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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1925
Page
11
An article arguing farming is a business and requires bookkeeping. It cites Illinois farmers boosting income by about 650 dollars after keeping accounts for seven years, and Iowa lessons on inventory, costs, and financial statements guiding farm growth and loan readiness.
Banks in Monrovia Indiana test seed corn for farmers using a basement lab set up last season with 25 000 eggs tested for fifty six farmers One fourth of last year’s seed was unfit for planting This year testing will likely be higher Under supervision of the high school agricultural teacher the community expects a seed corn surplus for the year Banks in Conway Arkansas offer prizes for the most marketable sweet potatoes First prize 150 and three district prizes of 50 each The County Bankers Association plans to fund a full time county leader for boys and girls club work in Calhoun Cherokee and Buena Vista counties Iowa
Two friends infected by typhoid lose their hair and pigment, adopt wigs to attend a charity ball, swap identities, fall for Nell Barry and Madge, then reveal their colorless fate. The women choose partners, ending the masquerade with a bold, shared decision.
BA. C. Jacquith, director of American refuge work in Greece, explains that American women’s shoes are typically too small for Near Eastern recipients, asking donors not to send new footwear. He notes the reason as a delicate compliment to American women.
A mixed set of old ledger entries and public notices including school and tax receipts, maintenance and debt expenditures, and administrative notices. It records balances, state appropriations, receipts, and payments, with bids for a bridge project in West Wheatfield township and obituaries, administrator notices, and estate matters from 1925.
Local listing highlights a selection of used vehicles including a 1928 Oldsmobile Touring M25 a 1923 Ford Touring a 1024 Chevrolet Ton Truck and a 1024 Oldsmobile Coupe plus new Oldsmobile and Dodge models. Gabriel Saubners runs Gibson's Machine Shop offering parts and service.
In Algiers the sight of aged Arabs lounging in coffee houses and parka dominates the city scene. Tourists note the elder class rarely works, children support the family, and mothers run the household while daughters gossip or rest in the shade.
Signor Guillermo Calcuzt claims direct descent from Trederico del Re, an eighteenth century Italian naval officer who fled Italy after a fatal quarrel. Calcuzt says Del Re became a pirate, was given power by the pirate chief, and left a vast fortune with the British West Indian Company for safekeeping in Madagascar. He plans a legal action to recover the treasure for himself and relatives.
A Stone Age workshop site near Strood England on a chalk cliff by Prinders bury church close to Rochester cathedral yielded about 4000 flint weapons and tools after eight days of digging. Flints lay in three foot high heaps with 17 piles undisturbed suggesting ancient work. No human bones found. The makers lived in Britain when mammoths and woolly rhinoceros roamed the Medway valley.
Workmen excavating the Punte ruins near Carthage in Utica film their progress for a Tumis theater audience. Count De Prorak notes that Had Carthaginians used cameras instead of whips, they might have built temples reaching the clouds.
The passage notes diverse early occupations of presidents. It highlights Washington as a farmer and surveyor. Harrigan studied medicine before military and political service. Taylor as a soldier and planter. Johnson as a tailor. Grant as a tanner, farmer, real estate agent, hardware clerk and soldier. Roosevelt in politics since age twenty two. Harding a newspaper man. and many others eventually becoming lawyers.
A police court reporter recalls a case from Bow Street in which a red haired youth labeled the worst boy in the district mistreats his mother, but a missionary’s record sparks a drastic life change. The mother’s decades of sacrifice end as the son reforms, cares for her in illness, and later prospers in a colony, leaving many red haired boys spared from crime.
In Philadelphia a school faced a cups disappearance mystery until a blacksmith reported four cups and the dog delivered another one. The dog later returned with a fresh cup, leading to discovery of an assorted stash of whips hidden near the blacksmith shop.
A court note explains the end of the king’s bench in the Irish Free State and the criminal department’s renamed crown side. A republican lawyer’s translation of crown side as "taobh inigh" sparked laughter among scholars who argued the Irish phrase actually meant "the king’s ribs."
Costa Statistica reports that expenditures on oil drilling exceed income from petroleum sales. The Brerence Service notes the ongoing imbalance between investment and returns in the oil industry.
Canadian novelist East King boards the Mauretania for Swains and reflects on aging eyesight and social progress. He argues the modern girl’s audacious dress masks the same prudence and clarity as her mother, but with greater strength and courage, noting a Montreal girl’s remark about men being not bargain hunters and the affordability of relationships.
A Detroit caller sobbed to police about her dog captured while leashed by health officials and kept at the pound overnight until 8:30 a.m. next day. She begged for treatment, a diet, and a bath before return.
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