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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
6
A Lombard peasant boards a lake steamer with a donkey and a vast blue umbrella. He tethers the animal on deck and covers it with his coat and umbrella through the voyage to Riva, praised as humane and considerate.
The log line method uses a leaded quadrant log tied to a 120 fathom line divided into 47 foot knots. Each knot marks a fraction of a nautical mile, with 28 seconds representing an hour, so the number of knots paying out in 28 seconds equals the ship’s speed in knots.
Entry from Miss Evergreen's diary notes Fritz turns thirty tomorrow and will wed in a year when his sister recalls being mistaken for twins. She marks her eighth birthday and a new brother named Fritz arriving, Fritz being twenty today and eight years older than she.
Collier's Weekly notes that most plagues of Egypt have been ended by modern science. Frogs and darkness vanished with drainage and arc lights, fleas are controlled by insect powder, but the fly persists as the remaining major nuisance despite advances.
A restaurant patron jokes about the bill of fare featuring assorted pies while recalling past finds of a nail and a collar button in pie servings. The waiter confirms the menu offer amid the exchange.
Mrs Follansbee notes her interest in Chaucer as Mrs Oldcastle and guests discuss her fancy work. The Chicago Record Herald snippet hints at home science tricks like boiling water sterilizing milk and thoroughly cooking vegetables to inoculate against typhoid fever.
A reader urges laying linoleum on kitchen floors to save labor and reduce heating costs, citing a price range of 1.25 to 1.50 dollars per square yard as an economical measure against the cold.
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