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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1918
Page
4
In a Philadelphia Public Ledger essay, the author contrasts old rural neighborliness with modern urban anonymity. He laments lost community ties, recalls simple farm comforts, and asks what city life will shape in the next generation, urging a transplantation of rural kinship into urban life.
Betty Tanshy argues that sugar and wheat used for social refreshments are wasteful during wartime. She condemns ice cream and cakes served at gatherings as unpatriotic and urges adherence to food regulations. She criticizes club women for continuing lavish post noon entertainments and calls for consistent sacrifice.
The Indianapolis office treasurer laments no matches on Monday and searches among colleagues. A boy fetches a fox from a drug store, which only sells drugs that day. Cooks and maids reveal a locked closet key, a gin burner, and a failed attempt to light the cigar ends with it going out.
Switzerland uses hydro electric energy for space heating to cut coal costs. Factories and workplaces maintain comfortable temperatures by electric heating during off peak periods. A textile plant replaced steam pipe drying with electric resistance heaters guarded by spark catchers.
A humorous exchange questions why a friend claimed immunity for wartime service while allegedly propping oysters. The reply cites vigil and “smell shock” as the reasoning, suggesting the friend did not expect the workload and is affected by odor-related distress.
A fragmented dialogue references uneasy feelings about future furs and the cold season. Patrice questions the worry, while Bey and Gat respond to the bitter winter heat and uncertain plans for summer. The exchange captures a rustic concern with seasonal shifts and practical needs.
Russia has extensive iron ore in the Ural mountains with 50 to 70 percent iron content at Bingodint Magattnaya and Vysokaya. Despite rich deposits, mining is limited and 191% output reached 1,882,000 tons out of 9,692,300 for the country. Silver copper lead and other ores exist elsewhere but mining lags behind demand, forcing imports.
A distant Montana mission town shares news of Bishop Brewer’s death. A local woman, not church-affiliated, honors him by keeping a flag at half mast for over a month, explained only after a missionary gift reveals the meaning. Also, cement replaces steel in a Texas refinery roof truss system with layered cement and waterproofing.
A newly formed Hospital Unit 13 gathers students and alumni from the University of Chicago and doctors and nurses from Presbyterian Hospital Chicago. It includes men from Michigan, Wisconsin, Lehigh, and Northwestern, with snow in the South noted. personnel count mentions 100 field nurses and 20 doctors, among others.
A tale of Robert Brinsley and Padlith Allen hinges on a fortune and a sham marriage. A schemer engineers a matrimony with a promise of divorce, seeking twenty five thousand dollars, while Brinsley delays, Miss Allen wavers, and the plan unfolds in a fatal deadline of deceit.
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