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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1916
Page
8
A college instructor buys a New England farm and inspects the property. Bert Temple hires a carpenter and a farmer as repairs begin. Mike starts plowing and pruning, while the narrator awaits the professor’s true color and decision on his long awaited move.
The narrator details carpentry in the south rooms, planning a sundial lawn, and a bookcase between the mantels while Hard the carpenter guides the project. Mrs Temple announces a housekeeper and a boy, plus a New York boarder with modest means.
The article notes little demand for raffia wax and states Madagascar has never produced or exported it in sizable amounts. It explains raffia wax is made from dust beaten from raffia palm leaves, boiled to a creamy consistency, then cooled to a brittle form. The wax industry began on the northwest coast near Majunga but remained at a solely experimental stage.
A fragment from a domestic scene shows Mrs. Tempile scolding Mrs. Bert over decor and readiness of a house. The dialogue mixes comic mispronunciations and anxious plans as a boarder mutters a manuscript line while painting lingers and residents fret about progress.
The narrator plans to delay meeting Mrs Wemple while tending a seedbed and hauling slash. A large scraper with four horses speeds soil and furrows, changing the lawn and pergola layout. The speaker adjusts garden plans and stakes to fit new space, signaling ongoing project tension.
A gentleman farmer muses on a sun dial lawn and the esthetic impulse in tilling soil. He also questions Mrs. Temple hosting a female boarder as part of his domestic arrangements.
An English town tale has a sharp villager who berates a door to door peddler. He retorts with humor saying he sells only mouse-traps not muzzles, turning the encounter into a witty street exchange.
The new minister asks if Jones has considered joining the great silent majority and urges his wife to practice silence on earth in a humorous home mission exchange.
Consul James G. Carter at Tamatave notes freight pricing with a figure ranging from 30.268 to 0.307 pounds per unit, reflecting currency or weight rate shifts relevant to port operations.
An official report lists epoch making inventions of the last fifty years, with thirty six credited to people of the United States and fourteen to foreign inventors. The top ten include American Telephone Company, typewriter, cash register, incandescent lamp, talking machine, electric furnace reduction, electrolytic alkali production, transparent photograph film, motion picture machine, and buttonhole sewing machine, plus Forolla electric steel, dynamite, artificial alizarene dye, siphon recorder, gas engine, wireless telegraphy, smokeless powder, Diesel oil motor, centrifugal creamer, and manganese steel.
A New Way. Church I use Milwaukee has installed 25 pool or billiard tables in its public school buildings. Gotham Well that’s one way of teaching the young idea how to shoot.
Astoria New York woman describes years of illness improving after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound avoiding surgery. She credits first bottle with early improvement and two weeks with restored appetite and energy, noting no operation was needed. The letter highlights doctor advice for operation and appeals for others to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
The drainage of 85,000 acres north of Amsterdam was completed after rapid pumping and aerial operations. Dutch engineers removed about 200 million cubic meters of water in two months, a feat unmatched elsewhere. Comparable prior drainage after the 1825 floods took 17 months to finish.
An old advertisement asserts Red Cross Ball Blue as American made and best quality. A mention ties to the “better babies” movement as part of broader social campaigns.
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