Overcharged. Son Questions Cannon Recoil With Father
A short dialogue portrays a boy asking why a cannon kicks and a father replying that the charges were too strong. The exchange captures a simple physics lesson framed as family talk.
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
7
Pleasant sayings and household tips headline
Ad clipped items promote Dr. Pierce pellets as a laxative and cathartic aid. Laundry workers favor Red Cross Bat Blue for white fabrics. A wartime welfare note suggests battlefield casualties are only part of war’s victims, and a jab about authorship experience closes the snippet.
Hungry Rooster wins corn eating contest in Sweet Springs
In Sweet Springs a corn eating contest crowned Big Ben as winner after he devoured 284 grains in five minutes. A man who guessed 277 grains won the rooster prize. If Ben’s appetite lasts, he will be an expensive fowl to keep through the winter.
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Sweet Springs
Big Ben
Ben
Kansas City Times
Doctor Proved Value of Postum and Grape-Nuts
A physician praises Postum and Grape-Nuts as daily health aids, noting coffee avoidance benefits and proper preparation. The letter recounts long-standing endorsement and repeated use in multiple families, highlighting healthful qualities and home use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creek
Mich
United States Breaks Relations If Germany Keeps Unrestricted Submarine War
The United States demands an immediate end to German submarine attacks on neutrals and warns that diplomatic relations will be severed if such methods continue. The note, delivered to Ambassador Gerard for the German foreign office, cites the Sussex sinking and asserts Germany’s continuous violations of international law and neutral rights.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
Gerard
Foreign Office
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Sussex
Englsh
United States
Folkstone
Dieppe
English Channel
Wen the
Lfe
Great Britain and Ireland
High Seas
German Empire
Stevenson Letters Sell At Auction From Santa Barbara Collection
The Pittsburgh Dispatch reports Mrs. Salisbury Field of Santa Barbara sold Robert Louis Stevenson autograph letters. The top bid was 250 dollars for an 1881 unpublished letter to his mother. Other letters mentioned writing Treasure Island and his early pay, with bids of 226 and 167.50 dollars respectively.
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Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Salisbury Field
Santa Barbara
Gal
Wield
Treasure Island
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Smoke From Mount Hood Not Smoke Says Weather Bureau
F D Young of the U S Weather Bureau says the so called smoke from Mount Hood is not smoke. It is sometimes snow blown from crater cliffs by wind or clouds drifting into the crater and turning into a vertical vapor column from rising air currents.
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Mount Hood
Yplcano
Oregon
F. D. Young
United States Weather Bureau
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