Year for Women highlights sweeping state actions
The Associated Press notes this decade as the Woman's Decade with 22 states debating suffrage and 27 addressing divorce laws pensions police minimum wage and related issues. Vermont enacts disease reporting and quarantine powers while New Jersey allows women policemen and Oregon adopts equal pay for teachers.
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Irony in the fate of Lieut Warneford in aviation history
The British aviator Warneford, famed for a singular night battle against a Zeppelin, died while piloting a sightseeing flight over Paris with a passenger. His career embodies aviation’s perilous yet relatively safe arc.
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Lieut. Warneford
British Aviation Corps
Paris
Doan’s Kidney Pills Aid Greencastle Woman
A Greencastle resident testifies to relief from back pain and fatigue after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. The ad urges others to buy the 50 cent remedy from local dealers and notes Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo, New York as the maker.
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Greencastle
W. H. Johns
Indiana St
Joan
Doan
Air War Casualties Show Fewer Losses Than Trenches
The article notes 120 aviators died last year before the war, but claims aviators suffer fewer casualties than trench troops. It cites French air raids on Ostend Baden and Karlsruhe with high recoveries, arguing air service is the safest place for a soldier.
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Ostend
Baden
Karlsruhe
Blessings From War A Call To National Awakener
Essay argues war stirs nations and individuals into strength. It cites Italy as example where workers regain pride and latent energies surge after national shock. The piece links war to creative potential and moral resolve beyond immediate profits or peace sentiment.
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Italy
Dante
Rafael
Michelangelo
Leonardo da
War, faith, and the growth of nations across eras
A reflective essay traces how war yields both destruction and potential cultural revival. It compares ancient and modern arcs from Greece and Rome to England and America, arguing that nations may gain postwar strength or suffer, and stresses uncertain balance between evil and prospective good. It then shifts to agricultural risk highlighting the Hessian fly menace in Indiana with warnings from Professor F. M. Webster and calls for coordinated action.
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Rome
Greece
England
Spain
America
Belgium
Servia
Poland
Officer nearly breaks vow in horn harass fun
Putnam county officer, returning from county business, meets a driving friend in a strange car. The driver blares the horn and refuses road, prompting the officer to ready a colorful rebuke. He recognizes the friend and loses the angry line he had prepared, a moment worth the ride.
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Putnam County
Hessian fly damages Indiana wheat crop
Washington June 22 An official said Indiana wheat will fall well short of normal yield due to Hessian fly damage before harvest.
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Indiana
Washington
Hessian fly parasitism and wheat field health dynamics
The article explains how Hessian fly larvae overwinter as brown flaxseed forms and emerge in spring, with no central stem formation in early stages. It notes why fields can look vigorous yet decline later and cites natural enemies and meteorological factors as key controls. It mentions Professor Webster’s entomology leadership at Purdue and Ohio State before Washington.
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Webster
Purdue University
Ohio State University
Washington
Garden Ants Do Little Harm
Washington reports show many complaints about ants injuring lawns but the insects cause minimal damage. Nests are unsightly and small lawns can be treated with boiling water or kerosene soap sprays, while larger colonies respond to bisulphide of carbon. Ants feed on plant lice, not plants, and rarely enter homes, possibly aiding soil aeration through disturbance.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Low Rate Summer Tours From New York and Coasts
Travel agency advertises low rate summer tours along the New York Atlantic Coast and the Pacific Coast with inquiries directed to an agent.
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New York
Atlantic Coast
Pacific Coast
Notice to Gravel Road Contractors in Putnam County Indiana
County commissioners of Putnam Indiana solicit sealed bids by July 5 1915 for 10574 feet of macadam road in Jackson Township known as the W P Thompson road. Bids require bonds double the bid with local surety or company, affidavits of no collusion. Rejection of all bids reserved. Work completion time to be fixed.
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Board of Commissioners
County of
Putnam
State of
Indiana
Greencastle
Jackson Township
Putnam County
Notice of Commissioner Sale of Real Estate
Commissioner Braxton B Stringer will sell the north one third of the west half of the northeast quarter section 10 township 16 north range 3 west Putnam County on July 24 1915 at two oclock pm at private sale at no less than the appraised value. Purchaser may pay cash or one third cash in hand one third in six months and balance in one year by mortgage at 6 percent interest. Attorneys Gillen and Sutherlin note.
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Putnam Circuit Court
George R. Stringer
Braxton B. Stringer
Putnam County
Notice sale of road bonds in Putnam County Indiana
The treasurer of Putnam County Indiana offers for sale at Greencastle courthouse up to 2 p.m. on July 5 1915 twenty bonds of 191 dollars each totaling 3820 dollars dated July 5 1915 with 4 percent interest and first due May 15 1916 payable at the treasurer’s office sealed bids invited H H Runyan treasurer.
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Putnam County
Indiana
Greencastle
J. H. Strain
Washington Township
H. H. Runyan
St Herald
Notice of Final Settlement of Estate Fellows
Notice to creditors heirs and legatees of Winfield S Fellows deceased to appear in Putnam Circuit Court Greencastle Indiana on June 25 1915 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Witness Clerk Harry W Moore June 2 1915 St Wkly June 11th
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Winfield S. Fellows
Putnam Circuit Court
Greencastle
Indiana
Harry W. Moore
St Wkly
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