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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1933
Page
4
Farm Extension News outlines soil prep for a satisfactory crop. County Agent J W Warner advises applying manure before plowing, quick, cheap soil work when dry, and liming deficient soils. Broadcast fertilizers like 4-12-4 or 4-16-4 after soil is wooded or plowed, with 100 pounds for a 50 to 100 plot.
Washington Township Tax Justice League plans a Thursday evening meeting at Marlin schoolhouse on April 27 at 7 30. The program features singing reading and recitations by local youths and adults with topics on high taxes and ways to lower township and Indiana County taxes. The debate asks which is more useful the cow or the horse with participants Sara Davis and Bert Fairman among others.
Farmers should use clean litter and ground corn cobs for chick health, trade surplus garden materials, and prepare for spring planting. Advice covers moth prevention for clothing, grafting young apple trees onto valuable varieties, careful handling of working mares, and using good seed potatoes from northern sources.
County forester Johnstown Charles M. Zerby announces Indiana county volunteer wardens and urges public cooperation in reporting fires. Walter C. Neal, forest inspector, provides contact towers and towermen with phone lines. Wardens listed by township include Glen Campbell, Clymer, Blacklick, Brushvalley, and many others, with several towermen assigned to Clymer and Blairsville areas. Wardens are paid only when actively fighting fires.
Experts fix the value of a college education at 100000 in a survey showing lifetime earnings by education level. Data from Onion Central Life Insurance shows 23 of 1000 grade school entrants graduate college, with lack of funds cited as the main barrier and educational insurance urged to improve access to the higher income payoff.
The Illustrated London News notes many famous Musketeers were actual figures. D'Artagnan’s real fame is Charles de Batz de Castelmor, born about 1625 at the Chateau of that name near Luptac. The chateau later passed to poet Montesquiou and was sold in 1918 for 170,000 francs with later disposals noted.
An official at the University of Minnesota tested Freud's Oedipus complex with 3178 parents via questionnaires. Results show no clear preference for the opposite sex among children, with only a slight earlier mother attachment that fades with age. Adlerian psychology may take some comfort, as jealousy rises when attention shifts to another child.
An overview of Saloniki on the Aegean, a city with 2300 years of history, prone to revolutions and earthquakes, and now home to a large population after a flood of Greek refugees. The free port serves Balkan states lacking a sea outlet, handling export grains, silk cocoons, metals, livestock, opium, and tobacco from Greek and Balkan sources.
The Roman naming system used praenomen nomen and cognomen, with cognomen meaning the family name. A Teoman's three names usually included personal name, gens name, and family branch, a structure predating Christian times.
A Siamese stream fish known as the “bul·let” or sharpshooter projects a globule of water to snag insects. It can fire the water jet up to ten feet, with a four foot effective range, from a mouth cavity that stores the water. The fish aims by eyeing prey on leaves or twigs above water and releases the globule by a gulp and rapid mouth action.
Antiquarians say a gold studded sword with a broken blade was dug near Alt-Lusshelm and may have belonged to the Burgundian prince who became Siegfried. They place the weapon in the early fifth century, near the Burgundians’ short-lived kingdom before Hun invasion.
Clarksburg notes Sabbath school at 10 church at 11 16 communion services held guests from Sattsburg Mrs J R Hamilton and Mrs Lin Inte Lytle attend. Sunrise Easter service on McCall hill at 6 30 next Sabbath bring sandwiches coffee provided by council. Several local residents visited relatives and friends including Lowman Coleman Krider and Clawson families.
Arctic murres fat black and white seabirds flying toward the St Lawrence basin recently died in large numbers. The cause of their self-destructive flight remains unknown, with ornithologists in Canada and Time Magazine weighing cyclical food supply failures. The birds breed on cliff ledges, lay egg shapes that roll to safety, and are now scarce and protected by a bilateral treaty. Only Indigenous peoples may harvest eggs or birds.
A New York state woodsman offers practical guidance for being lost in the forest. If a compass is unavailable, follow a nearby watercourse, as streams lead to larger rivers and eventually habitation. Historic wisdom suggests settlements cluster along valleys where farmland and help are found.
The United States Weather Bureau is charged with forecasting weather issuing forecasts and warnings for storms frost floods and forest fires gauging river stages transmitting marine information collecting and sharing meteorological data for navigation agriculture and fuel observations and recording climate conditions. It publishes daily weather maps a monthly weather review and other reports and pamphlets.
An Indiana County reader offer promotes a 65.50 per year subscription to the Post Gazette delivered by mail the same day. The promotion targets R F C residents not served by Post Gazette carriers and notes additional club bargains on page 2.
Poised lines invoke the Ship of State and Union as humanity awaits their fate. References to Master, Workman, keel, and steel speak of industrial effort and national destiny, recalling forging, hammering, and shaping the ship’s anchors of hope.
Shady Hollow residents share visits and calls across homes from Friday through Monday. Mrs I G Weaver and Mildred Henderson feature in multiple Friday and Monday calls. families like Russell, Henderson, Deemer, Boyer, Fulton and McGaughey appear in varied visits. A play at South Bend drew local attendees. Moorhead bought a horse. Ward Hamil works for B R Keppel.
Plum Creek and Brushvalley notes recount visits among Silvis Kimmel Forster and Bleakney families from South Bend Indiana to nearby homes. Easter pageant and wedding dinner at Brethren and M Z S churches plus a hospital discharge celebrate community ties and church life.
A brush fire for over ten to fifteen acres erupted Monday while Frank Jamison battled it. Several men helped bring it under control. Local residents and visitors from Indiana, Heilwood, Wintondale, and nearby communities were noted in a string of Sunday and Monday calls and visits across multiple homes, with progress and putts listed at five fifty per year in county RFD notices.
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