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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1927
Page
6
American industries use many odd machines to test products and performance including devices for adhesive tape strength, golf ball deformation under drive stress, casket bendle strength, and measuring tractive effort of elephants.
Private Gas Well FP. C. Hamilton, who moves east of Independence, Mo., has earned a name as a resourceful fellow. He dug a gas well about 50 feet from his house. The well has a pressure of 475 pounds, is cased, and the gas is piped to Hamilton's house for heating, cooking and lighting.
A Wonder remarks on the husband’s qualities saying he is a model mate who meets his wife’s relatives’ expectations, reflecting a lighthearted press observation. The exchange underscores social humor about marriage and propriety in the era.
An old advertisement warns buyers to look for the Bayer cross on aspirin packaging or tablets to ensure genuine Bayer Aspirin proven safe by millions and prescribed for 26 years. It cautions that unitations may prove dangerous and urges customers to say Bayer when purchasing.
A London backroom exchange features a crude pun about a “Pussing Show” as a landlady questions charges for ladies while a man jokes about going out to see The Barber of Seville.
The term anthracite derives from the Greek anthrax meaning coal. It means hard coal, and saying anthracite coal is tautological. For bituminous coal, avoid repeating coal after the adjective and use hard or soft coal instead.
A large electric star perched on the National Cathedral in Washington burned from Christmas through New Year. The star stood 547 feet above the city, reaching near the Washington Monument height when measured from the cathedral’s apse and Mount St. Alban site.
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