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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1921
Page
10
A French farmhouse toad lived 36 years as a neighborhood spectacle. Tame and patient, it hunted ants with a precise rolling tongue that never failed. A spiteful raven finally pecked out one eye, ending its quiet tenure as a beloved animal companion.
A discussion on using Bertillon thumb prints to verify marriage identity amid an alleged surge of bigamy. Proposals suggest brides and grooms provide photographs to accompany licenses, with prints filed at Somerset House to settle any future identity questions. Also notes corn products trading volume and destinations, detailing glucose syrup and corn sugar shipments in 1919 to multiple countries led by the United Kingdom and France.
Camphor, once largely imported from Japan, is now produced synthetically from turpentine to meet American demand. The Department of Agriculture runs a camphor farm in Florida yielding a high grade. The substance aids medicine and celluloid production. Camphor’s use in hiccough cures led to 16 days of discomfort for John P. Wallace of Camden, treated at Cooper Hospital.
Londor Tit-Bits reports a string of mysterious fires tied to an “art wilk” wartime cartridge material. Incidents include a dress jacket bursting into flames at dinner, a potash throat lozenge igniting from a safety match box, and a chemist shop window focusing sunlight to light a box. Other cases involve insects, owls, birds, and spontaneous combustion from heat, rain, and a lime truck.
A Good Housekeeping piece notes colors influence mind and body. Blue and violet soothe nervous states and can act as mild anesthesia in whole-room schemes. Red increases muscle action up to 60 percent and is used to stimulate in medicine, but may irritate a teenage girl’s room and raise restlessness.
A relic excerpt describes fertile land under irrigation yielding three crops yearly and fetching up to 2000 dollars per acre, with farmers investing last year’s money. it also notes a shift in prices. The piece then shifts to literary criticism, contrasting spiritualist claims in Sir Oliver Lodge’s Raymond with Crockett’s Revelations of Louise as reported by EB A Stokes Company.
A noted physician explains that chapped skin is an inflammatory condition caused by dryness. In winter the skin’s fat glands slow, so lubrication is needed. Avoid excessive washing, dry skin carefully, then rub in cold cream or olive oil. Apply similar treatment before bed.
American contractors are building about a thousand wooden houses for France. Each house comprises three rooms and a shed with windows doors paint and hardware. The houses will occupy roughly 23 square feet.
Plumville residents gathered for Sabbath communion at the Presbyterian church with Rev Offut officiating. A lyceum exhibitor will be a cartoonist. Several locals, including Mr and Mrs Austin Clo wen, moved to town last week. Many households hosted visitors and relatives from Indiana, Ohio, and Chambersville as students took exams and families toured Main street homes.
L Dick and family visited Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs F B Smith. Ela Clair and Jann Stephens visited their cousin Mary Stephens last week. Mrs John T Smith spent Friday at Clymer. Mrs Mabel Learn and her two children Harold and Helen visited friends in Clymer and Stafford. Miss Catherine Smith spent Saturday and Sunday at the Sr de Co. Adrims, Miss Helen Fluston spent Sunday with Edla Smith.
Hillsdale reports Mr and Mrs Calvin Ginter and their children Violet and Harry visited the Leas family at Deckers Point on Sunday. Robert Ferrier, a patient at Clearfield hospital, is progressing well. Mabel and Grace Fridley visited Iva and Iona Fridley on Sunday. Ray Bulerbaugh and Bart Rickard made calls recently. Insta Kerr works at Hugh Peddicord’s home. Mrs John Huey visited her daughter Mrs Wilmer Smith in Wiglus.
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