End of School Event Draws Largest Local Crowds
The last day of school drew a record crowd for a local event as patrons and friends filled baskets. Teachers earned high praise for their efforts, with many attendees traveling from afar.
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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1915
Page
4
Truthful groceries and meats pitch
A merchant stresses truth as a core business asset and promotes a wide range of groceries and high quality meat. The ad asserts honest labeling and best prices, inviting customers to buy potatoes apples flour canned goods sugar and premium roast from first class animals.
Great Gulf Stream Air Current Shapes World Deserts
An analysis explains how the Gulf stream heats vast waters keeping heat aloft to form a dry aerial current. This dry current travels east then south, creating arid skies over Russia and deserts across Turkestan, Arabia and Africa before returning to the Gulf stream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deserts
Earth
Europe
Sweden
Finland
Russia
Equator
Turkestan
Arabia
Africa
Gulf Stream
Name Had Peculiar Origin
The origin of the name Canada is traced to a mistaken Spaniard phrase Acanada meaning There is nothing here. Indians overheard the remark and told the French who, mishearing it, adopted Canada as the country’s name, a usage that endures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Acanada
Undesirable Job Prompts Mexico Work Gang Plan
George G. Doran of Blanton Milling outlines forming a gang to go to Mexico for applicants. An eager husky applicant interrupts, asking to be placed on the busy list and leaves for the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George G. Doran
Blanton Milling Company
Mexico
Attica visitors and local stops noted this week
Mrs F B Torbert and her daughter visited from Friday to Wednesday with Mr and Mrs R B Myers. Mrs R A Booe and her daughter Jean with Miss Estel Duncan were in Crawfordsville Wednesday. A H Dickens visited his daughter in Terre Haute over Sunday. Frank Jones from Crawfordsville came early this week. Charley Sackmire was in Attica yesterday. Beal and Tomlinson advertise fresh bread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. B. Torbert
Thos. Bickers
R. B. Myers
R. A. Booe
Jean
Estel Duncan
Crawfordsville
A. H. Dickens
Mrs. Claude McGraw
Terre Hatte
Charley Sackmire
Attica
New cultivator on the floor draws interest
No levers or springs for adjustments featured on the new walker rider cultivator from Kingman Hardware Company. Nearby, Master Leslie Little of Covington visited with Dan Strader, Ora Woody traveled to Tangier, and H. A. Myers was seen in Danville midweek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingman Hdw. Co. Adv
Leslie Little
Covington
Dan Strader
Ora Woody
Tangier
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. L. Steinbaugh
Anid GA
Kingman, Indiana
Steam Corner
C. M. Morton
Scotts Prairie
Kelso Harvey
Clarence Harvey
Claude Lucas
Marion
Freedom
Myra Drollinger
Covington High School
Gordon Moffett
Winfield Moffett
Indianapolis
James Coats
Jennie Shaffer
Kingman Hdn
Co Adv
J. M. Cory
Ady
California
Quaker Oat Co
Cory-Moffett How. CO
Herb Lindley
Cory-Moffet Hdw. Co
Robinson
Gulf
Kingman, Ind
Frank Jones
Beal & Tomlinson
H. A. Myers
Danville
Kingman 'Hdw
Company
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