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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
7
North and East railroads report a car surplus to move crops this fall after extraordinary precautions. Cars loaned to southern lines are redistributed from summer storage as harvest advances, with high grain prices spurring earlier selling.
A compilation of diverse facts cites eight hour laws in Uruguay, population figures for Mexico, banking in Australia, a seventeen hour Chinese banquet, and New York rules on wooden molding. Items note patents in England, retirement ages for Baltimore teachers, Paul Revere bell relocation in Lexington, and a prohibition era style Asiatic town in Russia. Further entries cover Klondike gold, Berlin widows demographics, tiny glass tubes, giant trees, novel burglary lights, Irish meat trade, New Zealand cattle exports, mine rescue gear, and early electrical power units.
Mrs Charles A Becker the wife of former NYPD lieutenant Becker now in Sing Sing awaits execution for Herman Rosenthal murder. She visits his cell as often as possible and believes he will be freed, shown smiling on the way to Sing Sing with her brother in law John Becker.
A child remembers the long week apart from Curly-wig and Dimple-cheek and the empty quiet of the house. The note ends with a curious science hint about balancing a glass with knives and water to make it dance like a marionette.
A circle game where players swap questions about why they wish to become a chosen thing. Correct answers praise or complement as required, with forfeit if a misstep occurs. Commentary on how rivers feed the sea and why oceans stay salty.
An archaic European tale explains cotton fibers as resembling sheep’s wool from a mythical vegetable lamb. Travelers in Tartary spoke of a shrub bearing a boll with a lamblike fruit containing flesh and blood, whose wool could be used to cloth after the lamb was eaten.
The article notes Tintoretto’s Paradise as the largest painting excluding frescoes, measuring eighty four by thirty four feet, seen in the grand salem of the doge's palace in Venice. It compares its size to Michelangelo’s frescos in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, which span 153 feet in length and forty three feet in width.
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