Political Announcements in Dubois County Primary
Authorized notice lists FRANK C THIEMAN of Jackson for sheriff and JOSEPH EVERSMAN and JOSEPH F VAAL of St Meinrad as trustee candidates in Harrison and Spencer counties. Also mentions JOHN F J SCHURZ Jackvon and HUBERT STERNSERG AUGUST REMKE for trustee Ferdi nand township and GEORGE BECHER of St Meinrad in the Democratic primary decisions.
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Frank C. Thieman
Jackson Township
Dubois County
John F. J. Schurz
Jackvon Township
Hubert Sternserg
Joseph F. Vaal
St. Meinrad
Harrison Township
Spencer County
George Becher
Ferdi nand Township Assessor Candidate Ben Laake Jr
Democratic primary action places Ben Laake Jr as a candidate for Ferdi nand township assessor pending primary results. The notice identifies Laake as a candidate and references the democratic primary election decision.
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Ben Laake, JR
Ferdinand Township
Why watch dials glow at night and in daylight tunnels
The article explains how eye pupils respond to light and dark and why dial numbers glow only at night. It notes that luminous dials use radium mixed with zinc sulfide and that measuring radium amounts requires refined science. A congressman joke highlights precision.
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Congress
Bureau of Standards
Washington
Crouse
Desolated Wires for Altar in Japan’s Year of Bird
A Japan World article notes superstition influences marriage trends among telephone operators. 1920 the monkey year sparked desertions while the following bird year boosts marriages as women wed for luck. The government run service faces 200000 job applications and a phone ratio of about one half per 100 people, compared with the United States’ 18 per 100.
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Japan
United States
Telegraphy by Taste Examing Radio Signal Reception
Two engineers Alfred N. Goldsmith and Edward T. Dickey tested reception of radio signals via taste. They placed electrodes under the tongue and used low direct current to gauge energy needs for taste perception. Taste reception proved unfeasible for all signals stronger than 500 In the detector, showing taste is far inferior to hearing or sight for radio reception.
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Alfred N. Goldsmith
Edward T. Dickey
Why Lead Disintegrates In Ancient Vases
Professor Mutignon of the College of France describes experiments on lead vases in the Cluny Museum. Minute saline traces from long burial cause chemical impurities that act like bacteria, slowly turning the lead to dust. Impurity removal is needed to prevent deterioration. salt exposure accelerates decay in fresh lead.
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Mutignon
College of France
Museum of
Cluny
Admirals and tugs spark naval ignorance joke
Admiral Eberle in San Francisco tells a reporter that questions show naval ignorance. He quotes a tale of a young lady puzzled by men of war and tugs, and mishearing tug s as tugs of war in a playful joke about naval terms.
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Eberle
Pacific Fleet
San Francisco
Glass trick mug a long historical joke at the Met
The New York Sun notes that humor in trick glasses with a side hole dates back to Queen Anne England. Met Museum displays a circa eighteenth century wineglass with a floral border and center perforation guiding where to sip, illustrating a long running novelty.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
England
Addison
Steele
Swift
Defoe
New York
Statue Honoring Jay Cooke Unveiled in Duluth Minnesota
A new statue in Duluth honors Jay Cooke praised as Father of Duluth and a key Civil War financier. The New York Herald notes his financial genius aided the government, helped fund armies and navy, and strengthened public credit after the war.
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New York
Jay Cooke
Duluth
Minn
Cooke
Proctor Knott
Northwest
Mr. Cooke
Treasury
New York Herald
Vanderbilt objects to excessive table manners in New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt protests in New York against the polite custom of pulling out chairs before ladies sit. He compares it to a Texas father who warns his son about table manners after a cowboy insults him. The father admonishes not to abandon decorum even amid anger.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
Texas
Verbal Curiosities in Kansas Language Play
A Kansas man collects state specific words and phrases. Examples include compulsion meaning necessity, diangling for crossing the street, fleas in one's nose as chimerical motions, guglate to calculate, atherous meaning dubious, and scala to get a good result.
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Kansas
Guglate
Scala
Boston Transcript
Radium and Knife Compared in Face Surgery
A Philadelphia Dispatch report notes that doctors at an ophthalmology convention described bloodless facial surgery using radium needles. Dr. F B Heck and Wiliam B Clark of Pittsburg claim birth marks tumors and malignant growths can be removed with rare recurrences, offering advantages over traditional knife surgery.
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American Academy of Ophthalmology
F. B. Heck
Wiliam B. Clark
Pittsburg
Philadelphia Dispatch
New York Tribune
Tell City Contractor Adjudged Insane in Court
E M Reynolds known as Teddy was declared insane in Squire Brazee's court after examinations by Drs Conner and Schriefer. He was taken to Woodmere Asylum by Sheriff Hemphill for treatment after being moved from Tell City and briefly placed at the poor farm and jail.
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E. M. Reynolds
Tell City
Squire Brazee
John Remke Resigns From Weyer & Fleck to Bolte's Mill
John Remke resigns from Weyer and Fleck and takes a new position at Bolte's Mill. Readers are urged to subscribe to the NEWS for themselves or as a gift to a relative or friend.
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John Remke
Weyer & Fleck’s
Bolte’s Mill
Drink Hot Water Before Breakfast with Limestone Phosphate
An old health note recommends waking with a glass of hot water and a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels. It claims this interior bath removes waste and toxins, preventing headaches and digestive troubles, and notes the powder is inexpensive and nearly tasteless.
Salts for backache and kidney relief
A health ad claims backache and kidney discomfort come from eating too much meat. It recommends four ounces of Rad Salts daily in water before breakfast for a few days to revive sluggish kidneys and stop urinary irritation. Jad Salts marketed as a safe, inexpensive remedy.
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Tongus
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Indiana
THE
American Press Association
August Remke
Joseph Eversman
George A. McLane
Ind
Nick Senninger
Feardinand
Alois Vaal
Metoarcei
Peter B.kyne
Maggie
Gibney
McGuffey
Neils Halvorsen
Golden Gate
Scraggs
Peter B. Kyne
Gilligan
Tommy
Weatbury
Long Island
Whippet Club of America
J. Gilligan
Lawrence
Masa
Teddy
Cannelton Enquirer
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