Unclear OCR fragment references May entry in Journal
Fragmentary text resembles journal notes mentioning May with unclear names. No coherent event or entities readable beyond the month reference.
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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
2
Fragmentary text resembles journal notes mentioning May with unclear names. No coherent event or entities readable beyond the month reference.
A collage of wry observations and snippets. Notes on love and loss, New York police, a $100000 savings claim, fashion health debates, a Kansas City powder caution, and playful musings on autos, bikes, and Princess laureates. Includes a Princeton student's sixteen exchanges and blue peony dreams.
A writer notes the line The brave are always tender while criticizing cowards about the last cattle shipment to restaurants. He mentions Germany considering banning rubber mouthpieces on nursing bottles for sanitary reasons and suggests they could be steel instead.
A collage of edgy social asides notes suffragist pauses, colonial furniture obsessions, seating hogs, hotel service quirks, music spending, and marital stereotypes. The tone is wry and observational about urban life, manners, and shifting norms.
Adam Bede in Real Life tells of Harnigold a carpenter from Terrington West Norfolk who dreams of making a coffin for his father who dies of a heart seizure the next day. The son completes the coffin later the same day.
Earl Craft of Monroe county Missouri, age twenty five, is a legless farm worker on a 240 acre farm. After hip amputations at age twelve he learned to walk by hands and now handles a team, horse, plow and binder. He built a henhouse recently without help.
Tony Rodowski of Rochester Pennsylvania slept on fresh cement steps and became wedged as the cement hardened. Neighbors freed him with picks and chisels but the new steps were ruined.
An ancient Tower of London ritual unfolds as the beef eater, chief yeoman porter and guards secure the keys from the governor for the nightly lockup. The procession moves to Lion's Gate while sentries demand Who's there and answer Keys, King George's keys. The porter salutes King George and the group returns the keys to the governor's house for the night.
The practice links salting infants with luck and protection from evil spirits. In Russia Armenian settlements the baby is rubbed with fine salt for about five hours amid a celebration. neglect brings bad luck. Asia Minor tribes salt the infant for thirty to thirty-five hours for better fortune.
The widow presents the sledging flag carried by Dr. Wilson of Captain Scott’s party to Gloucester Cathedral. The dean plans to hang it in the Lady Chapel among Gloucester Regiment flags. Found beside Wilson’s body with a Cambridge flag, it measures three by one feet and bears St. George’s cross, Wilson’s crest, and the motto Res non verba.
A carp four years old reportedly lives with its mouth shut. J W Fehlmann notes the fish appears to breathe and feed through its gill clefts while numerous mayfly larvae crustaceans and plant matter remain in its food canal.
Fragmentary OCR notes report bones of a child in a nest near the Ledro valley in the Alps. Mentions hunters, eagles, and bones of a child compared with those of Faucks, with unclear references to shares, fonts, and birds.
Instructions give step by step to craft a hand held wind reel from a baking powder can and wood disks, and a waist strapped reel using a belt. Details include making spools, flanges, an axle, crank stick, and securing parts with nails and washers for efficient kite string winding.
Describes how Shanghai residents observed religious omens during August following revolutionary changes in China. Posters warned of gods’ wrath and plagues, urging ritual acts such as burning rice straw to appease spirits. Reports crowds gathered seeking signs of miracles and good omens in the night.
Captain G. B. Macklaine of the British navy outlines corrugated hulls with 18 ft 8 in spacing and 22 inch projections as a stronger steadier ship. He cites lower engine revolutions and fuel use, greater cargo capacity, and potential for 20 percent more coal tonnage.
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