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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1912
Page
2
The Pekin Advance promotes a contest with valuable prizes for readers who subscribe. It stresses the need for business education for all futures, from farming to professional careers, and offers a full course scholarship at Hersonville Business College as the top prize.
A local retailer argues three paths for a shop in a small town. Advertise aggressively to grow the business, limit ads to the usual schemes and stay small, or avoid advertising and risk failure. The piece emphasizes selling space to home merchants and the pressure to compete with outside buyers.
R M Allen head of the Kentucky pure food and drug division condemned the milk of many Clark county dairymen and other Southern Indiana producers. H E Barnard Indiana Inspector said he would cooperate with Kentucky officials and warned that milk barred in Kentucky cannot be sold in Indiana. Some Southern Indiana milk failed to meet federal cleanliness standards. no shippers from Clark County or Martinsburg are named.
Charles Dickens muses on nature's gifts arriving with each season from morning to night. He notes beauty and change as a gentle, ongoing progress shaping life from cradle to grave.
A Cedar Rapids notice cites Rev. Marion Simms of Vinton promoting “The Ten Commandments for Iowa Church Women” amid widespread debate in church circles. The satirical guidance covers marriage, home life, cooking, frugality, social priorities, and proper womanly conduct with varied examples and biblical phrases.
A science note cites M. Reynaud's findings on how wire-violet rays from mercury lamps affect balloon envelopes. He asserts red coloring absorbs ultraviolet and blue rays, protecting caoutchouc envelopes during ascent, while blue or violet colors prove detrimental.
A Nottingham Guardian report describes a cache of forty to fifty volumes in a locked cupboard at Oxton Hall library. The collection includes folio volumes with original bindings and oak boards, dating to the very early era of printing, around 1847, and bound with leather laces using laminated manuscript fragments.
The origin story explains Napoleon’s ambition, his attempt to implicate General Morest in a compliner, and the manner Moreau’s popularity led admirers to nick their lapels. The nick marked fellowship, shaping the lapel outline into the letter M.
Dr Rowntres analyzes poverty and diet showing nearly 60 percent of food expansion for the poor comes from affordable basic foods while protein from affordable options accounts for under 40 percent of total intake. He notes 60 percent of protein comes from 35 percent of spend and 70 percent of carbohydrate with food education stressing nutrition without fish eggs or meat.
In a Calquhoun club dinner, Philip Newman recalls a girlhood connection to Thackeray and a schoolmate of his daughters. Thackeray overheard a suggestion for the hero’s name from the future Mrs. Newman, approved the name Charlotte, and the result became The Adventures of Pallip with a principal character named Charlotte. Readers are urged to subscribe for county news.
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