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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1914
Page
8
The article describes traditional farming in Fars Persia where modern machinery has not penetrated. It details plowing with zebus, surface tillage, controlled irrigation, deep wells, long canals, and rudimentary threshing and winnowing. It notes bread is vital, with sangak bread and price-driven riots affecting rule.
The article recalls how Scottish farmers once faced spring food shortages for cattle before turnips and other aids. It describes cattle lifting, gorse or whin as feed, and methods to pulp gorse using hammers or gorse mills, including wheel and roller designs, and notes the decline of gorse use as land grew, labor reduced, and turnips arrived.
Scruggs notes many steam ships bear city names yet has not seen one named after Cork. Buggs counters that speaking of the Corks crew would be inappropriate.
Mrs Snobbs says she wintered at Palm Beach and will summer at Mt Savage. Mrs Hobbs says she springed at Pratt City and expects to autumn at Bessemer.
A young medical graduate notes that most communications read Dr after the name, not before, and suggests a shift in how senders style the title. The quotation highlights confusion over formal titles in correspondence.
The article discusses form measurements for fashionable women including bust waist and hip lines. It cites prefabricated ideals and specific body measurements as recommended by high grade corsetieres for a strictly modish appearance.
A fragmented OCR passage hints at a business enterprise named You Home Company. The telegraphic phrasing suggests a commercial message stressing unity and distant ambition. Further readable details are unavailable.
The See You Home Company has started in Belgium and sends agents to hotels and restaurants. They aim to convey customers safely to their homes at night, though some lack the means to travel.
The London Lancet reports on experiments by Dr L B Bates in the Panama Canal Zone testing whether large yellow ants transmit illness. Ants fed on typhoid cultures did not harbor the bacteria in their guts but could transfer it mechanically from bodies to food via footprints.
George Ade, famed for charm and style, once mingled with Chicago crowds as a reporter for the Record. A Northwest side dance brought him to a waitress who boasted of her beau the Record porter, a moment of ironic self awareness about social ladders and fame.
Dr John E Coover of Stanford critiques the Society for Psychical Research on telepathy claims. He cites Mrs Henry Sidgwick’s hypnotized subjects and reports from 5,000 experiments showing guessing rates near normal probability. The focus covers the felt being watched, card guessing, and lotto block guessing.
A Yale dinner speaker Mr Hadley praised broader inclusion in college athletics beyond specialized rowing and football. He noted more D boys joining activities, reflecting a shift from Yale’s old supremacy era. The talk included a cautionary tale about a boy named Johann from Newtown, Conn.
West Virginia farmer Fred Crawford describes constructing a two plank bicycle boat with a bicycle frame, paddle shaft, and four paddles. The design uses pine boards, a grooved crosspiece, and a mirrored steering setup with a Miron rod hook and rudder guide for propulsion and steering.
A short piece urging kindness to working animals. It highlights horses, cows, and watchdogs as vital helpers in daily life, noting they deserve good feeding grooming and safe stabling. The text reminds readers how humans rely on animals for work and companionship.
The daughter asks if the ad in the window can discourage a certain item. The parent recalls singing to it each morning and then confirms it is dead, inviting reflection on whether the loss is unsurprising.
An quirky note questions whether it is possible to teach a parrot to swear. It explores language imitation by birds and the ethics of training animals to imitate explicit words.
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