Sorghum and Honey Production Advised
The Indiana Department of Agriculture and crop reporters urge farmers to grow sorghum to offset sugar shortages and high prices. Beekeeping interest rises as honey production is forecast to reach 1920 levels, while sugar beets offer another path to boost supply with Decatur’s large factory capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Bryant
Department of Agriculture
Indiana Crop Reporting Service
Indiana
Decatur
Crouners
Merchants Face Unprecedented Strain Amid Price War and Scarcity
Retailers endure public anger over prices while meeting demanding manufacturers and wholesalers. Deliveries are costly and irregular, forcing cuts or sacrifices to stay afloat. Amid war pressures, merchants urge patience as households rely on local stores for basic needs.
Public buyout urged to aid merchants adjust to times
The notice urges residents to purchase available items from home stores to help merchants clear stock and maintain liquidity for prompt credit handling amid changing times.
Pope Benedict Calls for Global Peace and Reconciliation
Pope Benedict urges Christians worldwide to overcome lingering postwar hostility through mutual understanding. He presents an episcopal letter warning of global danger if nations and peoples persist in enmity and calls for renewed reconciliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benedict
Brethren conference locals debate talking machines at Hoovers
At the Brethren church annual conference near Logansport Indiana, about five thousand attendees heard wives oppose in home use of talking machines. Conservatives pressed for a council ban on automobiles calling it a devil machine, but the bid failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Order
The
Brethren Church
Hoovers
Logansport
Dwight Lurber Returns to Help in Family Hardware Firm
Dwight Lurber has returned from Indiana University to assist his father in the hardware and implement business, strengthening the family operation and continuing the local trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight Lurber
Indiana University
Ned Buntline Career Chronicle From Sailor to Stage Writer
The life of E. C. Judson known as Ned Buntline spans from runaway at eleven in 1834 to salter and hunter in the Everglades, Duels with seven midshipmen, conflicts with Know Nothings, and leadership of Knickerbocker Magazine. He aided Buffalo Bill’s stage rise, fought in Mexican and Civil wars, and produced over 200 sensational volumes ending in 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Buntline
E. C. Judson
Fred E. Pond
Wil Wildwood
Detroit News
Judson
Everglades
Rockies
Northwest Fur Company
Southwest
Knickerbocker Magazine
Know Nothings
Astor Place
Adirondacks
Buffalo Bill
Modern Cinderella reads odd English lesson in Illinois tale
A Chicago woman shares how her Swedish maid Hilda learned English by reading a magazine story. Hilda notes humor in the text and in her own misreadings noting a glass eye and a buried letter as linguistic surprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hilda
How the Heart Beats and Filtration in Disease
The excerpt explains the normal heart rate of about one beat per second from birth to death and notes that a pause of sixty seconds stops the heart permanently. It uses a rope analogy to describe how the beat should travel from the top to the bottom, and defines filtration as a condition where the beat loses force, causing the heart to shake feebly instead of beating regularly.
The Myth of Heaven Bottles and Cloud Density
The text traces old beliefs about heaven’s bottles and windows and notes how medieval and eighteenth century thinkers misread atmospheric science. It explains density declines with height, yielding a five mile thick possible uniform layer assumption, and that at 10,000 meters air is about one third as dense with no clouds above that level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alr
Job
Heaven
St. Augustine
Fashions in Death by Own Action Across Ages
A study traces methods of self destruction through history from cliffs and the sea in the stone age to phasing in with poison and arsenic in the Renaissance and rising use of gas and firearms. It notes a banker’s accidental mercury chloride death as a recent example.
Fat and fashion clash as weight trends shift with time
The piece contrasts fat men who can adjust with tailoring and restraint to be fashionable against women whose fashion demands constrain their bodies. It notes health risks to excess weight and suggests graceful adaptation for men, while women face rigid standards and social judgments. Historical “dowager” ideal referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Influence of birds in Japanese art and landscape
The New York Sun and Herald notes that in Japan the bird world shapes art across realms from painting to decoration. Birds’ form color and motion inspire flowing lines and a decorative harmony, while forests shelter varied wildlife that attracts global sportsmen, though birds remain the most varied and appealing feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Hudson
Island Kingdom
Japan
New York Sun and Herald
Peculiar Mud Geysers At Salton Sea California
The mud geysers formed recently at Salton Sea cover about two acres. They are hot mud caldrons varying in size, some rising as small springs others exploding to tear holes four to ten feet wide and ten to twelve feet deep. Salton Sea lies roughly 265 feet below sea level. Water diverted from the Colorado River created a lake from 1904 to 1908, but after the flow stopped the lake sank and the mud geysers reappeared where earthquakes were thought to trigger them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salton Sea
California
Colorado River
Appreciation of the Potato in Daily Diet
The article notes Americans rely on potatoes mainly as a table vegetable, far behind Europe especially Germany in per capita use. It cites seven bushels annually in Germany versus 2.5 for the U.S. It mentions eastern German laborers consuming 17 bushels and highlights uses beyond direct eatables, including flour starch dextrine glucose and alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Germany
Uncle Sam
Birch's Many Uses
The piece extols birch trees for human utility including the red birch’s seed spread to prevent bank erosion, the yellow birch shaved by fire, the black birch for wood, the cherry birch whose bark yields wintergreen oil and Russia leather scent, and the popular leaved birch praised by Lowell.
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Russia
Lowell
York Times
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Pope Benedict
Ned Suntline
Paolo: Dace
Heroine
Polly
Kansas City Star
Spitler & Surber
Winona Telephone Company
Public Service ,Commission of Indiana
Winona Telephone Co
W. S. Daniels, Sec’y-Treas
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