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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
7
Julie Adam recounts the rapid spread of the English starling from New York City’s Central Park. She notes the bird’s nuisance value, its impact on native songbirds, and its grub eating benefits, with observations from Stamford and descriptions of starlings and nuthatches.
The nuthatch is a shy or friendly small gray black bird about six inches long. It feeds on insects in shells or grubs and nests in tree hollows, sometimes mudding the entrance to fit. These bold attackers defend their nests against rivals and intruders.
A mature woman reflects on modern progress and the value of being agreeable to live with. The visitor praises domestic harmony while noting the impact of cheerful, stable home life in supporting progress and happiness alongside public achievements.
The article argues Japan's uninterrupted imperial history, unique national consciousness, and strong social and political organization set it apart from India and China, while rivaling western nations in thoroughness of organization and unity. It notes Japan's resistance to invasion and its mix of Asiatic and Western influences shaped by persuasion rather than force.
A narrator describes starling and nut hatch behavior in an orchard. The starling nest in a blown apple tree was exposed by a gale and four nestlings were found. A nut hatch cracks nuts and hides a cherry stone under a loose shingle near a window.
The Adelia T Carleton, an American sailing vessel, will sail to the west coast of Africa with American goods on consignment. Arthur Muller leads the American Tropical Trading company of New York which seeks tobacco flour pork salt beef vegetables gin matches for native products.
The Australian mallee hen constructs the biggest nest, reused by 20 to 30 pairs at once. Up to a hundred eggs may be laid in a mound of earth and leaves, incubated by heat from rotting leaves, with parent birds not sitting. Chicks are independent from hatching, and the shy spall hen avoids human habitation.
The critic hails Geneva as the finest type of rational city among European capitals. He contrasts it with London Paris Berlin and other giants, praising its beauty, spacious streets, public walks and gardens as a model of civic organization.
An Eton master whose sight is poor loses his hat. He spots a black hen and, thinking it is his hat, pursues it. The scene electrifies the school as the hatless master chases the hen from end to end of the street.
A New York Sun excerpt notes a ship master who commanded his vessel across seas, evaded or conquered opposition at every contact, and returned home with a profit seen as astonishing by modern business minds.
A Poker devotee notes that Dingburn reads all content that comes his way and jokes it won’t take long since it’s mostly hearts clubs spades and diamonds.
Odd fragmentary note on Anatole France and Inada with scattered references to rattlesnakes in the United States. Mentions 19 varieties, timber rattlesnake, and a five foot length, but text is incomplete and non coherent.
On the eve of the great battle Wellington reassures Lord Uxbridge who fears his own fate and questions the plan. The duke asks who will attack first and replies Bonaparte, then says regardless of outcome both will do their duty.
A librarian describes an ideal catalogue published as a cheap newspaper. It offers author entries only, updated monthly, and sold to the public for about two cents a copy. Readers learn book details by consulting the library or subject bibliographies or the actual volumes.
A collection of weather omens from a historical source. It links Sunday thunder to the death of a great man, Monday to a woman, and other days to grain, warfare, animals, or pestilence. It also notes red moon forecasts wind and various sky signs predicting rain or windstorms.
The narrative contrasts people who dwell in memory with those who live in the present. It argues that constant nostalgia drains vitality, dulls romance and heroism, and makes seasons and life feel small.
A Knife and York club dinner featured a prominent Serb as principal speaker. The orchestra played the national air of France to honor the guest and reflect American neutrality.
Frederick Simpich describes Bagdad’s bustling bazaar as a living link to ancient times with Jews, Arabs, and Armenians trading amid mules, camels, and shouting vendors. He paints crowded streets, vaulted passages, women veiling, and craftsmen making red shoes, belts, and trappings beside fishnet mendings and tent makers.
A vivid traveler’s sketch describes strong smells from oriental bazaars. A six year old Arab boy sells pistachio date candy from a flat tray while women carry vinegar pickled vegetables in wooden tubs. The scene captures crowded streets and the hustle of vendors and hammals amid cooking aromas and tobacco smoke.
Description of large wooden beads for children to thread with stout thread or a blunt needle. Beads measure half an inch, sold at 15 vents for three dozen or 40 cents a cross, and come in spheres cubes and cylinders in red orange yellow green blue and violet.
The fragment urges starting from current position to progress, expressing a practical motivating thought about beginning wherever one stands. It reflects a concise, folksy sentiment likely from a historical column or proverb section.
A simple service and ordinary tasks gain meaning when done with full effort. A soldier dying in a trench reflects equality to a king in true virtue. True religion shows in perfecting common duties rather than grand feats. Humble human relations may form the ladder to the heavens.
In a lively exchange the Frenchman and the American debate the merits of their countries. Neither yields as the Frenchman insists there is only one Eiffel tower and the American counters with strong patriotic resolve in the dialogue.
A humorous Thiers story recounts the French president visiting Marseilles and engaging a sentry at Mon taux barracks. The sentinel questions the civilian visitor, and Thiers proclaims he is greater than a general and even more than the minister of war, before jokingly conceding the bread and cheese to the president.
Dr. Rudolf von Liebich explains that music uses letters as notes forming words. Single tones create melody while simultaneous tones form harmony, with some words used in both ways, a charming feature of music.
The London Chronicle notes the monument to John Gower in Southwark cathedral as a notable shrine. Gower, contemporary of Chaucer, wrote in French Latin and English, with his Confessions of a Lover in English at Richard II's request.
One hundred years ago Alexander Dallas of Pennsylvania succeeded George W Campbell of Tennessee as secretary of the treasury. He found the treasury depleted and the credit of the government at a low ebb after the war with England. Dallas proposed new taxes and a national bank to revive credit, faced fierce opposition, yet carried through the measures. He resigned in 1816 and died a few months later.
A western professor claimed he could taste soil to judge its quality and a reader sent a soil sample by parcel post. The accompanying note asks for a palate test and jokes about failed crops, promising to keep the balance for cleaning.
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