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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
7
The article notes a shift from city lines to farm independence with small home power systems. Low voltage generators, storage batteries, and gas or oil engines enable moderate income farmers to operate lighting and small machinery. Prices vary by lights, and installation guidance is offered by the department.
The author states permanent practice in Attica for veterinary medicine surgery and dentistry with office at the Reece livery barn. Dean Reece DVM signs as asserting ownership and eligibility.
John Sprague finds a midwestern post card in his Wallace area cornfield. He forwards it to Martinsville resident George Baker, who explains a cyclone destroyed his home and killed his wife the night before. The undamaged card likely rode the storm from Indianapolis traveling eastward.
G. C. Knickerbocker named division freight and passenger agent of the Wabash at Danville Illinois succeeding the late W. A. Sprott. He has long railroad experience from operator to traveling freight agent and has served at Covington Napoleon Defiance Peru and Lafayette. He joined the Wabash in 1898 and was traveling freight agent at Toledo and Buffalo before the latest promotion.
A cautionary piece argues that haste harms economy, character, and health, urging honesty and steady effort. It extols education as growth, warns against quick riches and mushroom reputations, and promotes relaxation and balanced work for lasting success.
Excerpt contrasts two paths: making a living vs making a life. The former focuses on material success and self-interest, while the latter urges generosity, truth, beauty, and inner growth. The author laments modern haste and wealth obsession, urging daily widening of mental and moral powers as the true measure of living.
Judge Wright rules twenty barrels shipped by a St. Louis dealer to a Danville merchant must be poured into the gutter for violating federal pure food laws. Experts state the liquid never saw an apple and the manufacture and shipment are condemned.
A Wisconsin prof lists curious geographic quirks from the Panama Canal to South America. The second item reports a local fatal hospital operation revealing a fugitive with a tattooed name and a past grand larceny charge.
The 1912 football season saw ten deaths and thirty six severe injuries among young players, all among high school or non college athletes. Last year reports show four deaths and sixty seven injuries, with many more sustaining minor injuries not listed. Modern football traces to an ancient Roman game called sharpastum where goals were carried across a ground line.
Death after an operation in a Lafayette hospital exposed a long-hidden fugitive. The incident uncovers a crime-tainted past erased by years of upright living under an assumed name, with authorities identifying the suspect as Joes Smith.
Amos W. Butler secretary of the board of state charities urged a state penal farm in an Indianapolis Commercial club address. Judge James A. Collins condemned Indiana jails saying the state does more for dogs than for the offender made in His image. Butler noted last year 36 380 admissions to Indiana jails 15 000 of whom were
Officials condemn idleness funded by taxpayers noting that resistant individuals live off public support. Critics claim such citizens become educated in vice and crime, degenerating physically and morally as a result.
A New England tale shows a grandfather planting apple trees when others hesitate. The orchard grows into cider and lasting joy, proving watching nature yields pleasure and profit and that it is never too late to stay busy for the sake of being busy.
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