benefits and efficiency in on farm feeding scenarios.
The call to action urges farmers to scrutinize feeding shelter and care of dairy cows to ensure they remain profitable producers. The warning phrase market your robber cows signals concerns about dairy efficiency and potential mismanagement.
A Brooklyn resident recalls moving from a cramped first floor to a sunlit top floor and how space and light made old furniture look better. Friends note the transformation, encouraging others to avoid unnecessary new purchases and reuse existing pieces. The tale contrasts initial fear of expense with a successful, practical redeployment of belongings.
Braided waistcoats return to add style to suits and silk frocks. The Eton jacket inspired design features a sleeveless white silk bodice with back fastening and a square tab front. Narrow silk soutache stripes create a scalloped braid pattern, and a belt runs below the arms across the front.
The article notes kneeling cushions as gifts for brides during ceremonies. Cushions show initials on white satin with large gold tassels or white floral embroidery. The cushions are decorative and tender but can be somewhat in the way during the ceremony.
In selecting draperies and hangings avoid large figured materials. Light walls and hangings will make the small room seem large. A pillow or two and a rug of a deeper hue will brighten such a room into a tinge of beauty.
A Maple Leaf reader suggests eight 15 year old girls raise funds through earnings and bake sales. The answer recommends varied small efforts like selling currant jelly or home baked goods, plus occasional Saturday sales to help reach a generous donation.
The lesson links the mount of transfiguration with a failing faith among the Disciples and scribes as a demon possessed boy tests Jesus power. The father’s cry I believe help thou mine unbelief leads to healing after the request for prayer and the disciples’ failure is tied to broken fellowship.
A mother seeks guidance for a dainty yet elaborate wedding supper at 5 p.m. She specifies cold turkey for meat and asks for courses including escalloped oysters hot rolls olives celery cranberry jelly fruit salad cheese straws ice cream in individual forms coffee and the wedding cake.
A reader proposes informal party ideas for ages 20 to 30 with about a dozen guests. Suggestions include classic card games with a light end contest, plus a brief flower guessing game where guests wear items to indicate blossoms such as rose peony violet tiger lily or pansy. Simple refreshments and small prizes are advised.
A hostess hosted a pink heart themed gathering for a bride-elect with 12 guests. They faced a word scramble guessing game where phrases, once correctly spelled, revealed items from a bride’s trousseau. Prizes were awarded and refreshments included heart shaped sandwiches coffee heart peppermints and pink heart ice cream.
A wedding notice without an at home enclosure does not require a reply. If the couple are intimate friends a note of good wishes and congratulations is considered courteous. People are always pleased to be remembered.
Country Girl explains etiquette for a club sandwich and bouillon. A club sandwich is eaten with a fork, dry toast may be broken and eaten by hand. Bouillon is sipped from a spoon, with the last swallows lifted from the cup to the lips.
Weston jokes he cannot win on his private course Bunker Hill. Preston quips about the name and playing habits.
A late campaign scene shows a legislature candidate riding through rural areas asking farmers about politics. A young farmer in garb saluted, asked if voters were paying attention politics. The farmer replied the phrase is his gal’s name and declined further conversation.
Speck Mollie, a light colored housemaid from a South Side family, left her job to marry. She returned seeking her old position, saying her husband’s family resented her light skin and a sister claimed she spoiled the family’s color.
Advert humorous note claims Dickey collapsed from designing all the menu cards for his cousin’s pink tea. It jokes that bluing water is adulteration and that Red Cross Ball Blue will make clothes whiter than snow.
A brief exchange marks a paradoxical stance with one side calling him dead in earnest while the other insists he remains a live presence. The dialogue hints at tension between perception and reality without further detail.
Parents reminded to check Castoria bottles for the official signature and the claim of safe use for over 30 years. The notice emphasizes Castoria as a remedy for infants and children, noting widespread use and child appeal for the product.
Ambiguous dialogue implies a joking claim about a kiss under moonlight. A miss Oldmaid purchasing music and a Mr Dopenutt speculate that the other clerk was responsible. The fragment hints at a lighthearted office anecdote.
An old advertisement urges thrift and warns that status shows in bank accounts. It promotes Cole's Carboni salve as a cure for cataracts, claiming high effectiveness and listing druggists selling 25 or 50 cent sizes.
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