Rate Card with 1920 Subscription and Advertising Rates
Effective August 7 1920 subscription rates listed including one year 1.10 eight months 1.00 six months 76 cents four months 60 cents two months 25 cents and one month 15 cents in advance. Advertising rates shown for display ten to twenty cents per column inch plus composition. business locals and other notices priced per line or inch. Monthly bills. Expired subscriptions marked with X in front page. Readers urged to remit promptly to avoid list removal.
Mazda Lamps Arrive in Clear White and Blue Glass
New shipment includes Mazda lamps in clear white and blue glass finishes, offered in 75 watt and 40 50 watt sizes.
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Mazda
Inside bath of hot water and limestone phosphate cure
An amateur health note extols a daily morning drink of hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the digestive tract, promise a rosy complexion, and improve skin and health. It claims internal sanitation outvalues external cleansing and targets a range of ailments from dull skin to headaches.
Witness recalls eerie car with molten exhaust near Washington
A Washington Boulevard resident reports seeing a derelict automobile emit smoke and sparks, then suddenly lurch and move toward him. He fled as three men seized the vehicle, which halted mid curbside scramble, leaving the witness shaken and uninjured.
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Washington Boulevard
Indianapolis
Lke
Belgian letter mission to Jesuit aid for Yser defender
A Belgian father asks Jesuit convent for help sending a letter to his son, a defender of the Yser. A workingman acts as courier, crossing dunes and delivering replies, then meets the Jesuit superior who turns out to have helped him that morning. The men toast their mission’s success in a cafe.
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Brussels
Yser
Hin
Shin
Furness
New York Tribune
Restoring Ypres Amidst Visitors and Proclamations
The ruined city of Ypres is being rebuilt at a pace that astonishes American travelers bound for the south of France and North Africa. The Cloth Hall is regaining medieval beauty as restoration progresses and visitors learn of a proclamation about holy ground and the prohibition on removing stones or gravel from the revived structures.
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Ypres
France
Wayor
New Color Scheme for Maps Enhances Stereoscopic Effect
New color scheme improves stereoscopic map effects by using a central red area with surrounding yellows greens and blues. Reversing color order alters perceived center brightness and mood, with gradual tint variation across the square as described by the New York Herald.
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New York Herald
Discovery of an Ancient Roman Calendar at Anzio
Anzio finds a plaster calendar predating Julius Caesar with a 358 day lunar year and intercalary month. It shows a 366+ day average, priests could remove intercalary months for politics, leading to Caesar Sosigenes reform into a 365 day solar year. The Royal Academy of the Lincel published the calendar discovery.
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Anzio
Campagna
Julius Caesar
B. C
B.C
College of Priests
Sosigenes
Royal Academy of the Lincel
Top of the Strawberry Box
The tale recounts St Peter meeting a tiny entity who claims to be the bottom of a strawberry box, explaining its ascent to the highest point unseen by earth, and the exchange ends with the local editor noting the event as overdue.
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St. Peter
Bled
San Antonio
Viscount Kato A Philosopher On World Busy Time
A traveler recalls Viscount Kato of Japan remarking on the world’s busyness. The viscount suggests people stir too frantically, rush to start things, and fail to finish, instead of waiting for nature to restore balance. The Nation’s Business notes this oriental insight as a critique of modern haste.
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Viscount Kato
Japan
Personal items from the community notices
Local families are listed in visiting and travel notes. Mrs Klueh's mother Mrs Hoffmann near St Meinrad received calls from Paul Kueh family and Frances Klueh and Mrs Valentine Hoffmann. Others include visits to St Meinrad Huntingburg Louisville and Indianapolis trips and a POW return from Germany by Anton Gruber.
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Paul Kueh
Leo
Frances Klueh
Valentine Hoffmann
Anton Gruber
St. Meinrad
Brotherhood
Germany
New Name for Galoshes Kid Mistakes Boots for Bootleggers
Norman Karr five year old son of Prof and Mrs H M Carr of De Pauw university mishears talk of bootleggers by Sheriff Sears and asks if galoshes worn by two co-eds are the bootleggers. He and his mother were in Secumpus when the remark occurred.
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Norman Karr
H. M. Carr
DePauw University
Sears
Putnam County
Norman
Secumpus
Indianapolis News
Color Blindness Can Be Overcome Through Training
A Cleveland News Leader note reports a Southern railway conductor dismissed for color blindness later passes a strict color exam after five weeks of studying colored wool, inks, and plants. Doctor Brawley is cited as having helped others overcome color vision limits through similar training.
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Southern Railway
Brawley
Cleveland News-Leader
Landforms and peaks near Mount Monadnock noted
In central Massachusetts near the Connecticut valley a ridge of hills rises to a well known watch tower Mount Monadnock eight thousand one hundred eighty six feet. The range extends northward to peaks such as Mount Sunapee, Mount Keraurge and Mount Cardigan.
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Massachusetts
Connecticut Valley
New Huaimpahire
Prince William of Sweden Tracks Mice in Snow on Volcanoes
Prince William of Sweden collected zoological specimens for the Royal Museum of Stockholm including gorillas birds and insects. While climbing volcanoes to 13 000 feet he found mice tracks in snow despite the extreme cold.
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Prince William of
Sweden
Royal Museum of Stockholm
Scientific American
Daughter Succeeds Mother as Mayoress in Devizes
Mrs. Ferris becomes mayoress of Devizes Wiltshire succeeding her mother after 20 years and creating a rare record. Her grandmother, still living, has seen both daughter and granddaughter hold the town’s highest position.
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Ferris
Devizes
Wiltshire
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ferdinand Hews
Henry Haake
Ferdinand
THE
American Press Association
Just
Wm. R. Sauer
Auto
Odell
Odell Rubber Company
South Bend
Indiana
Clara Meyer
Louisville
Bertram Kuntz
Fulda
John Laake
Herman Miller
Ben Gessner
Raymond Reckelhoff
Mrs
Joe Wessel
Huntingburg
Ed Beckmann
Honymoon
Leander
Joe Bombolaski
Siberia
R. J. Beckmann and Son
Anna Louise Haug
Ed Horney
Elizabeth Wagner
Polly
Grace Miller White
Palace
Lake Cayuga
Ithaca
Cornell University
Tess
Tennibel Devon
Ben Stork
Clara Hoffmann
Toten
George A. McLane
Ind
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