Bloomfield Democrat overview and contact details
The Bloomfield Democrat is a Greene county weekly and semi weekly newspaper founded in 1861. Proprietor and editor W L Slinkard announces subscription rates including one year in advance for 1 50 and six months for 75 cents with all subscriptions payable in advance. Advertising rates are available on request and include 5c per line for cards of thanks with a minimum 25c and lodge resolutions 5c per line. The paper is entered as second class mail matter in Bloomfield Indiana and telephone number 80.
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Bloomfield
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Postoffice
Autocrat and Dr Holmes Remembered for Healthful Virtues
The passage extols Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes as a vibrant, health‑minded figure whose love of rowing horses trees and childhood memories defined his character. It praises charity and relevance, wit and vitality, urging readers to live fully while acknowledging his humane ideals and enduring influence.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Misdirected Ambition Among Neighbors
A Commentary Fears display drives some women to outshine better off neighbors at the expense of prudence. It argues incomes limit purchases and that merchants bear the burden when credit runs out, predicting social and financial fallout from such vanity.
The Stimulus of Flowers in the Home
The text extols growing plants in living rooms for health and atmosphere. Plants improve air quality and foster family well being, peace, and kindness. It asserts nature as the finest companionship and that angels love a home with flowers.
Army Pay Schedules For Officers And Enlisted Men
The article outlines regular army pay scales for officers from lieutenant general to second lieutenant with annual figures and length of service increases. It notes 10 percent raises for service terms, and 10 percent overseas boosts outside the United States, plus a private enlistment pay scale rising from 15 dollars per month to 45 dollars by the seventh enlistment with a three year term.
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United States Regular Army
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Substitutes for Said Open New Avenues in Dialogue
A Boston Writer list offers 385 alternatives to said to ease writing fiction. The piece notes that varying dialogue tags helps plot and characterization, with the letter C serving as a mini gallery of actions from cachinates to confesses. The New York Post cites this as a ready made scenario aid.
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Boston Writer
New York Post
Automatic one man baseball game uses electricity pitcher
A firm of amusement builders launches a one man automatic baseball contest in an enclosed court. The batter faces a pitching machine operated by motors while nets label hits from single to home run. Players swing at served balls as balls and strikes are called.
Marvelous Machines and Inventors in Early 20th Century
A Los Angeles inventor unveils the iron chink machine that frees workers from cleaning canned salmon, claiming it replaces 56 Chinese workers and processes 80 069 fish daily. Another creator adds a bakery printing press that colors wraps and handles bread without human contact. A deafening trolley accident leaves a man without legs and an arm, and Barney Oldfield gifts a motor vehicle designed for his needs.
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Los Angeles
Tie
Barney Oldfield
This Method Not Patented City Gossip
Two women across the border discuss life troubles and husbands in a humorous London Tit-Bits style exchange. One jokes about wives freeing themselves from husbands' trouser pockets while the other quips about turning a man's breeches upside down to help herself off the carpet.
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London
Pneumatic Amunition Transfer Eases Sailors Burden
The Popular Science Monthly reports naval shells will be moved by pneumatic tubes from the magazine to the firing turret. An intricate mechanism prevents shells from entering gun breeches at high speed and guards against firing mistakes, easing sailors duties aboard ship.
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Jack Tar
Popular Science Monthly
Parcel Post Dominates Persia Imports During War
Since the outbreak of the war practically the only means to import a large variety of articles into Persia is parcel post. A report from Commercial Attache Baker at Petrograd notes goods are shipped to Norway and then reshipped in smaller packages from Russia to Persia.
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Persia
Baker
Petrograd
Norway
Russia
Vergia
Secret Engagement Sparks Lively Banter in Boston
In a public display of wit, a couple debates the prudence of revealing their engagement. She explains secrecy prevents gossip about true intent to marry, while he questions the motive in a playful exchange captured by the Boston Evening Transcript.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Escaped Shears of Barber in French Foreign Legion
A special correspondent serving in the French Foreign Legion tells how he avoided a hair-cut order. He claimed a religious excuse as an American Indian to spare his hair, explaining the fair‑play theory of leaving the enemy a scalp as a trophy. The adjutant and lieutenant hear the tale with interest.
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French Foreign Legion
Bureau
France
New York Sun
WAR TO BRING SIMPLER MUSIC
Opera chief Giulio Gatti Casazz a predicts postwar Europe may have centralized autocracies guiding art He argues art becomes an alternative to political expression and that after the war people will crave simplicity in music over complex forms and avant garde styles The stance reflects wartime cultural debates in major outlets.
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Giulio Gatti-Casnazza
Metropolitan Opera Company
Europe
New York Evening Post
Aos
Call for Expanded Care for Mental Defectives and Epileptics
The Indianapolis News argues for broader care of the insane epileptic and defective population. Proposals include voluntary admission laws, psychiatric wards, and development of industrial farm colonies to employ patients and support costs. A legislative commission should study reform, with emphasis on segregation education treatment and development.
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Indiana
Indianapolis News
Pain of angina relief through simple exercises
A New York Medical Journal report by Dr. Samuel Constable describes stretching routines to relieve angina pectoris. The method uses bed bar hangs and forward bending to stretch chest muscles, producing immediate pain relief and reduced constriction. Diet and hay fever sufferers are urged to try similar stretches for bronchial episodes.
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Samuel Constable
Eondom
New York Medical Journal
Constable
Ingenious Coin-Op Camera Prints Instant Postcards
A new coin in the slot machine uses a built in camera to take a visitor's photo and produce postcard style prints in minutes. The mechanism releases film as money is inserted and prints emerge from a slide, offering clear snapshots without an operator.
Canadian Firm Struggles With Tax on Idle Oil Lands
A Canadian company that bought oil and gas rights on a vast land area now owes taxes on properties with no production and no prospects. With surface owners unwilling to reclaim the mineral rights, the firm may be forced to continue paying taxes despite the lack of any output.
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Canadien
Double Meaning Exchange in the West
A West mayor tells an English tourist the locals grew crusty when tied up in a bankrupt telephone company matter. The tourist asks what they did and the mayor explains they simply hung up the receiver.
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Far West
Great Book of Undistinguished Americans Joke
A suave visitor asks if a man’s name is in Who’s Who. The reply says not in the distinguished record but on page 113 of the Great Book of Undistinguished Americans, humorously misspelled as Salt Rheum due to a typographical error, per the Kansas City Star.
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J. Fuller
Kansas City Star
No More Skyscrapers for Paris
Deputy M. Paul Esendier releases a report on a bill to halt skyscraper construction in Paris. He urges tougher penalties for violations of the height limit and seeks council authority to stop any building exceeding regulations.
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Paris
M. Paul Esendier
MM. Esendier
Chase
New York Herald
Oil from Various Sources in Germany Remarkable
The article notes 662,250 pounds of oil from sunflowers in Germany last year and a potential rich poppy seed crop this year. It highlights high oil percentages in cherry and plum stones, which are usually discarded. In 1900 Germany had 22 million cherry trees and 70 million plum trees. Large fruit stones were collected by school children but many were wasted due to extraction difficulties.
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Germany
Machine Sorts Coffee Beans by Color in Germany
A German invention uses a light beam to inspect coffee beans. The bean passes into a light, reflects to two selenium cells, and a hopper, controlled by electricity, directs the bean into one of several receptacles based on color. Different colors yield varying electric resistance to separate beans.
Luminous hats help London streets at night
A British press report describes luminous hats using a blue phosphorescent liquid to warn pedestrians in darkened London streets after lamps were blacked for air raid precautions. The hat light allegedly aids visibility, reducing collisions as fears of Zeppelin attacks rise.
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London
New York Times
Jap seus idea on religion by Viscount Kaneko
Viscount Kaneko outlines religious views before politics, praising Christian schooling in Japan and urging well trained leaders. He says Christianity spreads among Japan’s best, while Buddhism declines, and stresses uncompromising faith with broad training and gentlemanly conduct.
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Viscount Kaneko
Japan
Christina Herald
Accordion and cinema drive teen burglar to four year term
Maitre Edmond B argues before the correction chamber of appeals that a sixteen year old boy, inspired by cinema, spent evenings at home on the accordion and then prepared burgling gear to imitate crimes seen on screen. The court sentenced the gamin to four years in prison per Le Cri de Paris.
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Maitre
Edmond B
Correction Chamber of Appeals
le Cri de
Paris
Bashful suitor faces a push to marry in Kansas village
John Blevins, the shy lover of Sallie Jaimes, stumbles through a confrontation with Sallie’s father who demands a clear intention to marry. The scene ends with a terse ultimatum about moving forward.
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John Blevins
Kansas
Sallie Jaimes
John
gJohn
Paterfamilias
Tam Alming
Sleep Trek of a Soldier in France Sees 27 Months Spent Sleeping
A 31 year old singer described to the Medical and Surgical Society of Bordeaux by Professor Berger recounts 27 months of sleep after disappearing at the Marne. Found in Brittany, he has since slept with closed eyes, steady respiration, rapid pulse, and sensitivity to excitement, with possible administration of liquid food.
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Medical and Surgical Society of
Bordeaux
France
Berger
Battle of the Marne
Brittany
Record in Plum Puddings
A historical note on giant plum puddings in Britain describes a 900 pound pudding made for Paignton’s poor in the early 1800s. Ingredients included 120 pounds of figs and a like weight of raisins with four hundredweight of flour, boiled from Saturday to Tuesday and served on the village green.
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Paignton
Carnegie's epitaph idea graces tombstone in Kansas City tome
The story recalls Andrew Carnegie as a shrewd and generous figure. He reportedly chose a tombstone epitaph, That was damned white of Andy, reflecting on his life of iron mastery and philanthropy. A tale recalls a benefactor helping McLuckie in Mexico with discreet aid.
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Andrew Carnegie
Andy
Carnegie
WeLuckie
Gof Slemestead
McLuckie
Mexico
Ambition Rules for the Working World
A column argues that ambitious individuals focus on advancement and refuse easy high salary options. It notes hard workers balance practice with hobbies, rejects dreamers, and urges full effort to secure fair compensation in a busy, crowded job market.
Ironical Bill and Henry Ford Peace Ship Gift Story
Dr. Lawrence Carr Winthrop of the League to Enforce Peace cites a Boston anecdote about Henry Ford. A workingman saves most of his weekly $12 pay, $11.75, to fund a Copenhagen peace ship, illustrating Ford's generosity in public perception.
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Henry Ford
Lawrence Carr Winthrop
League
Boston
Ford
Bill
Copenhagen
Words of Caution from a Wise Mentor
A historical note warns against letting courage spill into fierceness or resolve become obstinacy. It counsels balancing wisdom with patience and shunning sullenness and despair in pursuit of prudent actions.
Movable Nailing Machine Shaped for Factory Use
An electrically operated machine nails packing box taps and is mounted on no truck to allow moving about a factory.
As Happy as Kings and Other Reflections
A short reflective note compares happiness to royalty amid modern pressures, suggesting people bear burdens akin to kings and urging a balanced, measured outlook. The piece uses a light ironic tone to explore social mood.
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