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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1920
Page
3
The Junior Girl Scouts plan a cake and pie bazaar this Saturday in the Presbyterian Church parlors. Proceeds support troop activities and community projects.
The Ladies' Aid and Circle of the Christian Church will meet Thursday afternoon. Mrs Frank Huber hosted the Bridge Club yesterday at her Louisville home, with several local guests attending. Miss Virginia Reynolds returned home Monday from Norton Infirmary after an appendectomy and is recovering well.
Mrs Hal Lewman will entertain a number of friends from this city at Bridge Saturday afternoon at her home Cherokee Parkway Louisville.
The C. W. B M. Society will meet Friday at 2 o clock in the afternoon at the First Christian Church.
Local social notes report Miss Susie Myrtle Cogswell, senior, back home after appendicitis surgery at Norton Infirmary. Several residents ill or recovering, including Mrs. Ben Long critically, Lelia Lehone with influenza, and E. B. Townsend at St. Edwards Hospital. Mentions of meetings and visits by Mrs. Fitch and others.
Tar production in January falls due to influenza like illness, shortage of railroad freight cars, and uncertain labor conditions. Shuck Motor Car Co. advertises vehicle orders at 119 121 Spring Street, urging readers to avoid spring rush.
We buy and sell all kinds of junk rags paper etc. We pay best prices. Phone 884 George Colvin 215 Spring Street Adv Feb 23 to Mar 28.
Caspar Whitney reports in Outing that jungle Siamese of Burma live with few wants and move constantly. They are servile to whites, petty thieves by habit, and make household items from bamboo. Men tattoo thigh patterns while women avoid tattooing, valuing beauty unadorned.
The speaker envisions a global Church leadership meeting to align Methodists and Baptists under the Interchurch World Movement. He argues this framework shows where each denomination stands, gaps to fill, and how all should cooperate to evangelize unoccupied regions as Christ commanded.
A report by the Interchurch World Movement surveys migrant labor in the sheep shearers trade from Canada to Mexico. It suggests churches in outlying districts could provide relief and social facilities to combat isolation.
Jeffersonville tailor Thomas Bittner testifies that Doan’s Kidney Pills eased his backache and kidney discomfort after years of stooping work. He endorses the remedy, priced 60 cents, available at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY backs the claim.
A sequoia in Brookdale Santa Cruz County was toppled by a recent storm. The 30 plus year old tree held a two foot deep hole ten feet from its top, once a woodpecker nest. A two foot tall three stalked huckleberry bush grew inside, its roots reaching six feet into the tree and absorbing its sap. Also noted is a 1900s claim of a spider web rope factory near Paris powering balloons for French aviation, with spiders arranged above a winding reel in Chalais Meudou.
Riddle describes cutting out squares from indicated groups and assembling them to create a figure of a man seated. Follow clues to identify which squares to cut and how to join them to complete the image.
Experts say New Zealand hosts more flourishing imported wildlife than any other country. Red deer reach over 500 pounds in forests while trout weigh up to twenty pounds in rivers. Sheep multiply rapidly, producing finer wool and better mutton.
Japan has three national holidays with Jan 1 marking the emperor's birthday and Nov 3 another. Feb 11 commemorates the coronation of the first emperor Jimmu at Kashiwara near Nara, dating back twenty five centuries.
Fulham palace the Bishop of London residence observes an old practice. The lodgekeeper awakens servants by walking the quadrangle with a slender fifteen foot rod tapping on the windows of their sleeping rooms.
The article notes Indian fine spices prepared for the royal kitchen while Calcutta provides juices and Malta and Ireland factories supply preserved fish and sardines for the royal household.
Classified notice offering a grocery horse and wagon for sale at a cheap price for immediate purchase. Includes contact telephone 564 Ady and dates March 1 to 6.
Classified notice advertising Rhode Island Red eggs for sale at 150 dollars and setting hens at two dollars and fifty cents each. Contact by phone 1288 as listed in the advertisement from March 11.
Longfellow’s poetic melodrama EVANGELINE presented as a special matinee on Thursday. Additional performances on Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, announce Coming-Dream Theater’s dramatic lineup.
To a keen Buyer there is only one Place for passenger cars, trucks, tractors, their equipment, and maintenance. If we haven't got what you want we can get it at a saving for you. It pays to please. We never close. Phone 579. Adv. Feb. 26 to Mar. 3.
For sale in Indiana a mill at Kent with steam and electric power plus options for custom grinding state supply and shipping. Agency WM. E. Ogle advertises farms and various real estate in Vevay Madison region with two dates Feb 26 and May 4.
Mrs. Lucy Pfau handles the bungalow listing at Pearl and Market Streets. Furnished or unfurnished options available. Call 879 Y for details and inquiries.
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