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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1915
Page
6
Cyrus Vane, a scientist in a hospital lab, faces a moral crisis as a deadly paralysis outbreak grips a town. He must choose between pursuing a thousand-case proof for an antitoxin or saving a dying child and a grieving mother, ultimately abandoning his research to heal with humanity.
At Colombo a new use for cocoanut water as a rubber coagulant is reported. Fermented for four to five days, it coagulates latex efficiently, yielding a finer rubber than crude acetic acid methods. One to two ounces of fermented water coagulates one pint of latex, turning waste into profit.
The Norwegian steamer Vera was christened in Philadelphia with three month old Vera Rynning, daughter of Captain and Mia Rynning, named after her father's vessel. Flags of many nations decorated the ship as masters of Norwegian vessels attended the ceremony led by Reverend Mr. Milleroe of the Norwegian Seamen's church.
The New Zealand Trade Review notes continued capital influx from season exports. Banks’ coffers are replenished as farmers seek investments. Exports for five months ended February 1916 reached 2 million dollars, about 16 million dollars higher than the previous year.
American cargo officer aboard Haight describes how the British fleet rests in Orkney waters north of Scotland. He says over seventy warships lie at anchor near Hoy with dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, plus destroyers and submarines secured behind Scapa Flow barriers. The fleet, rebuilt through years of effort, is ready but kept in port until Germans are prepared to fight openly at sea.
New York Supreme Court Justice Brady in Bronx County refused to approve the Daffydill Club for incorporation. He criticized the name as inappropriate and warned the organizers may lack the character for membership, suggesting state lunacy commission approval if they truly possess it.
The article details layered British naval defenses around the Orkneys and Skagerrak, noting powerful mine fields, nets, and patrols that deter German submarines and cruisers. It explains daily submarine activity, sinking reports, and coordinated wireless reporting from Hoy to track Baltic and North Sea movements.
Rotterdam belt writer Benedictus recounts a hazardous night exit from Belgium through German lines. A local guide, a famed improvised helper, ferries several men toward the Dutch border aided by stealth and timed signals. A cliff path, moonlit sentries, and a haunting scream mark a perilous bid for freedom amidst war.
County Judge Dike in Brooklyn sentences Nicola Chiagone to marry his fiancée Philo mens Donata Antonio, after he pleaded guilty to petit larceny as a second offense. The judge says the marriage will determine the punishment, citing Kipling lines and the man’s prior conduct. Also noted is George Kennedy of East Grand Forks, separated from family since age three, now reconnecting with his mother.
The famed rattlesnake flag from Col. John Proctor’s Independent Battalion of Westmoreland County, created in 1775 and carried during the Revolution, moves from the Merchants and Farmers Bank vault in Greensburg to the State Library in Harrisburg. Color bearer Samuel Craig Sr and descendants, including Gen. Alexander Craig, safeguarded it until 1914 when Jane Maria Craig bequeathed it to the state library.
General Galopin, military governor of Paris, decorates officers whose valor under fire drew notable attention.
Grass Valley reports Louis Moulton found a rough diamond while digging an irrigation ditch in the Chicago Park section. Experts say the stone is pure diamond and has been cut to a half carat, valued at sixty dollars.
Wph Wiley discusses claims about so called Innocent bystander incidents referencing alleged apg quiltz. The remarks suggest scrutiny of the bystander role and related assertions amid ongoing discourse and media coverage.
The article explains how to choose mutton and lamb, focusing on fat color and firmness, lean meat color, and age. It notes clear white fat signals freshness, avoid soft or yellow fat, and that lamb is best around one year old with pink flesh and white fat. It also advises considering lean meat tenderness and price when buying.
Paris doctors Loir and Legagneux test vinegar as a typhoid germ destroyer. They report twenty germs per liter of water kill the typhoid bacillus in about one hour and fifteen minutes. The Lancet Paris correspondent notes a practical use for salads, immersing washed leaves in water with ten grams of vinegar per liter for about an hour and a quarter to remove typhoid danger.
Practical cleaning and cooking hints from an old kitchen column. Recommends steaming leftovers, shaping puddings, refrigerating croquette odds and ends, cleaning cake tins by boiling with soap extract, and renovating old fur with bran and ammonia followed by brushing.
Recipe directs chopping suet and figs, soaking stale bread crumbs in milk, beating eggs, mixing with migar and soda, then steaming in a buttered mold for three hours. Sauce folds sugar into a light mixture with brandy and vanilla.
Sliced white onions totaling one and a half cups cook in two tablespoons butter until tender. Stir in two tablespoons flour, then gradually add one quart hot milk. Bring to boil, season, then simmer ten minutes. Press through a sieve, return to heat, and serve.
A vintage recipe describes making maple cream puffs by stirring butter into boiling water with flour, cooling, beating eggs into the mixture, baking biscuits, and preparing a maple cream filling heavy with cream and maple sugar. The puffs are filled and topped with maple flavor.
A compact method for cold bean croquettes using baked beans mashed with egg yolk and butter. Form into cones, roll in cracker crumbs without egg, then fry or bake for a quick breakfast dish.
The piece argues for city planning as an art combining beauty and utility. It cites ancient forums and medieval piazzas as models, praises Baron Hausmann for Paris, notes French thrift, and urges youth to embrace planning under competent leadership with a town planning board to avoid hasty, unattractive development and create lasting beauty.
A Chicago Cathedral Civic Club program lists topics for discussion and study. Items include Markets Pure Food Housing Sanitation Infant Welfare public schools Jails welfare work and County Board taxation and related civic issues with an evening election themed session and an illustrated lecture.
The first home garden club in Washington public schools aims to boost interest in vegetable and flower gardens at home and on school grounds. Brookland teachers and parents plan beginner gardening lectures and regular home garden visits to ensure proper work. A garden show is planned for next fall with product exhibits and prizes for student gardens.
An examination of fire statistics shows defective flues cause most dwelling fires. Wealth spent on a thoroughly good chimney is never wasted. For fire safety, chimneys are the building’s most important structural feature, yet many fires reveal careless workmanship and sometimes bad design in chimney construction.
A simple street can become a smart suburban district when clutter is kept out. Expensive houses fail to impress if back yards are neglected, while plain homes can shine with careful maintenance and orderly surroundings.
A dialogue questions propriety of quarrel by telephone while noting modern military authorities extend power to unseen foes. The exchange hints at evolving warfare and unseen threats shaping policy and action.
In a fragment from a local clash over a drunken husband, one speaker asserts the husband drinks excessively while another denies illness or danger, claiming nothing is wrong with him. The exchange depicts disorderly talk about intoxication in a domestic dispute setting.
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