Indiana agriculture and resources through 1914 era past
Indiana centers on farming with tobacco, corn and wheat as staples. The 1914 survey shows vast farm land, dairy output, and coal, natural gas, lime and stone industries driving growth. The report notes rural prosperity, back-to-farm movements, and urban connections via interurbans and autos shaping Hoosier life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Indiana
Max R. Hyman
Vincenne Society For the Encouragement
State Board of Agriculture
Laport County
Centennial History and Handbook of
Eggleston
Portland
West Virginia
Lawrence
Monroe
Bedford
America
Bloomington
Lake Michigan
South Bend
Mitchell
Syracuse
Kosciusko County
Mishawaka
Hot Springs Bathwater Under U S Control At Vast Spa
Philadelphia Record correspondent reports Hot Springs Arkansas is government managed with 24 private bathhouses and a large bathhouse for the indigent. Water is free to drink and used in baths with prices regulated. physicians must qualify and water is rented by bathhouse owners from the government. In 1919 8,690 people received 125,988 baths at Uncle Sam’s expense, with 90 percent reportedly cured.
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Arlsbad
Baden Baden
Arkansas
Uncle Sam
Philadelphia Record
Central Avenue
Doctor Parks
Department of the Interior
Federal
Sam
Bright
Parks
Michigan
Aeroplanes After the War Foretells Skyward Commerce Boom
The piece envisions postwar aviation expansion with air power shifting from war to peace. It predicts airships and planes surpassing ships and railways in speed and reach, linking continents and economies. It frames the sky as a universal, faultless roadway, ready for civilized, rapid transport and safety advances.
The Worms Turn Sermon Sparks War Debate
Billy Sunday in Trenton mocked war praise calling some "fools" who claim war is a blessing though they avoid fighting. He argued that war’s backers do not face the front lines, while Peck’s affection for his wife is noted in a separate line of the report.
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Manitou
Ozark Hills
Hot Springs
Mount Clemens
Mich
Billy Sunday
Trenton
Peck
European War Recap One Year Later May 1 1915
A year ago this week in the European War Germans gained ground along the Ypres canal but failed near Bapaume and in the Le Pretre forest. They invaded the Russian Saltic provinces while Russians defeated them at Kovno Orawa and Opor valleys. A North Sea battle sank two German torpedo boats and one British destroyer. Dardanelles and Bosporus forts were bombarded. The American tanker Gulflight torpedoed.
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Ypres
Bagatelle
le Pretre
Saltic
Kovno
Orawa
Opor
North Sea
Dardanelles
Bosporus
Allied and Axis Forces Clash Across Several Fronts
British and French attack Germans northeast of Ypres as a major battle unfolds in the Plain of Raway in central Poland. Austrians press near Cierkowice while Allied forces push on Gallipoli. Australians suffer heavy losses. German planes raid Epinal and nearby towns as the landsturm is finally mobilized.
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Raway
Poland
Cierkowice
Gallipoli
German Attacks and Victories Across Fronts Amid Naval Losses
German forces attacked near Ypres and in Champagne with heavy action reported. Von Mackensen led a major West Galicia victory while continuous bombardment of the Dardanelles continued by the Allied fleet. The British steamer Minterne and four Norse vessels were sunk by German submarines.
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Ypres
Champagne
Teutons
von Mackensen
West Galicia
Dardanelles
Minterne
Germans seize three villages near Steenstraete
A report from the front notes German forces have captured three villages in the Steenstraete area as part of the ongoing regional fighting. A separate clash saw Russians and German troops engage near Stry with heavy combat reported. The Triple Alliance treaty faced denunciation by Italy amid the war. Turkish forces reportedly defeated Allied troops near Avi Burnu as Lloyd George unveiled a second British war budget.
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Steenstraete
Stry
Italy
Fronts shift as troops clash on multiple fronts
German advances push British forces back while French stiffens resistance. Russian forces retreat along the Galician front and from the Carpathians as Teutons seize Gorlice. Turkish units halt Allied progress at Sedd el Bahr.
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Galician
Carpathian
Gorlice
Sedd-ul- Bahr
Front News Roundup: Battles and Losses Update
German line near Ypres yields ground while France gains in Alsace. Tarnow, Jasio, and Dukla fall as Russian forces push Turks from Dunajec and Biala rivers. Russians defeat Turks in Cau casus. Gallipoli fights grow dire. Five British ships sunk by submarines. Lusitania sinks with 1154 dead incl 102 Americans. Germans press gains near Sedd-ul-Bankr. Russian airmen drop bombs on Constantinople.
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Ypres
Alsace
Teutons
Tarnow
Jasio
Dukla
Dunajec
Biala
Caucasus
Cunard
Sedd-ul-Bankr
Constantinople
Random Notes From a Distant Era on Marriage Lepers Peat and Elephants
A curious collection of brief items covers marriage patterns, lack of federal leprosy care in the continental U S, Sweden’s coal shortage and peat research, Uruguay locust invasion delaying a census, a French doctor’s breathing apparatus, elephants in Britain, a Sheffield firm hiring a retired circus elephant, photography timing of a lightning flash, and parachute recovery after a crash.
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United States
Sweden
Uruguay
England
Sheffield
Frenth
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Illinois
Iowa
Robert Fulton
Orleans
Ohio River
Cannelton
American Cannel Coal Company
John ‘Hutchinson
Aan
Decatur
Franklin
Winona College of Agriculture
Oraily
Huntington County
White River
Gosport
Eueeneeesseassen
Gulflight
Epinal
Avi Burnu
Lloyd-George
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