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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1912
Page
7
A 1911 portrait of Charles Peterson a Swedish born inventor who transformed iron pipe production by introducing machinery molded pipes. He believed a future fuel engine could power balloons or kites and dreamed of flight decades before the Wright brothers.
Empire Magazine notes the global pearl shell industry centers in the tropical north of Australia and the East Indies with much of the value in the pearl shell oyster rather than gem pearls. It describes harsh punishments by overseers for divers who steal pearls and highlights dangers from deep-water diving including fatal paralyzing pressure injuries.
Chronicle of Captain Leslie Coombs Bruce famed American rifle captain who helped win the Bisley international trophy and held the American Rifle Association title. He credited a native exceptional vision that could read distant clock hands six miles away during a Metropolis tower test with his friend on Long Island.
The article advises clearing and airing cellars to remove decaying vegetation and rubbish, whitewashing walls with carbolic acid, and installing a ventilator system. It outlines a galvanized iron duct 8 to 10 inches in diameter running from the cellar to the chimney, with airtight joints and openings aligned to floor and hearth, and notes possible connection with basement heater ducts.
The article recalls Thomas Henry Huxley as a renowned agnostic who lectured in the United States in the centennial year and delivered Johns Hopkins University's dedicatory address. It notes his honesty about not knowing the afterlife, his commitment to science, and his planned return to England with his wife to work in London’s East End settlements. It mentions his death in 1895 at age seventy after mistaking a tonic for poison, ending a life of science and philanthropy.
The state game and fish commission will receive 150 captive bred wild Mexican turkeys at Hayward and distribute them by train via District Warden Ferguson. About 500 will go to Sanger and 100 to Sequoia National Park in separate reservation sections. A prior 150 birds sent earlier this year to the park have reportedly thrived.
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An illustrated device speeds potato sorting by letting a one inch mesh screen over a bin separate small from large tubers. Two workers on either side remove damaged potatoes as they roll down the inclined screen, cutting handling time and effort.
Mr Cumrox seeks a reason his servant, the English butler Hawkins, will not laugh at his jokes. He quips that paying well should earn mirth and recalls a lingering test of wit as Hawkins replies with sharp politeness about what was ordered first.
A quip notes a doctor who reduces swelling yet inflates the charges. The speaker calls the physician paradoxical for raising costs as symptoms lessen. The joke centers on medical billing irony and patient frustration.
An old advertorial touts rubbing Wizard Oil on gums to stop decay and using a mouth wash of a few drops in water to chase disease germs. It also notes a maxim about calling a man lucky when he succeeds where others fail.
A consular report from Java describes M de Kruyff’s method to destroy rats. Holes are identified by earth plugs then opened, carbon bisulphide is poured, fumes ignite creating a small explosion to release poisonous gas and kill rats quickly. About 200 holes can be treated with a pound of bisulphide, with 131 rats found dead.
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