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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
2
A fragment describes a dramatic fall and a doglike creature regaining movement, landing on a limestone ledge, then drinking from a creek and scampering away. The vivid vision emphasizes the creature’s rapid recovery and agile exit from the scene.
The Bankers Trust Company building at Nassau and Wall streets in New York shows a pyramid roof nearing completion. Architects call it an experimental design with no other example, featuring 23 steps each 3 ft 9.5 in high and 1 ft 4 in wide, overall height 94 ft 6 in, base 70 by 69 ft.
Havre authorities test salt as a dust suppressant on twenty yards of roadway due to tarting inefficacy on paved and rough stone streets. If the trial proves satisfactory, salt will be used townwide since many streets cannot be tarred.
An inventor built a wire drum powered by mice to drive a flax spinning machine. Mice reportedly cover up to 16 000 meters daily with some over 29 000 meters in 24 hours. The device produced linen thread totaling four pounds over five days of mouse labor before the inventor died prior to completion.
A naturalist recalls a red squirrel in a tall hickory that leaped from top branches and landed safely thirty feet below. In Mexico, a black squirrel reportedly leaped sixty feet from a pine edge after being forced toward a cliff, choosing flight over captivity.
A mottled gray half Persian cat, shipped from Glastonbury to Kingston nursing home, vanished in Kingston but later returned to its former home 133 miles away exhausted and emaciated. The matron reports the cat is a mere shadow of its former self but may recover with care.
In rural Uruguay whitewash uses sliced common cactus leaves macerated in water for 24 hours. The creamy solution, mixed with lime, is applied to wood brick or iron to yield a durable pearly white finish that endures storms and frosts for years.
Elmer Peterson fifteen lived four miles west of Little Falk Minnesota and shot an eagle from a tree. The wounded bird attacked him with talons clinging to his clothing until his brother arrived and killed the eagle with a club. The eagle measured five feet across the wings.
A veteran gun runner recounts operations across the Atlantic and Americas describing how gun shipments are concealed in salt and corn cargo. He details night patrols by decoys, shipboard loading of rifles and ammo, hidden stocks in the ship skin, and inland handoffs to disrupt authorities.
A Pennsylvanian observer reports a black bear in the mountains striking at a hanging wooden beetle head tied to a rope. The animal paws, snorts, and finally breaks the rope, then carries the tool off and wanders away, seemingly uninjured.
Tik hoff at the Pulkova observatory photographed Mars through four colored screens in a 30 inch equatorial telescope. Red and green filters yielded strikingly different results with continents and seas appearing brighter or darker. The polar cap appears greenish and ice suggests a change from snow to ice at the time of photography.
The article describes a formal bow when greeting passers by in 1780. It instructs raising the right hand to the hat, placing the forefinger near the crown and thumb under the crim, then lifting smoothly while looking at the person. The left arm stays down, and the appropriate leg moves if the passer goes by on the chosen side.
A quirky account describes a tiny rocky isle in Clear Lake California with a perpetual soda fountain and natural wash tabs and washing machines including ready-made soap. It also notes Yellowstone National Park families washing clothes in a stout bag hung over boiling springs for spotless results without rinsing.
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