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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
6
Nathaniel C. Fowler Jr discusses patent value and the need for invention to be backed by market development. He urges training, research, and cautious steps, including consulting a reputable patent lawyer, assessing demand, and avoiding blind obedience in clerical work. He warns that true profit comes from usable innovations and careful execution.
Mr C B Ussher, passenger traffic manager of the Canadian Pacific railway, spoke briefly to a business class. His sixty word remark stressed that stenographers must beware the word Not as omission leads to serious miscommunication. He warned that a telegraph error caused investors to buy against instructions.
The history notes the Eskimos using whalebone runners before modern times and cites Danish records from 1134. Fitzstephen describes twelfth century youths sliding on bone blades tied with thongs, with a bone skate in the British Museum. Londoners may have learned from Holland via Lincolnshire on frozen fens.
The island's rainfall ranges from 352 inches annually in Walpio to 20 inches on the northeast coast near Hilo and Kohala. Warm springs at Kapoho feed a blue violet pool, while Green Lake or Wala pele covers about five acres in an old crater's pit and supplies domestic and irrigation water.
The article notes Canadian authorities struggle to introduce the American quail into British Columbia. A small number migrated from Washington and managed to survive and breed, while the willow grouse have nearly vanished from the region, highlighting uneven bird population responses.
In a playful exchange Mr Twobble asks Drusilla when she will come down. She replies the same, claiming she will be down in a minute. The conversation highlights domestic humor and timing.
A pithy remark urging removal of humbug to reduce needless business and brighten effort. The idea champions straightforward optimism and practical living over cynicism and bloated pretension.
From a backyard note a writer seeks blunt guidance on a struggling crop. Cabbages lack heads onions lack scent and corn misfires, while potatoes resemble chestnuts. The author asks for an honest palate test and promises to keep the balance for dessert, requesting a quick reply.
A fragment from a Welsh humor piece recounts Sir Faulk Fitzwarren telling his knights of past exploits against Saracens. The knights listen as he adds a sudden boast about leaping from ground to the top of his castle.
A scrap of 1900s style items notes that Alaska adopts a workmen compensation law while Nigeria expands its foreign investment reach. New South Wales enlarges wheat growing area and devices to prevent water entry are discussed. A person’s ears are mentioned in an odd line about hair shampooing and a patent is noted.
Miss Olosega of Pago Pago Samoa travels with Lieut and Mrs Davis to the United States for schooling. Her first lesson is to shed traditional attire for civilization while adjusting to shoes and a walking stick.
The piece contrasts English and American reactions to national duty. It notes many Englishmen ready to bear arms for their country and speculates Scots as equally willing to show patriotism, even humorously referencing bare legs.
A digest of local incidents and notices from Indiana towns. Includes deaths by suicide in Indianapolis, injuries from accidents in Linton Goshen and Columbus, a doctor relocation in Elkhart, a fire at a Richmond hotel area, a military drill plan in Kokomo, and court actions in Lafayette and Valparaiso.
Richmond readers hear a testimonial from Mrs. Lena Wynn praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during menopause. The ad outlines common symptoms such as hot flashes dizziness headaches and nervousness and urges timely use to restore normal health.
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