16 Jul 1915
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1915
Page
1
Thurепors Macuetine recounts a professor’s memory scheme using self drawn pictures to substitute spoken notes. He details failing finger-letter tricks before creating six vivid images that replaced eleven cue sentences, enabling instant recall. The anecdote highlights visual memorization’s lasting power.
Mr Dawe celebrated his fifty second birthday with a surprise at a Chautauqua tent arranged by Dunbar Singing Band and local residents. Allan and Mrs Allan assisted, a birthday cake with 52 lit candles and ice cream freezer sparked cheers. He later dined with Miss Jane E Leonard at her home.
The obituary lists children and heirs including John on the old farm in White township Elmer Malcolm of Freeport William of Sheridan Alex and Walter in Indiana and Maud married to Mr Strassler of Crafton plus 23 grandchildren The deceased was a United Presbyterian Church member and temperance advocate affiliated with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union as a charter member
Berlin city government approves a rescue loan of 288 million Anarke dollars, with about 137 million earmarked for the Requisition and extension of the Ber Up electric plant. The issue will be sold in installments over several years, and terms are yet to be set.
More than 150000 miners in South Wales refuse to work demanding higher pay. The government has taken over coal reserves and considers martial law. Lloyd George announces a munitions tribunal for Wales and Monmouthshire to persuade a return to work.
Indications point to a near general strike in Bridgeport factories within days. Milwrights and Remington millworkers may lead a sympathetic walkout affecting arms and other manufacturers in the city. Officials attribute the trouble to suspected German influences behind the labor unrest.
A demonstration of scientific agricultural methods will be held Saturday afternoon at the Allegheny county poor farm in Woodville. A Pennsylvania State Agricultural College specialist will explain the scientific processes involved.
Preparations are completed at Mrs. William Thaw home for the coming arrival of Harry Thaw in Pittsburgh on July 16. The event draws attention due to Thaw’s notoriety and public interest in the famed case.
Berlin reports Przasnysz and Konsyar captured by German forces with Olszanka heights stormed north of Suwalki. British and Turkish fronts see trench gains and repulsed counterattacks as fighting shifts toward Warsaw rail corridors. Paris notes limited actions near Argonne and Neuville gains by French troops.
British Major General Desmond O Callaghan explains munition shortages hinge on factory skill and tooling for shells and fuzes. He notes only a few foundries can handle shell forging, fuse production demands, and cordite manufacture, with limited capable suppliers and wartime labor constraints.
A fragment urges workers to recognize the war for survival and confront apathy that threatens their own safety as the shortage of ammunition endangers efforts and requires immediate action.
Frank L. Stanton laments boy soldiers who die in war, imagining a mother’s prayer guiding souls beyond the smoke and dust. He asks if battle kings are worth death and pleads for peace as ghosts of fallen lives haunt the skies over a world saddled with graves.
The excerpt quotes a flirtatious exchange from the Cleveland Leader where a man promises endless affection and lavish dress purchases to keep his partner in love, emphasizing wealth and style as central to their marriage.
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