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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
4
A verse from the New York Sun jokes that migrating to the Timbuktu climate can cure hay fever for a sneezing Podunk resident. The poem imagines a traveler seeking relief and finding it in a distant climate, with playful contrast between places.
Special Federal Bulletin cites Mississippi Normal College Professor Joe Cook arguing water handling causes physical decline in farm wives. He says lifting a ton of water daily exhausts strength, with six to ten bucketfuls daily lifting, and bills pumping system at about 250 dollars could prevent the drudgery.
The United States plans a powerful new radio station at Caimito in the Canal Zone called the Darien station. It will be among the world’s largest naval facilities with three towers of equal height, able to contact San Francisco Arlington Valdivia and Buenos Aires and reach St Vincent off Africa. The facility will relay government messages to naval vessels in southern waters while Colon and Balboa continue handling canal traffic.
Farmers Warren Farmer and T. W. Hubbard of Liberal Kansas claim hens protect orchard trees from worms by roving and scratching the ground while fencing the orchard. The plan, said to be costless and unpatented, reportedly yields tree protection and income. Dr Roberts of Hobart Tasmania reports Roentgen rays filtered through metals aiding cancer treatment with forty successful cases.
Perry centennial celebrates Lake Erie battle of 1813 marking peace century. Taft to deliver day’s oration with Wilson and Canadian official speakers. Delegations from ten states attend events Sept 10–11 at Put-in-Bay Ohio with ceremonies, banquets, and interfaith addresses.
A short chat recounts reactions to a hypothetical 300 million inheritance. Readers expect lavish plans, while the mind balks at the scale and the steady 5 percent interest would yield about 15.9 million annually. The piece notes people’s first impulses differ from considered choices.
Elephants in courtship prevent fighting by presenting progressively larger offerings of branches to the mate, a display that ends with the elephant securing the larger tree and the female choosing the winner. A Folk Lore study notes fishermen’s amulets include old fish remains, holes in stones, a dogfish stomach penny, dried kingfisher pieces, and other charms believed to bring luck or good weather.
A Boston Post item argues carbonic acid changes drive climate shifts more than solar variation, claiming a 50 percent drop could cool Earth eight degrees and trigger a new glacial period, while a 2 to 3 times increase could raise temperatures 15 degrees. It also notes Odoacer’s 476 AD proclamation as Italy’s king ended the western empire, with Byzantium falling in 1453. The piece weaves quotations and social snippets, including wry city loneliness and ads humor.
The article outlines three veneer methods sawed sliced and rotary with emphasis on how log type size and end use influence method. Sawing suits exterior finishes and figured grains while rotary cut provides wide sheets after steaming and knife shaving for many woods including imports.
The London Chronicle reports remarkable memory feats including Thomas Walsh who could name Hebrew and Greek word occurrences and meanings, John Wesley noting his prowess. Macaulay is cited as rival in memorizing Demosthenes Milton and Bible portions. A Scottish servant girl in fever reportedly recited long Hebrew Bible passages she overheard in a minister’s study.
At a corner during a light shower two men clash over umbrellas. One insists the other is holding his umbrella by a unique handle, while the oblivious man claims the umbrella as his own. The exchange ends with the second man admitting he forgot his umbrella.
A London Chronicle excerpt mocks old lightning theories and foibles of schoolboys. It shares a witty Niagara versus Victoria falls quip from a South African visitor and a Washington Star jab at a political claim about popular voice versus factual truth.
A Galveston News quips that walking is safer than riding with a drunken chauffeur or being shaved by an intoxicated barber, suggesting caution in choosing transportation.
A fragment shows a family exchange with a mother calling to her daughter and a daughter replying. The text hints at a domestic scene amid a loud room or prayer setting, with a distant preacher named Spurgeon referenced in quotation.
Minute items note hay fever season Chicago to host a suffragist training school Chinese waste lands near Nanking under pol icy Balkan war cost tallies show $353 per life lost Brown tailed moth invades Pennsylvania New England pest costs Farmers in Port Colden N J deal with stork flock scenario Married seven years father of twins twice triplets once and singles four times
Boston artist Joseph Knowles begins a two month experiment living naked in Maine forests near Big Spencer Lake twenty miles from settlement. He will forage, make shelter, craft weapons, and communicate by birch bark messages while painting with forest inks.
Dr William Warren of St Joseph Missouri reports to the pensions commissioner that his father had twenty five children by three wives who were sisters. The first two wives were twins the third wife also a twin. His mother bore triplets three boys including Warren who survived while all other children were twins and all twenty five are now dead. He is seventy six and will receive a pension increase.
Paris reports a Radium Society meeting announcing a case where a platinum tube with two centigrams of radium sulfate was inserted for several hours. The radiation caused gradual shrinkage of an enlarged prostate and stopped associated bleeding, suggesting new curative possibilities for radium in such ailments.
The article states France will withdraw bronze coinage and replace it with nickel 25 centime pieces, alongside the new French quint, and also introduce 2% centime pieces and nickel forms akin to the English farthing.
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