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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1925
Page
2
Lodge notices announce O O F No. 255 Carthage meets each Tuesday at 7 30 in the Auditorium on East Mill Street. Visiting members are always welcome. Also F and A M No 580 is listed.
The Citizen will be issued one day earlier next week on account of Thanksgiving. All news and advertising copy must be received earlier to ensure publication. Some stores are displaying holiday stock with twenty nine shopping days remaining.
Cotton Batts 3 pounds quilted for 95c at Danmer's Variety Store. Mrs Benjamin Smith of Denver and Mrs Wilk of Rushville spent Wednesday with Mr and Mrs J. M. Stone. Mrs Bayard Baker of Pendleton visited Friday for basketball with Mr Baker and the Heifners. Mr and Mrs F J Sims and sons plus Mrs Grace H Porter visited Mrs Nancy Ryan in Liberty. Silk goods advertised and Purdue Northwestern football game attended by Mrs Clyde Henley Walter Phelps and Licile Drysdale. Drysdale visited Earlham College at Richmond Sunday.
A long list of Sunday visits and weekend guests includes Mr and Mrs Russell Linville with Mrs William Young of Homer and Lena Hungerford with Earl Young. Nearby families in Indianapolis Greenfield Muncie and Morristown are noted for visits and church services. The week features W L C session with Citizenship talks, radio tubes at Beher's Garage, and the funeral of Mrs Ellen White, aged 83, in Morristown with local attendees listed.
PHRAIM STRUT's Thanksgiving oration elevates Puritan virtue and Americanization. His family dispute over turkey or goose ends with a kitchen court, then a shift to laboring foreigners and building under the American flag, revealing his own sense of place in New America.
The article surveys ancient baking practices from Stone Age lake dwellers to Abraham and Sarah, noting heated flat stones and baking slabs in use. It cites Egyptian tombs with concave cakes, Chaldean ovens in courtyards, grinding stones nearby, and references to leavened and unleavened bread in biblical times.
When ice is unavailable, saltwater cooling keeps drinks cold. Dissolve coarse salt in a pint of water, pour into a dish, moisten a cloth with the remaining salted solution and wrap the jug. Place the wrapped jug in the salted water dish in a cool, airy spot, rewetting the cloth to maintain moisture.
German researchers pursue alchemy like goals as Prof. A Miethe, famed for turning mercury into gold, reportedly secures a contract with Siemens Schuckert to commercialize his gold making discoveries in secrecy and labs.
A reader argues animals sleep as soundly as humans, yet their hearing is highly alert. White Spitz dogs are cited as sleeping deeply, with some albino Spitz being born deaf.
Light is reflected from higher parts of the atmosphere until the sun is about 18 degrees below the horizon. Near the equator twilight is brief due to rapid sun motion and atmospheric transparency. In high latitudes twilight can span from sunset to sunrise depending on atmospheric conditions.
Smithsonian notes the Earth’s rotation slows at about one thousandth of a second per century. No danger of stopping. a day would lengthen by about one minute in six million years. Past ages likely had days of three to four hours due to faster rotation.
The coluchan or sandlefish from the Pacific coast up to Oregon is dried and used as a lamp by Alaskan Indians. The fish runs 12 to 15 inches with very oily flesh. After drying a wick is made by threading rush pith or inner bark of a cypress through the fish.
Middletown resident F F Brenan visits while Mrs Rowland H Hill dines with Mrs Russell K Bidgood in Indianapolis. A Westland school hack carrying 33 pupils overturns in a ditch injuring a few. Claud Lacy unharmed. Glass window damaged by a fence post. Western Glass Co Shirley plant begins furnace fires for a long run producing rough rolled ribbed and wired plate. Hardware and local ads note harbour millinery $2.50 and Dan The Citizen at $1.50 a year.
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