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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1914
Page
3
A New York Tribune portrait of Volendam life. Fishermen in wooden shoes return from the Zuyder Zee to a festive Saturday and the hermess market booths. Family life centers on tea, gossip, and dancing as they prepare for a yearly Kermess cycle.
Wartime changes dispense with wedding banns in Austria. The piece notes that women live about four years longer on average than men and mentions that an English wife takes her German husband’s nationality. It also highlights Alice George managing her uncle Henry George Jr.’s re election campaign and reports ten Chinese women earning medical degrees in Canton.
Local confectioner John Thomas reports gum found on a table at Fur ’Sy’s on East Douglas. He describes discovering four wad of gum stuck under the furniture while inspecting the shop, noting the surprising habit among customers.
A Wichita confectioner says about 1,250 women placed gum under 25 labels, leaving wads under each table. The reporter observed the gum and asked why it is left there. the reply: patrons cannot tell whose gum they pick up amid the many wads.
The piece identifies Lloyd's Shipping Agency as the top user of cables with its vigilant agents worldwide. It notes their role in watching for shipping arrivals departures wrecks and casualties and instantly notifying London by cable.
Ancient sources claimed ravens live unusually long lives but current research shows most birds do not survive past about seventy years.
Emil Selcke, a Hamburg dealer, details harsh treatment of German internees in Newbury England camps. He describes crowded horse-stable confinement, minimal food, cold, unsanitary conditions, limited medical care, and punitive lockdowns amid locked canteens leased to a London firm.
Mrs J Wadsworth wife of the senator elect from New York who succeeds Senator Root next March is a native of Washington and a daughter of the late John Hay.
In Bellefontaine Ohio a drove of hogs at John C Sullivan’s farm drank from a newly filled silo reservoir. The fermented silo contents produced unsteady gait and squeals before the animals settled into their resting places.
Samuel G. Blythe argues in the Saturday Evening Post that war scars every neighborhood as sons go to battle and return wounded or dead. He laments seeing personal loss become distant dispatches and argues the state’s needs override humane impulses, reshaping civilization.
Berlin reports the Goeben and Breslau used a light switch ruse to flee twelve English battleships off Algiers at the war's start. The vessels swapped red and green signals, feigning a shoreward course, then slipped to sea unseen, eliciting astonished cheers from Germany’s navy.
Evansville Indiana report: Carl Grossmayer a Civil War veteran dented a stump he vowed to blow from the ground sixty years earlier after a childhood fall from a giant tree. He drilled beneath the oak with dynamite and removed the stump near his current home. His son from St. Louis visited for the milestone event.
An offshore skipper from San Francisco asserts sovereign status aboard his vessel by claiming a unique deck chair marked Captain only. A passenger, initially told the chair was for the captain alone, discovers the captain resting there and salutes him in jest.
A reproduced post card shows the aged emperor Franz Josef in prayer. The translation of the prayer appeals to heaven for mercy on the ruler who did not start the strife and asks for protection as foes surround his people. The verse asserts victory for their lines with honor to God.
The piece recalls Palmerston dismissing Suez as a mere bubble and notes The Times 1859 warning of an impracticable canal while Disraeli later backed its shares. It contrasts fears of military use with views of the project as a commercial venture and cites London Daily Chronicle quotations.
At Sliver Lake Oregon two cats belonging to a homesteader chased a diamond rattler into a hill of red ants. The rattler, unable to free itself from the ants and the trap, deliberately sank two poison fangs into its own body and held on until the buzzing tail stopped vibrating.
Atlantic City reports a fire at William Kruma’s Bargaintown farmhouse. More than two thousand gallons of wine were poured on the blaze to save the home, fumes suffocated over a thousand chickens pigeons and ducks, water in two wells dried up, and a barn was destroyed with a $5,000 loss.
Fragments describe honey dripping through cracks during a service, falling onto the heads of attendees below. The scene conveys mess and disruption but no injuries or official actions are detailed.
Investigating officials believe bandits planned the wreck near Broussard Louisiana to rob passengers and the express car. Fifteen passengers were injured as every coach in the train derailed after spikes from railroad ties were used.
Sir Thomas Holdich recounted a Brock en Specter instance at a Royal Geographical Society meeting. A mountain named Omi on China Tibet borders allegedly shows Buddha’s image to devout worshipers from the summit under special air conditions, later confirmed when a hunter saw his own shadow on fog.
A young boy, asked to empty his pockets, reveals a circular rubber washer and proudly declares he will start an automobile shop someday with it. His vivid childhood imagination shows a magical view of possibilities.
Advice on breaking in new footwear by warming near a fire to soften leather. A sponge with hot water applied to tight spots can expand the leather and reduce discomfort.
The New York Press notes Ellen Key’s Love and Marriage advocates a transformed love beyond procreation, stressing companionship and spiritual awakening. It highlights poetry’s historic view of love, the loneliness of exceptional souls, and the widening embrace of feminine emancipation driving a more spiritual view of passion.
John R. Taylor argues in American Industries that sanitation safety and health conditions of workers determine success or failure in industrial tasks. He cites De Lesseps failure on the Panama canal and French investor losses, contrasting with the U S approach which protected workers and safeguarded outcomes.
Richard E. Miller, holder of the Potter Palmer gold medal for Nude at the Chicago Art Institute exhibition, is a noted international artist. Born in St Louis and trained in Paris, he won Salon gold in 1901 and second gold in 1904, with further honors from Liege. His works are in French and Italian galleries, and he is a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
The text notes Wandering Jew and other plants grow well when cut branches are placed in water, suggesting they make novel winter window garden show plants. It also lists Burbank creations such as the gold and Wickson apples, the double daisy, blue and crimson poppy, Australian star flower, and several roses and lilies, highlighting prolific varieties and the idea of a modified form suited to work.
The fame of the pheasant in England and western Europe rests on its game fowl qualities though not indigenous to America. The ruffed grouse is often mistaken for a pheasant. Native turkeys are closely related to the pheasant family.
Essay highlights the ecological role of seed eating birds in sustaining berry bearing plants and attracting fruit-eating mammals. Stresses humans’ reliance on birds for Earth's beauty and the interconnected web of nature.
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