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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
9
Inquisitive Ignatz asks how fast a horned creature can go and is told a horn musters a mile in two minutes and four seconds. Ignatz muses that Paul Revers Tom O Shanter and John Gilpin would benefit from motorcycles, a comic consider of speed.
An American farmer Lew Palmer of Staveley Alberta, who came from Duluth Minnesota ten years ago with four cows and three horses, now owns 480 acres valued at 30 000 dollars with 84 Percheron horses. He earned 1000 dollars from hogs, grew 7000 bushels of wheat and 6000 bushels of oats, 13 acres of potatoes and 18 tons of onions. His farm and stock are worth 30 000 dollars, all made in ten years. Also a Far Side style gag appears about Wayside Walter and Tired Tommie meeting.
Fragmented OCR notes highlight Fletcher's Asters as a trusted remedy for infants and children in Astoria, claiming a 30 year signature. The text includes stray humor about hens and a vague claim that people get what they want by pretending not to want it.
The piece urges vigorous spring cleaning to curb flies and mosquitoes viewed as disease carriers. It emphasizes using a swatter and kerosene alongside brooms to reduce pest populations before warm months and notes a cited doctor recommendation to spend ten cents on remedies.
A young Iowa woman credits her mother in law for introducing Postum as a coffee substitute. She claims indigestion and blotchy skin improved after switching, and her grandmother also benefited. The advertisement from Postum Co promotes Regular and Instant Postum with pricing and usage tips.
A Chicago husband and father, burying his wife, asked the telephone company to connect a church to the bedside of his quarantined daughter. An acousticon transmitter linked the church to the central office, enabling the daughter to hear the funeral service remotely. The setup was formed by bypassing the normal switchboards for a rapid link.
A new English invention described by Popular Mechanics uses an intermittent electric fan that varies air flow and reverses blade direction at intervals. The device produces gentle puffs rather than a constant strong blow, offering variable cooling comfort.
A fragment notes automatic rotation of stems to continually alter their angle, suggesting a mechanical or optical system that keeps the orientation in flux. The text implies a device or method where components adjust position over time, though specifics are unclear.
The American Machinist notes a platinum scarcity hindering electrical and diemetric work. Russia dominates supply with 95 percent of 3,250 pounds, while only trace amounts exist in Borneo, Brazil, Australia, and California. Germany's Westphalia shows new deposits with ore-grade potential, suggesting broader global prospects under advancing analysis methods.
A writer explains a phone stand designed for a sloping-top desk. The stand’s slides match the desk slope and include rubber edges to prevent slipping, ensuring the telephone stays level during frequent use. Also notes Hamburg’s electric church organ with 12,173 pipes, some 37 feet long.
A pair of inventors claim to trap mosquitoes by luring them with a light into a box housing an electrically charged wire mesh. The Jersey gallinipper is drawn to the lamp, but the device threads to contact the delicate wire network, delivering a shock. The plan details a box with an inside lamp and surrounding wire threads to kill or deter the pest.
A fragment describes using two contact points and coal oil to receive the insect’s body after it is shocked. It notes that only a small current is needed to kill, using several batteries to deliver the lethal shock to a mosquito.
European apartment houses use touch activated stair lamps that light for two to three minutes, aiding late arrivals and saving energy. American cities may restrict such use due to all-night hall lamp ordinances, and lower energy costs reduce electrics’ need for savings. Controlling push buttons placed at each door.
A compact grid of developments shows an electric rail in a Paria sewer, 30 million words a year carried by cables linking British and North American ports, and Mont Blanc’s electric era tripling regional accents. The era includes 37,000 electric vehicles, 488 insulated tongs for fuses, a Brazilian town newsroom via wireless, and a Minneapolis patent for wire feeding.
A century ago Dr Thomas Fanshawe Middleton was consecrated first bishop of Calcutta in London and soon sailed to India. He laid the Bishops College foundation in 1820, established a consistory court, and died in 1822 after fever. The Christian population in India remains about one per cent but wields outsized influence.
A fragmentary dialogue notes a pauper claiming a heart rate of 71 beats per minute when seated. The exchange then shifts to questions of marriage timing, with Patrice and Miss Young weighing how the best time to wed depends on the man, followed by Miss Elder's remark that the right time comes when the man is ready.
A 1912 advertisement recounts a mother’s experience with a severe scalp infection in her daughter. After months of failed remedies, she found relief with Cuticura Soap and Ointment, noting only two applications were needed for improvement and eventual cure. The notice blends product praise with light slogans about banking and effort.
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