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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
7
A physician greets a society leader with cheer and treats a sequence of colds while a patient jokes about wealth and a weekly allowance. The vignette features a doctor’s scribbles and a punch line about comforts, wealth, and familial finances. A teaser references Marta Winslow’s Teething Syrup and a maxim about truth.
A Pennsylvania inventor devised a metal two piece Christmas tree holder that folds into a small closet sized form. The crossed arms lock together at midpoints to form a square central aperture for the tree bottom and a screw secures the trunk. When light the holder sits on the floor. heavier trees may use a secondary support.
A Wide World writer describes the Bethlehem Church of the Nativity grotto as possibly the literal birthplace site with a silver star under the altar and 15 lamps above. Debate continues on its authenticity though Colonel Conder accepts the grotto and rocky manger as plausible.
The term crowbar likely comes from croed bar meaning curved bar. The original form suggests a curved bar used as a lever. Modern crowbars retain the curve to better raise heavy weights.
A pun defines a tube as a hollow cylinder and a foolish Dutchman as a silly Hollander in a brief quip. The joke hinges on a sound alike contrast between a geometric object and a nationality expressed humorously.
Mabel asks what to give mother for Christmas while Martle recommends a pair of padded slippers as a present.
The piece notes toys valued at over 20 million dollars for Christmas this year and praises the childlike origin of the idea. It contrasts imports from Germany and other nations with domestic production and muses on the joy and eventual wreckage of toys, remarking on the lesson of grief a broken toy teaches.
Eleanor Craig argues for affordable timeless books in every household with growing children. Reading broadens a child’s outlook, quickens thinking, and prepares them for emergencies, through classics and everyday stories alike.
A coil spring keeps the wagon tongue vertical when not in use to avoid mishaps in boys play wagons. The spring is just strong enough to hold the tongue and does not hinder pulling. It is attached with a screw eye in the tongue and a jo in the front axle.
In a small town an evangelist held revival meetings at both the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. After school, children’s meetings rotated between the two houses of worship. Two Presbyterian girls discussed the afternoon Methodist service and asked what to pray for, with one suggesting a Presbyterian answer.
Pennsylvania Station recommends feeding grain by milk yield and offering all clean roughage to cows until weight gain or appetite indicates adjustments. Remove uneaten portions, clean mangers, and gradually rebuild to full feed as cows regain appetite.
Prof J H Frandsen of the University of Nebraska proposes a small kitchen pasteurizing setup to heat a quart bottle in water to 150 160 degrees then cool it with a slow cold water flow. A five bottle device aids infant feeding by pasteurizing in the morning and refrigerating for later use.
A tale from Rhodes’s early days shows a German clerk in Transvaal offices calmly rebuffing the famed magnate. Rhodes demanded attention but the clerk replied that in this republic one must do one’s duty, even to a powerful leader. The exchange underscores Rhodes’s fiery reputation and the clerk’s resolve.
A five year old girl suffered a painful facial eruption misread as ringworm. After trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment as directed, the rash improved and finally cleared in three to four months. The advertisement notes Cuticura products were sold worldwide and offers a free sample with a 32 page Skin Book.
A Connecticut experiment station bulletin extols the silo as a necessary yet luxurious device enabling better, more independent living. It notes silage preserves more nutrients than other methods and provides succulent winter feed to boost digestion and appetite.
The term Pediim derives from Hethlehem a religious house in London turned lunatic asylum in Toda. It is regarded by many as Europe’s oldest lunatic asylum, though a Spanish asylum is claimed to be older.
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