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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1915
Page
7
A New Year holiday edition describes Christmas at the port where newcomers gather for a tree at the docks guests are welcomed by social workers and volunteers. Immigrants from many nations join in songs, gifts, and a festive program including a sleight of hand act and a multinational concert.
A canvas apron like a large umbrella is described to wrap around tree trunks and funnel falling fruit into chutes. Center cloth cushions fruit as it rolls into baskets, with radial arms supporting the canvas. The device, mounted on a cart, can be wheeled between orchard rows.
A fragmentary dialogue set at a desk during hunting season references a wish for a young bachelor minister after Christmas. The exchange touches on ties and exchanges between speakers with cryptic initials.
A witty note comments on a recent stage production featuring a very clever dog as a central figure. The author jokes that the canine lead guarantees a high level of audience excitement and laughter.
An item notes that Bohemian engagements often last fifteen to twenty years while Russia favors long courtships. It mentions a 99 year old man who had courted for 76 years and died on his deathbed after finally marrying.
A Broadway cross-town car incident shows an elderly pair arguing with a conductor. The women push to board as the conductor jokes Step lively while one replies with a sharp retort about aging and the fool killer. The exchange reflects urban friction and wit in street theater.
A reflective quote attributed to George Eliot on how time slips by unseen, with golden moments in life’s stream brushing by while angels appear only after they depart.
Irish immigrant Pat Ryan lives in the Wichita city jail and keeps the city hall and nearby streets spotless. He provides voluntary labor from dawn to dusk in exchange for food shelter and tobacco. Once homeless on the Arkansas river sandbar he chose this unconventional home and work arrangement, becoming a local curiosity and admired for his zeal.
The first game farm in Minnesota plans to supply pheasants and mallard ducks within two years, with one year possible. Superintendent of the Game Protective League says ruffed grouse prairie chickens pheasants and ducks will be raised, marking a broader move to breed game for sport and market. Over a hundred farmers will begin breeding next spring to bolster wild game and position Minnesota as a leading game producer.
The Russian vessel Baltzar, laden with timber from Gulf Port bound for Cork, arrived in tow at Queenstown after suffering days of damage and turning turtle in the Atlantic. A salvage contractor refloated her decks upwards in Berehaven, then towed her to Queenstown for discharge in Cork.
A discussion explains that a crawfish or frog dies in salt water while a jellyfish dies in fresh water. The mechanism is osmosis, where freshwater creatures lose interior liquids to salt water and shrink, and saltwater creatures absorb external water and swell until suffocated.
Mrs Elizabeth Brown Davis of Washington is hailed as the greatest woman authority on astronomical mathematics for preparing a 29 year nautical almanac record. She crafted a remarkable chart of the heavens as they were in A D 1000 for Trinity College to accompany a translated Norse saga gift.
The ready made philosopher asserts honesty as the best policy. Mr Dus tin Stax agrees yet notes the public avoids true conscience and prefers minor deceit in business to dealing with irritations of integrity.
Investigations show schemes swindled the public by more than 239 million dollars over four years. In the last year the Post Office Department issued 56 fraud orders denying use of the mails. Case highlights include an electro chemical ring promising cures, bogus health ads in Polish, and various dime-store schemes. Several operators moved large sums from a single item to multiple victims, including a 46 500 sale and a 45 451 sale of oxygen belts. Public notices describe manipulation through ads, palm readings, and fake correspondences to extract funds.
Morris Kanue of Leopold West Virginia warns the Pittsburgh Marine recruiting office not to enlist his runaway son Anthony Kaine aged seventeen. He pledges to “whale him within an inch of his life” if he enlists. Sergeant DeBoo assures no enlistment will occur and advises the father to “paddle his own Kane.”
Rev Z R Cotton a 63 year old blind beggar in Webb City Missouri learns he inherited over two million dollars including cash. He aims to regain sight with a doctor in Tul Okla and to buy back his eyesight build a humble home he can rent and start a local bank after his brother Powell Cotton died two weeks ago in Richmond Arkansas.
Miss Gladys Ingalls daughter of the late Big Four president plans a chicken farming venture along with her many roles as a society leader horsewoman golfer and Red Cross worker. She bought the property near Hot Springs and already erected the brood houses.
Miss Ada Boyd of Wyandotte weighs 500 pounds and is the largest patient ever registered at the facility. A drug was needed to convey her from the railway station to the hospital for an operation.
At the Norfolk navy yard the German sailors on the Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm enjoy privileges, can keep families aboard, and tend a land tract with a colorful chicken home project. They learn baseball, and Captain Thierichens upholds shipboard order while lamenting lost battles.
Harry Cleason, who fled Folsom Prison in 1898, was arrested in Stockton, California, after 14 years at liberty and will serve out his sentence.
William E. Scripture Jr. bags three kinds of game with a single shot at Rome, as a woodchuck is hit and a rabbit startled, while a partridge is chased by his dog. The tale highlights quick aim and a swift retriever in a rugged hunting anecdote.
A fragmented quote reflects a debate on speaking candidly without strict accountability years later. The tone suggests concern about truthfulness and personal responsibility in public or political discourse.
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