16 Dec 1938
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Newspaper
Ironwood Times
Location
Ironwood, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
1
America's royal bird Tom Turkey travels toward the Christmas dinner table as Fernand Pointreau executive chef of Chicago's Hotel Sherman demonstrates the fine points of preparing the centerpiece.
A vast farm built 15 years ago when Lake Mattamuskeet was drained to reclaim land now lies submerged in Lake Mattamuskeet as the lake reclaims the valley. A pumping system kept water out for years but fails as 1.5 million gallons flood the area each minute. A settlement including hotel and roads disappeared, leaving deserted highways into the water.
Adventurers' Club presents the perilous tale of diver Frank Grigsinger from Brooklyn. In 1918 he faced a fatal jam while raising the Albert Stone off New Bedford, wedged by a dislodged grate in the tug boiler. Buddy Jack Gardiner freed him with a lever, saving his life as both men battled pressure and darkness.
In Rodanthe the easternmost town, Christmas arrives twice a year with Old Christmas on January 5. The town, with one gnarled oak tree, imports decorations as Santa visits the schoolhouse hosted by Boatswain's Mate P A Tillett. Fishermen and coastguardsmen keep the tradition, a long standing local custom passed through generations.
The article notes Egyptian blue as the earliest solvable color pigment, used in antiquity during the era of pharaohs and possibly exported to Rome and Greece. It also mentions iron making ingredients and rough input/output ratios for a ton of iron, including ore, limestone, coke, air, and the products of the reaction such as iron, slag, dust, and blast furnace gas.
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