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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
7
A Missouri Youth's Companion correspondent extols the Osage orange. It grows rapidly, endures trimming, and forms a durable hedge barrier. Used for fence posts, telegraph poles, wheels, fuel, and hedge fruit, the wood is dense, hard, and ash-yellow, resisting drought and flood but challenging to nail.
A wartime travel reminiscence portrays Lemberg and Przemysl after three brutal invasions. The cafe Stieber anchors memory as siege life drains resources, shelters thoughts, and preserves news amid ruins.
A memo urges saving time by speaking briefly in offices. Do not lead up to the point or give preliminary explanations. Begin with the point and avoid unnecessary words to increase daily productivity.
Three year old Helen Lee, a Chinese girl in bright robes, sang Methodist hymns before a large audience in Carnegie Hall New York. The event marked the 150th anniversary of Methodism and the 175th anniversary of the New York Society of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Reports describe a large blaze at Cafe Stieber burning through the night and day. Firefighters struggled amid ample wood fuels while soldiers in the trenches received only two matches daily for five men.
A Manchester Guardian correspondent notes that a new regulation banning import of motor cars and spare parts primarily affects American models. With standardized self starting American cars favored by doctors and travelers, the rule risks leaving thousands of American cars idle when repairs are needed, as spare parts cannot be imported or manufactured locally.
Women set to join the Presidio encampment on June 1 will adopt a khaki uniform of a Norfolk jacket, wide skirt, and round sailor-style hat with rank ribbons. Each officer and enlisted woman will have two skirts and a plain white shirt waist, and trousers are rejected by the American Woman's League of Self Defense.
Josiah Collins planned to shoe a horse on his ninety first birthday and did so. Friends say he may be the oldest active horseshoer in Missouri or the United States.
The Daily Express tribute notes poets novelists and sports stars among emplaced volunteers who joined France’s foreign legion. It details diverse origins from Argentina Luxemburg Russia and the US with Italians and British also enlisting. Aiming to aid France a large volunteer base trained at Paris Magic City. The article notes pay five sous daily plus tobacco and wine and confirms a squadron of American flyers being formed.
Albert White and Mamie Decker from Colfax township Oceana county sought a license to wed in Battle Creek and after a disputed age claim they are in the Oceana county jail. The dispute arose when Mamie swore she was eighteen but was believed to be seventeen by her mother. The couple’s families lived nearby and the case centers on age misrepresentation.
Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow, champion of the North and South women’s links, drove a ball that struck a robin in a feeding flock near the Pinehurst clubhouse. The bird’s death followed the final match drive, and the club plans to Stuffed and place the bird on display.
The navy hydrographic bureau explains how bottle messages found at distant shores reveal ocean currents and routes. Bottles drift with wind and waves, some lasting months or years, showing that US and England France bottles head northeast via the Gulf Stream, while Spain Africa bottles travel westward toward the West Indies.
John Loudon Macadam born in Ayr Scotland 1756 pioneered the macadam road system dying in 1836 at age eighty. He and James Telford introduced scientific methods for repair and maintenance transforming highways worldwide.
Columbus Ohio era viewpoint argues youth deserve freedom and noble character formation. It rejects pool playing as a school activity claiming it undermines education and that education should be expansive and free, not narrowed to habit forming amusements.
A small tradesman replaced a credit refusal with a notice listing buyers who do not pay and charging ten cents to view the names. The tactic prompted quick payments as curious customers settled debts to avoid exposure, rapidly clearing the credit book.
Natives of Trinidad value the young guecharo for their fat which yields oil used as a butter substitute. The oil is extracted from the fat and the fledglings are heavier than adults. A wick is drawn through the young body to serve as a lamp, giving the bird the name oil bird.
Mrs Thompson proclaims she is younger than her husband George who she says is fifty with ten years between them. An elderly spinster visitor reacts with feigned shock and agrees Mrs Thompson still looks as young as George.
The article explains silkworm silk color varies, due to larva, secretions or leaf impurities. Lev rat and Conte fed larvae mulberry leaves dyed with aniline red and blue, turning worms and their silk red or blue, suggesting future leaf dyeing of silk.
A playful tale describes a buyer who pays with a half dollar for two collars. The haberdasher, hearing the coin hit the counter, identifies the coin as a half and returns the correct change, illustrating a labor saving trick by sound.
A National Magazine excerpt argues that life insurance records reveal flawed risk assessments by actuaries and medical examiners. It notes cases where apparently poor risks thrived and those deemed perfect died quickly, illustrating unpredictable life and death despite careful statistics.
Engineering Magazine reflects on ancient builders who raised massive stones to great heights for pyramids in Egypt. It suggests they used mechanical contrivances lost to modern times or exceptional patience beyond any present-day race.
The article argues soap likely originated with Celts from the word sebon and suggests nomadic use of wood fires could yield soap. It explains mineral salts in wood create carbonate lye after rain, which with grease could form soap, and credits a curious woman with recognizing its cleansing value.
Rev. Jonathan Gable of Philadelphia, an American minister, is credited with conceiving the jinrikisha. He reportedly joined Commodore Perry in 1853 and, in 1859, was asked by Prince I to draft a vehicle for Yokohama’s imperial park, adapting a London bath chair by replacing the front wheel with a man.
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