18 Jan 1917
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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
1
A strong lecture argues that consumption is preventable and not inherited. The speaker, Or Richardson, frames disease as a controllable health issue through behavior and policy.
The News Eagle ran a prize joke where the upside down word in E. L. Pierson's ad read Grocery. Lucille Stackhouse held the correct entry and won sixty cents. Dr. George G. Richardson spoke on tuberculosis at the Farmers Institute focusing on prevention and cure.
Betty Stackhouse of Van Buren Indiana disguised as a man to work on ice fields but police woman detected her. She gave the name Tom Slack and confessed. Companion Claude Denton of Chicago Heights was arrested. Both held for disorderly conduct awaiting court explanations.
The fragment outlines public health guidance on consumption with lines urging clean living, open windows, and affordable prevention. It emphasizes that consumption is not hereditary, prevention over cure, and keeping at least one window open toward Jerusalem, reflecting historical beliefs on airing rooms.
The Van Buren Township Institute featured speeches by J. P. Prigg on silos and building, Mrs. H. J. Deller on incubators and diet, and H. H. Scott on institutional life for youth. County Agent Otis Crane spoke on feeding hogs for profit while local musicians and the high school contributed songs and a brass band.
Mr. L. C. Furgshell sold his farm southeast of town to Dan VaoNess of Binond. A public sale of livestock and farming implements is scheduled for Tuesday February 20.
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