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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
4
The article explains box kites built from light wood and cotton skins used to lift scientific instruments into the upper air. They can reach over three miles high, with lifting surfaces up to seventy square feet and weights around eleven pounds, and are used to study pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind.
A writer in an exchange describes crows watching a dog eat meat in a tin garden. Covetous birds argue among themselves, two attempt to grab the meat, then a large crow tears off a piece and flies to a pine. They finally coordinate to share a small piece with the leader snapping it up.
A child recalls playing with a blue sea that laughs and splashes. At night a sky full of stars shivers above revealing the sea stays dark and sly with swallowed stars inside. The verse ends with the child hiding and crying.
A simple three quarter inch pipe and fittings device with a metal strip on each leg attaches furniture casters to roll on floors. The user slides in from the rear and grips a top rail to move safely without fear of falling.
George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss contrasts grand Rhine castles with ruined villages. She recalls romance, imperial cathedrals, and a clash between noble beauty and harsh ordinary life, lamenting the narrow vulgar reality behind dead ruins.
Edward Giffel, chief clerk for Ohio Oil in Carlyle Illinois, reported his Maltese kitten traveled over one hundred miles in eight days in a “coming on home” journey. The cat disappeared after a move nine miles north of Bridgeport and later sent a letter from its old home confirming safe arrival there. Whether it walked or rode trains remains unknown, but the feat is considered proven.
About five hundred coins and jewelry were unearthed in Tersley South Ieeland. The Copenhagen museum director estimates the treasure dates to the ninth or tenth century with most coins bearing Arabic inscriptions and some Anglo-Saxon pieces. No burial ground nearby suggests the hoard was buried during war. A silver dagger with chain was also found.
Pongee silk comes from undyed silk of silkworms fed on scrub oak leaves, mainly in the pongee district. Production is concentrated in Shantung province with some areas in nearby North China.
A satirical dialogue contrasts a bachelor and a suffragette discussing property values and personal lives. The bachelor notes real estate bias and reveals observation of a downstairs couple with a new baby while joking about noise from another baby upstairs.
The head bookkeeper recalls a wealthy client inviting him after hours to review accounts. The man dressed for the theater waited for his wife, who was traveling in an automobile to the Catskills. A late telegram said his wife’s party faced a breakdown with punctures and may not return, ending the work for the night.
A vivid meditation on eyes as bold roving messengers that speak all languages and pierce souls in an instant. Emerson’s line on conduct of life frames vision as a flood of life and thought from one soul to another, unbound by rank or virtue.
Jack Gillespie of this city killed a mountain wolf with a hatchet in a deer camp after a 15 foot throw. J W Tribble, absent at the moment, doubted the feat until Gillespie demonstrated his axe throwing accuracy. The tale recalls Gillespie learning tomahawk throwing from Native Americans.
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