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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1914
Page
2
A New York business figure promotes courtesy as a core strategy, detailing how polite service and genuine customer care build loyalty and profits. The piece links respectful dealings to trust, calm, and even spiritual at-onement, arguing kindness sustains health and prosperity through daily transactions.
The text presents Professor Shaler of Harvard claiming the universe’s unity and a single underlying life. It states this oneness as divinely beneficent and a powerful, fear-killing truth that links all beings to an immortal, perfect creative principle. It emphasizes security and contentment from realizing this unity.
A brief remark on long words in Guatemala and Mexico highlighting how European observers note the heavy length of local terms. The text discusses how word length affects perception and may not always reflect root complexity or clarity.
A young foreign housemaid and her companion stroll the street in finery as they discuss their employers. The companion jokes the mistress may spot the hat and rush to copy it, revealing social tensions and playful fear of class imitation in a bright domestic vignette.
Ephraim the walrus, captured near Etah Greenland by Paul Rainey, arrived at the city zoo four years ago weighing 149 pounds. He grew fat by constant eating and died weighing 500 pounds after four months of gaining about a half pound daily.
A wry quip notes a police photographer preferring muggy days for clearer pictures. The remark contrasts weather with the needs of crime scene photography, implying overcast or damp conditions aid image quality.
A sharp cartoon caption notes a family debating Johnny’s education amid public health fears. The line mocks attempts to sterilize the child each morning to attend school, illustrating satire on medical panic and schooling.
A fragment from War Cry mocks linguistic pretensions in Love's Labour Lost. It notes a newspaper boy and hints at playful phrases like Amatilachuild to summon him, parodying disguise and speech.
Readable fragments suggest a personal note or caption about life saving actions or a memorial with unclear names and details. The text hints at a sequence about Finkelstein Vy and possible medical or protective items, but specifics are unreadable.
Chicago correspondent Gabriel Delagarde describes German outposts in country districts near Montdidier and Roye committing abuses while central authorities maintain discipline. He recounts a Saxon soldier forced to suicide after assaulting a woman and uhlans terrorizing a farm family, with locals recounting events in plain, unexaggerated terms.
In Northern France a daring airman, commanding a dirigible, was sent to destroy a rail target with bombs but thwarted a fatal objective. The record honors his remarkable feat and defiantly saved lives.
A dirigible, evading searchlights, dropped three bombs before a fourth jammed. The commander climbed the framework under fire with an ax, cut the tube, and the bomb exploded 300 feet below. The airship escaped intact and completed its mission.
Berlin, Germany Emperor William telegrams the Society of German Naval Architects at Charlottenburg praising their peaceful labor aiding war effort. He expresses confidence in industry and prays for continued divine favor for arms and fatherland.
A French dragoon recounts the capture of the Sixth Pomeranian regiment’s standard at Champigny 1871. The German sergeant held the torn silk banner defiantly before being slain, the flag later displayed at the Invalides for spectators.
King Albert in Furnes amid severe weather notes the cold affecting half frozen soldiers and proposes removing them to warm shelter. London reports a rising British toy industry during wartime with British toys to fill stockings instead of German products as Tipperary Tommies replace Teddy Bears.
In a San Gabriel river bridge camp, E Hillary and a man called Pardner played a high stakes poker game. Hillary won the pot with four queens but Pardner drew a razor and assaulted him, leaving Hillary with deep cuts and a police report filed.
The Hungarian rock salt mines yield vast, near pure salt blocks cut and hauled to mills. Underground avenues resemble streets with wide passages and ample lighting. Near the Romanian border a chamber nicknamed the ballroom hosts gatherings, with walls showing colorful marble and onyx tones.
A witty anecdote features the Kaiser famed as musician poet sculptor and painter. At Kiel he strums for Mme de Hegerman Lindenkrone and shows works The Last Charge and Aegir’s March. Her sharp reply praises his taste yet condemns it as bad.
A public school geography lesson prompts Willie Smith to realize sugar comes from the West Indies. The teacher asks where the house sugar originates, and Willie reflects on store purchases and borrowing from a neighbor.
Dr Woods Hutchinson explains redness of the eye as the common cause of homeliness or unattractiveness. It is an acquired condition, not inherited, due to disease, germs, or filth affecting the eyeball or lids.
Congressman Robert L. Dougherty of North Carolina cites Bowers as an example in discussing reversing the order of things. The tale recalls a grocery clerk earning nine dollars weekly who gambled and faced temptation but eventually earned money to buy the store.
Two smartly dressed men discuss saving money during hard times. They reveal giving up two Bs beer and baccy and two Ts tea and toast, while another joins in hesitantly about joining in. The final neighbor notes cutting S s scissors on and soap inviting mock consensus.
A humorous exchange has Pa explaining to his son that a cartographer is someone who names Pullman cars. The light moment plays on misunderstanding of a scholarly term.
A historical note records that female beavers wear fur during the summer season. The observation notes seasonal variation in fur usage among beaver populations.
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