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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
5
The essay surveys why Herculaneum captivates scholars, noting its sudden burial in 79 A D and superior preservation of artifacts. It contrasts with Pompeii, discusses Italian government plans, and praises Boni and Ricci while detailing why the site best preserves Graeco Roman life and manuscripts.
An Iowa inventor develops a harmonica design where the mouth organ slides inside a stationary casing in the mouth. The inner organ moves back and forth, allowing blowing or drawing in through a front opening, producing the same effect without lip cuts.
A city observer argues that neighborhood stores selling dry goods and house items remain competitive against large retailers. He notes mothers with babies favor nearby shops and choose those with tasteful, well chosen goods, proving there is still room for小 merchants in a growing urban market.
A dialogue notes how enemies call it a Chessy cat grin while friends describe it as an inscrutable smile revealing Trifit's complex persona. The line contrasts perception between foes and allies to hint at hidden motives and loyalty.
A summer girl explains her flexible styling, saying she adapts to preferred looks, noting she has experimenting with both blonde and brunette shades over the past month.
A California inventor develops a glider toy that rises when blown into by a blow pipe. The device features a cylindrical casing with a shaft and opposing blades, a one side inlet, and an outlet opposite the pipe. The glider, an elongated plate with turned ends, rests on pegs and sails over the blower’s head, returning to the feet.
The article describes African brides wearing cowrie shells and brass wire adornments that weight them from ankle to knee, then husbands trade garments for money, and in central Australia brides are dowed with an apron to be disciplined by their husbands.
Ethel bursts into the kitchen to announce that her father is shaving and applying icing as if his face were a cake, saying he is putting the icing on.
The article explains carat as used for gold and diamonds. It clarifies that eighteen carats means eighteen of twenty four parts gold, alloyed with copper for hardness, while diamonds use carat as a weight about three and a fifth grains per carat, measured in Troy weight.
A simple party trick has a person close eyes and cross fingers. A pencil touches the fingertips and the subject often reports feeling two pencils instead of one, illustrating how perception can lie.
A list of riddle style questions with tree answers such as date for chronologist tree, box for shirt-waist holder, umbrella for sun protection, palm for greetings, elder in churches, and willow as an emblem of grief, among others.
A puzzle presents lines like Twice 10 are 6 of us and asks for the answer. The solution lies in the number of letters in each numeral mentioned, giving patterns such as five mapped to four and twelve to six, with eighty implied by the sequence.
On his first church visit Bobbie asks what the organ is. His mother hushes him as the organ begins to play and he wonders where the monkey is.
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