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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
6
Readers are urged to act quickly as a limited August sale cuts five dollars from Hoosier kitchen cabinets. The ad highlights a sliding 39 by 42 inch top, five labor saving features, all metal glass front flour bin, gear driven shaker, sugar bin and roll doors for easy cleaning. Pay $1 now and $1 weekly with money back if not delighted.
The Indiana Franchise league turns polling work over to enrollment of women in Hoover food conservation and service groups. Cards are to be signed August 15, with no expense to signers and strong educational patriotic value. The effort aims to assess women’s readiness for emergencies amid Red Cross and Liberty Loan campaigns.
Real estate transfers from Sullivan County list multiple deeds across Cass, Jefferson, Gill, and Dugger townships. Names include Estella Owens, Henry A Butler, Nola Irvine, John Irvine, Martin Burch, Abraham W South, and others with property descriptions and prices ranging from 1 to 6,250 dollars.
The article urges every garden to help in the war effort, calling on boys and girls to grow produce. It emphasizes communal duty, small acts that contribute to victory, and the value of individual participation in sustaining families and troops.
In Paris on August 18 1847 the Duke and Duchess de Choiseul Praslin faced a brutal murder scene at Hotel Sebastiani after a night apart. The duchess mother of ten lies murdered with thirteen head wounds. the duke is implicated and later confesses amid a mob’s fury and political scandal linked to Louis Philippe’s downfall.
W N Nelson assistant secretary of the board of agriculture notes a bobwhite eats at least five kinds of weed seed from a single crop. He lists meat diet including 67 beetle kinds 27 bug kinds 9 grasshoppers 18 caterpillars and various nuts and flies. He cites bobwhites devouring up to five thousand aphids in two hours and mentions favorite pests such as boll weevils chinchbugs and army worms. He criticizes farmers who would kill bobwhites and suggests hired help wages are illogical compared to the bird’s unpaid labor.
A wounded soldier with head bandages is comforted by a sympathetic woman. She asks if he was hit in the head, and Tommy replies that he was wounded in the ankle, but the bandages slipped.
A brief, period tone exchange notes a woman accusing George of stealing a kiss yesterday and forcing him to return it. The dialogue preserves a local flavor with a hint of gossip and social propriety.
Miss Daisy plans a grand flower ball with Mrs. Marigold securing a notable celebrity. Sweet William notes the guest is a dandy lion in colorful garden slang.
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