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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1917
Page
3
The piece offers low cost handmade gift ideas for family members. It describes covering a rubber ball with a stitched fabric cover, a cashmere baby cap and jacket, a mother’s skirt hanger with gilded ends, a macrame knitting bag, and embroidered kerchiefs with monograms for men.
Articles suggest thoughtful handmade gifts before shopping, including sleeveless sweaters for girls, aprons with pockets, a carved tobacco taboret, a couch-side lamp, and handkerchiefs. Materials like light linen, sweet gum wood, and rafia are recommended, with simple steps for a boudoir cap and ruffle.
Western mining news reports current metal prices from New York and St. Louis markets. Lead at 6.37 dollars per unit, silver bar at 85 cents per ounce, copper casting at 23.17 dollars, tungsten concentrates at 60 percent with varied crude ore pricing in Boulder.
The War Ren district mines show approaching normal conditions in November. Alfred Paul of Douglas ships three cars of manganese ore from his mine near Paul's spur, twelve miles west of Douglas. J C Hesler and associates will finance drilling of a new well for Chino Valley Oil and Mining at Jerome. Copper production estimates list Globe-Mima at 10 million pounds with Ray 8 million, Humboldt 2 million, Sasco 1 million, and Magma 1 million.
Salida markets ore to the Salida smelter with Rawley mine as a key vendor. Leadville district gains labor from multiple directions boosting mine output for 1917. Genesee Vanderbilt overhaul under Warren G. Prosser, Park Tunnel Mining plans grow Aspen district attention, May Queen Leasing opens largest zinc carbonate body since Wolstone, and tax ruling on ore transportation and treatment costs affects net output for taxation.
The Bell and Diamond mines at Butte owned by Anaconda Copper Co. have resumed 92 percent of normal operations since the strike began. The company plans fireproof shaft linings across its Butte district as lessons from Tramway Modoc and Granite Mountain fires prompt major improvements.
New Mexico reports Beal Mining Company organized with 1 000 000 capital. Grant County Copper Company operates two shifts at Santa Rita with Deadwood mill supplies arriving. So Corroll mill rebuild keeps crews busy at Johnson and Little Fanny mines. A Paul Thomas ore strike in Steeple Rock district yields assays of 160 oz silver 10 dollars gold and 18 percent copper per ton.
Wyoming reports indicate Ohio Oil Company now drilling ten wells in the West Salt Creek field. Bear Creek Oil & Gas Company has reached 1090 feet in Greybull tests. Powder River reports show operations testing the field thoroughly. Greybull Enterprise Oil Company expects to be active in the future.
The article surveys Christmas customs across Europe and Russia, England, Germany, Lapland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and France, noting foods, trees, songs, gifts, and ceremonies. It contrasts merriment and piety, winter rituals, and national tastes, ending with an American view blending old world traditions.
The Dundee Advertiser notes how London faced warning failures as sirens could not cut through the city roar. It recalls Napoleonic scares when roads to London were cut and coastwise signals ordered for City Fencibles. Beacons by night and smoke by day were tested amid many false alarms.
Report notes cowhide horseshoes are said to be produced in Australia and may offer a new approach to traditional horse footwear with potential practical and novelty appeal.
A humorous dialogue depicts a caller teasing a food conservationist who signed a pledge about meals. The exchange reveals the tension between public pledges and private expectations as one character notes dinner plans and the other defends the commitment.
A dialogue hints that a speaker plans no more vengeance as fate may overtake a thief. The tone suggests resigned justice and possible legal action being shelved in favor of deferred fate.
A satirical exchange asks what the philosopher's stone is and suggests it is the stone we refuse to throw at others, implying restraint and ethics in debate.
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