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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
4
Public notice from the Holbrook News in Holbrook Arizona dated Friday June 27 1919 outlining subscription rates and advertising handling until canceled. The notice directs readers and advertisers to send communications to the Holbrook Arizona office for attention.
B T Spencer of Washington DC locates and appropriates three hundred miner's inches of Little Colorado River water in Navajo County Arizona for domestic stock milling irrigation and other uses. He plans a Colorado Chevelon dam and reservoir on section 20 township 16 north range 22 east. Notice dated June 13 1919 posted at diversion site and filed with Navajo County recorder. Spencer appeared before a Navajo County notary.
A notary public certifies that the signer executed the instrument for the stated purposes. The acknowledgment is dated June 13 1919 with Sidney Sarr signing and sealing the document. His commission expires February 10 1919.
Memorial stone lanterns near Yokosuka honor William Adams the English sailor who settled in Japan and helped open Anglo Japanese trade. His 1600s voyage led to exchanges and a treaty granting Britain broad trade access, with Adams serving at Osaka court before the 1613 arrival of another English captain.
The piece argues charity is broader than almsgiving. Charity includes caring thoughts for others, including those not in want. It urges practicing thoughtful compassion rather than just giving money.
The world has about 25 000 diamond cutters and polishers with 675 in the United States most of whom arrived after the European war began. At year start the US had 86 diamond cutting establishments excluding other stone shops. German cutters numbered under 600 prewar with 75 percent in Germany. War drove 600 to 700 Belgian cutters to England forming a branch of the London Diamond Cutters union working mainly for Belgian and Russian houses.
A forest products laboratory in Madison Wisconsin has devised an aluminum plating for airplane propellers to shield wood from weather damage. Plated propellers finish embeds a thin leaf that blocks water absorption and all but eliminates war department production issues. A French source notes many propellers are rejected for imbalance due to moisture, a problem mitigated by this waterproof coating.
A Florida Times-Union note describes new processes by a chemist to utilize drops culls and ripes, turning waste into manufactured products. Growers and the public would benefit from sale of waste and demand for the new goods. An unrelated line about electrocution of a leopard and a seed/-tool promotion is also present.
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