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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
12
A restaurant patron searches a hat tree for a straw toppiece and tries every hat, only to discover his own black derby hidden inside. He had swapped from straw to felt that morning and forgotten the change.
The Pitcairn Island colony near the Society Islands remains a solitary outpost in the Pacific. In 1856 Britain deemed it unfit for habitation and moved the descendants of the Bounty mutineers to Norfolk Island, though a few families returned. About 150 people now live there, with inbreeding and isolation risking genetic and cultural decline.
A Popular Mechanics note describes a phonograph attachment that makes the needle replay the track by a pivoting arm and trigger operated screw. The Journal adds a view on waste wealth from southern pine lumber, noting up to 15 billion board feet cut yearly and wasted by-products usable for pulp, turpentine, rosin, and more.
A singular phenomenon witnessed last March around Bangor and Orono Maine was reported to science by L H B Woodman. The brief note references a four-lach flat owed.
Occasional gusts form snowballs from two inches to two feet in diameter on slopes with a 36 foot track. The text then shifts to notes about Nathaniel Hawthorne and Carlyle, claiming their legible handwriting kept manuscripts unpublished, and a London compositor who feared Carlyle’s manuscripts after fleeing Scotland.
A wife quips she can fix a dull pan by dressing it in the clothes she wears, turning a kitchen quip into a playful domestic joke. Her husband proposes the witty twist with a smile. The exchange showcases light humor in a marital moment.
A Leslie's Weekly writer explains volcanic locations cluster along four global belts. The Pacific Caribbean belt spans the Americas and Pacific rims. Mediterranean Caspian. Atlantic region including Iceland Azores. and the Pacific region with Polynesian and Hawaiian islands.
A suggestion proposes making the apiary an adjunct of the hospital. The belief that beekeeping aids rheumatism has long circulated, and a British beekeeper has recently announced new findings.
The text argues bees may help decide when surgery is unsafe. A nervous patient could swell from a bee sting on the hand, affecting body glands and making an operation risky.
Finland discovers Australia and hopes the commonwealth will soon recognize the new republic commercially. It seeks trade relations, offering cream separators safety matches paper pulp and timber for Australia surplus meat and wheat. The consul is based in Sydney and has gained good publicity. Finland appears to study American production methods.
A new machine shapes masts up to 100 feet long and 3 feet in diameter. Timber rests in the machine and rotates at 50 revolutions per minute while a cutter head, driven at 700 revolutions per minute, profiles the mast. The cutter head is on a carriage moved along the timber to produce the proper shape. Previously the work was done by hand by skilled workers and was slow and laborious.
A Hartford Courant reader enthusiasm notes a proposed invention to render delicate fabrics like laces and chiffons moisture proof. The letter cites problems with ruchings in sport shirts staying fresh after four days of tennis or golf and expresses hope the invention will ease exertion.
The world’s most remarkable bird colony rests on Hat Island Utah a 12 acre island site with a rocky 100 foot perch above brine where no fresh water exists and seemingly nothing attracting the birds except their sense of security amid inland solitude.
A small package of Hamburg Breast Tea is advised for colds. Use 2 tablespoons, add boiling water, strain, and drink a teacup full any time. Claimed to open skin pores and relieve congestion, loosen bowels, and break up a cold. Said to be entirely vegetable and harmless.
An old style advertisement touts St Jacobs Liniment for rheumatic pain. It claims to soothe stiffness and aching joints muscles and bones including sciatica lumbago backache and neuralgia with a 30 cent bottle sold at drug stores.
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