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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
4
Classified notice from A R Schimpff publisher lists subscription rates and contact details for the printing company. It notes year pricing and advancing payment options and references postal service classification.
An old advertisement promotes stock from Amal Amalgamated Cig Co and other firms, claiming high dividends and limited share issues. It mentions self starters for Ford cars, orange groves, and discounted stock with promises of rapid sales and guaranteed satisfaction.
Classified notice seeks a salesman for a liberal contract in Chautauqua area. Requires sales expertise and references. Apply 336 W. Maple St. Evansville. Also mentions Dr Thomas Prectrie Oil and Burdock Blood Bitters as advertised tonics.
Sold as a mixed page of carnal insurance and sales pitches. It includes a $1 annual Key Registration policy and a $250,000 deposit in Newark New Jersey. Also promotions for salesmen in oils greases paints and nursery goods with incentives and territory terms.
Observer at the Agriculture Palace in San Francisco notes the dominance of caterpillar power tractors over traditional high wheeled engines. The caterpillar design uses a heavy chain around sprockets to support the engine, allowing operation on ground too soft for wagons.
A duplicate of Theodore Roosevelt's Africa trip shotgun is exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The gun cost 360 dollars, features hand carved stock and gold inlays, Krupp steel barrels, and can fire buckshot or single ball. The Left barrel is choked and the right open. The display includes four leading sporting arms makers with experts in charge.
The Manufacturers' National Exposition features Japanese pearl farming revolved around Kokichi Mikimoto. Exhibits display hundreds of cultivated pearls once royal possessions, illustrating propagation through oysters and nucleus insertion. Despite Japan's success, attempts elsewhere yield limited results amid continued gem price protection.
A Massachusetts exhibit features Daniel Webster’s aged plow drawn by oxen once used on his father’s Marshfield farm, juxtaposed with modern machinery. Radium tests promote plant growth in the Liberal Arts building, while Samoan life and culture are shown in a native village at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Uncle Sam figures on the Zone amusements draw crowd interest.
Inventor touts a process that imprints ordinary water with radium properties from carnottite ore sourced mainly in Colorado and Utah. At the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, the War Department displays the fastest photographs yet of a 12 inch coast defense shell in flight, captured at one five-thousandth of a second under Capt Behl at Fortress Monroe Virginia.
The Vegetable Growers convention committee led by Prof. William R. Lazenby proposes a code for naming cultivated vegetable varieties. They urge cooperation with seedsmen and nurserymen and anticipate registration and legal steps to curb misnamed or synonymous varieties. The goal is a clear nomenclature supporting quality standards and consumer confidence.
A brief note discusses using Percheron mares crossbred with thoroughbreds to produce agile, nimble mules. The concept highlights speed and practicality in draft-animal crossings.
Next Saturday Washington township residents will observe a cemetery cleanup at Shiloh with women serving dinner so Jet owners can make a day of the event.
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