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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1913
Page
2
A Connecticut inventor designs a flat rectangular tool box with a top lid half the width. Inside a lengthwise partition splits compartments with varying sizes on each side, ending near the open end so tool ends project for easy access. The design prevents chipping and dulling from jumbling bits or chisels together.
A writer notes fabrics derived from stone, iron, glass, paper and other nontraditional sources. Russian, English, French and German makers produce fire resistant, washable, or indestructible textiles and garments from limestone wool, paper, old ropes, and other novel materials.
A Northwest Farm article describes a simple hand saw modification to create a square. Drill a hole in the blade near the handle, bolt a metal piece with sides planed smooth, and secure with a lock nut. Place the saw on a board to align edges.
Fragmentary OCR shows an edge clamp or saw blade drawing with steel square marks and angle marking tips. The text hints at steps for drawing angles using a hook on the marking edge. Details are incomplete and unclear.
Amsterdam dispatch reports a Holland factory at Ymuiden near the North Sea canal producing a rubber substitute from fresh sea fish. The process is secret but purportedly yields a material as elastic as rubber, cheaper by about one to two price points, with possible byproducts including albumen and fertilizers.
Global gold output for 1912 reached 465,000,000 dollars, up 5,500,000 from 1911. The United States produced 91,655,169 dollars, with California leading at 19,988,486, Colorado 18,791,710, Alaska 17,398,946, Nevada 13,381,680, and South Dakota 7,795,680. Transvaal and Rhodesia gained about 20,000,000, Canada near 3,000,000, while the U.S., Mexico and Australia fell by roughly 16,000,000.
A Popular Mechanics note describes a janitor facing lengthy mopping times on large floors due to limited water in a pail. The solution involves constructing a tank to hold more water for efficient cleaning, reducing trips to refill and speeding up the process.
A cleaning tool features two compartments for clean water and dirty mop water. The tank includes truck style wheels to easily move it across the floor.
A collage of production and infrastructure items including lime output valued at 14 million dollars, Aberdeen Washington planning a 1 million pulp and paper plant, New England building contracts totaling 159 million by October 23, 1912, and 63.6 million tons of hard coal mined in 1912. Also mentions Newark New Jersey building a 34 million terminal station, Indian irrigation works using American steel piling near Bagdad, 10 thousand coke ovens planned for Connellsville Pennsylvania at 20 million, a new automobile accessory with a sambingtion footstool and lunch basket, stone polishing giving alligator leather a unique glaze, Chinese railroads planting young trees for ties and trestle timber, coal heat value loss by exposure, abundant wall deposits to meet long-term demands, and an umbrella rips flexible tips claim to prevent ampulse.
Ashland residents Jack Bailey and Fred Dodge pursue a legendary bear described as devastating terrain near Gregory. Snow nine feet deep, two boys crawl through snow tunnels, misidentify each other as the bear, and narrowly escape a chaotic mêlée before the real bear bolts home.
A Bronx goat wanders downtown at dawn, browsing the market and knocking over items near a subway entrance at One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street. Police chase, a cartoonish pursuit through Tremont station ends with the animal captured and led to a stable after causing minor chaos in the station.
Lawrenceburg Indiana justice of the peace John W Probst discovered a large Chester White hog and a big weasel feasting on his chickens. The pair attacked poultry for days with the weasel killing chickens and the hog devouring bodies. Probst killed the weasel with a pitchfork but was knocked down, later selling the hog for 18 dollars and the weasel for 2 dollars after the hog refused to eat and caused distress until sale. The chicken losses were valued at 50 dollars.
Chicagoans smoke about 1,000,000 cigars daily amounting to over 25 million dollars yearly. Local tobacconists report 10 million dollars invested in the industry as figures gathered by the Chicago Association.
In Milwaukee County the Niemen Prison faced a shortage of women inmates for years. Sheriff McGreal responded by hiring an assistant cook to work in the fall kitchen to manage meal duties.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a revolver and a marque with unclear context. No identifiable people, places, dates, or organizations are readable to form a coherent news item.
A lyrical snippet paints a whimsical scene of plum blossoms and pixy folk in a verdant world. The narrator invites delight among flowers and airy musings, celebrating a heartwarming, tranquil place in nature.
A collection of meatless recipes uses nuts such as walnuts almonds and hazelnuts with bread crumbs rice and vegetables. It describes Walnut Loaf Walnut Croquettes Almond Cookies and Sardine and Pimola Sandwiches plus guidance on baking frying and serving these dishes as meat substitutes.
The fragment quotes Ruskin asserting that no exercise of virtue by itself will momentarily impress a new fairness upon features. It presents a terse critique of surface improvements versus deeper moral change.
A dated guide offers dainty supper ideas such as dates and cottage cheese on lettuce, fig and nut fillings, cucumber onion lemon sandwiches, chopped onions with oil and vinegar, and a cup of hot cocoa. It suggests light, substantial options after a late Sunday dinner, including beef with sauce, macaroni and cheese dishes, milk toast, and simple hot soup for night meals.
A damaged OCR fragment highlights unclear text about people and places with no coherent event. The readable parts suggest names or terms but lack context or date, making precise identification and summary impossible from the fragment alone.
Select large onions peeled and centers removed to form cups then roiled ten minutes. Drain and fill with seasoned chopped chicken breadcrumbs and butter, bake until tender, dot with crumbs and butter, brown, serve with white sauce. Also deviled tomatoes with egg yolk butter sugar mustard cayenne vinegar and egg over tomato sauce. Normandy tomatoes with eggs features broiled halves with butter crumbs eggs cheese and toasted buttered bread.
A fragmented cooking column discusses hygiene in kitchens using utensils over hands, noting germ concerns. It includes kitchen tips like sugar in water for peas and corn, and a recipe for baked kippered herrings with vinegar and spices.
An unclear OCR fragment mentions imprisonment and the setup of Balsac's manuscripts. It references a person named Geper or Birotr and a twenty day timeframe, but the text is garbled with unreadable phrases and misspellings.
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