Ten Best Bird Friends of the Farmer Named by Expert
An American ornithologist lists the ten most beneficial birds in the United States led by the nighthawk and including the killdeer plover the chimney swift bluebird downy woodpecker phoebe chickadee and several swallows cuckoos and sparrows. He notes some predators deserve entry but finds no theft among the ten and stresses the birds’ pest control roles and habitat habits.
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United States
A. K. Fisher
Biological Survey
Bureau
the Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
F. E. L. Beal
Glover
Five
The
America
Indiana Centennial Film Shows Battle of Tippecanoe in Reser’s Woods
Lafayette scenes depict massacre of settlers performed by Chicago actors for Indiana centennial film. Ber nice Bresnahan five acts as a baby seized and scalped. Red Eagle and Strongheart play prominent Sioux roles. Lincoln boyhood life staged near Lafayette with Low Osler and John Schilling as Lincoln. Filming to continue with Culver Military Academy horses reenacting Civil War Morgan raiders. Terre Haute hosts laying of cornerstone for $100 000 Masonic temple to be built by lodge union with completion targeted January 1 1917.
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Lafayette
Reser’s Woods
Here
Chicago
Indiana
Bernice Bresnahan
Tippecanoe
Red Eagle
Strongheart
Reser
Abraham Lincoln
Low Osler
Lincoln
John Schilling
Culver Military Academy
Black Horse Troop
Terre Haute
Elba F. Brannigan
Franklin
Terre Haute Commandery No. 16
Knights Templars
Gloves and Gear Promise Barbed Wire Breakthrough
In Britain trenches soldiers gain relief from barbed wire with mittens and garments of a fabric claimed impermeable to wire points. The material is waterproof insulated for electrical wires, used in sleeping bags and vests to deflect shrapnel or bullets, and antisepticized to limit infection if penetrated. Details of the fabric remain closely guarded.
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Popular Science Monthly
Loses suit for damages against Linden Hotel Company
Indianapolis Mrs Juanita Ball divorced wife of Barrett Ball police captain lost her suit for damages against Linden Hotel Company in Marion superior court when no proof showed discrimination by race or color. She sought 100 dollars. A fireless cooker caused a fire in 1915 per state fire marshal report, causing 40 dollars damage to the building and 30 to its contents.
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Indianapolis
Juanita Ball
Barrett Ball
Linden Hotel Company
Marion Superior Court
Indiana
W. E. Longley
Wife Shot While Embracing Husband in Perth
Mrs. Ethel Marshall aged eighteen wife of Alexander Marshall of Perth is in critical condition with a abdominal wound from her husband’s revolver discharged when she embraced him to bid farewell. Hanover college seeks 17500 to obtain 10000 for Bible missions endowment. Company H aims to raise 1500 to march to Washington for inauguration. Harry Asman in Evansville owns 2400 talking machine records and various early discs.
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Brazil
Ethel Marshall
Alexander Marshall
Perth
Hanover
Hanover College
The
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Evansville
Harry Asman
Mr. Awsmann
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Praised by Indiana Woman
Mrs. WM. Green of 322 S Addison St Indianapolis says she was weak and underweight at 109 pounds. Five months after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reached 123 pounds and can do housework again. She urges other women to try the remedy and writes for advice to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
WM. Green
S. Addison Street
Bright
Dean
Harrison Levi
N. Sexton St
Rushville
Ind
Ben Doan
Milburn CO
Buffalo
Records That Outlast The Best Hardwood Floor
A phonograph records manufacturer seeks a slogan to convey durability. The advertising man, after a brief pause, pitches a line: one of their dance records will outlast the best hardwood dancing floor ever built.
Epilepsy Cure Ad Offers Free Bottle in War Era
An advertisement touts Dr. Kline's epilepsy medicine claiming fifty years of success with a large bottle offered free. The ad is placed by The Glene Company at Hed Bank New Jersey. A war scene vignette shows a returned soldier recounting shellfire and ration shortages, and a sympathetic young woman reacting to the men’s plight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kline
del Gline Company
Hed Bank
N. J
Millions of Eoicee Women Endorse Cross Ball Blue
Advertisements claim millions of Eoicee women now use and recommend Cross Ball Blue laundry product, targeting grocers to stock the brand.
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Grocers
Adv
Blushing Brides and a Wagon’s Tongue Sayings
A Judge notes brides blush as they fear taming husbands after the wedding. Saffron Long quips that wives feel the challenge ahead. The wagon tongue adds its own silent, punctual wit about the journey.
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Saffron Long
Lords of Creation
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the Farmer's
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
North Wind
Downy
Goward G.clark
U.S. Biological Survey
Owallo
LOE
State Centennial
HLM
Co. H
Warsaw
Company H
National Guard
Washington
Carter
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