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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1916
Page
6
A detailed guide teaches making porch and window flower boxes from boxes and grocery crates, with steps to join sections, reinforce joints, add hangers, and support narrow sills. It covers plant stands, metal linings, painting, and crafting cornucopia and berry baskets from paper and boxes, plus preservation of fresh flowers.
Old pilots recall Samuel Clemens as a dapper, well dressed figure who read widely and studied history travel and the sciences while aboard. In New Orleans he briefly enrolled in a language school offering French German and Italian for 25 dollars per language or 50 for all three, but chose French and kept the cards and textbooks.
Basic guidance on poultry management covering nest location, feeding, water, dust baths, duckling care, brooders cleanliness, outdoor exercise, indoor space, egg setting, and elevated chicken houses to deter rats. Emphasizes avoiding disturbances to hens and turkeys while promoting healthy growth and hatchability.
The article notes houses stay cooler when heavy stuffed furniture is absent each summer. It emphasizes avoiding bulky pieces that must be covered, recommending lighter, breathable arrangements to keep rooms lively and inviting.
A 1916 essay extols camp life for girls over hotel piazzas. It highlights practical wardrobe, camaraderie under a supervising woman, early rising, outdoor health, shared cooking, daily trips to farmhouses for milk and vegetables, and the chance to meet sensible husbands through wholesome camp experiences.
The piece suggests using plain hemmed or hemstitched curtains made of cheesecloth instead of heavy lace to keep rooms cool and home like. They are easy to wash and iron, cost little, and can be replaced cheaply when worn out.
Bethlehem Steel uses standardized window washing science for 2 000 000 panes. Experiments determine labor, time, and pricing, saving about 80 percent per unit of window space and boosting interior light to improve production.
An animal painter's contrast filled scene shows a laughing hyena under a weeping willow. In other notes, a big fire at Skinner's store caused heavy loss and a disagreement over advance payment to a worker.
Five years after leaving, the horse Graspit was valued near half a million. Homer explains he earned nothing after death, implying Graspit died rather than failing.
Bishop Weldon recalls an amusing scene from an Eton science class where the master demonstrates heat effects on two fluids. A student loudly bets “Three to one on the red” as the master prepares to record a large punishment for the boy perceived to have disrupted the experiment.
An experiment by a sporting offer was interrupted by a spectator shouting that the bet had been booked. The remark Nascently indicates wagering activity connected to the event and the room hushed as the voice declared the stake secured.
Noncommittal remarks from Senator Sorghum as reporters press about presidential candidacy. He deflects, saying a yes could be a joke and a no might be taken seriously, avoiding a firm stance.
France becomes the first nation to implement a dedicated air ambulance program, establishing rapid medical transport by helicopter to deliver patients from remote or critical situations to hospitals.
Doctor informs Mrs Tightwad that the husband may be suffering from softening of the brain. Mrs Tightwad reacts with astonishment and asks for the basis of the concern.
A short dialogue features a father avoiding airing disputes before his son and a joke about faith convincing a bald man to buy hair restorer from a druggist. The pieces reflect common household humor and parental advice in a candid domestic moment.
A fragment notes Miss Gladys discussing her brother's ambition to break records. He has started practicing with the most expensive Victrola records, bought for the household.
Ernest Thompson Seton describes in Scribner's how hush folk, winged brownies of shadow land, swirl along a pine creeped night trail near Mount Marcy. The Great North Heary bat leads the nocturnal procession, skimming waterways and chasing night moths in an atmospheric forest vignette.
The star of the Pathe serial The Red Circle headlines as one of the film world’s biggest attractions.
It is estimated that one seed of cotton, with full care, would yield 40,000,000 seeds in six years. A physician’s medicine cane with a tubular slide for vials is proposed. French inventors create air sirens for short range signaling on ships. France also tests splinterproof glass made by sandwiching glass sheets with celluloid.
A discouraged bride-to-be saves a couch from a faded green denim cover. A friend suggests an overhaul using Delft blue and white striped chintz. The result is a charming sofa with a ruffled front and oval pillows made from leftover fabric.
A white silk and white cashmere raincoat offers mud stain easy cleanup with soap and water. An all white rubber alternative exists but is less comfortable and harder to carry, while the silk and rubber version folds into a tiny case for travel.
The tulle fichu, sheer and cling ing, outlines the bodice beneath and pairs with one tone frocks in taffeta and grosgrain. When color needs relief near the face a flesh colored or cream tulle slip is used inside the fichu.
Miss Anna List, a noted psychologist, argues husbands can be trained not broken. She cites data from dominant personalities and warns wives to start slowly, using cajolery, independence and firmness to mold behavior.
The Nuova Antologia in Rome argues Italy’s tourist trade is vital for national income and tax replacement. It proposes extending wartime rent relief for hotels, or creating a state aided fund to cover the remaining half of rent while the conflict continues.
James W. Jump of Los Angeles breaks the world record for an afternoon catch with rod and reel at Molokini Island Maui Territory Hawaii. He lands two yellow fin tuna weighing 70 and 62 pounds, another 61 pound fish six feet long, a 42 pound five footer, a 3 foot 2 inch barracuda, plus smaller game fish for a total over 300 pounds reported by Forest and Stream.
The motor ship saves fuel and space by using oil fuel and smaller boilers, allowing about 600 tons extra cargo on a 10,000 ton tramp steamer. With high freight rates, annual savings are substantial, beyond fuel cost cuts.
The soldier describes being uprooted from home and sent to barracks where clothes were taken and khaki assigned. He was stripped of his name and numbered No. 575, forced to attend church, and received seven days of confinement for a civil answer to a parish sermon.
The United States navy department aims to render submarine periscopes invisible by painting parallel spectrum colored stripes. When refracted, the colors would form a white ray, appearing indistinguishable to distant observers.
The department of education promotes instruction on immigration challenges. Fourteen institutions offer special courses on immigrant education while sixty nine colleges provide incidental programs.
Dialogue notes a mother urging ministry, a father pushing wealth, and the young man choosing a compromise by acting ministerial roles in films. The exchange implies a tension between vocation and money, ending with a reflection on career choices.
A pair discuss visiting Jim before his honeymoon ends to offer congratulations. They fear future judgment as hypocrites and delay the visit, debating sincerity and timing before one calls the other a brute.
Durham farmer John Layton trusted his barn to hide cash. A Guernsey cow devoured about $300 of the bills, leaving Layton exasperated and vowing the cows have no respect for money.
A sharp line notes that a rural community’s hidden faults rival those of a large city, elevating a plainspoken remark into a pointed commentary on local life and secrecy. The speaker contrasts small-town innocence with big-city vice, urging frankness about troubles.
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