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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1915
Page
7
Hiram Benson a small rotund messeng er nicknamed Time Roly-Poly fills the information desk at Bacon and Co brokers. He is praised for healthful appearance and neatness while fondly called the office pet by sponsor John Marvin. A dramatic moment follows when a securities packet goes missing during a bank delivery.
Hiram, newly hired at the bank, helps John Marvin recover a $500 note from a deceitful Drollard. After learning the scheme, Hiram acts, visiting colleagues at the Security National, and by following the clues earns Marvin the funds. The tale ends with Hiram celebrated at the wedding as a happy, beaming figure.
Last winter a water main along the Saskatchewan river froze, ice four feet thick and a 17 mile per hour current. With the thermometer at 30 degrees below zero a diver descended through the ice to locate the break despite extreme danger.
A French infantry battalion hid in cover when shells fell precisely on their position. Officers traced signals to an enemy observer. In a nearby farmhouse a German in peasant disguise sat before a chimney where a large wood fire powered the signal.
A Woman's Day profile praises women's steady role in emergencies from fires to injuries. It notes wives mothers and grandmothers who bind up the broken head of a daredevil son save babies protect records and manage household crises with unspoken duty and endurance.
A pseudo-peasant manipulated a chimney cover to signal the German army about French battalion movements. The German discovers the ruse and arrests the spy peasant who is quickly executed.
Four government experiment stations operate in Alaska. Sitka, Kodiak in the west, Rampart on the Yukon River, and Fairbanks in the Tanana Valley show the territory’s agricultural potential. The program has demonstrated important soil possibilities in favorable regions for farming.
A 1915 essay argues that true marriage rests on comradeship and shared interests rather than sentiment. It cautions against blind love, urges choosing partners like trusted friends, and favors specialization over being a jack of all trades for lasting happiness and success.
A London dispatch links White Webbs park to the gunpowder plot, noting Fawkes was a frequent visitor and the house reportedly full of trapdoors. Demolished in 1790, remnants may exist in the King and Tinker inn, tied to the King James and Tinker tale told at Enfield.
A description of a man in every town who can perform many tasks adequately but excels at none. He can be a decent bookkeeper, stenographer, physician, or lawyer, yet lacks specialization to stand out. The passage surveys multi skilled individuals who handle several roles without achieving mastery in any single field.
The Jieng tribe shows remarkable bravery using spears against wildlife. They kill lions with spear assaults before others can assist and hunt elephants by dropping weighted spears from trees, embedding them as the elephant exhausts over days. Ivory stores lie hidden across the country while a village killed 15 hippos in three days with spears.
Buenos Aires plans a new bank backed by Argentine financiers. Paris reportedly has more sun dials than any city. Switzerland sells US 3 million dollars of cheese yearly. The US produces over 6 million dollars in honey and wax annually. Holland yields 20 million pounds flax fiber and 500 thousand bushels seed yearly. India to extend wireless to every army post under trained officers. The Siamese queen owns the world’s costliest thimble, gold and diamond studded. The German emperor feared cats leading to exile of cats at visiting castles. Thymol is a nonpoisonous antiseptic with strong germicidal properties comparable to phenol. Monte Carlo gambling declines as shares fall from 1000 to 580. Friction with France and Russia over town names, England offers examples like Prezemys and Herso variations.
The report notes new photographic methods to measure wheel impact on rails, a copper find in Argentina, an Iowa farmer irrigating via an artesian well with a car attached pump, Germany patenting paper reinforced with cotton or linen, and a West Virginian process claiming maple syrup flavor from bark extract.
A restless catalog of innovations includes a vertical hose reel patent to prevent water loss, a Japanese pearl oyster project claiming millions of pearls, an Ohio inventor’s multi task home device using a light socket, and an open scaffolding to reduce snow in railroad cuts. Also noted are an Italian windmill for irrigation, camphor distillation yields in Japan, and an electrical smoke abatements device that charges soot to aid removal.
A series of pithy aphorisms critiques human nature money and work. It lampoons sympathy ignorance education politics marriage and honesty with sardonic wit. The piece notes deception greed and self interest while suggesting practical skepticism toward lofty ideals.
A collection of quirky exam snippets includes tall tales and misread facts. Items mention Tenry I dying from Palfreys and Caesar climbing a mountain. Other lines claim Becket washed leopards feet while Lincoln wore homespun rails clothing.
A collection of aphorisms on marriage deceit memory and judgment. It contrasts qualifiers about jewelry bluffing in climbing life frames dinner odor as happiness and cautions against judging by rare deeds. It notes unpredictability of women and juries and the hazard of false memory.
The author argues most men repay borrowed money and that dishonesty harms only a few. If virtue were as rare as vice it would receive equal publicity. The piece asserts there are more decent people in the world than any other type, emphasizing broad moral optimism.
Debates rise as advocates question the need for trial marriages, arguing they test compatibility while opponents claim commitment should precede legal formalities. Public opinion divides on how such arrangements affect societal norms and personal freedom.
In National Magazine G Douglas Wardrop argues the aeroplane makes war a disciplined strategic game. Air reconnaissance allows the commander to see enemy reserves and maneuvers, foreseeing coups and protecting weak points. The aircraft grants an all seeing eye.
A chain of reflective maxims on life duty and relationships. It compares prudent enemies to friends, notes misread love in marriage, questions genuine happiness, and jokes about memory and knowledge. A wry moral snapshot in concise aphorisms.
A collection of brief statements spans history and science from a dwarf in Charles I's retinue to cod eggs and sea darkness. Notes cover cultural practices, distantly related trivia, and a 19th century style forecast about an industrial bread pan machine.
The article recalls how Austrian and Italian forces fight across Alpine routes now, citing Napoleon crossing the Great St Bernard and the Simplon road as historic military feats. It links ancient and Napoleonic campaigns to today’s mountain warfare, noting artillery and mined passes from Cottian to Julian Alps.
A device designed to sound an alarm when a purse or pocketbook is withdrawn from a pocket. The feature aims to deter theft and alert the owner to shoplifting or pocket theft in progress.
The Royal Society gathers a register of scientific and technical men in Great Britain and Ireland willing to serve the war effort. The list will be classified by subject and used by government departments for special assistance. Applications are welcome from unregistered college and technical staff and a separate list tracks those already on active service in the army and navy.
A Rockefeller Institute paper reports removing the spleen from mice reduces TB risk. Researchers Paul A. Lewis and Arthur Georges Margot propose tuberculosplenatin as a substance linked to tuberculosis. The properties of tuberculosplenatin remain unclear.
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