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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1915
Page
2
A struggling family confronts finances as Ned the wicked uncle arrives. After tense exchanges about money and duty, Ned reveals his past misdeeds and a loan repayment, freeing Jim to return to school and restoring fragile trust within the household.
At the National Museum in Washington three gruesome necklaces are shown made from human fingers. One beaded piece hangs with eight fingers taken from left hands of hostile Indian warriors, linked by bone substitutes. The items belonged to Cheyenne and Sioux Indians and were captured in 1876 77, provoking lament among the tribes. A second display preserves leather goods including boots fashioned from human skin with unclear origins.
Washington reports a compendium of about 2580 names who appeared before conventions or in electoral returns, including two women. The work lists home states and parties, notes years of consideration, marks winners with asterisks, and traces the fleeting fame of figures from Adams to Wilson across political eras.
The 1914 annual report of William Williams shows the New York City water supply gas and electricity department expects the 1915 street lighting bill to drop by $400,000 compared with 1914. Nitrogen-filled tungsten lamps replace arc lamps, with 15,000 gas lamps slated for conversion to electric incandescent lamps by year’s end. 300-watt tungsten lamps cost $70 yearly, 460-watt $77, arc lamps $85, a $5 reduction this year.
In a Tipperary exchange a man boasts of working hard to save up tin dollars after being warned by a magistrate for batterin Cassidy. He claims the effort is to avoid future fines and to keep his hands off Cassidy.
The London area hosts 692 pawnbrokers shops within a ten mile radius of the Royal Exchange, indicating a dense network of lending outlets across the capital.
In Bedford Indiana the minister who preached Nancy Hanks Lincoln s funeral sermon is buried in Lawrence County. A gravestone for David Elkins a veteran of the 1812 Militia marks his grave hidden by weeds. The Lincoln family moved to Spencer County Indiana in 1816 and Elkins rode nearly 100 miles to preach the funeral.
Fars reports the marriage of Mrs. Maxwell to Professor Maxwell of Princeton University. She is the daughter of John Grier Libben, president of the university. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Francis Lindley Patton, former president of Princeton.
Report from La Grande Oregon states a 500 pound bear near Beaver Creek was killed after a stockmen’s band cornered it. The beast, noted as a menace to sheepmen, resisted and was felled by twenty bullet wounds.
The largest timber wolf in the county was trapped by Deputy Sheriff Andrew Anderson near Twin Lakes. The 119 pound, six foot long specimen was displayed in Gagen for several days. It stood three feet tall with a clipped right forefoot from a prior trap.
A reminiscence notes Col Emmit G Logan once worked with Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal. Logan bragged that he wrote concise editorials and filled gaps left by Watterson. He later farm life, then offered a stark ad seeking a worker with brutal wording.
An essay from the New Era at Leavenworth Penitentiary lauds a prisoner who, despite four nights of wakefulness and severe trials, keeps a steadfast smile. The piece argues such calm, unwavering grit represents refined human courage and earns admiration beyond mere bravado.
In Prin cess Lazarevichs Pleasures and Pal aces an old Rome anecdote recalls W W Story the American sculptor and poet. In London he shares how Rome’s streets tempted petty thieves who would snatch a peeking red silk bandanna edge from a coat pocket provoking shouts of shame from the little imp and his companions.
Authors note that homes in Japan appear small to foreigners due to short average male height of five feet three and a half inches and floor seating. Limited heating with bibashi braziers and frequent earthquakes also influence ceiling height and home design amid economic constraints.
Recent years show sulphuric acid has grown in industrial and commercial importance. The United States Geological Survey now releases annual production statistics. Its chief uses include fertilizers refining petroleum iron steel coke nitroglycerin celluloid and related metallurgical chemical processes.
A narrator jokes about a novel heroine described in a gown of soft, clinging material. The line implies a temperamental heroine who takes breakfast in bed at 10:30 in the morning.
Dialogue scene where Penelope questions the ending of a play and Percival confirms the hero and heroine wed, as judged by an observer. The exchange centers on whether the conclusion was cheerful and resolved with marriage.
A reminiscence on a family graphophone that brings joy until a failure ends with poverty. An uncle, skeptical of extravagance, prods the family and causes a chain of misfortune culminating in the uncle’s death and the family’s decline. Jeremiah notes from the Kansas City Star.
The Rev Father Bartley recounts a frightening midnight encounter with a supposed tame panther near Patiala. A railway auditor’s trained beast paced the verandah and prowled the grounds before bolting away at dawn after snagging his ankle.
Tennyson praised the American Constitution as noble in 1887 while thanking Walt Whitman for a photograph. He wished to see the living original and spoke of how America should thrive in the forthcoming year. He contrasted mother country and daughter nation and urged guard against rash reform.
A 62 year old maid testified in New York she would marry a 75 year old man but for his whiskers. She said his neglect to shave killed her love, and the court sighed at the tragic notion.
A reader praises the Alttoona Tribune calling it the town booster and mainstay, saying it is worth money and central to the community’s development before collapsing in blissful unconsciousness. The note ends with a flourish about nature’s limit.
The proper method to raise a flag involves using halyards or ropes that let the flag rise and fall and follow the wind’s direction. The union should be in the upper corner next to the pole with wind direction guiding the stripes.
Descriptions from legend say the roc is an enormous bird of great strength capable of lifting seven elephants in its talons. The tale appears in medieval Arabic narratives and later familiar stories.
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