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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
12
In Naples a private Italian firm La Fondaria outfits offices with per ride elevators costing two cents. Tenants and outsiders pay the same, with an attendant issuing a one course ticket. The American consulate on Piazza Municipio uses the service 10 to 2, though doors close after hours.
The pope Pius X mocks long trains in skirts during a casual audience. He jokes about hygiene and microbes from skirts while guests discuss fashion, then acts by walking around with his robe held up like a lady's train.
The Tatler reports Kaiser Wilhelm favors unusually large but medium strength cigarettes costing fifteen pfennigs, seen often during rides in the Thiergarten and maneuvers. He smokes a cheap Dutch cigar around ten pfennigs, and at hunting uses a pipe with charry wood stem horn mouthpiece and meerschaum bowl wrapped in straw.
Popular Mechanics notes California lawmakers allocate five thousand dollars to place stone guide posts in desert areas. The aim is to direct lost prospectors to springs and streams and reduce deaths from thirst as dozens undertake the project.
Lord Howard de Walden of Uganda supplies zebras for street car traction in Zanzibar. The 40,000 acre zebra farm owner says zebras outperform mules in the hot climate and resist tsetse fly attacks.
Experiments show alum crystals form in highly saturated solutions with force strong enough to resist external pressure. The growth resembles crystals of pyrite splitting slate layers without altering the crystals' form.
When the Ganton River water recedes, Chinese fishermen catch gobies by sliding on mud. They use a board four to five feet long and a foot wide with a raised front and hand rest. They kneel on the board and push themselves forward with an oar-like foot.
Dialogue sketch notes a stout woman lamenting size with a friend while Marjory suggests eating flies as a jest. The scene includes kitten imagery and reflective mood in a humorous vignette.
In a witty exchange, Mrs Dashawany asks why Colonel Oldboy never married and he replies he would not marry a woman who would marry him, a quip captured in the Philadelphia Press.
A playful aside from Miss Money Meow in a Woman's Home Companion piece notes love and a cat’s steady heartbeat, linking affection with a feline muse.
Colorado leads in beet sugar with fifteen factories and rapid growth. Beets yield about 1,500,600 tons annually worth 7.5 million dollars, spurring transport lines and local business growth. Pulp and molasses now form valuable by products used as cattle feed and planned alcohol manufacture from waste molasses.
Ohio experiment station reports potato blight resistance varies by variety and by hill. Seed from blight resistant hills shows stronger resistance and can build durable lines. Save seed from resistant hills, discard poor yielding ones, and repeat over two to three seasons to expand plantable acreage. Resistance remains evident for three years in tests.
A terse line from a Black and White column depicts a playful jab at a military figure, noting a single nibble of wit and the foolhardy fear it stirs among the fish. The fragment evokes a satirical mood and period voice.
A fragment shows a family reunion conversation with a question about others joining and an unsatisfactory answer noting that relatives did not attend or participate as hoped.
Western yellow pine is valuable for its light, strong, dense wood and broad use in the Rocky mountains. It forms strong watershed cover due to dense foliage, reproduces from seed, and naturally regenerates where old trees remain. Cones mature in fall of the second year and seeds store well in dry cool places for several years with moderate vitality loss.
The first and second generations of the codling moth will overlap so larvae remain in apples throughout the season. In the Ozarks the second generation emerges around July 15 and increases through late July and early August, notes A. L. Quaintance.
A Kansas farmer reports large gains in steer feeding using cotton seed cake. Over 140 days on six carloads of steers he averaged 3.4 pounds per day, with three pounds of cake fed at the finish.
A Kansas Farmer remark urges selecting skilled blacksmiths for horse care. The note contrasts proficient smiths with bunglers and links poor shoeing to horse foot troubles.
A summarizing note from American Cultivator on how soil and air temperatures, tuber maturity, and soil type affect boiled potato texture and flavor. It explains ideal planting depths of 3 to 6 inches, node formation, and how uniform soil temperature around 65 to 75 degrees fosters good quality. ranges and issues with depths outside this band are detailed with practical guidance.
Fragment from a Kansas City Times page shows a boy being ordered to the blacking factory for wholesale shoe shines. The terse dialogue captures a streetwise interaction over work and authority.
Crouch explains a simple dairy house design using cheap materials on a 10 by 12 foundation with eight foot posts. A double wall with vapor barrier creates a dead air nonconductor space, with light from windows each side and a chimney for a stove. A 10 by 12 shed fits a separator churn worker and table, and smaller rooms suit delivery to a creamery. the key is aerating and washing dairy utensils.
The notes advise rubbing off half the shoots on raspberry canes to produce fine berries. It warns gardeners around orchard trees to avoid striking the bark to prevent canker. It also suggests removing blackberry suckers by lifting with a fork and cutting them deeply where they encroach.
In successful farming the principle like begets like should guide practice. Thorough tillage and heavy fertilization improve crop prospects, with clover sod as a key target for corn. Breeding and stock raising benefit from well defined purpose and positive results.
A dialogue fragment questions Willie on recent behavior and challenges his grasp of heredity. The text cites a reply about discrediting the theory of heredity as discussed in Woman's Home Companion.
A woman asks if a gift tie is in good taste for a man while a shop assistant claims to have picked it from a large stock. The exchange appears in a humorous Punch magazine snippet.
A man matching the suspect profile is arrested but noted as missing a glass eye, prompting a corrective remark by the prosecutor about the description. The exchange portrays the arrest scene with humorous dialogue about the suspect's physical detail.
A World’s Work analysis contrasts Germany’s masculine social life with high civic culture and strict gender roles against the United States where more men outnumber women, women work less at home, yet shape American culture. It notes Russian women as possibly finer, while praising Germany’s schools, arts, and architecture and criticizing its moral standards and militarism.
Naturalists once credited spines with protection from snake venom but new tests show hedgehogs tolerate bites to nose or eyes and possess a blood substance acting as an antidote. Researchers seek a serum usable against venom and other poisons in general.
A traveller notes Tibet natives deceive European hunters by staging a fake ibex head exchange. A hunter breaches difficult terrain and is told to pay villagers to locate a head, while a guide uses a soaked old head and fresh sheep flesh to produce a convincing trophy and keep the backsheesh.
A Buffalo Times excerpt recalls a Warsaw resident now on the Pacific Coast who twenty three years ago stole a roll of table linen from Thomas Glover’s dry goods sale day. She sent a penitent letter with repayment and sought forgiveness from Glover.
The article explains amber as ancient gum from trees once covering parts of Earth and preserved insects within. It notes the Baltic as the main source where locals gather amber in rough seas while divers hunt beneath rocks and seaweed for lumps. The largest piece found weighed eighteen pounds and is housed in the Royal Museum in Berlin.
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