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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
2
A misplayed rundown in the American League involving runners on second and third led to multiple scores. Billy Evans explains that the catcher tagged the wrong man, leaving the runner on third entitled to the bag, with no outs recorded. All three runners scored on subsequent wild throws.
Newsreel recounts Les Darcy’s knockout of George Chip in Sydney on September 30. Darcy’s victory came in the ninth round as Chip lay stunned and his seconds struggled to revive him. Dime and others assisted as Chip recovered with bewildered remarks about where he was.
In a past Giants era Chief Meyers asked Christy Mathewson for investment advice on Rock Island stock. Matty urged him to buy, Meyers invested 1500 dollars, but the stock failed. Later, Meyers faced taunts from McGraw during a Polo Grounds game as he batted, reacting with a dramatic air carving.
A lively mosaic of sports taunts and anecdotes from baseball boxing and golf. Notes on managers players and trainers pepper the column with pithy lines about skill luck contracts and tours.
An old dairy building note outlines practical design basics. It advises keeping the dairy house near but not directly attached to the barn to avoid odors, ensuring open air space, proper drainage, and separate milk wash and boiler rooms with well lighted ventilated interiors.
The guide notes wooden floors are unsatisfactory for durability and cleanliness and require slopes to drains with traps. It emphasizes ample clean cold water, alternative supply from elevated tanks or compressed air if municipal supply is unavailable, and equipment such as an upright boiler for steam and hot water, a washroom sink with drainboard, draining racks, a milk testing outfit, and a closet for utensils.
The article outlines dairy house designs for selling whole milk in bulk, making butter or cream, and bottling milk for farms with up to twenty five cows. It covers milkrooms with cooling tanks, separators, engines, and ventilation, plus bottling areas with sterilizers, refrigerators, insulation, and air circulation.
A New York Times report details a planned diagnostic hospital to act as a modern equivalent of the old family physician. It would assess unexplained illnesses, refer to specialists if affordable, or return patients to general practitioners with a full diagnosis and treatment plan.
The article explains pattens as elevated footwear used to keep feet dry in mud and water. It notes their varied social use from rich to poor, their architectural base meaning, and cites literary references by Dick ens, Ben Jonson, and the Farmer's Wife ballad to illustrate the phrase and its imagery.
A reflection contrasts smartness and intelligence, noting smartness is shown by a person, while intelligence is an observable trait evident to all. The piece emphasizes wise behavior over mere cleverness.
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