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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1917
Page
2
The Bloomfield Democrat, a Greene County weekly founded in 1864, lists publication days Friday and Tuesday semi weekly, editor L Simbard, subscription rates from 75 cents to 1.50, advertising rates per line, and postal details noting second class mail status in Bloomfield Indiana.
All persons who can and all members of the county council of defense should attend the state wide conference at Indianapolis next Thursday at 1 p m.
The chautauqua is very good this season and no one should miss the course if convenient to attend. The tent is in the west part of town in the park among the trees and the shade. Our people are well pleased with the program. Don't fail to get a season ticket while you can do so. Get it now.
The year’s Liberty Loan exceeded the two billion dollar goal with subscriptions over three billion from more than four million people. Richmond bought a Liberty Bond for every five residents, reflecting strong spirit. a second loan is planned within months.
Chairmen of county councils of defense editors of the state and other interested persons are urged to attend a state wide conference. The event, under the State Council of Defense, will be held in the House chamber at the State House Thursday July 12 at 1 o clock. Governor James P. Goodrich will attend and plans for guiding county councils will be reviewed.
On June 27, 1917, Charles Long took up in his corn field on the O F Herald farm near West Bloomfield in Fairplay township, Greene County, Indiana, an eight year old gray mare weighing about 806 pounds with a white spot in one eye.
War time notice from BLOOMFIELD ICE AND PRODUCE COMPANY offering to pay 60 cents per hundredweight for scrap iron. Public prompt to collect metal for war effort.
Commencing July 1 and continuing until further notice the Bloomfield Laundry will use collar sizes at two cents per unit with no bundle smaller than six cents.
In 1915 and 1916 the Radium Institute of London handled 1,400 cases with 12,331 treatments across cancers and skin diseases. Of these, 1,157 progressed with varied outcomes including 172 apparently cured and 83 treated only recently to record results. There were 186 rodent ulcer cases noted as highly responsive to radium.
Passage from the Engineering and Mining Journal urges readers to self mobilize by cutting waste and avoiding idleness. It condemns improper use of time and resources such as charging for unnecessary home repairs, luxurious living, and wasteful travel. The text frames these acts as unpatriotic and harmful to liberty bond support.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports paraffin proves more effective than ambrine in burns and inflammations. It notes American paraffin brands vary in usefulness and offers a simple formula for a superior paraffin film using paraffin olive oil asphalt and four drops of additives.
A roasted chicken sent to two prisoners at the New Brunswick New Jersey county jail concealed saws and files. During a ten minute inspection the men slept soundly. ten minutes later they escaped through a window after prying bars. The brother who delivered the bird and his car fled town.
At a New York convention of the New York State Retail Jewelers Association Benjamin Rees predicted diamonds would stay expensive for years after the war. He cited postwar buying trips and cited factors including Belgian cutters lost to conflict
The Society for Electrical Development argues electricity is cheaper than candles. Test results show 2.68 candle power hours per 1 cent for six candles, while a 20 watt lamp at 9 cents can run 50 hours producing about 17 candle power. One cent buys 94.4 candle-power hours, roughly 35 times the light from a candle for the same penny.
The piece blends a suburban plea against pests with a wartime tribute to Johnny Poe, Princeton athlete who enlisted in the Black Watch. It recounts his misdirection at recruitment, his service in World War I, and his death at Loos with the line Never mind me.
Popular Science reports an English process to create a dairy substitute from peanuts and soy with sugar water and minerals. A potassium phosphate solution, heated water, and 400 grains dissolve before sugar is added for sweetness. Nut meat is cooked, vacuum treated, and inoculated with lactic bacteria to acidify, then pasteurized and cooled. The product can be condensed, dried, sold as liquid, or bottled. added nut fats yield cream.
Government experts report feasible sponge cultivation methods and English resident C. D. Chase develops a Florida sponge farm with 600000 sponges, expecting to multiply tenfold in three years. A company funds the venture to flood the market after a three year lead, with an annual yield near 2000000 sponges.
The Boston Advertiser notes Radcliffe College students display patriotism with the American flag as they volunteer to serve in wartime roles. Girls indicate willingness to work in agriculture, domestic service, clerical, mechanical labor, nursing, and first aid, with each ready to contribute.
The Providence Journal notes that 40 Boston hotel and restaurant proprietors have joined a movement to trim frills from menus. They argue cutting excessive variety will reduce waste in labor and food, urging public caterers and housekeepers nationwide to follow suit.
Britain advances rapid factory erection with a machine shop complex completed in about three months. Two months after completion, steady gun production began as 1,320 tons of steel framed the main building in just over 40 days. The facility houses 0,500 window panes and floor space of 2% acres for more than 100 electrically driven machines operated by women.
Women food experts launch a country-wide drive to teach food economy and how to use wild food. Speakers tour theaters halls and street corners. They claim households can meet two thirds of needs for most of the year from local fields woods and streams. Mrs C B Peel and Mrs Pember Reeves direct the effort with trained volunteers.
The sparrow was brought to the United States to combat noxious insects especially moth larvae. Native city birds would have provided similar benefits, but the introduced sparrow proved unable to curb alien pests like gypsy and brown tail moths, though it did clean up many caterpillars in parks and streets.
The P. and O. Steamship Company signed a contract to transport large quantities of sugar and pineapples on the Key West ferry. The move supports Henry W. Flagler’s vision of an overseas railroad and ferry link between Havana and Key West. Early years saw southbound traffic dominate, but signs now indicate northbound volumes may rise, aligning with Flagler’s plans.
A quotation portrays a character expressing intent to invest in land in the Danish West Indies and noting the islands are now Virgin soil, implying new opportunity and minimal cultivation. The exchange hints at speculative colonial enterprise and profit potential.
A young man recalls a hot July day when he carried a package for his father who fell ill and died after sending him on the errand. The boy, then thirteen, reflects on the final phrases spoken by his father and the lasting impact of those words.
The Touraine chateaus in France may see aristocratic lawns turned to potato patches under a national defense plan. Countess of Noailies and Duchess d'Ozes lead the so called tuber campaign with gardens and even flower plots yielding to potatoes to aid agriculture.
An inventor applies for a patent on a device that blends the cinematograph with the phonograph to show moving pictures with synchronized speaking characters. The system uses a wireless telephone link to transmit speech to a phonograph whose receiver is synchronized with the camera movements to ensure precise timing.
A new market item, the coin operated electric fan, runs for a chosen time once a coin is inserted. A clock mechanism in the base winds up and hours of use depend on the amount paid, with multiple coins allowing extended operation.
The Avalon Islander reports a new record setting net to be deployed in local waters. It measures 8,400 feet long and 300 feet deep with five purselike pockets in two inch reinforced mesh. Two eighty foot tugs will operate the gear at a cost near $100,000 for a three month season.
The Kansas City Star argues that dietary choices are shaped by prejudice and habit. It notes wartime experience proves intelligent planning can secure necessary nutrients for less money than usual.
A lesson review of Hezekiah’s reform in II Chronicles chapters 29 32 highlighting his proclamation to restore worship of Jehovah the passover as heart of salvation and his exhortation urging repentance reconciliation and service to God amid opposition.
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