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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1914
Page
2
A bungalow tale follows Jane as unseen joy spirits lift her mood and beauty. Mrs. Collins notes changes in Jane and complains of a new servant, Frieda, whose hiring hints at rising costs and shifting domestic tensions.
The narrative contrasts Jane and her husband as they relocate to a suburban plot. He embraces rustic farming and poultry while she, while outwardly joining, remains artistically inclined but disengages from farm life. Her disillusionment grows as she seeks escape from a life she never fully shared.
Jane Collins endures a quiet isolation in a lonely bungalow after learning Bob has been sent out of town. Her fox terrier Dick remains devoted while Brand’s presence unsettles the dog. The scene contrasts loyalty in animals with human uncertainty as a cliffhanger ends the installment.
A humorous meditation on debt argues it defies nature as every debtor is a creditor and every creditor a debtor. It notes the endless national debt and moral contrasts in borrowing, joking that rich heirs can borrow freely while the debt “board and lodging” of life grows if unpaid.
A century ago British forces landed on the Massachusetts coast, striking Wareham and Scituate after a long New England blockade. Boats from the frigates Superb and Nimrod conducted a swift descent, burning ships at the wharves and looting stores before villagers reacted.
A Kentish farmer uses a novel scare tactic by stuffing birds to frighten away other birds. The report notes the unusual method and its impact on local farming practices.
Swanson is fired by Old McQuirk for the section gang killings but later saves a freight train from a dynamite plot. He returns to work after the boss praises his newfound intelligence and hints at a possible job with the railroad if he keeps his nerve.
Devotees mark Edgar Allan Poe on October 7 with blooms along Fayette street, Baltimore. The piece contrasts Poe’s melancholy reads with a plea to choose lighter authors over gloom and warns against taking the money offered to a clever football-playing boy who chooses sweets over a sixpence.
The Atchison Globe reports Jude Johnson remains without work in Atchison as he is identified as a shipbuilder by trade, a detail linked to his unemployment status.
The nation reports ongoing use of most of its copper output over five years. New Colorado industry experiments with briquettes from sawdust and naphtalene. Women perform 75 percent of rifle ammunition manufacturing work for the army. Londoners patent an outside wheel brush to reduce mud splashes. A Connecticut inventor markets a locking ash can on wheels. Frog farms operate successfully in California near San Francisco and Missouri near St Louis. A traffic shoe with grooves allows a cask-plate to grip icy streets. The U S electrifies about 1600 miles of rail and plans to convert 1443 more. The Rocky Mountain region hosts the largest phosphate bearing field, 420 by 220 miles, spanning Wyoming Utah Montana and Idaho.
A compact collection of aphorisms on money, politics, advice, and vanity drawn from a Chicago News column. The notes tease human foibles, urge prudent use of opportunity, and joke about marriage prospects and self-importance.
A reflective column notes how fine table linen lacks flavor for bad meals and that patience suits dining, while observations about girls at boarding school emphasize snippiness. The piece also muses on awakening from love and the vanity of boasting good deeds on a tombstone.
A Washington Herald quote notes that claiming indifference costs the speaker status and that those who care least are the likeliest to be pitied, arguing caring yields personal and social value.
Commentary notes that King George V has traveled further than any other living monarch. The piece juxtaposes social behavior, lighting progress, and misquoted proverbs to reflect on public life and happiness.
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