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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1918
Page
9
Detroit speaker W H Pelleties argues prosperity through luxury supports war finance. He cites American extravagance funding the war and contrasts frugality in China and Japan. He defends luxury goods and education as essential to employment and national effort, urging diet shifts to aid allies and economic laws over rationing.
A grim Paris air raid tale rivaling Maupassant, with rescue by candlelight and an eerie brass blare of the Rakoczy March from a tenant’s orchestrion. Firemen brave darkness to halt the machine, but it toppled a floor. Meanwhile England’s women, facing rodent swarms and wartime shortages, are praised for heroism as they aid in a campaign to keep food safe and rats from homes.
A proposed scheme by A D Pentz Jr of New Bright on I O to place 54 inch steel hoppers on submarine tops filled with chopped ash would lure gulls to submarines, teaching them to mob any subs. endorsed by the National Association of Audubon Societies and under Navy consideration.
Essay reflects on Georges Washingtons early surveyor engineer career and a proposed quicker westward route. It discusses the Cumberland Maryland to Wheeling West Virginia road, the Old National Road, and how federal neglect gave way to later rail and river routes before cars revived the highway.
Doctor G Th Kuebler in Hackensack receives a trunk on its way since 1888 from Nall India. It bears a holy land lecturer’s circular, was misrouted and briefly held for a cash fee. The item vanishes to a vacant lot as a cautionary tale about mail mixups. A separate Indore cleaning pageant teaches plague response and public health. At Macon Balloon School, balloons will carry pigeons for emergency comms after a swamp ascent.
Experts in Mechnum tes Magazine state that aviation progress hinges on chemistry. Key questions include stabilizing turbine temperature shifts and developing chem compounds to render cloth water and airproof and slow burning. Other duties for chemists cover rustproof metal ports and light alloys to support broader aircraft use.
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