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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
3
An advertisement by John L. Arnold promotes floral wall papers that tempt blame shifting to children, suggests spraying with cologne for a conservatory impression, and offers a large stock of paints and glass with contracts for house and sign painting.
The article describes the Greek blessing ceremony at Epiphany on the Jordan River. The archbishop and clergy adorn in fine garments conduct readings and prayers as the cross is cast into the water. Crowds witness from the western bank, and many pilgrims, dressed in white, leap into the sacred stream.
The annual sale of human hair nets, per the American consul at Kehl, is estimated at 12 million. Hair nets are mainly produced in Alsatian and Austrian peasant homes. The hereditary skill lets children tie hairs end to end, then older girls, women, and sometimes men weave them with a simple wooden tool and a needle.
The text describes knotting across mesh like fishing nets and hammocks, noting tying a single hair is harder. Crafting a dozen nets takes a full day, about ten to twelve hours of work.
The so-called Tomb of Virgil near Naples faced danger after a landslide and is being moved to the grotto of Posilipo to shield it from further peril. The ruin, long known as Virgil’s tomb, is tied to his former Posilipo villa.
The article explains that most modern perfumes are chemically synthesized while earlier scents came from natural sources. It notes vanilla imitation started in 1876 and highlights key constituents like heliotropine and terpinol. Artificial violet blends lemon extracts with acetone, yielding scents close to floral notes, though cheap imitations are often inferior to flower extracts.
In London a school teaches bachelors to make beds cook sew and manage home needs, aiming to prepare men for domestic life.
A Wichita group collects Kansas early history and relics as shown by a reproduction of C. A. Seward’s painting. It depicts a sod house near the Santa Fe trail built by his grandfather around forty years ago, now vanished amid changed prairie and new orchards and farms.
The article notes that muscles grown and decline with age. Lifting strength rises from 280 pounds at 17 to 320 at 20 and peaks at 365 at 30 to 31. After 31 strength declines gradually, dropping to 330 by age 50, then more rapidly toward old age, with limited data after fifty.
The Giant Mountains in Germany attract winter visitors for sledding and scenery. Snow and ice cling to trees and objects, making them resemble white ghosts. Visitors ride horned sleighs up the slopes to slide down, a popular local pastime.
Princess Victoria of Schleswig Holstein, aunt to King George by marriage, restarts her show cat breeding hobby. The image shows a cat house at her residence Cumberland Lodge, illustrating the hobby’s continuation.
A curious Alaskan practice among native peoples involves resolving conflicts through blanket tearing. When a dispute cannot be settled amicably, one man threatens dishonor and tears up a number of his own blankets. The rival must tear up more to avenge the insult, and the fighter who destroys the most blankets is deemed the winner.
The new locomotive is described as the world’s most powerful. It can haul 155 loaded 50-ton trucks at ten mph, has 16 driving wheels, and weighs 752,000 pounds with a firebox large enough to hold a shunting locomotive.
Henderson Ky March 11 The fourth biennial convention of the Kentucky head camp of Woodmen of the World opened with a large attendance of delegates and visitors Mayor W S Thompson gave a welcome address and David H Kincheloe of Madisonville spoke for the visitors Proceedings continue tomorrow.
An advertisement claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve heals skin diseases quickly and permanently and aids burns and bruises. John Deye of Gladwin Michigan reports twelve years with a skin ailment costing $400 in doctors' bills, now cured. Priced at 25 cents and promoted by W. J. Smith & Bro. and H. R. Palmer & Sons.
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