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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1913
Page
7
An 1912 construction note describes a simple practical wheelbarrow built from a cast iron pulley wheel or wagon wheel, or a homemade wooden wheel. It outlines frame parts, leg placement, box sizing from a grocery crate, assembly steps, finishing, and the care needed for a sturdy garden helper.
The guide explains making wheelbarrow handles by splitting a 2x4 to create thick handles, rounding ends with knives, and assembling blocks B to support the axle ends. It details axle sizing, punching holes, washers from wood, and centering the wheel before attaching connecting strips E F and G to bars A, with measurements for placement and fitting.
A gray headed observer recalls meeting a ragged tramp outside a second hand book store who asked him to buy a French classic, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. The tramp pleaded in simple terms and offered ten cents, and the narrator bought the book to satisfy the man’s odd wish.
An Atlantic contributor observes that principles alone lack impact unless held by individuals. People carry them as superstition in pockets or wear them openly like garments, with many other forms of intimate, reciprocal influence shaping how a principle resonates within a temperament.
The Worcester Telegram notes a thirty plus pound German carp pulled from Quannapowitt lake Wakefield as the state’s largest freshwater catch. The fish feeds on vegetables, ignores standard bait, and could draw attention in other Massachusetts lakes. The piece casts the catch as thrift and mass appeal rather than sport.
Makino Jutaro, a Japanese national, is imprisoned for life in Tokyo after locking his elderly mother-in-law in her home during the Osaka conflagration with the intent to burn her alive. He hoped she would be killed in the blaze.
Harris Orum of Alberta homesteaded 160 acres in 1902 and expanded to 1,920 acres devoted to mixed farming. He markets 100 to 125 hogs and similar cattle annually, with 200 hogs, 25 draft horses, and 35 Hereford cattle. Barley yields about 40 bushels per acre and oats 80. The article notes sunshine, fertile soil, and high profits from truck gardening and poultry.
A Capestang vineyard owner was fined for gathering grapes left on vines after harvest under a 1779 law. Beziers court upheld the policeman's view that such grapes belong to the poor, convicting the woman for the act.
An elderly Kentucky man, W D Smith of Ethel, credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing back strain related inflammation and kidney trouble. He extols long term use, offers his photo, and notes free poetry and music materials from Dodd's Medicine Co. Buffalo NY, with request to publish.
In a brief theater moment Jack offers his seat to only pretty girls. Bella counters by saying they will take seats from handsome men. The playful quip highlights flirtatious banter between the pair.
The article notes Ceylon's tea plantations reaching 1,500 and annual black tea exports near 20 million dollars, replacing coffee after a plant disease in 1880. Labor is mainly Southern Indian natives with wages from eight to sixteen cents daily and foremen earning about 200 dollars monthly, while capital costs and machinery feed from stored tea leaves.
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