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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
5
From West Pocket Essays by George Fitch. A humorous critique of the life and burdens of a school teacher, detailing long hours, diverse duties, meager salary, lectures, travel, and the scramble to save for retirement. It lampoons reformers and financiers, portraying teaching as a demanding, underpaid profession.
Announcement that the Sunday-school Works' conference for the New Albany District will meet in New Albany on January 24. County Sunday-school associations from four counties Harrison Washington Clark and Floyd plan representation in the district conference under the State Sunday-school Association. The event aims to form a district organization to support the State Sunday school convention in New Albany in 1918.
An advertisement urges readers to stop idling and become self supporting through short courses in shorthand bookkeeping telegraphy and related skills. It touts strong placement as proof and promises employment within three to six months, with testimonials from hundreds of current students. The notice cites B O Keesling president and campuses in Louisville New Albany and Clarksville and invites calls for payment terms and references. Also notes Rudolph Buhler’s body to be moved to Mountain Grove cemetery in Clark.
Abe Buhler died after a long illness near Henryville. He had lived in New Albany and worked at the Ohio Tally Car Company, later the Jeffersonville plant of American Car and Foundry Company. He moved to Tribunapolis twenty years ago and is survived by his wife and three children.
With each purchase customers receive a Christmas Savings Bank offer at Ben Noolittle’s Drug Store. Advancing this promotion, the notice promotes savings during the holiday season.
On December 13 seven Lafontaine stores were entered and roughly SLOW stolen as robbers raided early Monday. One safe was blown, about S30 taken from a register, and other shops lost cash. Thieves also broke into a garage, sealed an automobile, and escaped in the car. Police have no leads.
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