Hoosier News Briefs From Indiana War Time Page
A roundup of incidents and notes from across Indiana reports Lafayette city engineer John B Truman hospital stay after gallstone surgery in Columbus. Logansport crash kills McCain Lentz and a three year old. County stats show 206083 bushels wheat on 14808 acres in Kosciusko. Brazil district miners receive 100000 in wage pay. Joseph Thompson Jr. dies in Fort Wayne after housemite cream poisoning. Bedford barbers raise prices while jazz dealers push shaving outfits. Voter registration lags in Agu lison county with under 7000 of 18000 registered. Indiana prepares for mass mobilization with 4000+ registered for service. Tomato Products Co expands operations with Paoli HQ and plants in Marengo and Freezeout Lick. Prices and profiteering discourage solders’ meals in Seymour trains. Drouth and grasshopper plagues hit Wakarusa and Clark County. Farm income stories include Trentwood and Morton Woods’ $1800 melon yield. Rose Steck, nurse, drowns in Barron Lake while vacationing in Michigan. Presbyterian church plan meetings in Indianapolis September 29 30 to promote New Era Expansion. Goshen jailbreak frees inmates, six escapees and a turnkey locked up. War loafing ordinance passes Newcastle says men 18 to 60 must not loaf. Canvassers report six new liquor permits issued in Indianapolis region. Hogs bring high prices at Johnson county sale. Bippus grain elevator fire causes heavy losses. Henry Smith boosts wheat yields on poor soil with fertilizer. New Bull Tractor company formed in Indianapolis from a merger.
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John B.truman
Lafayette
Columbus
Merv
Bert McCain
Pearl Lentz
Guy Taylor
Camden
Loganspost
Koseluske
W. R. Zechtel
Acre
Brazil
Fort Wayne
Bedford
Agulison
Bard
Blanka
Ernest Frise
Terre Hue
Yail Road
Central City
Fhe Rearl
Bernard Fish
Frise
Bartholomew County Teachers’ Institute
Almon Jlosteler
Shipshewana
County Council of Defense
Culver Company of Liberty Goards
Culver Military Academy
Z. W. Riggens
Indiana
Robert C. Baltzell
Seymour
Inds
Wakarusa
Goshen
Silver Creek Township
Clark County
Morton Woods
Owensville
Montgomery Township
Rose Steck
St. Joseph's Hospital
South Bend
Barron Lake
Niles
Mtd
Presbyterian Church
Indianapolis
Indiana Presbyterian Men's Convention
Karl Rice
John Uarris
William Johnson
Leb Jones
George Wade
State Board of Education
William A. Brooks
United States Army
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Tfe
United States
France
Newcastle Comel
Peter J. Kruger
Internal Revenue
In- Ahinapolis
Thompson & Sons
H. C. Camary & Sons
Johnson County
Thompson
Red Cross Society
Bippus
Stantington
C. Sandy
South Whitley
Tlenry Smith
Muncie
Rushville
Rush County
Hrze Dawson
Clement Smith
Marion
Wabash
A. W. Watt
Food Administration
Washington
Stanley Wyckoff
Marion County
Isadore Mulvaney
Near
Liggett
Cecil Gibson
Bull
Bull Tractor Company
Minneapolis
Madison Motors Corporation
Anderson
Real Art in Preparation of Canned Chicken
Housewife’s guide details an illustrated method for cleaning and deboning a chicken for quartering into a quart jar for canning. The steps include removing entrails without contact with the meat, separating bones and fillets, and packing saddle, breastbone, backbone, ribs, and wings into jars with the leg and thigh arrangement.
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Farmers
United States Department of Agriculture
Division of Publications
Can Your Cockerels Be Marketed Or Eaten At Home
This notice advises on what to do with early hatch cockerels as poultry prices rise. It weighs sending birds to market against keeping and preparing chicken dinners for winter storage, urging consideration of feeding costs.
Cull the Flocks and Improve Egg Production
The article urges poultry keepers to cull flocks and keep only the best layers. It notes average hens produced under 85 eggs annually and highlights 1915 data showing some flocks averaged 151 eggs while ranging from zero to 314. It calls for breeding, care, and feeding studies to raise output.
Practical Homemaking Tips From An Old Home Journal
A collection of kitchen and household hints on preserving produce, pastry tips using sour milk and soda, buckwheat flour substitutions, paper pulp crackers, wax for varnish, dust mop making from old stockings, and furniture polish blends. Tips aim to improve cooking, cleaning, and DIY repairs with simple ingredients.
Home canning guide with relish and pickle recipes
A curiously titled domestic guide describes making grape jelly cucumber relish tomato ketchup and pickles. It covers sugar setting jelly without cooking and long term storage guidance including sealing jars and using horseradish celery pepper and vinegar in several pickled varieties.
Thought fragment hints at awakening and action
A fragmented daily snippet mentions awakening and doing, with echoes of Carlyle and themes of rest and toil. The lines suggest inner reflection prompting productive effort, framed as a brief, poetic note.
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