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Newspaper
Dispatch Democrat
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1915
Page
2
A passage describes the Botocude hunter of Brazil, detailing his forest skills and weapon prowess, then shifts to Farm and Fireside guidance on training animals. It emphasizes patience, honesty, and feeding as paths to trust, affection, and obedience.
The Jordan river’s historic role in Israel’s entry to the Promised Land and baptism’s origins are noted, along with a discovery in 1874 that its mouth lies 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean. The Karroo Bush of South Africa is described as drought resistant with deep roots and sap threads in dried stalks.
In the article fragment the text notes the rain gauge’s invention is often credited to Galileo’s era, yet such devices were used in Korea five centuries earlier. The excerpt also includes aphorisms about worry and courage, with brief quotes from Exchange, Jones, and Ovid.
Quote compares the human brain and nervous system to a perfect pump and waste system, arguing modern industry cannot surpass nature. John I. Van Deventer in Engineering Magazine notes the paradox of designing a pump with impossible long life and autonomous power, implying no machine can match living systems.
A Life magazine piece argues the bath should suit adventurous boys rather than doctors or large families. It suggests boys dislike baths on marble slabs but enjoy swimming, even in frigid April water, and envisions homes with swimming pools controlled by youth.
Humble Mrs Mellen asks her servant to check if the new cook ate the tinned salmon without confronting her. The servant reveals the cook has eaten it, noting the awkwardness of informing her. In a second item a new officer mistakes a recruit lifting the wrong leg, causing a soldier to lift both legs and prompting shock from the officer.
A compact fragment features a neighbor's sympathy as a man laments sleeplessness while his baby sleeps soundly. The exchange turns on suffering and perception, with a wry aside about personal burden rather than infant distress.
A compact exchange contrasts evolving views on women as fighters and fashion, citing the Washington Star remark on a wife labeled a prizefighter and the Philadelphia Ledger note about copying a gown from a dressmaker.
Ukiah High notes detail a return to classes with Mr Scheer teaching public speaking. Former students Les Allenby Kelly Meyer and Laurie Layman, now at Nevada, are cited for football track and weightlifting prowess. Local staff changes, renovations, a death, recall politics around Hal McCowen, and Christmas week cargo are summarized with multiple named locals and places.
Gualala notes a sunny Christmas week ending with gathering clouds and impending rain. Local social life features visits among Bowles, Briones, Queen, and Luchinetti families, travel to and from Berkeley, a planned marriage in San Francisco, and reports on local illnesses and a return to fishing on the Gualala river.
Redwood Valley reports H E Stinehoff leaving for Berkeley for two months with his wife there. Hetrick and W J Smith will tend his place during absence. Alfred Ellis Jr returns from Berkeley for vacation. J M Eaton and family spent Christmas in Lake County. J M Woolley plowing for A Copes. Geo Magneson and Miss Laura Ekdahl circulating recall petition through the valley.
Mr and Mrs Lee Riggs will entertain friends at a watch party on New Year’s Eve. The event is described as a small social gathering to ring in the new year with close acquaintances.
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