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Newspaper
Hamilton Evening Journal
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1912
Page
10
Reported figures from the lunacy commissioners on January 1 show an increase in the number of certified lunatics under care to 188,661, up 2,301 from the previous year. The distribution data indicate 46.5 percent male and 53.6 percent female, with hereditary factors and alcoholic influence noted as key contributors.
Mrs. Leroy Parton of a homestead nine miles east of Jota California devised a trap to deter tramps. She lured a man into a cellar hole near the house promising a meal if he would fetch milk. The door was barred and she sat on it, after which she freed a rattler to frighten him away.
Wears iron upper teeth made by a metal company in Fort Worth. The set weighs 4% ounces. He asserts they are as satisfactory as ordinary dentures and demonstrate their solidity by striking a steel plate. The plate and teeth are in one piece.
Mrs A D Whiship of the University of Wisconsin is described as possibly America’s oldest college girl. She began study at the University of Ohio at seventy eight and now at eighty plans to receive her diploma from Wisconsin in two years. Her zest for life remains strong.
Catherine Dillon of 13 Bleecker Street New York reports a touching scene as Turtle Dove the family pet aged about 156 years in this humorous account of animal companionship. The tale describes the turtle’s health and the cats friendship, with the turtle cuddled under the cat’s paws as they sleep together.
A garbled pastiche mixes fitness talk and a strange onion crop note. It mentions Physical Culture on a beach, a tired voice, and a neighbor with a phony tip. It reports an onion crop yield of about 1,100,000 bushels valued at over half a billion Arafillan dollars, with unclear context and attributions.
Seventy years ago a French reform group led by Etienne Normand formed a commune near Gua Antonio Texas naming La Reunion. Normand, aligned with Barthelemy Enfaytin and Jean Reybaud, faced clashes over governance and morals. He sought new colonies after Louis Napoleon’s rise, was expelled from France, and later imprisoned in 1867 near El Paso before dying in San Antonio.
A courtroom dispute centers on a doctor witness who defends the defendant against bullying by the prosecutor. The witness describes phalacrosis as a chronic inflammatory cranial disease, noting variability in mental impact. The jury acquits, amid humor over the disease’s misdefinition as baldness.
A fragment list of kitchen tips and recipes covers jelly strain methods and using pulp for marachlade. It suggests a chilled hamiana with Soubise style sauce, a macaroni dish with onion, carrot, celery, peppercorns, cloves, and butter thickened with cream. Also includes Heidelberg cabbage with bacon, vinegar, onion, pepper and simmer, plus pear salad with cream dressing and garnishes. Desserts include apple and pineapple preserve and pear salad garnishes. cakes with rice flour and egg whites, folded batter, and baking on a griddle.
A quirky exchange at the Railroad Restaurant features a waitress and a diner jokingly testing tasks like dusting off the net, lifting sugar, and blowing through a macaroni dish as they chat in a playful back and forth.
The article surveys thunderstorm frequencies across the tropics, noting near equatorial regions see high activity while some areas like Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Gold Coast show lower counts. It highlights Mauritius with a single thunderstorm in many years, Madagascar’s deadly lightning, and Madagascar’s unusually high fatalities.
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