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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
4
Cambridge City items show Memorial Day observances at Riverside cemetery and Capitol Hill, church services, and a Red Cross country fair planned on Friday. Nearby residents visit relatives, and town officials prepare infrastructure work including paving and road projects for Jackson township.
The Red Cross to hold a country fair on the lawn at the home of Anderson Toms Friday afternoon and evening. A jitney bus will carry passengers and a phone number is provided for info. The Armen trout building work room is ventilated and comfortable and engaged for wartime use. The Red Cross seeks a cupboard desk and table knives from generous citizens. A vote of thanks was given to the Red Men's lodge for six months of room use.
A central American nut processing device cracks palm nuts at a rate of ten tons per hour. The fast revolving drum wheel, driven by a vertical spindle, uses 1,800 pounds of force to crack half inch shells. It operates at 800 revolutions per minute and hurls each nut against breaker blocks to shatter it into pieces. Fragments are discharged downward while air blows separate shells from the edible portion.
A 4710 pound nephrite jade block seven feet long two feet wide and one foot thick is shown in the foyer of the New York Museum of Natural History. The block, dug from a German quarry, is described by Scientific American as large enough to furnish material for all nephrite objects found in Europe.
A child asks if God will let him take his Teddy bear to heaven. The mother reassures him he will not die and that angels will be there, but the child insists he knows his bear better than the angels and wants to go where the bear is present.
The Beeson family expresses heartfelt thanks to friends and relatives for kindness and sympathy shown during illness and death of husband and brother Charles Beeson and for beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Luella Beeson Edgar Beeson Willard Beeson.
Thank you note from the family of Herbert Kocher expressing gratitude for deeds and sympathy. Includes brief greetings and signoffs from John Scheid and others, plus various local notices and small advertisements.
Public notice reference lists names including Merten Acorad Plow Mowers Ax lete rock Mothersnel Rothermel Milton and scattered fragments indicating a filing or address related action with unclear details.
Bean Week runs for two weeks after June 15 to plant navy white beans valued at $10 a bushel with high yields possible. Max Feemster in Cambridge City offers seed beans and seeds. For sale or lease opportunities include a Furniture Wagon and a Harbor Harness Set. The Cozy Theater is for sale or lease, reputed as a leading Cambridge City show with profitable returns. Jean may not return, but the show can be sold or leased to a responsible operator. For details contact A R Feemster, agent.
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