12 Jan 1939
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1939
Page
1
Instructional note on making quilted pads for dresser drawers using machine quilting for stiffness and flat lay. Describes fabrics glazed chintz, muslin backing, sheet wadding, diagonal basting, spacing guides, and binding edges. Mentions Spears books on sewing home decor and ordering details.
Debunking the label Public Enemy No 1. warns that criminals are not daring heroes. Highlights prison’s worst by enforced circles of narrow minds and urges mindful influence on others as crucial to success.
Joseph W. La Bine surveys a Europe-wide shift in power as Italy and Italy's Mussolini press claims on North Africa and Sardinia, while Britain faces options after a Rome accord. The piece weighs Franco-British tensions, the Italo French dispute, and potential mediation by the Hague or a big four assembly. It also reports Post Office and transportation notes, plus religious and Pan American topics, tying a global outlook to looming policy shifts and warnings from Washington.
Lively profile notes Dr John D. Long and colleagues aiding Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, and Chile in combating bubonic plague, malaria, and fevers. They earn respect, dispel prejudice, and strengthen U S relations. Also covered is New York aquarium’s African fish with large brains and plans by Dr Breder to study their intelligence, plus his tenure and daring Panama expedition.
A Hindu temple on Florida Southern College Lakeland overlooks Lake Hollingsworth. It memorializes Tate Frederick B. Fisher a Methodist bishop who imported the piece from Benares India for campus erection. The 24 foot high temple weighs about 10 tons, carved from red sandstone painted white and topped by a cross. A reflecting pool and meditation garden overlook the temple.
The National Bureau of Standards is the custodian of the weighing and measuring standards adopted by the treasury department for use in customs. These standards were authorized by joint resolution of Congress in 1836 and copies were sent to the governors of the states.
Puritans regarded mince pies as the devil’s temptation due to their irresistible taste. The claim linked culinary delight with moral danger in early religious critique of festive foods.
Historic note shows that a state sanctioned practice labeled as a sport permitted hunting and killing of Romani people on the European continent in earlier legal frameworks. This reflects a grim chapter where legal systems endorsed ethnic violence as recreation.
The article explains that termites resemble white ants and are related to crickets and cockroaches, describing their classification and shared traits within the insect family.
In France and southern Europe, the midwife toad deposits eggs on the ground rather than water. The eggs, up to fifty in a string, are laid with the male monitoring the process and later arranging them around his hind legs and loins. The bright yellow eggs start round and quickly become oval.
In Bermuda near Fort Catherine on St Georges Island a well said to be 800 years old is popular for its lore that any bachelor who drinks two thimbles of its water will marry within nine years.
Hard coal ashes carry 0.1-0.15 percent phosphoric acid and little potash, giving negligible fertilizing value. Wood ashes contain about 2 percent phosphoric and 4-6 percent potash with minor fertilizing value. Mixing either into clay is done for their sweetening effect.
A line from the article claims the atomic energy in a single drop of water, if released, could produce 200 horsepower for a year, illustrating the vast energy potential discussed in early nuclear science reporting.
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