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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
3
Berlin report notes war and weather push Germans toward soft drinks as beer supplies shrink. Barley limits halve production, and many beer halls remain closed. Bavaria faces stricter sale hours while factories and farms receive limited beer. Coffee shortages drive barley use, worsening summer supply.
A 19th to 20th century linguistics note on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes using kick in a protest sense. Cites Chaucerian roots, Bible verses, and examples from Tennyson and periodicals as evidence that kick in Holmes’s decision reflects a long, non slangy usage rather than modern slang.
A fragment cites a question about wartime planning and a government procurement motive. The source shows a brief quote referencing a supply contract and potential actions if war with Germany occurred, reflecting wartime economic focus.
A Philadelphia Ledger note traces the ascent of legal earnings from Jefferson's era to Roscoe Conkling and beyond. It cites Webster earning over 75,000 in a long case, Hamilton and Buchanan figures, and a century ago Bushrod Washington and John Marshall sharing 11,000 for Washington biography, highlighting how big fees were perceived then.
The piece discusses how nature uses mimicry across diverse forms from pineapple scales to pine cones and fern fronds. It notes spiral scars on fallen fern fronds and comparisons between spiny euphorbias and cacti. It references tropical ironwoods branching like horsetails and suggests cause and effect in natural design.
The Sphinx Club of New York Advertising men offers a million-dollar prize for inventing a universal necessity from a list of simple improvements. It argues fortunes come from bettering common needs, citing Henry Ford as an example of starting with little capital and creating a simple, widely needed product.
Natural gas contains gasoline as vapor which condenses in trunk lines and damages rubber rings in patent pipe couplings, risking blowouts and gas loss. One company spent 16,000 dollars in ten years on rubber for lines carrying 100 billion cubic feet of gas through an 18 inch pipe over 35 miles. A method to remove the gasoline adds value beyond gas handling, notes Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering.
Handwriting expert David N Carvalho argues penmanship has declined with the rise of the typewriter, noting schools and employers now prize accuracy over elegance. He recalls a 18th century ideal of “true love for true pains” in skilled writing and contrasts past expectations with today’s focus on stenography and typing.
Bridgeport Lodge of Elks will escort more than 200 members to Derby Summer Festival this evening, a return compliment to Derby Elks for their Circus showing. The party leaves at 7 40 on the train and will be met by the Ansonia band for a short parade through Derby streets, with local singers joining in a promised merry time.
On Saturday June 24 the boys division of the YMCA will conduct an overnight trip for a group of employed boys. It starts a series of summer outings and will be spent at the Shack, a bungalow on Runawer Farm. The location offers shade a stream and a bunked sleeping area built by the boys. They will supply their own food and carry baskets, with each boy contributing to the work.
Less than two weeks remain for payment of special taxes at the Internal Revenue Department. After Friday, June 10, those who have not filed will owe a penalty of 50 percent to the government. A great many returns are still to be filed.
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