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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
5
Betty confesses tardiness worries to Katherine Arnold and learns Jack plans to set her ready early to avoid delays. The pair discuss reform goals as Betty resists becoming overly controlled, while Katherine subtly nudges toward disciplined punctuality.
Nature’s Horde of Solid Silver reports new high value ore at Temiskaming mine in the Cobalt district Ontario. A six hundred pound slab yields about ten thousand ounces of silver per ton, roughly one third silver, with no gold present in the ore.
With two thirds of Saxon postal workers mobilized, civil service rules were suspended to hire women as mail carriers. Leipzig and Dresden already employ one hundred female postmen, many widows or daughters of fallen staff. Three women drive large auto mail trucks.
The article describes raising a sunken gunboat in Progreso harbor Yucatan and the extreme dangers faced by sailors. They battled voracious fishes that attacked relentlessly and proved more ferocious than sharks, threatening crew during the salvage operation.
The Philippine bureau of agriculture has started a comprehensive study of the banana covering botany and commerce and has gathered banana plants from worldwide sources for analysis.
An English sailor aboard the Sydney recounts harsh life on the Atlantic blockade, cold and loneliness off Barnegat, the risk of coal shortages, and a fatal accident as a crewman fell overboard during a prior encounter with a German raider. He notes sickness, homesickness, and frustration with ongoing duty.
London Chronicle writer cites Groombridge Sussex fountain noted for lack of water. A French village fountain is often an art asset with free drafts. The correspondent contrasts French public water culture with English scarcity and rural nuisance of begging at cottage doors.
The article notes Irish women face employment scarcity with only one woman working against 12 men. It highlights Mrs Harold Almert of Chicago as national trapshooting champion and mother of two. It reports London women show reduced drinking after a no-treating law and a 25 percent rise in women’s bank employment since the war began. It profiles Laura Taylor who owns an 80 acre Cleveland County Oklahoma hogs and beeves farm, directing operations though not laboring on site.
Territorial soldiers in the Aisne field where the English were defeated in 1914 found two grassy mounds with crosses reading Tin and Rubbish. They laid flowers and inscribed Dead on the Field of Honor. An officer later uncovered empty cans in one mound and worn-out clothing in the other.
The Koelnische Zeitung says Dietrich Henniger, a wealthy Osnabrueck businessman and sergeant in a Westphalian reserve regiment, left his entire $300,000 fortune to his hometown’s poor. He was killed in France in September after depositing his will with a notary before going to the front.
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