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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1915
Page
2
Ward Lyndon pursues Grace Levering amid wealth and social duty. He disguises as a milk wagon driver to aid the poor, funds childcare with daily milk deliveries, reveals his kindness, and wins Grace by proposing a life together with shared philanthropy.
A man reflects on losing money and discovers true friends. He notes once wealth hid motives, while poverty exposed genuine loyalty. Some creditors forgave debts as a kindness, illustrating how misfortune reveals authentic friendship and a kinder world.
An actress recalls a joke about a school lesson on subtraction. A teacher explains that all items must share a common denomination, citing apples and cows, until a girl asks what a chorus girl is, recalling a diamond taken from a lobster.
The system now handles low grade materials like sand coal slag ash and refuse. It can move dangerous mine dust and coal up to nut size while conveying valuable goods such as grain malt and chemicals. Pneumatic transport uses exhaust power or compressed air or both to reduce dust losses.
Uncle Josh Wayback argues with a downtown ribbon counter clerk over whether dried beef and crackers are dry goods. He insists he knew the shop’s purpose and questions the clerk’s classification in a humorous exchange.
Geologist Donald F. MacDonald of the Isthmian Canal Commission asserts the last major slides near Zion hill and Gold hill are imminent but controllable. He says mass dredging will keep a 125 foot channel open for months, ending the canal blockade as a fixed fact.
A New Baltimore schoolmaster Bruce His song, twenty three, married Maude Wickard, nineteen, of Jersey City. After the ceremony, the bride refused the motorcycle honeymoon, citing bruises from a sand stretch accident near Monroe. The couple parted at the depot, she taking a train home and he riding back on his machine.
Ella Reeves of Lafayette and Frank J. Wagner of Terre Haute, both blind from birth, were quietly married by justice of the peace Thomas Bridges in Lafayette. Wagner, a piano tuner, came here on a visit, met Reeves by her voice, and traveled to wed without assistance. They will move to Terre Haute after a brief stay.
The home secretary recommends trousers for women workers in new trades taken up since men went to the front. He notes that skirts and blouses in some factories risk catching in machinery and causing accidents.
Figures from the agriculture department show American farmers expanded crops by about 7 percent in 1915 with total acreage up over ten million acres from the previous year. Wheat corn oats and cotton rose, while flax barley and cotton fell, exports and prices shaping farm profits amid wartime demand. Meats and dairy exports also climbed about 50 percent to $220 million, with potential further gains if prices hold.
Charles Bolick preserves an old running clock in Asheville whose wooden wheels reveal history. It notes 1812 postage rates for various distances, North Carolina population then at 63,820 and the United States at 9,625,730, suggesting the clock is at least 90 years old.
In Douglas Arizona Fred Boongenchultz using a high power rifle to kill a skunk at his chicken coops shot the animal. The bullet passed through the skunk then the chicken house and penetrated the screen porch of the residence killing his seven year old son and wounding another child as they lay in bed.
In a Philadelphia hall during an Army and Navy encampment, Jack Everetts of Rochester, a Spanish War and Boxer veteran with a Medal of Honor, recognized Matthew Cummings, a New York fire department battalion chief, only after they spotted each other by his distinctive head toss. They had not met since serving together on a navy training ship 25 years ago.
H C Hoffman planted four squash seeds in an ash heap and harvested over 60 large squashes. The vines spread beyond his yard reaching a neighbor’s lot, climbing a wire fence near the courthouse two blocks away. Hoffman distributed many large squashes to neighbors. most grew over three feet long and were of fine quality.
Mrs Wes Parker was dragged several hundred yards on the pilot of a locomotive when a wagon she drove was struck by a passenger train in Oakland City Indiana. Her injuries are listed as severe. Parker hauls fifteen children to a country school and was returning after delivering them. the wagon was demolished.
Lake Erie produces more fish per square mile than any other body of water, according to recent observations. The claim highlights the lake's exceptional aquatic productivity and stands as a notable fact in regional natural resources reporting.
Ex editor Dale Fluhart recalls a bygone age when whiskers marked social status and intellect. He notes shifts from full beards to smooth faces, the rise of mustaches, and the decline of the Van Dyke and Wild Bill styles, with humor about aging and grooming in a rural community.
A reflective piece contrasts old fashioned mothering with today’s freer young women. It asks what daughters read and wear while urging fathers to talk frankly about consequences and home training amid changing social mores.
The Berlin Medical Weekly cites American manufacturers for high quality limbs. It recounts a man who lost both arms and legs eight years earlier, trained for six months, then received four artificial limbs and regained self care, walking without a cane and covering 1144 miles in one day. The case was suggested for moral effect on soldiers with similar losses.
A shoe designed in England features a distinct compartment for the big toe while remaining outwardly similar to a normal shoe. The design aims to address balance or comfort, showcasing an unusual approach to footwear construction.
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