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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
7
A strained night court scene portrays a judge flanked by elegant women while a poor girl faces judgment. The judge's indulgent conduct toward his companions surfaces amid a whispered drama and a harsh clash of class. Across the page a separate feature describes Filipino rice threshing methods and imagined machinery to assist laborers.
Results from M Cas tre at the Sorbonne indicate that when cancerous growths are inoculated in mice, almost all develop the disease. Progeny of infected mice show 80 percent affected when re inoculated, while 20 percent survive, suggesting a hereditary immune line among descendants of cancerous mothers.
The bird store window draws crowds of children and adults alike. A white peacock with its long tail and spread fan captivates passersby, as shoppers pause to admire the striking existence and exhibit, creating a lively street scene reported by the New York Sun.
Graham Ferguson recalls a Paris duel witnessed abroad where a participant suffered a broken rib in the embrace after the bout. A newspaper friend confirms a serious injury, noting the event as a true duel with life threat to the combatant.
A traveler asks the distance to the next town and the farmer replies ten miles. The exchange underscores the rough, muddy road condition and the rough humor of the moment.
A Scientific American note by C Fitzhugh Tasman explains rainbow colors vary with width, which depends on raindrop size. Large drops yield narrow bright bands. small drops yield broad pale hues. The piece lists color sequences for drops ranging from about 1 mm to 1/20 mm.
A fragmentary note questions authorship of poems titled She-Sal attributed to leper and signed "Oedipus" with the speaker defending the true author, referencing a debate on provenance as catalogued in Flilegende Blaetter.
The article explains hoof structure from toe to heels, noting the wall thickness, downward horn growth, and factors shaping growth. It emphasizes exercise, grooming, moisture, and protecting the periople, with growth rates about one third of an inch monthly and variation by hoof section and shoe status. It also mentions feeding effects and time for horn to reach ground, depending on coronet distance.
The Farm and Home outlines blasting compact subsoil with dynamite to create underground reservoirs. Boreholes two to six feet deep, twenty to thirty feet apart, using eighty sticks per acre at $1.50 each. Explosions fracture hardpan, creating surface openings and reservoirs three to six feet in diameter. Fill openings with sand or gravel to keep them open for excess rainfall. Largely increased crops follow. The method also applies to tree planting by blasting holes for each tree.
There is no section of the country immune from plant diseases and trem blesome insects. The orchardist and the gardener should provide spraying materials and be ready for any emergency. Some seasons may not require severe fighting, but others will require vigorous assaults.
An apparatus invented in Brooklyn simulates baseball with a diamond layout and bases. Balls roll between bases to enact strikes balls home runs and putouts. A ball reaching a base can free other balls on distant bases, introducing strategic chance.
A described parlor stunt explains placing a knife under a decanter and tapping the handle to cause the blade to spring up in a half circle toward the decanter mouth. The article notes careful practice to protect hands and table from the knife edge during the performance.
A discussion on potato structure and starch behavior explains how boiling softens the tuber. The potato’s woody skin prevents expansion while heat causes starch grains to swell and burst, yielding a soft cooked potato after water absorption.
A Parson questions Tommy about a fight that left him with a black eye. Tommy says he was fighting, and the Parson expresses regret that a parent told the child it was wrong. The exchange hints at an incident from a neighborhood or school setting.
A reflective passage describes a mother distressed by her child Gerald's demand to be quiet. The narrator laments how her efforts to teach decorum fail as the boy insists, Shut up, ma. The exchange underscores parental frustration and the challenge of discipline.
A British steamship sailed with a remarkable cargo of eight thousand Chinese passengers whose meals cost nothing from port to orient. Between decks lay caskets of bones marking final interment for each traveler, as undertakers and societies in the United States prepared sealed coffins for shipment back to the homeland.
Coeds in Bulwer hall awoke to a tossed pig two miles from campus. Five students captured a fat greasy pig and smuggled it through a dorm window. The pig squealed and caused chaos as the matron and staff tried to eject it. Groundskeeper intervened and the pig was dragged out as male students cheered.
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