Moody Bible Institute Lesson Notice
Lesson by FE. O. Sellers, director of the Evening Department at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1912
Page
7
Lesson by FE. O. Sellers, director of the Evening Department at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
In Indianapolis the Taft faction seized seven of thirteen districts at district meetings, enabling them to organize the state Republican convention. Taft won districts one two four five seven ten and eleven while Roosevelt took six eight nine twelve and thirteen, with the third district undecided. Riotous scenes and police kept order in several districts as delegates to the national convention were to be chosen. In New Albany the third district convention produced two rival slates, with George W. Applegate and C. W. Crim chosen by the regular side and Roscoe C. Morris and Lawson M. Mace by the Roosevelt faction.
The article advises locating dry, well drained poultry houses away from winds and frost prone spots. It explains space needs, preferring wider buildings, and recommends partitions to separate flocks. It outlines roof types and interior construction using boards and wire for small pens to improve flock health and production.
Purdue University prepares a week long Midwest baseball tournament May 13 18 1912 on Stuart Field attracting nearly every progressive Indiana high school team. The event features six diamonds four games daily 24 games total with a Memorial gym reception awarding silver cups and gold medals. Indiana track meets also join May 18 drawing many athletes to Lafayette with Purdue assisting schools in entry and representation.
Guidance for housewives on choosing beef at the counter. Key facts: fat content and marbling indicate juiciness and tenderness, inside fat preferred, outside fat kept to under about half an inch, bright red color signals freshness, marbling and location on the animal affect tenderness and bone content, aging and handling impact quality.
The article explains how outside fat, ivory white fat, and solid fat indicate quality beef. It notes fattier cuts yield more energy and that value depends on the cut location with back and loin being most prized for tenderness and fineness versus shank and thigh.
Candling offers a glimpse of a egg hatchability. Thin weak shells reduce hatch chances though some misshapen eggs still yield vigorous chicks. Old eggs with large air cells are less reliable and overheating during testing can ruin viability. Eggs hatch better in incubators than under hens.
Ensure stables barns and houses for young stock arrival are clean dry and well lit. Provide box stalls for cows and mares and individual pens for ewes sows. Do not let litters be born in cold conditions or trampled at birth.
A 1912 era guide for Sunday school review presenting twelve lesson leaders. It suggests Zechariah and Gabriel, John the Baptist, the birth of Jesus, the wise men, Mary, and call of the first disciples with assigned speakers. Emphasizes drill, timing, and minimal questions.
Charles Bow man remains jailed in Noblesville on grand larceny charges for stealing a phonograph 60 records and a violin from his father Martin Bow man a Hamilton county farmer. Previously arrested at Nora and taken to Kansas over alleged ties to the Barnard family murders he offered an alibi and returned home. He cannot post bond and will stay in custody until trial.
Indiana executive committee of the State Conference of Charities and Correction fixes tentative meeting dates October 12 14 15 and 15 with Logansport as the host city. Emma Lee Elam president and A G Weatherly Bloomington chair named to draft a tentative program.
Growing ducklings thrive on a mash made from equal parts corn meat ground peas bran and middlings. Use scalding water or milk to form a thick mash. Milk is better. Improve mash with short-cut green grass clover or other greens and a few handfuls of coarse sand.
The Indiana Sealers of Weights and Measures adjourned after the last of three sessions at the statehouse in Indianapolis. J. C. Connors of Troy New York led a detailed program testing dry and liquid measures and discussing duties of the new officials. The group plans to reconvene next winter.
Hazleton reports White Wa bash and Patoka rivers overflowing for a week. White river exceeds 20 feet and may reach 25 feet, higher than 1875 high water mark. Farmers move livestock and belongings to safety on higher ground.
A cellar atmosphere used for storing vegetables is unfit for incubation. Popular Mechanics notes the air is loaded with carbonic gas which is lethal to young chicks.
Late statistics show many village girls migrate to cities for work. Most go to cotton mills with about 150000 employed last year, 52000 in tobacco factories, and 8300 in laundries. Many laundries workers transition to house maid service.
Preliminary plans for branch anti tuberculosis associations in every Indiana county were made at a meeting of the Indiana Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Dr Henry Moore of Indianapolis was named state organizer to work with county and city health officers and local charity groups.
Madison March 26 Mrs Caroline Hutchinson an elderly woman was burned to death at her home 18 miles north of the city when her bed clothing caught fire. Her son returning from the barn found her unconscious and unable to be saved.
Kokomo reports Charles H. Leach a prominent Democrat former postmaster and Metropolitan police board member is in critical condition from paralysis at the police station after a sudden stroke.
John Fritz, 21, convicted in Clark circuit court March 15 of murdering Guard Hirman B McWilliams at the Indiana Reformatory, was sentenced by Judge Montgomery to be hanged on Friday June 14. An appeal was filed after the motion for a new trial was overruled and the sheriff ordered transfer to Michigan City.
South Bend plans a busy convention year with events by the Ancient Order of Gleaners, Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers, Grand Army of the Republic groups, Women's Relief corps, Sons of Veterans and their auxiliaries, plus the Indiana Jewelers' association and Indiana Bar association. Delegates and visitors number in the thousands.
In Charlestown, former county seat, mud smeared the door of St. Michael's Catholic church and insulting notes appeared. Ben Wallace, a track worker, was hit with rocks on multiple occasions while at work, attackers unseen. Herbert Lewis, a local school teacher, found bundles of switches on his doorstep with a warning to leave.
Eleven people were injured when a car on the Fort Wayne and Indiana Northern traction line struck a pile of cinders and fell into the Wabash and Erie canal about two miles from Peru. Injured include Mrs. T. A. Edwards of Chicago and several others from Logansport Detroit Royal Center Courtland and New York areas.
William Hart and Miss Goldie Webb were married on the theater stage in Columbus after their vaudeville performance. Justice E H Kinney officiated as the audience, thinking it a joke, witnessed the ceremony. The couple, long time stage colleagues, had shown real affection during recent weeks.
The body of eight year old Charles Stevens missing from Whitcomb Heights was found in a mine reservoir in West Terre Haute. He had gone to visit his grandfather who works at the mine and disappeared after leaving home while peering into the water.
Announcement names Harry W. Anderson head of the Wabash College botany department succeeding Mason B. Thomas. Anderson, a Wabash graduate class of 1907, is a botany assistant at Illinois and has worked with Vanderbilt Knoxville Shaw Garden in St. Louis. home in Ladoga.
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