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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1930
Page
4
Local events unfold with visits from Mrs. Baskin and Mrs. Childress in Cameron. Community notices include church quartette performances and a nurse employment decision for Milam County schools. Several residents plan moves, travels and social events through the week.
Mrs John A Smith and son John A visit Caldwell relatives with Sherman guests. Ramsey's Austin Nursery promotes seed catalogues and tree planting advice. Austin Texas. J H Dubois made a business trip to Houston. Fannye Lou Davis travels to Fort Worth due to her mother’s illness. Several visits to Cameron, Temple and Bryan noted. Local car care pitches advertise Pennzoil and grease services.
Mrs Royal P Jeter hosted the As You Like It Club meeting with a George Washington contest as diversion. Fancy work and conversation filled the afternoon as guests included Mesdames W O Newton Jewel Barmore and others, with a salad plate and iced punch served and patriotic stickups as favors.
Miss Enid Reaks acted as hostess Monday evening at Mrs. W. T. Mowdy’s home for the Entre Nous Bridge Club. United States flag score pads and patriotic tallies marked George Washington’s birthday theme. High scorer Miss Ima Wilson received a novelty vow. Miss Goldye Burke won a cut glass basket, and Miss Katherine Lovick with Miss Hida Burke cut for vases as table favors. Nonmembers included Misses Ivy Armstrong and Guail Arnett, with Arnett helping entertain and serve.
The article describes enduring New England Colonial foundations of granite slabs three feet thick at East Winthrop Maine. It notes three yokes of oxen once hauled stones, and stone chimneys with 20 foot bases and tunnels through them. Foundations and chimneys withstood floods earthquakes and time.
A Stockholm dispatch notes the moose as a dangerous rival to horses. Historical tales recount a harnessed moose winning a race but denied first prize, royal decrees prohibiting moose use, and a Swedish farmer’s moose delivering mail after breaking it in. A proposed moose cavalry was never tried.
The article traces U S paper usage from scarce wartime stock to modern per capita and national totals. It notes low supplies during the revolutionary wars, rising to one pound per person by 1810, then rapid growth to 24 pounds by 1869, 57 pounds in 1900s, 150 pounds by 1928, and current totals exceeding the nation's weight in paper annually.
The earliest known bell ringing tower clock was built by Peter Lightfoot, a Glastonbury monk, around 132. Such clocks had automatic figures that struck bells on the hours. These figures delighted the public and inspired many European town clocks to ring hourly before clock dials existed.
The Bureau of Standards describes three kinds of non shatterable glass. One is unusually thick, another is laminated with two or more glass towers bound by an organic binder, and the third shows regular reliefs when viewed under polarized light.
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