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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1914
Page
6
The speaker contrasts business success with friendship noting Lincoln thrived with many friends. He warns that busy leaders neglect personal ties and warns fathers to become their sons confidants from infancy. Loyalty and reciprocity in friendship are essential for true fulfillment.
A reflection on how parental behavior shapes trust and affection in both children and friends. The piece argues that harsh parenting damages respect and love, comparing abuse to mistreating a trusted adult and noting parents cannot demand gratitude if kindness is absent. It cautions that parenting should foster qualities that attract allies and good faith.
For years newspapers debated rising living costs. A man in this community voiced concern as the topic reemerged in a recent discussion, reflecting ongoing worries about prices and wages.
Foxes are not typically seen as vegetarian but Esop’s fable of the sour grapes suggests otherwise. The author cites observations of foxes eating wild grapes, berries, and possibly apples, and notes tracks beneath apple trees and anecdotes of consuming persimmons in Virginia.
A new process, discovered by a woman, waterproofs fabrics without rubber and dyeing during the same run. White materials pass through a machine and exit colored and dry, enabling silk bank notes and waterproof fabrics for uses from aeroplanes to currency security.
Zona Gale writes an old maid facing guardianship of a young boy who reflects on responsibility. She admits affection for humanity but rejects taking a boy into her home, comparing boys to noisy whirling egg beaters and stating they lack the needed silence for her household.
The Rome election imagery notes the new pope’s long Italian name, comparing it to shorter royal cheers. It recalls previous acclamations such as Vivi Pio Decimo and Viva Pio Nono and observes that Viva Bene detto Decimoquinto is harder toProject and slower to linger.
The speaker notes many farms in the area are suited to new methods that emphasize money over grass and burrs. He acknowledges not every man can adopt these practices, but many local farms are adaptable.
A scrambled OCR snippet shows a garbled quote about a beret and a speaker named Seanesa, with misread text indicating a strange play on words. The readable bits hint at a cultural or humorous remark captured in a fragmented page snippet.
A quirky United Kingdom residence at Rushton Northamtonshire features a tri angle design symbolizing the Trinity. The three story house holds three rooms per floor with three sided walls each 33 ft 4 in long, and three sided windows with trefoil shapes.
A Wall Street Journal note on outstanding oil payments contrasts with Ada Watterson Yerkes in Atlantic Magazine explaining plant response. It describes long‑standing oil company checks, a reluctance to cash them, and the idea of nerve‑like impulses in plants, including the mimosa pudica and protoplasm strands forming continuous cellular paths.
In a Harper's Magazine letter, Madame de Heger mann-Lindencrone recalls meeting Ibsen at a Swedish king’s supper. She notes his lion face and tangled hair, his sharp eyes and satirical smile, and says music tired him, making performers wilt as he appeared a veritable wet blanket.
The piece explains how cities are defined by government form rather than population. In the U S a city typically has mayor and aldermen with no general citizen assembly, often over 10 000 residents, though state rules vary. The Census counts urban areas as places with more than 2 600 inhabitants.
A man named Russell Sage sits in his office chair, overwhelmed by fatigue after overeating at lunch. He confesses feeling unwell and mentally sluggish, postponing a crucial business letter while blaming illness instead of greed for stalled progress.
Japan Magazine lauds Matsushima as one of the three most beautiful places in Japan. The bays and pine islands create a fairyland scene, best viewed by shore trips and extended exploration to see hundreds of islets over a six by five mile bay.
The text advocates daytime intense mental work followed by uniform evening occupation and environment with ample exercise. It links poor posture to lung issues and oxygen flow, suggests a warm bath to promote sleep, and advises relaxing with warm water or milk before bed.
The piece extols barbed wire as a pivotal military invention. It explains its stealth in daylight and night, the effectiveness of tin can alarms, and its universal deployment for trenches and march encampments to deter enemy advance.
Professor Kamerlingh-Onnes of Leyden reports that at very low temperatures certain metals lose all electrical resistance, becoming superconductors. Tin and lead wires remain cool under high currents, while slight cooling below the critical temperature stops superconductivity and the metals return to normal behavior.
Instructions to salvage stained photographic negatives after delays in development. Recommends a chemical bath using iron sulphate, sulphuric acid, alum, and water, dissolved in cedar oil, with thorough soaking. Warns of risks if the fixing bath was contaminated by developer.
Aunt Minerva and Jennie Johnson react to Uncle Joe's wasp fight. Jennie ends up driving to town, mishandling the horse Peter, an auto passes, and a crash damages the wagon. A young man offers to pay for wreck and nerves, while Jennie worries about market goods and tea.
In a rural vignette from 1914, Jennie narrowly survives a wagon mishap and a wasp incident as Uncle Joe botches a tea order while a city suitor, Mr. Chester, helps with the groceries and wins the old folks. A mistaken rush ends with a joyous reunion and a hint of marriage proposals to follow.
James Chesterfield Bradley known as Davy Sweeting, one of the Shirley curates, died in Richmond, England at ninety five. The London Morning Post notes his fame and his gentle recollections of the curates and their duties. He spent years in Sutton-under-Brailes and retired peacefully in Surrey.
A brief meditation on measuring spiritual life by growing calm amid disturbances. It asserts that true progress shows in peacefulness of mind and orderly thought despite troubles.
A three year old girl Dorothy playing on the parkway befriended an organ grinder and his monkey. When summoned by her mother she declared I was just getting acquainted with monkey not man.
A fragment depicts a chase by police yielding to a diversion as a policewoman nears the pursued man. The judge remarks on the thwarted yegg escape and the department’s pursuit ending in capture.
The article urges American readers to immigrate to Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta or British Columbia where 160 acres of free land awaits settlers under easy conditions. It highlights open prairie and park country, profitable crops like wheat oats barley and flax, and low land prices from railways or land companies. It notes Canada’s fair laws and voluntary military service while inviting Americans to take farms left by volunteers for Great Britain.
The article notes that 6500 years ago King Menes built dykes on the Nile west bank to hold floodwaters for longer use while the east bank remained open for inundation. It also cites Amenemhat III about 2000 years later creating Lake Moeris to regulate floods and supply lower Egypt after the flood crest.
Caution urging mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the signature and use as a safe remedy for infants and children as it has been in use for over many years.
The text notes Sir Rufus Isaacs as the first Jew to hold England's lord chief justice post, contrasting with Beaconfield who was Jewish but served as prime minister.
A humorous exchange about a new cook leaving quickly after noticing boarders mobilizing. The wit hints at rising tension among residents and a brisk departure in a crowded setting.
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