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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1914
Page
2
A Russian oil field accident near the Caspian Sea involved a Greek bartender Darios and a boisterous worker Borkovitch. Drums of nitroglycerin blew up after a vodka glass was touched, killing five in a shed used as a canteen. The barman escaped by retreating to a cellar.
A stout man once asked Sir Francis Burdett for a position. Burdett did not recognize him, until the man recalled serving as a page in his house. The baronet replied with the quip that the man had now become a volume.
At freezing temperature molecules oscillate up to 1,470 feet per second, with about a sextillion molecules in a cubic inch of air. Their path between collisions averages roughly 0.000277 inch, and each molecule collides with others about 5,000,000 times each second.
A Chicago newspaper published May 22, 1882, after receiving from New York the longest telegraphed item in history the entire Revised New Testament. The issue spanned twenty pages with sixteen devoted to the scripture.
A paired exchange satirizes marital missteps with a clothes size joke and a kitchen door excuse. The London Opinion notes discretion and valor while the New York Globe highlights a husband’s blunt admission of striking his wife.
A Hoard's Dairyman correspondent advises starting calves on grain soon after weaning. A balanced mix of two parts crushed oats to one part oilmeal is effective and economical. Official tests show Ayrshire cattle as economical milk and butter producers with strong vitality.
A farmer explains a method to wean calves by gradually reducing skim milk over a week or ten days until the calf drinks only skim milk. Water replaces skim milk later, then alfalfa hay and grain support growth. Introducing grain early helps future dry feed and may allow corn to replace oats as the calf matures.
Examiners discuss a 80 percent limit on road fund expenditures for Snohomish County and related legal actions. The supreme court blocked a summer contract that would have breached the cap, noting the law was effective during proposed debt creation. Some counties overstepped with advisers, but future road and bridge laws are expected to function better as old warrants are liquidated.
Directions describe making a remedy from skunk cabbage roots steeped in water, then strained and mixed with vinegar licorice extract lemon juice and sugar to form a thick syrup. Small frequent doses are advised with optional glycerine for preservation.
This Kansas Farmers overview explains pedigree as the breed ing record showing registered names and numbers across generations. It defines pure bred, crossbred, grade and high grade animals, and how breeding value appears in the ancestry records.
Sir John Murray estimates total annual global land rainfall at 29 347.4 cubic miles with 6 524 cubic miles draining to the sea. River water weighs about 4 205 650 000 tons per cubic mile and carries roughly 420 000 tons of dissolved solids. In total about 2 735 000 000 tons of solids enter the ocean yearly per the United States Geological Survey.
A fragment from Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts a bride resisting a banqueting scene while seeking a closer union with the Bridegroom. She longs to kiss His blood stained feet and yearns for a future day and place where they meet in sacred love.
The garment features lustrous pussy willow taffeta in bermuda pink with shadow lace. Pink chiffon colors the corsage and velvet girdle, while pink accents appear on the twinkling feet.
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