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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1916
Page
2
A. C. Miller argues that prior domestic banking limits gave way to international finance tools under the Federal Reserve Act. He predicts the United States will remain a creditor nation for a long time due to reduced European obligations, Europe’s demand for American goods, and wartime boosts to US manufacturing and exports.
The author argues humanity must wage a new war not against animals but against microbes. He contends that while humans hunted wildlife for centuries, the real threat now lies in unseen organisms that wreak disease. The piece appeals for scientific effort and courage to confront bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens.
Dr. Charles H. Walker reports treating over two hundred cancer cases with selenium and says while not a proven cure, results include relief of pain and apparent remissions. He and Dr Frederick Klein describe sulfo selenium and stress careful dieting, noting diagnostic challenges and notable patient gains and recoveries.
The text argues charity enforces caste and self righteous superiority, justifying slavery economically and extending to religious domination. It claims charity undermines morality, elevates power over others as natural, and reduces human brotherhood to deferred ideals.
The Reverend argues that churches should use motion pictures despite objections. He notes opposition as historic, comparing it to early debates over hymn books and organ use, and asserts openness to new methods in worship.
Field correspondent Edmond E Behr portrays Francisco Villa with vivid detail focusing on his eyes height and build, his cruel mouth and sly bearing, the ugliness of his ears and nose and the incongruity of his high pitched voice. The piece notes his limp crutch beard and past wound and mentions road links from Nashville to Miami and plans for a Dixie Highway route Chicago to Miami in six days.
Victor Carlstrom set a new American nonstop note stop record of 452 miles in 4 hours 17 minutes during a Chicago to New York attempt. He completed the journey in 8 hours 37 minutes actual flying time with two engine trouble stops at Erie Pennsylvania and Hammondsport New York. The overall distance is about 675 miles with an average speed near 117 miles per hour.
In Memphis twenty two year old Miss Sadie Liatrick married sixteen year old James L Yarbrough after she had been his fifth grade teacher. The pair admit marriage despite school laws prohibiting married women from teaching, facing professional consequences.
A brief item notes an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Yarborough, connected to a home story.
A Cleveland Leuder quip notes a summer trip abroad where the speaker’s husband stayed home. A tease about daughters prompts the daughter to retort that her mother once had a bean who became a husband.
Construction continues along the entire Dixie highway spanning Michigan Illinois Indiana Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Georgia and Florida. The route is passable except for missing links between Lexington Kentucky and Knoxville Tennessee Nashville and Chattanooga Tennessee through the western division and central Florida from Tallahassee to Gainesville. Virginia and North Carolina are mentioned in the route description.
New Castle Indiana woman Hazel Hamilton says monthly pains stopped after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts forty years of popularity and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
The Iowa State highway commission presses for a comprehensive highway accounting system to prevent taxpayer misinformation. It cites counties overreporting or underreporting road funds due to poor records, noting discrepancies such as a rich county with 16 000 claimed but 32 500 actual and another with 3 200 claimed and 19 600 found.
A pious man named Adam interrupts a Sabbath football game on a waste ground. He admonishes the lads saying it is wrong to play on the Laird's day, questions their goals, and calls each boy out for overdribbling as he instructs the captain to shoot more for goal.
A concrete road saves more than it costs and stays open to maximum traffic year round. It brings greater freedom and ease of movement in travel and transportation and permanently increases land values.
A short note describes lime phosphate content in green pones, noting high phosphate levels and potential nutritional or agricultural relevance.
A note warns sellers against sending poultry with full crops to market. Advice targets avoiding poor quality birds and potential price penalties.
Market old hens two years and older now since they are generally not profitable after that age. The guidance notes that selling at this time is usually more sensible due to reduced profitability of mature birds.
Guidance to maintain an incubator by storing it away from dust when not in use and ensuring it remains clean and ready for operation. Emphasizes preventing dust collection on the device.
Fowls relish bones with marrow ground into a savory feed. The text notes marrow in bones enhances the meal for birds, describing it as a relishable sustenance.
An advertisement urges mothers to cut food costs by serving Skinner's Macaroni and Spaghetti two to three times weekly. It claims children and adults thrive on it and offers a free cookbook from Skinner Mfg. Co. Omaha Nebraska.
A playful street-side quip about a tall, handsome policeman. The remark suggests the officer is actively arresting attention rather than taking action.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription claiming to make weak women strong and sick women well without alcohol, available in tablets or liquid. The note adds a separate fact that a full-grown elephant yields 120 pounds of ivory.
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