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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1915
Page
3
Miss Elyan Puckett has returned from college work in Indianapolis. The note indicates completion of a term abroad and resumes her local activities.
A survey of Suleiman the Magnificent's reign 1520 to 1566, detailing Ottoman territorial reach from Germany to Persia, including the Balkan peninsula and parts of Africa. It notes military prowess, European fears, and the empire's later decline and internal decay through to Mahmoud II. It also contrasts European powers then and now.
The text portrays Napoleon as endlessly resourceful and level headed when driven to desperation. It notes he forged powerful plans as bridges burned behind him and retreat vanished, elevating his leadership and military resolve. It also cites Napoleon praising Massena who showed courage upon witnessing battle casualties, awakening a lionlike ferocity.
The London Standard notes quirky folk cures from Lincolnshire and Ross-shire. A Lincolnshire girl with the ague ties her hair to an aspen and asks the tree to shake for her relief. In Ross-shire a buried rooster remedy involves hair from the patient added to the offering as ritual works.
A traveler recalls a wintry Swedish stay and a Haparanda theater tragedy. He notes the audience wept openly yet the cold caused tears in the upper galleries to fall like hail among the pit occupants.
In a Washington Star quote, a father questions torn clothes and a bruised face after a slide to second base. The reply explains the injuries as the result of a glide during play while the narrator was also umpiring the game.
A. P. Yorkes of the Department of Agriculture forecasts widespread adoption of small low priced tractors on average farms within eighteen months. These compact machines, often single driven with one speed, will pull two to four plow bottoms and power common farm implements, simplifying construction and reducing gear needs.
Open season for squirrels runs from July 1 to November 1. With a hunter s license and landowner permit, the little forest denizens may be hunted during this period. The strict game laws have boosted squirrel numbers, yet many woodlands display no hunting signs as landowners close their properties.
An advertisement promises home cure for piles via a new absorption treatment. It offers free trial supplies and local references, claiming immediate relief and speedy cures, and requests readers to write to Mrs. M Summers in Notre Dame and Miss Maude Easterday in Indianapolis. It also notes social visits involving Miss Ruth Purr and Mrs. Dennis Shell.
Louis Dix left Monday for Indianapolis to take a fourteen week course in Pharmacy. C. F. Smith and family drove to Poland Indiana to visit relatives before returning. L. A. Clingan of Danville spent time in Brazil with them last week and I visited until Monday evening.
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