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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
8
January, October share the same weekday start. the same holds for April and July, September and December. February, March and November also begin on the same weekday, but only in non leap years of 365 days. A century cannot begin on Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday, and a common year ends on the same weekday it starts.
In a back corner of each shelf two substances are used to preserve bindings and prevent mild moisture. Lavender drops and Cumudhar basam are placed to protect leather volumes without injuring them. Both substances are easily obtained and help extend book life.
John Rolfe, noted as the first white cultivator of tobacco, established systematic farming on the Varina plantation near the James River. He began his attempts in 1610, cementing tobacco as the colony’s principal crop and later marrying the princess of the local Indian king.
The first woman’s college incorporated was Elmira College, founded in 1852, marking a milestone in higher education for women. Elmira’s early charter established its mission to provide advanced study for female scholars and faculty.
The world’s greatest cataract is on the Iguazu river, forming a 210 foot drop that far exceeds Niagara’s 167 feet. The fall spans 13,123 feet in width, about two and a half times Niagara. The flow is estimated at 140 million tons per hour, compared to Niagara’s 100 million.
The Jasper School earned praise for a large display in the agricultural and women’s hall at last week’s fair. Premiums awarded include Best departmental display primary two dollars, various first and second place prizes across grades for Crayola, penmanship, stories, maps, water colors, and stock and corn judging with amounts ranging from fifty cents to two dollars, honoring students such as Lillian Ward Frances Crow Inola Patterson and Ruth Hayzlett among others.
The first English book printed in raised letters for the blind appeared in Edinburgh by James Galt ninety two years ago. Earlier in 1780 Huiany attempted to supply literature for the sightless in Paris using a Tigrian or Slavonian alphabet, but his project failed.
A short discussion about the Sargossa Sea in the north Atlantic, described as a calm eddy where seaweed drifts. It notes that fiction claims dead ships rest there with mariner spirits, but asserts the idea is pure fiction and that navigation would not be troubled by seaweed or derelicts.
Drillers in Texas and Louisiana report vast underground salt deposits found just a few hundred feet beneath the surface. Some beds reach about 2,000 feet in thickness, suggesting a long lasting, though unconventional, resource for future supply beyond fuel.
John Jay served as the first chief justice after his 1780 appointment and was born in New York on December 12, 1745. John Rutledge, the second chief justice, was born in South Carolina in 1780 and was nominated by the president.
The passage notes that large rubles are exceedingly rare unlike diamonds and emeralds. It cites mentions in Marco Polo and Mandeville among other travelers as referring to great gems, which may or may not be believed today since such gems have been lost to sight for centuries unless hidden in Persia, Burma, or China treasures.
The Yonkers Star quotes a humorous exchange as Mr Styles asks if the wife has changed her mind and she replies yes while she was changing her dress, noting the common poke at domestic banter. The brief dialogue captures light domestic humor.
A lost engagement ring dropped overboard in mid Atlantic was found in a gull’s gizzard off the Maine coast months later, illustrating gulls’ attraction to small shining objects. The recovery highlights the unusual path of the ring from sea to shore.
The Australian parliament passed a law years ago banning employment of native island and Japanese laborers. In Broome pearl industry crews divers and other workers were Milays and Japanese. Over 1,500 Japanese were employed in the pearl-fishing fleets. The new law was feared to ruin the industry, but enforcement never occurred.
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