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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1917
Page
2
The Bloomfield Democrat printer and editor L. Slinkard provides weekly and semi weekly edition schedules, subscription rates, advertising terms, mailing note, and post office entry details for Bloomfield Indiana. The notice includes pricing in advance and contact via telephone number 80.
The State Board of Accounts clarifies that Greene county gravel road bonds are not county obligations but payable by lands in the Goose Pond drainage district. The 8498 acres were assessed 75000 with lands valued at 118880 and probable real value about 200060. Taxes collected from district lands will cover all bond payments.
In a Washington Star fragment three young women discuss mothers and independence at a cafe table. They joke about bosses at home and the burdens of working women while contrasting widows and married mothers in sharp, comic dialogue.
Popular Mechanics Magazine reports spreading common salt on dirt roads can reduce dust in dry months. The calcium chloride in salt binds moisture, keeping surfaces dust free between applications about six weeks apart, if mixed well before heavy rain.
The essay recalls Johnny Poe from Baltimore who enlisted in the Black Watch during World War I. After seeking a safe route via a London offense by proving outsider birth, Poe's courage stood as a symbol alongside Nathan Hale. He fell at Loos on September 25 1915 uttering bravely Never mind me Go ahead with our boxes.
Women food experts launch a national drive to teach food economy through wild food in England. Speeches and tours claim households can meet two thirds of needs for most of the year from local fields and waters, citing 260 plus edible species and a ministry-backed program led by Mrs. C. B. Peel and Mrs. Pember Jeeves.
The sparrow was released in the United States to destroy noxious insects, especially moth larvae. Native birds would have served the same role, but sparrows became common city dwellers. While effective against caterpillars in parks, alien moths like gypsy and brown-tail moths outmatched the sparrow.
The Havana Post reports L and O Shnm line signed a contract to move sugar and apples on the Key West ferry, backing Henry M Flagler’s dream of a Havana Key West rail and ferry system. Early years showed opposite traffic, but now evidence suggests rising northbound flow as planned.
A terse exchange notes Tol plans to invest in land in the Danish West Indies, now termed Virgin soil. The statement cites recent acquisition and implies a favorable inducement tied to the islands.
Greene County officials and accountants defend the Goose Pond Reclamation Association bond issue of 1915 75 000 to fund improvements. The report confirms bonds payable solely from benefited lands assessments, not county general funds, with land values exceeding the assessments and bonds taxable as drainage bonds.
The passage lists famed individuals and their remarkable oral or memory feats. Michelangelo recalled much Dante Petrarch and Galileo recited Ariosto Petrarch and Beral. Justus Lipsius knew Tacitus by heart. Pascal reportedly knew the Bible by heart. Teibnitz and Saunderson could repeat Virgil Horace and Cicero. Porson claimed to recite Roderick Random from start to finish.
Walter Kellogg Towers recounts an early sound signaling method said to reach twelve miles. He notes it was devised for Alexander the Great, a gigantic speaking trumpet with a drawing preserved in the Vatican, cited by the New York Telegram.
A man predicts postwar labor shifts with women clerks expanding in railroad offices and men moving to science. A woman counters that many men may abandon clerical roles, while both suggest returning veterans may pursue larger contributions beyond simple clerkships.
William Sanford laments with a mock biblical plea addressing potato bugs blackbirds cutworms and squash bugs asking for mercy in his garden Neatly framing the pest toll on vegetables and fruit and ending with a plea for just one remaining plant or fruit in the yard
Popular Science notes England creates an artificial milk from ground peanuts and soy beans with water sugar and mineral salts. Potassium phosphate mixes with 200 pints water at 176 degrees F. The process uses peanut meat boiled in a steam jacketed pan then vacuum treated and cultured with lactic bacteria to reach the desired acidity. Pasteurized cooled product may be canned dried bottled or used with nut fats to form cream or cheese.
Government experts studied sponge cultivation and found workable methods. C D Chase of Florida started a sponge farm offshore with about 600000 sponges. The venture plans to multiply them tenfold every three years and, after a three year lead time, yield about 2000000 sponges annually.
The Boston Advertiser notes Radcliffe College students display flags and cards listing the capacities in which they will serve the nation. Many intend farm work, domestic service, clerical or mechanical tasks, nursing, and first aid. Every girl pledges to do her part.
The Providence Journal notes that Americans overindulge in diverse dishes and fancy foods, driving up costs. Forty Boston hotel and restaurant proprietors have joined a movement to trim frills from menus, urging public caterers and housekeepers nationwide to cut waste in labor and food.
Britain unveils a rapid gun factory project with a 1,820 tons steel main building erected in just over 40 days. The facility houses over 1,000 electrically driven machines operated by women, spans 24 percent of an acre floor space, and uses 9,500 window panes to meet wartime production demands.
The report notes a Sandy Hook Conn. miller sold ground wheat mixed with Western flour creating cheaper bread material. It compares past neighborly grinding and home grown cornmeal to today’s machines that remove gluten. It recalls southern Appalachia still using old mills and Virginia flour trade with Rio de Janeiro before the Civil War.
At a Mansion House Dublin meeting led by Mrs Stephen Gwynn various suffrage groups urged government to include Ireland in any England and Scotland franchise expansion. A resolution, passed unanimously, calls for Irish enfranchisement and extension of the speaker's electoral reform conference pledge to Ireland.
The Naval Reserve corps lists 14 executive committee members of the Naval Training association who helped organize the motorboat coast patrol and recruit for the reserve. six are already in service. George F Baker Jr chairs as lieutenant. Paul L Hammond is an ensign on a destroyer. Francis H McAdoo, son of the secretary of the treasury, is an ordinary seaman. Richard S Russell is a lieutenant. D McKee Morris is a boatswain's mate. Junius Spencer Morgan is an ensign.
A Philadelphia Record echo cites labor statistics claiming farmers live longer than urban workers. It notes farmers average 58 years 6 months, while bookkeepers and office assistants average 36 years 6 months, urging a shift from offices to farms to improve longevity and social support.
The article notes thousands of carrier pigeon clubs and military pigeon stations in Germany France Russia and Belgium. Private owners have lent birds to the armed forces, with Belgium serving as a principal training country for pigeons.
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