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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1912
Page
6
Note lists a business named E M Cox offering goo and heating wood services or products. The fragment mentions a cook 2a and identifiers but provides few details. The item reads as a brief local trade reference without a clear headline event.
A barber quiets a talkative patron who tries to recount a tale from 1871 about cold weather. The barber intervenes with shaves and lathers, repeatedly ending the chatter as the customer is moved along, noting many insist on recalling old extremes.
In New Jersey a minister's wife on the manse porch dismisses a stranger selling Bibles. She says no, fearing continued salesmanship after he asks for one. The man departs quietly repeating he has none and does not want one, prompting curiosity from her and neighbors. Lipincott's.
The Panama Canal lighting plan uses range lights on long tangents and side lights about a mile apart to mark the channel. Omitted in Culebra Cut and on four short tangents, the scheme includes lights and fog signals at the west breakwater in Limon Bay and the east breakwater if built, with gas and run bouys lighting and marking the Mount Hope dry dock. Acetylene gas will power buoys and beacons in Gatun lake and all canal sections use electricity or acetylene gas for Atlantic Pacific Miraflores and Culebra Cut beacons.
School dentistry has reached high development in Sweden with about thirty dental surgeries guiding pupil teeth under constant supervision. These clinics operate daily offering care at small fees. Germany, with twelve times Sweden’s population, reportedly runs about one hundred complete dental surgeries for children.
A local case centers on Jimson, a promising young man, who is being sued for breach of a stated obligation. The suit contends failure to meet expected duties, prompting legal action pursued by an opposing party in the court.
An old Yankee farmer on his deathbed desires a cake with nuts and currants. A neighbor bakes a rich fruit cake but the family cannot cut into it for fear of wasting it. They keep the cake for the funeral, denying the dying man any taste.
A dialogue shows Mrs Dixon asking if her husband believes in killing two birds with one stone. She notes he is vice president of the local Audubon Society, highlighting a tension between hunting and conservation.
A Johns Hopkins scientist and his wife report growing cellular substances outside organisms and claim the ability to produce chicken meat in saline solution. They say growth continues after removing portions and that the method could apply to any flesh.
The minister of Gobernacion ordered the return of Fedrico Perez Fernandez’s printing presses seized by the federal government in July 1906. Fernandez ran El Camillo Publico and was jailed after an article offended the authorities. several detainees died, and the editor was released after three years. The case, examined by Justice and Gobernacion, found the seizures illegal.
A terse exchange jokes that a wife shapes her husband and the punishment mirrors the crime. The quip pivots on the idea that marriage defines the man and consequences align with actions. The banter lands as a wry reflection on domestic roles and accountability.
Postponed sale due to severe weather lists livestock cattle sheep hogs farming implements and household goods for sale at 10 a m Monday February 26 1912 at residence 334 miles east of Kingman includes horses three mares two draft colts Shorthorn cow yearling steers eight breeding ewes buck wether brood sows shoats and farming gear with 8 percent interest notes 12 month credit on sums over five dollars cash on small amounts terms of sale set by Cal Hodges Col A G Madden Auctioneer C H Ratcliff Clerk.
Steam Corner reports Hardy Grady's child with scarletina. Grimes moves onto Fred Hutts farm. Arthur Phipps visited relatives near Waveland. John Shulers bought a new piano. Cook and Williams shipped sheep from Yeddo to Chicago. Glascock Jr and Howery visited Charley Hallett. William Coats drives the school wagon. Summers moved to Wabash township. Shaffer and mother moved to Till Booe farm from near New Market. Charley Thompson visited daughter Mrs Jas Coats. Lowe moved to Bingham farm. Camden plans return to his farm. Store chatter notes high feed prices and silage as a solution. five or six silos planned locally.
The Kingman Grain and Milling Co. was asked to provide information on Columbia Hog and Cattle powder. Daisy Gilkerson returned to her home in Scotland, NL on Monday after an extended visit with relatives.
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