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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
6
A 172 foot long reinforced concrete bridge connects two sea cliffs at Ireland s southwest point. It rests on two parallel arches and has a four and a half foot wide roadway and a 150 foot footway above the water. Concrete was chosen for its resistance to spray and costly maintenance for this exposed site replacing a former traveling cage access to the fog signal station.
A special program at the Christian church next Sunday evening at 8 p m invites the public. The service includes doxology prayer song solos and addresses focusing on Barton W Stone Thomas Campbell and Christian Endeavor with various speakers and music. Morning subject Thirty minutes in Heaven and Bible school at 10 a m. Also a humorous note from Too Personal about Patrolman Casey and a clerk pranking his shoes.
A woman returns from shopping exhausted yet gleeful as she sorts samples from dress goods. A metallic clink reveals a forgotten half dollar, prompting her exclamation that she had left something to buy. The moment ends with playful remarks from her partner.
At a recent meeting former Governor Pennypacker shared a witty story about Greek marriage customs. He recalled a schoolboy who wrote monotony as the Greek idea of marriage, highlighting support for uniform divorce laws.
Selection from Baltimore Sun and Harper's Weekly shows a flirtatious exchange where a man insists on a kiss then faces accusation of lying. The other vignette features a witty exchange with a mayor and a slang reply, underlining humor and social attitudes of the era.
A farmer says he prefers his son’s sentimental poetry appear in the weekly paper rather than in letters that might be read in court. The exchange contrasts cautious verse publishing with potential courtroom scrutiny.
A fragment from a Catholic Standard and Times piece features an exchange about being pretty with a reference to Miss Chellus. The text includes a line about sheep as the stupidest creatures and a brief absentminded response.
An English wooden bridge condemned for replacement by a steel structure was dismantled using electrically heated wires. Twenty seven planks per span were wired to drop into the water simultaneously, avoiding masonry damage. The operation began at 5 AM and finished at 2 AM, with the first span falling an hour and forty minutes after current began.
A French Cosmos article explains using a compass as a heat indicator for steel. As steel loses magnetism with rising temperature, the point at which magnetic reaction vanishes marks the optimal hardening temperature for drills chisels and planer irons.
Oklahoma City adopts an electrolytic sewage purifier similar to Santa Monica. The plant uses three flumes with ten batteries of twenty seven plates each, units measuring ten by twenty four inches by three eighths inch, capable of 250000 gallons daily. Current about one ampere per plate, producing hydrogen and oxygen bubbles to attack organics and bacteria. Operating cost at four cents per kilowatt hour runs about $2.16 daily.
Professor J C Branner in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America stresses ants as major tropical geologic agents. He notes deep ant burrows reaching 3.5 meters and extensive subterranean ramification, arguing ants and tropical termites move more earth to the surface than temperate earthworms and drive upper soil changes.
The text argues that poor roads drive thousands of youths from farms to cities. Urban growth reduces farm productive force and raises demand for farm products, leading to higher living costs and potential undesirable outcomes.
The Office of Public Roads in the Department of Agriculture reports rapid progress in road preservation research over the past year. Laboratory tests of bituminous materials more than doubled, aiding field experiments and forming records for binder specifications.
In 1910 Colorado and Utah used 2 060 656 short tons of coal for coke making. Of this amount 1 387 070 tons were cleaned by washing before charging into ovens. Washed coal included 589 000 rough mine run and 551 008 tons of slack. Unwashed slack and run of mine coal totaled 429 728 and 252 468 tons respectively.
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