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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
5
Forest resident Carl Merrick visits town. Homing Hearts feed advertised by A E Betts Son in Russia ville. Various residents visit Kempton Indianapolis and Rennsalaer. Delegates Ratcliff and Ratcliff attend Republican State Convention. Ice chest built for ice customers. Families move to Franklin for Tague reunion.
Mrs. A. C. Merrick and Alice Neff attended church in Oakland Sunday and were dinner guests of Ancil Scott and wife. The meal included strawberry short cake and trimmings. Norman Younkin his wife and son from Los Angeles were here for the funeral of his father John Younkin and will visit relatives before returning home.
Comrade Merrick notes three members of Co. D 9th Indiana Cavalry have answered final roll call in the past ten days. Mr. Merrick, a former member, participated in the obituary events. Christopher Younkin of The National Military Home in Marion attended the funeral of his brother John Younkin, with Generous Miller and family of Camden, William Miller of Kokomo, and Perry Wigle of Bluffton also present.
Advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh through the blood and mucous surfaces. It asserts constitutional benefits and a cure guarantee offering $100 to any case it fails to cure, with contact details for E. A. Co at Toledo and druggists listed.
Memorial services were held at the Prairieville church with large attendance. Rev Worth of Warren gave a fine address. Eight Civil War veterans accompanied by comrades decorated graves. Comrade Merrick gave a short talk in the cemetery. A primary class drill was a feature. A big noontime dinner was well received.
A Hawaii sugar cane report credits Charles Michest with a weed destroying method that halves maturing time and raises per-acre yields by about ten tons. Harvest debris is cleared, fertilizer placed, and tar felt strips cover rows to suppress weeds while shoots pierce the paper.
The text describes applying a mulch of black sheathing felt nine pounds per one hundred square feet to suppress weeds. After five or six weeks workers pass along rows to cut slits where pressure creates tentlike raised areas. Shoots blanch then green and grow vigorously, gaining from heat absorbed and transferred to soil.
A terse dialogue hints at ancestry and education as a joke about intelligence and lineage. The fragment implies satirical bluster over knowledge and status among characters in a social setting.
Three electrical techniques aid bullet location in war wounds. A magnetic device, a telephonic system, and a galvanometer based method detect the bullet and measure its depth. The galvanometer approach is touted as the best, revealing both position and penetration depth.
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