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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
3
The item notes the LurBONT merging Buffalo Center TaiBoNE and Globe, with a 1.50 yearly rate and a cross-issue offer with Weekly Inter Ocean. A hair styling tip follows detailing a damp braid method to achieve lasting waves and a later veil touch for a salon-like finish.
Advice on building a stone stable beneath a barn 30 by 60 feet with nine foot walls. Recommends concrete footing with small stones in trench bottom, drainage with la tile, and frost protection. Describes constructing a concrete root house under a driveway using arches, arch centers, rods for restraint, ventilation manhole, light windows, coping walls, and earth covering. Ends with mix ratios for arch and walls.
Africa’s sunny fountains and varied scenery receive praise at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in South Africa. The piece also notes luxury Pullman trains from Cape Town to the Victoria Falls and includes a humorous excerpt about perpetual motion patents, detailing Carl August Sahlenberg’s claimed wave motor and its dubious mechanics.
Inventor Sahlberg touts a Wave Motor as a nearly free source of perpetual motion capable of converting ocean motion into electricity and usable power for ships and light. The Chicago News highlights its potential significance for mankind, noting vast horse power energy buried in ocean waves and possible maritime applications.
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