Local ads and sales in Francesville area
Local notices advertise Flour from Pillsbury at Clark’s and Swisher’s new grocery with 10¢ store items. Teak wood fern dishes at Delamere’s. Sleepy Eve flour added. Reinhart the piano tuner will visit Francesville next month. orders to William J. Hubbard. For sale white oak fence posts 4 ft and 16 in, 34 miles east of Francesville. contact W F Scott. Two Hereford Bulls at Pleasant Grove Stock Farm 10 miles NE of Francesville. contact W H Ambler. C W Hall Co Medaryville sells Case implements Studebaker EMF 30 and Flanders 20 autos in Pulaski County. Envelopes with name and address printed available at 100 for 50 cents.
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Swisher’s New
Delamere’s
Clark’s Grocery
Francesville
W. F. Scott
King
Pleasant Grove
W. H. Ambler
Winamac Phone
C. W. Hall and Co
Medaryville
J. I. Case Implements
Pulaski County
Studebaker E. M. F
Flanders
Poultry Industry Seen as Wealth for Ireland Exports
Dublin delegates at a Dublin conference on the poultry industry praise its potential as a major wealth source for Ireland. Officials note Ireland already ships more eggs and poultry to Great Britain than all other European countries combined, with exports valued near 20 million dollars annually and possible growth toward 100 million. The program highlights small-farm benefits, with many farmers' wives and daughters earning 100 to 300 dollars yearly.
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Dublin
Ireland
Department of Agriculture
Horace Plunkett
Department
T. W. Russell
Great Britain
Europe
T. P. Gill
United States
John Dillon
Timothy Harrington
England
Scotland
Bristol
Armagh
O'Conner
Cork
Quail Nurtures Chick Orphans in Odessa Yard
In Odessa Missouri a tame mother quail adopted a brood of leftover chicks after a hen died. The quail guides the orphans in feeding and care, and the children of street commissioner Edward McCaulley watch for any trouble as the family bonds amid town curiosity.
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Odessa
Edward McCaulley
Americans mispronounce English, English teachers warn
London reports English elocution experts criticizing American pronunciation and nasal inflection. They note Americans overemphasize Saint Paul and use slang, instructing on softer speech and translated phrases while warning Canadians sound harsh and monotone to sensitive ears.
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London
Saint Paul
England
Savoy
Onur
Plans for trousers and farming for two city girls
Two Irish girls visit the New York Political Equality association to learn farming. They ask about wearing bloomers, which are explained as full pants they can make or buy, and plan to travel to Stempstead where a new farmerette cottage plan awaits.
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New York
Stempstead
Farimerettes
Monkeys Cut Down in Poison Squad Tests
In Pittsburgh Dr. Frederick Proescher at Allegheny General Hospital leads fifty-nine monkeys in infantile paralysis research. Only thirteen survive, showing improvement as they undergo rest therapy at Riverview Park, with hopes to resume experiments in the fall.
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Pittsburg
Frederick Proescher
Allegheny General Hospital
Riverview Park
Birds Use Snakes as Fences in Farm Narrative
An elderly observer on a Sibley farm describes birds clearing pests by taking corn to potato patches to lure blackbirds, then capturing snakes and hanging them on barbed wire or thorn trees. He mentions a dozen small snakes found hung as evidence.
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Cox
Tadsjeth
Pittsburgh man grieves as his hair turns gray overnight
Nicholas Warmcastle of Pittsburg receives news from his wife in Liverpool that their two year old child died just before the family planned to join him. He collapsed and doctors fear a broken heart as his hair turns gray in shock.
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Pittsburg
Nicholas Warmcastle
Warmcastle
Liverpool
England
Paris President Fallieres Purchases Bargain Wardrobe
The Midi reports French President Armand Fallieres wears modest apparel, including ten cent collars and eight cent socks, amid a bargain hunting image. Local ads note bee supplies, bread deals, teakwood pottery, insurance writers, and new fountain offerings at Blue Front Drug Store and Dunn's Restaurant.
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Paris
France
Armand Fallieres
The
Midi
Dunn’s
Jingo
Blue Front Drug Store
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Harry Sprite
Midas
MPDAS
White Elephant Livery Barn
AB. Freeman
Isasace
State Bank
AkiEny
Werner’s Store
Pillsbury Flour
Clark’s
Swisher
Reinhart
Lovansport
William J. Hubbard
DR. Cox
Carnot
Missouri
Farrer
Sibley
Fallieres
Jones
Fitzpatrick
H.C. Jentz
Overland
Dawn Gilsinger
White Elephant Garage
Francesville, Ind
Brush
Medaryville Auto Company
Dunn
Coffei
Meat Market
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