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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
8
Albert S Gray argues sunlight and heliotherapy influence infection development. He cites Osler on latent tuberculosis and explains how environmental light affects bacterial vitality, immune response, and disease outbreaks, linking sun exposure to infection risk and TB focus activation.
The article argues tuberculosis emerged after communal living and rose with wealth and culture. It cites Hippocrates and Galen, urges fresh air and hygienic living as modern remedies, and warns that weakness invites infection. It stresses personal duty to family and community, and notes heliotherapy and careful medical checks for latent disease.
A blind Englishman once in a back tenement faced despair but learned to use new sight through the Lighthouse efforts. He, now a happy, employed switchboard operator at a telephone exchange, illustrates the program’s impact on the visually impaired.
Fragmentary note suggests a reflective theme on envy and effort with incomplete wording about honesty and work, hinting at a moral or literary idea without clear details or proper names. The surviving text centers on contrasts between idleness and virtue.
A reflective maxim on living for others contrasts with self centered living and ends with a practical cooking metaphor about browning flour to enrich a sauce with water salt and pepper.
A vintage guide shows how to make brittle fudge cream candy walnut creams and peanut candy at home. It details steps for caramelizing sugar to a golden brown pour over nuts cook fudge with chocolate and corn syrup and pull brittle. It also lists cream of tartar vanilla and vinegar methods and uses butter pans and cooling for square portions.
A list of simple preparing steps for baked tomatoes cabbage rolls and soups. Recipes include layering tomatoes with buttered crumbs and cheese then baking, cabbage rolls with seasoned meat and stock, minestrone with stock vegetables and cheese, chestnut creams with citrus and whipped cream, and a lemon orange fruit cream with gelatin and whipped cream.
The great national dish is polenta made from white corn meal boiled in salted water and fried in oil. Recipes include Chestnut and Orange Salad with mayonnaise on greens, Meat Potenta fried mush with chopped cold meat, Fish Soup from stock with oysters, Chicken Livers With Mushrooms in batter, and Italian Tomato Sauce with onions and simmered tomatoes.
A collection of traditional Bavarian style soups and savory dishes. Potato and Onion Soup details boiling potatoes and onions then thickening with butter flour milk and parsley. Liver Dumplings describe mixing raw liver bacon eggs butter bread crumbs shaping and boiling. Savory Cabbage layers cabbage leaves with bread crumbs sausage onion stock and spice then baked hot. Fried Potato Balls mix mashed potato parsley egg salt pepper shape roll in bread crumbs and fry.
Advice on breeding cows to calve in fall for winter milk flow and summer cutbacks. Emphasizes record keeping to weed out unprofitable cows, feeding strategies, and care to prevent dirt in milk with a hooded pail. Recommends early fall feeding when pastures are short and stresses shelter, housing, and humane calf handling.
The outbreak is highly contagious and traced to imported infection. Livestock, hay, hides, fleeces, and transport carry the germ. Cattle most affected, with vesicles on lips and feet. recovery common, mortality under 1 percent. Authorities destroy affected animals, disinfect premises, and enforce quarantines to prevent spread. Farmers urged to protect stock and avoid exposure.
The text warns not to prune in frost, avoid large cuts, remove stubs, prune annually but lightly, and favor spring wounds healing. It notes winter pruning raises vigor, heavy pruning spurs suckers, and painting large wounds. Also mentions transplant pruning and cane removal tools.
A description of a tool design where the edge runs along the full length of a cane cutter, with the blade cut to the back butt end. A sheet-iron socket is created using edge-flanges attached to the blade on opposite sides.
An agricultural piece encourages using rainy days for productive work. Farmers can oil harness, treat sick stock, repair machinery, and even rebuild tools. One farmer builds a shop for rainy day projects and often spends more time there than expected.
A 19th century excerpt argues business interweaves national life with progress and prosperity, diminishing the emphasis on military power. It asserts peaceful industry, “Americanization,” and home welfare as core national concerns, citing prominent businessmen in National Magazine.
Poor feet and legs in horses arise from neglecting colt foot care. Uneven growth causes unbalanced legs and hooves. proper care should aim for a large round foot with equal wall wear and wide heels.
The piece argues long engagements are unfair to both parties, isolating the girl from friends and risking unhappiness unless the fiancé possesses extraordinary entertaining powers. It notes neither partner should be amused constantly, yet questions the remedy.
Comment on how repeated moral choices shape character, citing George Eliot. Reflects on steady self discipline and ethical conduct guiding deeds. A concise quotation themed item emphasizing virtue formation and personal responsibility.
A man recognizes he cannot force success or conjure chance, yet thoughts of the girl push him forward. He weighs keeping the engagement secret against meeting her too often, hinting at possible risky actions to gain a future.
A fragmented wedding notice recounts a bride preparing for a ceremony with scattered lines about a dress, ring, and family. The readable fragments hint at a traditional celebration and local customs surrounding the marriage.
The ration for a Holstein cow recommends 20 pounds daily of corn silage and unlimited clover or alfalfa hay. A supplement from equal weights of ground corn and oats is advised, about one pound per three and a half pounds of milk produced. If milk output falls below twenty pounds daily, one pound of grain per four pounds of milk is suggested.
A cryptic fragment notes eight months with pigs and a reference to Sew sun son the Sarai es, suggesting a stalled or unclear passage in a local record or column.
A neighbor reports a beneficial plan by sowing clover on a leaching garden spot. Clover roots bring fertilizing elements to the surface while extra manure enriches the plot. Frequent plot changes aid close cultivation and kill weeds, with rotation advised every second year.
Boston imposes heavy taxes on advertising signs on buildings and fences. Salt Lake ministers push abolition of Sunday funerals. Philadelphia reports 9 568 factories employing 358 218 people and paying over 20 million dollars in salaries. Minneapolis advances as an art center with a new Institute of Arts museum opening in December. New York elevated railways carried 311 473 658 passengers and the subway 340 413 102 in the year ending June 30 1914. Paterson showcases a silk display as the centerpiece of its expo of local industries. Boise reports the largest prune crop ready for shipment requiring 600 cars. Houston celebrates two years of tax relief for buildings boosting rentals and home construction. Springfield declares the Grandmothers club welcomes grand motherhood. Oklahoma City seeks to establish a cotton mill inviting growers to trade cotton for stock, backed by leading businessmen.
A witty column by James E. Hare mocks married life and divorce with moral quips. It argues men and women vary in virtue, noting proverbs about trust and honesty while lampooning prudes and the idea of constant honesty.
A satirical collage mocks wartime scarcity, discipline, and travel by sea. It jokes about men linking wives in hardship, vocalizing habits, and a Duke heading to war in a fedora. It also laughs at Eastern troops with mats and rifles and quips about language and translators.
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