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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1905
Page
6
A collection of vivid excerpts highlights Winston Churchill as a sharp tongued foe of Chamberlain, and a tale of King’s visit to a ministry office where hours and attendance were clarified. The piece also notes geology debates around the Simpson tunnel showing theory versus reality.
Sir Frederick Bridge recalls meeting a discerning cabman with a fine organ at home who spends Sundays at his instrument. Bridge, after conducting The Messiah, learned the cabman’s keen musical judgment from that encounter.
A San Francisco hotel clerk remarks that men in hotel lobbies dress up at night, arguing the city is not wild and woolly. The comment echoes a Chronicle notice that San Francisco has risen toward New York levels in fashion and behavior. The piece then shifts to a 1909 census report on irrigation systems, detailing 3,415 irrigation setups irrigating nearly 9.5 million acres across 184,036 farms with total construction costs around 93.9 million dollars. It cites average costs per acre and per system, followed by a note on eye training as a supposed dangerous weapon for women, from a Boston Transcript item.
A roundup of short items from early 20th century newspapers, noting 1905 begins and ends on Sunday, a Boston conversation on mind phenomena, a navy surgeon general anecdote about a baby, a joke about Jim Jones and a clock, style quips on color, and a marital exchange about politics.
The article notes C. Bernstein of Berlin once played seventy five boards at once in simultaneous chess. Pillsbury has managed as many as fifty. The master must concentrate across many games, foreseeing moves and anticipating opponents' strategies while moving among boards. The piece likens the feat to mind reading and highlights the specialized mental discipline required.
For Counting Herringa. Ekenberg designed a machine that accepts herrings from the act, sorts into four trade sizes, scrapes scales, beheads, splits, cleans and washes them. It operates automatically and outputs 20,000 herrings per jour. Care of Tinware. Tinware rubbed with fresh lard and heated in the oven before use will resist rust even when immersed in water.
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