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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
5
Vetrait Michigan December announcement states Chas L Freer will fund a $1,000,000 Smithsonian building in Washington to house his art collection given to the Institute. He also sells 10,000 shares of Parke Davis & Co at $125 a share. The collection includes valuable Chinese and Japanese art and many Whistler works.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes changing fashion with very short skirts and newer boot styles. Boots are now the proper term for up to date footwear and rival silk stockings in color variety.
The piece observes a colorful array of boots along Fulton Street with varied lacing styles and asks whether footwear has reached its full height. It muses on whether modern boot fashion influences women's attire and hints at evolving dress norms.
Milwaukee December 1 five Wisconsin hunters were killed in the Northern woods this year while hunting deer the lowest number on record under the new one buck law aimed at reducing hunting dangers.
The report notes figures from a morning newspaper over the past 15 years. The season ended last midnight with no injuries reported this year. In 1914 there were 24 deaths and injuries. Wisconsin's new one buck law aims to curb fatalities by requiring careful hunting and imposing heavy penalties for killing a doe.
Incoming cold weather drives a new water price in Anchorage Alaska where the town under government建 construction serves as the Alaska Railroad hub. Water costs one dollar per barrel. buckets cost 15 cents or two for a quarter. Government engineers expect a two week completion of the water system.
Two Dutch paintings titled The Hog Market by B. Gael and The Tippler by W Van Mieris were reported stolen after a June theft from the Metropolitan Museum. Franklin T. Sidwards of the Municipal Art Galleries said the works were borrowed for exhibition at a high school and valued at a few hundred dollars.
A notice in Jeffersonville Indiana states August Meyer applies to Clark County Board of County Commissioners at the January term 1916 for a one year license to sell intoxicating liquors in a rear room at 9n0 Maple Street in Jeffersonville. The applicant is a male over 21 and a qualified voter residing in Indiana for a year. Adv Pub Dec 2 1915.
Dennis Donovan of 417 W Maple St Jeffersonville credits Doan's Kidney Pills with relief from back pain headaches and dizziness after months of pain and slow mornings He states the remedy gave a prompt and permanent cure and urges others to try the same product at 50 cents from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, ad copy.
All citizens are invited to Giy Hall tonight to study community needs and plan action. The program outlines a Department Plan for the Chamber of Commerce with a President Vice President Board of Directors Secretary Manager and five Departments to include multiple committees.
Department of Civic Affairs outlines aims to boost public sentiment and social progress by creating sanitary, cheerful surroundings and attractive home conditions. The Chamber will cooperate with City officials for public improvement and labor efficiency tied to home standards.
Jeffersonville Indiana sees a plan by the Chamber of Commerce outlining duties for the Departments of Business Affairs Industrial Affairs and Agricultural Affairs. The groups aim to educate the public fight fraud encourage cooperation with industry and improve roads marketing and pricing through member driven policy and a weekly council.
Relatives claim Amos F. Eno was unduly influenced by millionaire Eno and apply to Surrogate Court for temporary administrators. The estate, valued at 12 to 15.9 million dollars, leaves the residuary to Columbia University. Attorneys seek a family executor as servants recall tampering with papers.
A affidavit alleges a lawyer's clerk visited the Eno Fifth Avenue home after Mr. Eno's death and destroyed papers. Difford Pinchot claims he found a half hamper of papers, letters, diagrams and photos in the furnace room. Cromwell denies the decedent left Columbia University wills. The court names executors and William P. Eno administrator.
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