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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1906
Page
7
Fragmented report describes plans for large dock completions on Lake Superior and discussions of tonnage and capacity. Police officer in Chippewa fights a deer, eventually using a revolver after being attacked and exhausted.
Judge Fowler ruled notes of Schultz and others who spoke against the boycott must be erased. Defendants barred from interfering with busts of the platform’s Saloon Property Changes Hanes. Porth’s firm to sell Christave Rotaki interests with 20 saloons in Marinette to local residents. Ashland eyes municipal light plant. Kenosha Cemetery Association offers to take over city burial grounds.
A lengthy, fragmented report discusses opposition to blind pensions, mentions officials and committees, and notes various local incidents. It also covers a range of unrelated items including accidents, college events, and municipal notices, with names such as Milwaniker and Trempealeau appearing amid other scattered facts.
A detailed post Civil War style guide explains digging a deep main cistern with an arch neck for a two foot tile, plus a side filtering cistern holding about 15 barrels. It prescribes a perforated five to six gallon bucket at the bottom, a cemented three inch sewer tile, and materials like brick, charcoal, slate, and clean washed sand to slow filtration.
A ditch cleaner used with a road scraper lifts earth from side ditches to allow the scraper to reach deeper. The device resembles a sow plough with a vertical left side and a longer beveled right side faced with steel. The adjustable implement shifts earth laterally, operating about ten inches to the right of the point.
A compact guide on ice harvesting and packing from Farm and Home notes. It recommends sharp tee tools, an old crosscut saw as a tee saw, satdust bedding, crepe sack aprons, dry replacements, and thick solid ice blocks. It advises two strong men loading with short tongs, mittens from woolen trousers, and proper packing, with butter packaging hygiene and asparagus bed covering to ensure quality.
Farmers are urged to maintain roads by keeping water off surfaces, clearing ditches, and using a log drag method. D W King of Indiana promotes a cheap, effective system: drag with a split log, center-dumping dirt, and repeat after rains. Each farmer should use a drag from house to house to spread effort.
The article notes oiling macadam roads reduces dust, with creosote oil resin mix and creosote tar coating offering the cleanest look and least odor. Texas crude petroleum reportedly yields lasting effects, drying surface faster and reducing scattered stones. In Liverpool, oiling wood pavements also kept dust down, a result not achieved by watering.
Prairie Farmer reader sketches a stile over a four and half foot wire fence with seven foot steps and a hand rail. Advice covers ice pond maintenance including draining excess water, removing dirt, and refilling with clear water to prevent melting and trash buildup. Also notes dairy needs larger herds and practical farming methods. Mention of an ice plan priced at 15 to 20 dollars and butter cleanliness.
Dispatches from Washington Minneapolis and St Paul report a severe winter crisis as heavy snowfall blocks coal and staple transport. The Interstate Commerce Commission urges Western railways to accelerate movem ent to relieve households and farmers facing freezing conditions and material hardship. Parliament in Paris notes laymen may declare worship under certain conditions without disobeying papal orders, while church authorities maintain strict state separation.
Washington The house faced a proposal to increase salaries for Congress members Senators the vice president the speaker and cabinet members while the appropriation bill was debated. The chamber favored raises for other officials but rejected ordering pay increases for Congress.
A mixed clipping notes a self treated skin tumor cured by Cuticura products, with a testimonial from J. Myer of Newark, NY. It also reports Orford University England ending publication of student merit order names and senior wrangler references, plus short tips on cleaning oil paintings and a brief note on spring poetry and child soothing products.
A group including engineers and financiers from Boston and other cities proposes installing a new device at South Thoronton, Maine, to demonstrate the value of tidal power. The project centers on Weber and aims to prove the practicality of using tides for energy.
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