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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1916
Page
7
Wealth and capital rise together with growing bitterness toward them. Unified action by financial forces to distribute working capital can prevent unrest. Local industry, robust agriculture, and support for capable small businessmen offer vast opportunities to expand wealth and prevent hopelessness.
The article explains how yellow decor dispels pessimism and brightens spaces, blue creates a sense of roominess, and green offers calm. It notes red adds warmth and can make rooms feel smaller, while color tones imply age and mood. light tones suggest youth and femininity, dark tones suggest strength and masculinity.
A historical passage treats an unwelcome task as a burdensome challenger. It presents two methods to conquer it: adopt a warrior stance and overcome it through effort, or woo it until duty becomes desire and the task turns into a pleasure.
A harsh editorial voice claims working men in the United States face a square deal shortfall as employers squeeze securities and share profits with union agents. the speaker dismisses union labor while affirming workers deserve better wages and basic rights.
A political editorial argues that ideal Americanism cannot exist without granting woman suffrage. It frames equal suffrage as a basic American principle and asserts liberty and equality rely on women’s political participation.
A writer argues that God is not a party to many marriages and urges reform of marriage laws with stricter standards and more thoughtful pairings instead of focusing on divorce statutes. The piece critiques reliance on scripture in marriage and calls for preventive limits on marriage before legal dissolution.
Interstate commerce commission reports show annual freight and express bills total about $2.5 billion, about $125 per family. About 20 percent of the cost of living goes to transportation, indicating waste. proponents argue good roads would cut these costs.
A survey instrument factory relies on spiders to spin cross hair threads for telescope lenses. A forewoman persuades a colony back to work after a strike. spiders produce thousands of yards of tough opaque thread, kept in a room under three girls and a forewoman.
Frank L. Haller, Omaha businessman, and his wife toured Europe last summer. In Bad Nauheim, Germany, they rode in a Zeppelin and recount a two hour air journey amid German wartime airship fame.
A narrator recalls a June day in Nauheim Germany watching the Victoria Luise airship prepare for a two hour flight, describing the ascent from the air shed, the 500 foot altitude, and the buoyant thrill of a panoramic bird’s eye view over the city. He notes a strong safety record, the 100 percent safety claim, and shares impressions of cabin comfort, the crew, and the champagne-like air.
The narrator describes a 75 mile two hour airship trip over the Rhine. The journey showcases fields, forests, bridges, and castles from above with vivid color, speed, and a stop in Wiesbaden and Bad Homburg. Passengers mail airship postcards, observe altitude markers, and land by sandbag anchors then dock at an airshed.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes how European laundries differ in marking linens. Britain uses red stitched letters or figures, France stamps full name and address with a geometric mark, Bavaria stamps large numbers, Germany uses heat bonded labels, Bulgaria employs many engraved stamps, and Russia threads or arrows mark items. In Odessa books guide marks, aiding police to trace criminals and agitators.
New York faces a sharp social clash over neckties with clubs for and against red ties. A Civil War colonel advocates red ties citing Custer, while haberdashers stock up for the trend as controversy grows.
Chicago congressman Martin B Madden is famed as a doppelganger and ringer for long lost brothers. He receives monthly letters from people claiming him as a sea lost or homeward brother, including a woman with a locket bearing an "M" and a boyhood photo matching Madden. He must decline due to his congressional duties.
The passage notes Heinrich Heine visiting Ramsgate in June 1827 to restore his health. He was so charmed by Ramsgate that he planned a long poem titled Ramsgate. It also mentions Heine falling for an Irish girl connected to the Reisebilder in Ramsgate.
In Bohemia a new process spins paper into thread and weaves it into fabric serving as a substitute for jute textiles, offering a potential alternative material for rope sacks and sacks.
Britain divides munition areas while New Zealand reports under one percent death rate. UK paper consumption nears six million cords yearly. German scientists purify bacteria carrying oysters with sea water rinse. US auto production soars 340 percent 1909 to 1914. Russia leaves pumping needs low for population. London announces 2.5 million capital for British national dyestuff industry. Caracas to gain a large bull ring. English lawn grass grown as carpet method. Danes migrate in groups to aid English farms. Croton river named after an Indian chief. New York port handles 46 percent of US trade in 1914 valued at 1.807 billion. Oklahoma capitol uses a ten-acre granite bowlder formerly a bandit rendezvous.
The Abilene Reporter urges residents to grow flowers and vegetables as a beautifying and healthful asset. With rains improving soil and forecasts for a favorable growing season, gardens enhance neighborhood appeal and reduce grocery bills while fostering personal interest in life.
The article traces early devices like thaumatrope and zoetrope, notes Henry Hey's 1870 Philadelphia motion picture display, and explains how successive poses created moving images synchronized with music, leading to Thomas Edison's 1899 development of the modern motion picture apparatus.
Five year old Joseph Chubbin and a goat were buried alive when the Stanton Pennsylvania timber yard surface caved into old workings. Rescuers tried to lower into the cavity with ropes but dismissed further effort as the surface continued to cave and threaten further burial.
After a storm blew down many trees in fashionable London squares a suggestion was made to grow vegetables on the land. At a dinner party the plan was deemed feasible until a woman asked where to keep their dogs, a remark that settled the issue for the English mind.
A staff driver recounts crossing a bombing zone during the first days of the Calais campaign. In a ruined ambulance conversion with bacon-box seats, he steered at 30 to 40 mph through Grands Place. A hairpin turn required a daring skid to clear the corner safely.
The Philadelphia Ledger letter cites a Jefferson hospital rummage sale incident and a youth named Onesimus to argue the Bible remains central in wartime. It asserts Bible societies sent 3,000,000 scriptures to soldiers and refugees and condemns militaristic church attitudes.
The article compares biblical manna with natural honeydew on elm leaves seen in the United States and describes manna from Persians gathering it from leguminous plants. It notes manna harvested in Persia and Afghanistan, eaten as a sweet, and explains commercial manna ash from Sicily as the primary source.
In municipal court Harry Schafer and his wife reconciled after a dispute over coal oil and warmth for incubated eggs. Schafer was charged with failing to provide. Mrs Schafer testified fear eggs would freeze as the chicken brood hatched in a kitchen oven. The couple left the court arm in arm after the proceedings.
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