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Newspaper
Boone County Progressive
Location
Boone, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1914
Page
2
Rev F L Hardy outlines Sunday sermons for February and March covering topics on salvation baptism heaven fellowship and morality. Readings include Can I Know I Am Saved The Rich Fool Saved Now Tomorrow and Forever The Value of the Individual and The Foolish Five among others with evening and morning services.
The Oliver Typewriter is offered with a 17 cents a day plan. A large company capital backs the program to place typewriters within easy reach. Buyers pay a small initial payment, then save 17 cents daily and pay monthly, after which ownership transfers at the regular list price.
The Oliver Typewriter markets its Standard model as a salary raising aid to personal efficiency. It claims billions in earnings for operators and owners, and portrays small and big businesses as growth beneficiaries. The ad touts Printype as the century’s greatest improvement and notes 15000 Local Agents across the United States and Canada.
A look at pages from 1808 onward shows 9029 names with many rising to prominence. Notable figures include Augustus Thomas and George B. Cortelyou. Many pursued law or medicine thanks to Capitol study and Chancey’s guidance.
The American Museum of Natural History announced a record year with twenty three expeditions spanning from the Arctic to the Antarctic, across the Americas and Africa. Highlights include the Crocker Land expedition led by Donald B. MacMillan departing New York for four years, the Bongo expedition with Lang and Chapin nearing four years in Belgian Congo, and field work by Paul J. Heiney in British East Africa along with Barnard and Cherry Keaton in Africa. Bjefansson in the Arctic has been named an honorary fellow.
A tangosod ticker trot is permitted at St Pauls Episcopal Church in Patchogue New York as part of community event plans. A paydidogist will aid Essex county New Jersey courts in juvenile offenders administration. A Polish bride in Allamuchy New Jersey danced with every guest earning $44 as the party lasted two days. University of Pittsburgh investigators, urged by river men, will study the French fog prevention scheme for rivers. A 100 pound wheel broke from a South Norwalk Connecticut car, crashed through a window, damaged the kitchen and started a fire.
A hidden gang den in Budapest near the Palace of Justice used an open sesame password to gain access to a cavern. Police found merchandise, thirty cells as dormitories, and a banquet chamber. The gypsy chief Charlemagne led the raid and resisted officers but was outnumbered. Plunder over the past year reportedly tops $200,000. The network reportedly extended across Austria Hungary and even Italy and Switzerland.
Miss Bethel De Long of Pine Mountain Settlement House in Harlan county Ky argues isolation leaves Kentucky mountain people, though pure American stock, prey to hookworm and trachoma. She notes limited contact hinders health education and disease prevention while praising some cultural traits and schooling gaps.
A. G. Pergert, chair of the Chicago Go to Church committee, cites procrastination on small duties as the main reason men skip Sunday services. He lists tasks such as getting up and dressing, breakfast habits, furnace cleaning, and reading the Sunday paper as factors.
John Wurtzler loaded two cattle cars at Whitestown on the Big Four for Chicago. While switch crews were at work, brakes failed and both cars smashed, cattle piled up, several animals with broken legs and many others injured.
Squire N A Perrill united in marriage Dolph Thompson and Miss Blanche Fellmer. The bride worked as a clerk at Stadley's Dry Goods store. The newlyweds received best wishes from friends as the notice lists several local social events and visits to Indianapolis.
Baroness May De Pallandt formerly of Chicago faces a $20,000 suit in London from Dr. Ernest Villiers Appleby a former University of Minnesota associate over unpaid notes for pearl purchases and endorsements. She was May Duglas at marriage in 1898 separated in 1901 and two years later John D Kilpatrick a New Yorker committed suicide after she refused his demand for divorce.
Lafayette Wilson and his wife were traveling to Dr Turner's office on East Main when his ankle twisted and he fell halfway down the Hofman Building stairs. He suffered a back of head wound requiring stitches and was sent home. Searle Comley fractured his right ankle in a fall near his father’s undertaking shop. he will need a crutches for several weeks.
Mrs Ollie Dodd hosted a Friday Valentine Social for a group of women and guests on Kersey Street. Attendees included Mrs James Miller Mrs Morris Platt Mrs Will Brown and others with two children present. A speech by Mrs James Miller and a taffy pulling entertained guests. Valentines were exchanged as souvenirs.
Mrs. M. dt. Keith of Edmonton Alberta Canada visits her aunt Mrs. Fred Hooton. Miss Ida McCaslin has returned from Shelbyville where she had been nursing Mrs. Mendel Wolfe and baby. Aunty Caroline Hughes and Mrs. Nellie Thornby went to Indianapolis Saturday to consult Dr. Cale.
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