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Newspaper

Dispatch Democrat

Location

Ukiah, California, United States of America

Date

Nov 26, 1926

Page

3

Superior Court Notes Compiled Final Divorces And Trusts

A docket of Superior Court items includes final decrees of divorce for N. W. Terwilliger and Polly V. Williams, interdictories for Veda Limmer and Walter Brown, estates of August Raucio John Olson John Granholm and others, probate actions, guardianships, tax and creditor notices, and various court rulings including demurrers, amendments, and continuances. The record cites multiple petitions, asset distributions, and estate management steps.

N. W. Terwilliger Nellie E. Terwilliger Veda Limmer Charles Limmer Veda Hurt Walter Brown Helaine Brown August Raucio C. M. Mannon Pioneer Fruit Co Claude Rh. Basford Clinton Peterson Mina Peterson Wyrick Koory Joseph C. Halliday Mary A. Peterson Henry R. Cleveland Lucinda Cleveland Almar N. Reed John W. Main Farquahar McKay Polly V. Williams Jaspar A. Williams J. B. Nevin Mamie Silva Frank Silva Ellen O. Ness Charles Ness Joan Dahl S. O. Coolidge Helen Bailey Max W. Koeng William A. Elliott G. H. Homer Louis Grimmer Covelo Rodeo Association Lee Roney Mendoccino County Will Claude R. Basford John Granholm Anna Granholm Russell Crockett Robert Dunham Charles Merk Spy Rock Guy Simmerly J. Q. White

Dr A J L Gibson Spends Time With Family in Berkeley

Dr A J L Gibson enjoyed time with his wife and son in Berkeley, a brief family outing noted in local reports. The visit highlighted a calm day as the trio explored local avenues and returned home.

A. J L. Gibson Thamselving Berkelay

Ratas and Cox-Tiarston Hardware Company Mentioned

A fragmented line credits Ratas as very reasonable alongside Cox-Tiarston Hardware Company in a brief, non-specific note mentioning polishers and raceleaners with a casual nod to electric tools.

Ratas Cox-Tiarston Hardware Company Otte

Rare Osmiridium Seek Draws Tasmanian Miners

A report notes Tasmania now leads osmiridium production, with two thirds of world output. The ore, white and very heavy, forms from serpentine near outcrops. a new Adams River field 30 miles from a railroad may hold richer deposits. Conditions are brutal, but camps thrive as hundreds seek fortune despite low wages and primitive methods.

Tasmania Australia Adams River California United States Sydney London New York

Transpacific Bees Probe Eight-Hour Day Idea

Bees may strike over a proposed eight-hour day as a British Columbia beekeeper experiments with a shuttle system. The plan moves bees from BC summers to Australia winters to produce two honey crops yearly. Duration of the scheme remains unknown.

British Columbia Equator Australia Pacific

Make hay while the sun shines lesson at Indianapolis mission

A businessman-teacher in an Indianapolis mission Sunday school lectures a class of boys on seizing opportunities. He asks a student named George what the proverb means, eliciting a defiant reply: I don’t know and I don’t care. The moment highlights practical morals in a rough-edged classroom.

Indianapolis George

Sea Growing Safer For Ships With Wireless Law

From 1922 to 1924 Lloyds postings show the missing ships average 20, then 10 last year. The drop is blamed on a law requiring 1600 ton ships to carry wireless. Of last year’s ten missing, all but one had no wireless. One 1550 ton vessel lost en route to Amsterdam would likely have survived with wireless. The lone wireless ship that vanished sent an S O S as rescuers approached the spot.

Lloyd’s Amsterdam

Best Irrigation Methods For Wheat Growth In Dry Lands

Prof. Alvin Kezer of Colorado State Experiment Station reported to the American Association of cereal chemists that irrigation timing affects yield and nutritional value. Early watering lowered final production, while irrigation during later growth stages raised food value similarly.

Alvin Kezer Colorado State Experiment Station American Association of Careal Chemists

Phrases Link Mankind to the Lower Animals

A study traces English phrases to animal traits and classifications. It notes piggish and pig-headed origins from pigs, asinine from donkeys, bullish from bulls, lion’s share from lions, foxy from foxes, tigerishly from tigers, and rat, gopher, dog, wolf, bear, ape, monkey, horse terms shaping common expressions. It cites horse sense among others from man’s best friend.

Indianapolis News

Indian Gift A Deed Signed by Tribal Chiefs

A deed signed by Indian chiefs seven years before the Revolutionary War, with bird and animal glyphs as signatures, gained practical value as evidence in a Hamilton county forest land title dispute. After two decades in court, the state won the case, an odd contrast to modern times of airplanes and radios.

Hamilton County New York Evening Post

Respirators Fall Short as Final Guard Against Smoke

The U S Bureau of Mines sets fifty percent efficiency as the standard for gas masks to guard workers from tobacco smoke. Katz Smith and Melter tested many dust respirators and fabrics from cheesecloth to canton flannel, using tobacco smoke as a severe test. The results urge encouragement of respirator use but say they cannot be a final safety safeguard.

United States Bureau of Mines S. H. Katz G. W. Smith E. G. Melter

Australian Exploration Caravan Heads into Thirsty Interior

Dr. Herbert Besedow leads a 25 camel expedition into northern Australia. The geologist anthropologist plans to inspect the Victoria River head for mineral wealth while recording Aboriginal life with motion pictures and a talking machine. Wireless links will keep him in touch as the voyage pursues two missions for potential rewards.

Australia Herbert Besedow Victoria

Made His Opportunities America Is Not the Only Land of Opportunity

Dr Joseph Wright of London rose from donkey boy in a Yorkshire quarry to professor of comparative philology at Oxford, a position he has just resigned. He began work at six, taught himself reading and writing, then learned Greek Sanskrit French Latin German and many older languages, becoming an Oxford professor at forty six.

America Joseph Wright London Yorkshire University of Oxford Oxford

Marriage at deathbed in Meringen Switzerland

Hans Fluckiger was fatally injured in mountain climbing when he asked for his sweetheart. A priest performed a vigil marriage as he lay dying and he died moments after kissing his bride. His hand was guided to sign the register before his death.

Meringen Switzerland Hans Fluckiger

Hoodoo and superstition spread across nations

A French newspaper owner fears a 13 guest table, provoking lingering superstitions. The piece cites Henry James on thirteen hoodoo and notes hotels omitting room numbers, while a Los Angeles writer’s tale of luck and poverty ends in a rejection. A Boer War tale explains the match superstition shared by Europe. Have you a little superstition in your home.

Henry James Frank Hanson Los Angeles Times Los Angeles California Africa England Europe

Malaria Therapy for General Paralysis Discussed in Hull

Malaria inoculation as a treatment for general paralysis is proposed in Hull England. Mosquitoes carrying malaria would be imported from a tropical medicine school and used to bite and infection patients at the mental hospital. The method, discovered by Dr Jeuregg in Vienna, has been praised by Dr Lord, board of control commissioner, as a promising though controversial therapy.

Hull England Tropical Medicine Jeuregg Vienna Lord Board of Control

Failure on Success Note by Oscar S Straus

The late Oscar 8S Straus praised generosity and condemned slander in a calm rebuke to a parlor communist who claimed swindlers owned fortunes. He asserted rail sat success is fathers one privilege, emphasizing integrity over wealth.

Oscar Straus Mr. Straus Fathure

Philippine Constabulary Report Highlights Enlisted Filipino Force

Brig. Gen. Rafael Crame reports the Philippine constabulary with 6 officers and 25 enlisted men per unit and 9,896 officers in total. Mindanao and Sulu area holds 2,410 constabulary personnel amid Moros activity. The enlisted ranks are entirely Filipino, with American officers from colonel to lieutenant.

Philippine Constabulary Islands Rafael Crame Mindanao Sulu Leutenant

Restore Napoleon's Villa San Martino in Hlba

Italian government to restore and repair Napoleon's villa at San Martino, Hlba, after Fas cist deputy Ezio Gray led an initiative. Deputy Gray, who attended a Fascist congress there, condemned the abandonment and disrepair surrounding Napoleon's exile residence.

Villa San Martino Hlba Napoleon Ezio Gray Gray

Hearing on Peoples California Hydro Electric rate investigation

The hearing in the matter of the investigation into the reasonableness of rates rules regulations and practices of Peoples California Hydro Electric Corporation and Fort Bragg Electric Company on the Commission docket examines whether charges and policies comply with regulatory standards and protect consumers.

Peoples California Hydro- Electric Corporation Fort Bragg Electric Company Commis

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