Rock Bottom Found Aboard Empress Of Tasmania
On the Empress of Tasmania Julia Devers and her husband Allan confront quarrels and danger at sea. A Russian suitor schemes against Julia’s son Tommy. a boy falls overboard and Allan dives to save him. Julia and Allan survive the shark encounter and vow to anchor their troubled marriage with a child.
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Julia Devers
Julia
Tommy Fenley
Old Top
Allan
Juiia
Tommy
Tyke
England
Russia
Lowever
Q Iife
Trople
Weary Waldron tarred and feathered after theater prank
Detroit Free Press reports Weary Waldron a hard luck college bred hobo is tarred and feathered at the Goldbrick theater after a staged prank by a worried impresario. The show is halted for tonight as the leading lady is sick and the tarred figure flees along the countryside.
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Waldron
Weary Waldron
Goldbrick
Detroit Free Press
Unlucky Friday Jokes at Twain Overcoat Funeral Sightings
A humorous anecdote recalls Mark Twain’s overcoat borrowed without permission and a London tram tale. Passengers joke about Friday funerals as an unlucky day, with a traveler quipping about being buried on a Friday. The crowd laughs at the jest.
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Mark Twain
Clapham Road
London
Rainfall Gauge and Wind Speed Instrument Explained
The rainfall gauge uses a funnel with a big end forty times the tube area so a rainfall of one fortieth of an inch registers one inch in the gauge. Each rain amount is recorded and summed for annual totals. The wind speed device attaches to a pinwheel and operates on a speedometer principle.
Resourceful Barber Promises Hair Growth Tonic
A bald-barber, advising a customer, touts a tonic to prevent baldness while noting his own lack of use. He remarks his wish the product had existed when his own head held hair, framing it as a clever sales pitch with irony.
Dairy Barn Design Aids Large Herd Comfort and Efficiency
William A. Radford explains a 125 by 46 foot plank frame gambrel barn for about fifty cows. Features include sanitary steel stalls water cups pitched drains hay chute central alley drive and silo with a connected feed room. Barn lacks concrete foundation with a plank frame, designed to avoid interior columns and ease hay handling.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Practical Home Leveling and Studding Rules
Practical items for homeowners explain using a hand level and wedges to level structures. It outlines a method to calculate studding from blueprints by scaling inches to feet and applying a multiplier plus intersections, with adjustments for different scales.
Foundations Should Be Watched in Home Building
The piece stresses supervising architects during foundation work to ensure foundations and footings follow drawings precisely. It notes contractors may err in excavations and seek to alter width or depth, underscoring the architect’s role in enforcing exact specifications.
Building foundations and overhang risks for uneven loads
An architect warns that increasing footing depth or area can cause disaster by unbalancing the foundation. A safe rule: wall projection should not exceed half the footing depth. Unequal or poorly placed foundations lead to settlement, cracks, misaligned jambs, and drafts.
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Window Sills Keynote to Color Harmony
Exterior wood such as window sills must be painted to match interior schemes and resist weather. Remove dirt and loose paint, apply three coats with drying intervals, and ensure lasting protection and aesthetic harmony.
Window as Frame for Exterior and Interior Beauty
The passage advocates viewing windows as more than panes revealing the outside. they should also frame an interior scene with a carefully arranged grouping of pieces. A large window or window group can showcase a striking interior display.
Timber Blight Destroys Chestnut Trees Widely
United States Department of Agriculture reports widespread chestnut blight across southern New England, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Korstian notes replacement by oaks, white ash, and hickory, with pine entering New Jersey openings. profitable salvage in Connecticut and challenges in Pennsylvania and New Jersey markets.
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United States Department of Agriculture
G F. Korstian
Appalachian Forest Experiment Station
Asheville
N. G
Korstian
New England
New Jersey
Pennsyvania
Jorstian
Mr. Korstian
Connecticut
Bronx Park
New York
North Carolina
Imany Caies
New ‘Jersey
Pennsylvania
Appalachian
Georgia
Korstlan
Horses Prove Cheaper Feed For Alfalfa Tests At Michigan
At Michigan Agricultural College R S Hudson directed eight teams of horses weighing 1500 to 2000 pounds and aged three to fifteen. Each team split feeds with one horse given corn and alfalfa hay and the other corn oats and timothy. Weighed and tracked biweekly, the alfalfa group lost far less weight and cost only 2 to 5 cents per hour of work compared with 3 to 7 cents for the traditional ration.
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Michigan Agricultural College
R. S.S. Hudson
Green Feed for Fowls in Fall and Winter Use
Green feed during fall and early winter supports egg production and growing chickens. Sow wheat or rye in the season to provide usable green sustenance for poultry and improve yard and surrounding area underutilization.
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