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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
2
The piece criticizes measuring education by dollars noting that true learning cannot be valued like a saleable asset. It describes a cent hour meter device for electricity costs and a New Jersey man misjudging gasoline water contamination leading to a fire and $500 repair bill.
A French woman calls the government to enlist women in the army arguing their place is in other vital positions, not the firing line. She notes women have volunteered bravely in all war efforts and even served on the front to save lives, proving their invaluable support.
A future steamship vision imagines a moving theater moving pictures newspapers and all urban comforts at sea. Life aboard would differ by constant motion and voyages while seasickness may be conquered. Ambitious plans envision airships surpassing ocean liners in comfort.
A German army private lay ill and needed a blood transfusion. seventeen officers volunteered, one was chosen by lot, and the Kaiser sent a telegram of congratulations to the officers for valuing a man in the ranks. The piece then shifts to a wry note on marriage and love.
The passage notes embroidery gaining popularity among English elites and even men. It suggests suffragette militancy might stem from a push to restore a perceived natural balance in gender roles.
In Japan politics are described as highly personal rather than policy based. Five party periods are outlined from 1867 to present, with liberal and progressive roots, Seiyukai dominance, and frequent factional splits. Party platforms are vague and opportunistic, with little class-based alignment and no enduring socialist party due to government suppression.
New York dispatch on Col Edward H R Green of Texas and New York proposing farmer friendly lending. He cites 8% average rates to farmers against his mother Hetty Greens aim of 6% or less. He argues banks send deposits to Wall Street starving local farmers and urges local reinvestment and low rates.
William A. Radford outlines a large eight-room two-story farm home ideal for farmers and business people. The design emphasizes hot air heating, proper ventilation, and modern plumbing plus a septic tank system for sewage, with verandas and workrooms suited for country life.
Meridian Mississippi church calls fire department to fetch a cat holed high on the Central Methodist steeple. Firemen reach the cat with an aerial ladder but it leaps 75 feet to brick paving, is stunned briefly, then survives. The cat had been starving and emaciated prior to the fall.
Sixteen year old Minnie Bell Wallace left Evansville after smiling at Alger Hochhalber a transfer company check man. Her father traced them to Louisville leading to Hochhalber’s arrest for violating the white slave law. Hochhalber has a wife and infant in Evansville.
In Grand Rapids Michigan farmer John Aho placed a dynamite stick on his head and lit the fuse in a suicide act. The event is reported as a fatal self-inflicted explosion.
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