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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1914
Page
2
Kelly Price and his father W G Price unveil an apple sizer that sorts by weight using spring driven arms like a mechanical pitcher. Apples weigh 19 ounces travel short distances into sacks while lighter fruit travels farther, with sacks on springs to prevent bruising. The device aims to reduce skill needed to wrap and pack uniform fruit.
The D A R will stage a lantern slide lecture at the Princess Theatre next Friday January 16 at 2 PM marking George Washington’s wedding anniversary. It showcases Old Trail Roads Kearneys Route Oregon Trail Sante Fe to Monterey and Monterey to Olympia and urges building an ocean to ocean highway. Attendance includes D A R friends Woman's Relief Corp G A R and local high school pupils.
Read of the Panama Pacific International Exposition where American and international sculptors including A Stirling Calder Albert Jaegers Furio Piccirilli Leo Lentelli Adolph Weinman Isadore Konti Evelyn Longman Douglas Tilden Gutzon Borglum and others craft monumental works. The sculptures recount Panama Canal themes celebrate exploration and global achievement as the Feb 20 1915 opening nears.
The British Army physician Dr Cummins warns that clean hands remain a danger even after washing. Experiments show typhoid bacilli surviving in sterile water and briefly transferred to soup, revealing thousands of bacteria per cubic inch in the sample.
A comic exchange about curfews and family antics appears in an extra humorous note from a Cleveland Plain Dealer item. The dialogue contrasts a daughter’s late hour with a father’s lingering wit and a casual good night.
The article describes diverse breads and crackers from around the world. It notes Balkan chain bread used as curtain rings, Japanese bamboo bread sold in strings, Central Asian sun dried sheets, Russian fit the mouth begs as a tea biscuit and improvised currency, and China pith bread laundered with a hot iron.
An interview in the New York Sun with Bedros Keljik argues for business focus over politics. Dr Riza Tewfik recalls a Bosporus fire scare in Galata where a telegram to his family was deemed unnecessary by a telegraph clerk who knew his house was not on fire.
A London Citizen anecdote recalls a wealthy farmer in a remote district who, urged by friends to avoid robbery, finally takes his money to a bank. The bank offers to take care of the cash and pay him something, sparking the farmer to condemn bankers as rascals and leave.
A bride comments on beautiful clocks she received. The giver explains he gave two clocks because he is fond of both and wants them to remember him if either spouse divorces. The remark appears in a Chicago Post item.
In a Washington Star snippet from Leaving Earth a man objects to being held as a paragon by his son-in-law. The exchange turns on perceptions of character and lifelong scrutiny.
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