Speeding It On and a Musketry Lesson
A rifle lesson ends with a recruit asking if pulling the trigger harder makes a bullet go farther. The instructor encourages the question as the backdrop to this curious exchange from a Tit-Bits feature.
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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1916
Page
7
A rifle lesson ends with a recruit asking if pulling the trigger harder makes a bullet go farther. The instructor encourages the question as the backdrop to this curious exchange from a Tit-Bits feature.
An old warning claims regular meat consumption harms kidneys, causing backache and other ailments. It promotes Jad Salts as a daily kidney flush to restore function, neutralize urine acid, and prevent bladder irritation. The ad ends with a quip about old men and confidence men.
After a chase, Godtr and Lester discuss Silva the genius felon and a blotting book clue. Three years pass and Silva’s life story surfaces from his own lips as he faces death. Miss Vaughan’s tale may reveal the missing foundation of the plot, then they can reconstruct it.
Miss Vaughan explains how Senor Silva hypnotized her father and Mahbub to imitate fingerprints, staged a grand plan to trap Silva, and stayed in the house to gather proof. She details her discovery of the missing Swain prints, the crystal gazing sessions, and her resolve to free Fred Lester while exposing Silva.
A woman recounts a dangerous relationship with Swain who exerts a dominating influence through séances. She recalls a midnight ritual described as a bene diction and admits the episode left her weak yet determined to escape. Mahbub’s cold presence and hidden room searches heighten the peril as she plans to expose him. The tale ends with a cliffhanger about a looming revelation next week.
Commerce on Finance notes widespread luxury and ostentation across the nation from Palm Beach to Polunk with a warning against excess. Prominent figures including a Princeton professor and New York hotel banquets illustrate lavish spending, while textile scarce dyes and tire spending outpace education funding in a climate of social critique.
Rev. EK Marla recounts a brutal wartime drill where twelve men per company carried long knives and grenades into bombproofs. Soldiers discarded nonessential items, stocked with extra rations and water, and donned emergency dressings preparing for a grim advance and a hopeful, final victory as they sang together.
A developer describes blue black toning for amido solutions used in photographic paper. It notes amidol powders can be bought ready to dissolve or mixed from bulk chemicals, with specific gram quantities for paper and gaslight paper, including solutions of radium sulfite and potassium bromide, plus a stock mix for convenience.
The Harrison narcotic law requires records by doctors and dealers for opium morphine cocaine and similar drugs. It does not ban sale but aims to track drugs and licensure for physicians and others. Early reports show reduced sales and imports, with enforcement improving public health and prompting calls for refinements to limit paregoric use and tighten licenses.
W B Auchinbaugh notes the surge of buyers from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Nicaragua, South Africa, China and India visiting the United States to purchase European goods at advantageous terms. Buenos Aires and Santiago stores open offices here, signaling expected continued U S patronage in drugs, clothing, textiles, farming gear, tools, rubber tires and wagons.
The article explains how incubators enable a home based day old chick trade, a profitable poultry sector. It notes chicks two days old should not travel beyond two days, as yolk provides sustenance for several days and improper packing risks injury.
The essay argues the income tax's value lies in its direct collection, making taxpayers aware of government spending. It suggests direct levies induce scrutiny of pork barrel appropriations and advocate for widespread direct tax collection as a safeguard for the public treasury.
In a Boston Transcript item a foreman scolds Cassy for not loading his hod fully. Cassidy must haul a full brick load each trip, but when bricks run short he gathers all bricks on the lot and still lacks the right count. He shouts to a fifth-floor worker to throw him down one brick to finish the load.
A garbled passage shows a lawyer questioning a witness about prior importance while the witness mentions six children. The text then pivots to a Palmyra palm reference and a vague tropical Font setting, implying a jumble of unrelated phrases from a Home Journal style excerpt.
A Saskatchewan Farmer reprint highlights a Prairie immigrant, M. P. Tysdal, who settled near Priertrest, Saskatchewan in 1912. He praises 1680 acres of land, yields of 40 bushels per acre on 100 wheat acres in 1914, and tax relief with no war tax. He extols Canadian laws, independence, and his seven children’s schooling and participation, contrasting with Illinois. The article cites settlers benefiting from lower taxes and stable governance, disputing alarmist claims about war taxes and conscription.
A French silencer attached to a cam muzzle makes firing inaudible beyond about 100 yards by diverting gases through dual channels. A small shutter opens as the shell exits, reducing the usual explosive roar, though gases cannot be fully contained without risking the gun bursting.
A club scene features the Crusty Old Bachelor lamenting that conversations with young married ladies focus on dress servants and babies. In the same issue, ads tout Cuticura for skin troubles with free samples, Denison Seminole Coffee in cans, and Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for liver and bowels. An aside notes that kissing may disappoint even when one feels grand.
The article discusses the link between kidney disease and heart failure, noting how uremic poisoning follows kidney failure and often misattributes death to heart or brain disease. It promotes a 10 cent trial package of Dr. Pierce's Anuric as a remedy for backache frequent urination rheumatic pains and fatigue.
Durand Wisconsin and Blackstone Massachusetts women testify to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound easing menopausal and age related symptoms. The ad notes warning signs for middle aged women and cites 1915 salt output from Hawaiian islands, mainly by the Honolulu Salt Company producing coarse salt by natural evaporation.
A nagging complaint about speech without content highlights how wasted minutes during dialogue frustrate audiences and urge clarity. The piece notes impatience with chatter and calls for concise, meaningful communication.
The ad promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for seasonal weakness and impurity in blood. It claims the medicine purifies blood, eradicates poisons, and strengthens blood-forming glands to enrich the body with pure blood.
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