08 Jan 1912
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1912
Page
1
The report mentions a visit to St Helena with carriage tours of the island, noting winding roads forming a W shape and steep terrain. It describes cool air and reflects on past hangings and fatalities, hinting at local tragedies and dangers on the slopes and roads.
The pterodactyl fossil found in chalk at Cambridge and other sites shows a batlike body a long neck a small head and a porpoise beak with vast membranous wings. It was a swift runner fish eater and capable swimmer, likely surviving into a recent geological period and possibly inspiring dragon legends.
A New York Sun correspondent quotes a correspondence clerk noting surprising examples of simplified spelling in reader letters. The clerk recalls a line starting with What it would follow and says the meaning was clear yet amusing to bookkeepers and stenographers who joked the writer could invent a new short spelling system.
A discussion of emblematic phrases from J S Thompson’s The Chinese describing values and social actions. It cites lines about a wealthy parent settling affairs for a favored daughter, earning a degree by examinations, preventing backsliding, moving a wife with music, vindication by painted doors, and the death of a great man marked by a fallen city wall.
The green turtle nests in the corn reefs north of O damaica and elsewhere in the West Indies. It is caught with strong nets, moved to Kingston, and kept in sea water pens where a special sea grass is fed to it. The creature refuses the grass when removed from the West Indies and may die of starvation. Eight pounds of flesh yield four pints of soup.
A garbled OCR passage records a terse exchange about times and events past night. Phrases hint at someone asking about a seven thirty moment and another about eight thirty or nine, with unclear names and places, leaving the sequence and participants unresolved.
An illustration demonstrates a new method for delivering a horse drench using a tin and flatboard device. The looped rope end is placed in the mouth and the bottle neck fits between teeth, held against the roof of the mouth to give a controlled amount. If the horse coughs, lower the head briefly.
Lime disinfects stables and destroys decaying matter but should not be used where manure is produced or stored. It decomposes manure releasing ammonia, a key plant nutrient. When scarce, acid phosphate, ground rock phosphate, and sand plaster serve as absorbents. Air stacked lime mixes carbonate and hydrate, less caustic than fresh lime. Limestone acts as neutral dirt and helps neutralize soil acidity, improving soil condition.
A writer in the Orange Judd Farmer describes a simple hog feeder. Build a tube from inch boards about three and a half feet high and place it at one end of the trough. Pour swill through the tube to reduce hogs crowding and ease handling for farmers.
The text notes sheep are nervous and delicate, suffering from poor ventilation and crowding. recommends keeping them in dry, well ventilated spaces to stay warm, arguing confinement worsens their health and that they can endure winter if dry. It questions whether sheep greet death, reflecting a skeptical tone about dire outcomes.
Leather halters preferred for tying horses in stalls. Use 4 leather halter reins instead of chains to reduce entanglement risk. Chains may restrain a horse but leather rein less likely to cause serious injury or death if a horse becomes entangled.
Breeders overvalue purebred boars and ignore sow quality. The piece warns farmers to carefully choose well bred sows to ensure overall herd excellence.
A concise observation notes that pigs from large litters tend to be more uniform in size and fatten faster than those from small litters. It emphasizes the sow's breeding quality as a key factor in achieving these differences.
A Missouri reader extols Doan's Kidney Pills as a splendid remedy for kidney and backache problems. Mrs Kennedy of Blatreville, Pa, vouches for long lasting relief after a family member was cured. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY markets Doan's in the United States. remember the name.
In the final inning with two runs ahead, Terrible Terry Tomkins faced three men on base and delivered a rare triple play. A hail of three pitches split in three directions. the ball was caught by the pitcher, snagged by the shortstop, and snagged by the first baseman, sealing the win for the home team as the crowd roared.
The Romans in the era of Cicero and Augustus took an early breakfast from three to four in the morning. They ate lunch at twelve or one and around three o'clock had the coena or principal meal, comparable to our dinner. Some accounts mention dining not until sunset.
In a brief local sketch, residents discuss a man who stays out late and seems haunted by a constant, unseen activity. One neighbor notes he is always doing something that chases tar, while another remarks his wife wishes he would come in earlier.
In a terse exchange a character asks what Bohentie is while noting it falls through quickly. The dialogue mentions joblessness on the road and a delayed message, ending with a line about happiness arriving incidentally. The excerpt resembles a quirky linguistic vignette with dated turn of phrase.
Detroit faces fallout as a local home for the aged fails and residents who paid in lose savings, prompting demands for state supervision to prevent similar abuses. The piece urges youth to safeguard the elderly and notes Vinol cod liver tonic as beneficial, citing testimonials from Miss A. H. Ralston and Tom Hildebrand.
A scientific note explains that a plumb line can deviate from vertical due to crust irregularities. In Porto Rico an extreme instance moved mapping coastlines inward by about half a mile, altering northern and southern coastlines on older maps.
Chang Yintang, the Chinese minister to the United States, will depart Washington this week for his homeland after a retirement surprise. Yume Kwesi Gray, secretary, will remain in charge of the legation.
In Lakewood New Jersey January 8 Bishop James A McFaul of the Trenton diocese argues that only about half of Americans attend church blaming scant religious teaching in public schools and in homes. He says sensationalism and crime stories dominate pulpits and that religious home training has diminished.
Do not let kidney and bladder trouble grow uncontrolled take Foley Kidney Pills for quick results stop irregularities and regain health. Sold by all druggists.
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