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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
4
An Indiana woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with stopping monthly suffering and restoring regularity after years of pain and doctors' care. The ad invites letters to Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential womanly health guidance.
An old advertisement touts Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Feverishness Headache Bad Stomach Teething disorders and bowel regulation. It claims to destroy worms and break up colds in 24 hours. Marketed by PILEE Ad ren Nother Gray Co Le Roy New York for 25 cents with 28 years of use by mothers.
In a club debate a member complains about Jones-Smythe becoming popular and suggests blocking him by making him chairman of the house committee. The discussion hints at tensions and potential underhanded moves to curb influence.
Sixteen Indianapolis men subscribe $1500 to fund an American ambulance unit named the Indianapolis. The gift covers vehicle purchase equipment and six months maintenance and will be sent to New York for a volunteer driver and regular reports to donors. Names withheld to avoid public parade of generosity.
Indianapolis bankers at their seventh annual meeting lauded the Hoosier State Automobile Club effort to create a state highway department. Purdue awarded a $74,300 contract to Lester Colvin of Anderson for a new biology building to replace the old science building. construction to start after June graduation.
A whirlwind campaign to start this week seeks 400000 in Fort Wayne to fund a new Young Men's Christian Association building. Subscriptions must pledge the full amount to be valid.
Officers chosen at the Thirteenth district convention include Chairman Mrs. William O. Yallette of Goshen Vice Chairman Mrs. A. J. Dillon of Rochester and Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Guy Stoddard of Michigan City.
Marion committees organize the state Elks reunion parade to decorate twenty eight blocks along the march with national colors and the Elks purple and white.
Clinton township orders three road improvements including brick paving on one road and brick and concrete on another. The third road will be concrete and sixteen feet wide extending westward from West Clinton.
Melvin Houk, principal, says nearly 200000 flies will be killed in a school fly-swatting contest. Merchants offer 56 prizes. A Jefferson school pupil collected thousands of dead flies in a quart jar. Six hundred thirty-two children entered. over 500 remain active.
Bedford reports the Medford Masons accept Mimner Dunlap of Indianapolis for a new $65,000 temple on land bequeathed by Moses F Dunn. Dunlap also designs Elks lodge in town, which has its own plans approved and receives estate funds. Nearby items note flux in local crime and public notices.
The state board of education adopted five textbooks for public schools including United States history grammar geography spellers and physiology. The contract involves hundreds of thousands of dollars and Governor Ralston appointed Supt Is G Brown of Lebanon to the board. Also Allen County council appropriated $5,000 for a penal farm and $1,000 to enforce the lazy husband act with barracks planned for prisoners.
Gary hod carriers walked out for 55 cents an hour 6 cent raise. Plaster workers joined in sympathy delaying building work and signaling a broader labor action.
A Indianapolis News recounts a wife lunching downtown with a man who is not her husband. The waiter pairs orders on one slip, her friends arrive and gossip builds as she realizes the potential for scandal from a simple misstep. The woman resolves never to dine alone again.
The article portrays Meissner as a German engineer whose early work in Turkey helped lay the European rail network and Asia Minor projects. It notes his long career shaped by a genuine concern for Turkey, distinguishing him from other European agents amid Realpolitik.
The Agriculture Department maintains a motion picture factory for film production to support scientific farming. Department heads use the films in lectures and field demonstrations at country schoolhouses and churches, drawing large attentive audiences. Earlier bureaus like Animal Industry used films on dipping vats, meat handling, cattle breeding and poultry raising. Good Roads and Forest Service also employ these films effectively.
A young husband questions a shopping list as his wife explains she will transform a stale loaf into bread pudding to avoid waste during wartime. The exchange emphasizes thrift and resourcefulness in England’s wartime economy and domestic adaptation.
A compact reflection on love as heart purification and moral strength. It praises love’s ability to elevate character in both men and women, granting courage and noble aims, while warning that love is a sacred fire to be carefully guarded.
American readers are urged to take hot water with Anuric to expel uric acid linked to backache kidney trouble and rheumatism. The ad claims Dr Pierce’s Anuric as 37 times stronger to treat gout and other uric acid related ailments with a $1 full treatment option and a 10 cent trial package from Buffalo New York.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph excerpt shows Judge Briles confronting a young convict who boasts of future violence after a past beating of a police officer. The dialogue touches on reform, racial identity, and taunting persistence, reflecting wartime era street morality and public attitudes.
An advertisement touts Spear Minto toothpaste as neutralizing mouth acid and preventing tobacco stains and smoker’s breath. It claims safety for all ages with no alcohol coloring soap or grit and offers samples and care directions by mail from Herson Chemical Co. Chicago. Cabaret joke about capers with mutton ends the reading.
An old advertisement touts Red Cross Rall Blue as an unequaled laundry aid that makes clothes whiter than snow and promises genuine merit, urging housewives to trust the product and featuring a meet the grocers tone. The second fragment shows a gossip exchange about husbands being out together, reflecting social chatter of the era.
An advertisement touts Dr Krime’s Epilepsy Medicine claiming fifty years of perfected process and a free bottle. The ad mentions claims of stopping fits and includes the sponsor as DK Bline Company of Hed Bank New Jersey along with unrelated school and health product notes.
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