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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 20, 1915
Page
7
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A man suffered an accidental gunshot in a rural setting leading to a fatality. Details point to a mishandled firearm during a private gathering, with estates and local residents offering condolences. Investigators describe a tragic misfire and emphasize safety protocols.
In a Highland villa a tense plot unfolds as Hume Findlay and Isobel Calder face a dangerous scheme. Calder urges Isobel to secure money by deceiving Findlay while warning that Captain Styles hides in the house with dangerous aims. Edward Earling counsels sharper plans as the trio schemes to outwit a potential threat and flee.
A rural writer shares practical calf feeding guidance favoring ready-made meals over homemade mixtures. It details a top recipe with oatmeal linseed meal locust bean meal and arrowroot to prevent scouring, plus a dry feed blend of oats bran linseed cake meal molasses and hay chaff, with feeding amounts and method.
A tense drawing room scene unfolds where Mrs Calder rests with a headache while Captain Styles and Hume Findisy discuss Isobel. A secret note from Isobel triggers suspicions about a hidden scheme to lure money from a young admirer, triggering a planned intercession to keep her away. The men fear an impending catastrophe as Isobel’s influence grows.
Proper manuring elevates potato vitality when selecting tubers. Degeneration signs include elongated form with tapering seed end, numerous eyes, and more small potatoes. Selection principles apply across varieties, though some show eye variation and reduced segregation, influencing yield.
Canadian dairy farmers explored whey as pig feed after butter potential was noted. At the Ontario experiment station, 120 days of uniform mixed meal were given to five pig groups: skim milk, butter-milk, ordinary whey, separated whey, and water. Results not provided.
The report details experiments where pigs gained weight by consuming meal with varying proportions of skim milk, whey, and other dairy byproducts. It compares feeding values, noting higher than expected efficiency for whey and milk byproducts, with specific weight gains and percentages relative to skim milk.
A historical report examines dairy cows, noting Holsteins producing heavy milk require large water intake. On calving day, one cow yielded about 10 gallons of milk while consuming 8 gallons of water. overall daily intake rose with milk output. The judge stresses ample near by water rather than sheer volume, recommends at least twice daily access for high producers, and once daily for non‑milking cattle in winter.
A remedy for factory floors mixes 15 pounds of iron dust with 100 pounds of cement. The blend is added with half as much sand and laid about an inch thick. The resulting surface is described as durable for heavy wear, non slippery, and superior to plain cement in wear resistance.
Popular Mechanics describes a rotary electric floor scrubber that cleans from 4000 to 5000 square feet per hour. It is powered by electric current via a reel and cord and features an above unit water reservoir with a cleansing powder mix.
A historic note describes a waterproof cement blend used by U S Army engineers. It combines one part cement with two parts sand and three quarters of a pound of dry powdered alum per cubic foot of sand, dried then mixed with water containing three quarters of a pound of soap per gallon. It is claimed to be nearly as strong as ordinary cement and non efflorescent. For a wash a solution of one pound lye and two pounds cya hum in two gallons of water is suggested.
Hebron, a historic city in Palestine, is famed for Oriental water-bottles made from goat skins. Large tanneries turn out these vessels by the thousand as camel caravans bring skins from Arabia and Lebanon to be processed into water carriers for Syr ian and Euphrates river towns.
The U S Department of Agriculture laboratory chief envisions producing table syrup from apple juice, using seven gallons of cider per gallon of syrup. The product, attractive in color, sterilised and sealed, would keep indefinitely and store under household conditions like other syrups, with a flavour akin to a syrupy Apple taste.
The article reviews rising use of electric motors in pumping plants across city waterworks and sewage facilities. It notes two main pump classes, rotary versus piston pumps, and compares output, efficiency, and space needs. Examples include Bangkok water works using compact rotary groups and the Cocthen waterworks with underground well pumps.
A collection of quotes on kindness love truth and friendship from Emerson Goethe Luther Sheridan Binsley Sheridan Marcus Aurelius and Holmes. The fragmentary text presents aphorisms on social bonds conduct and the nature of life with no clear news event or named individuals beyond the cited authors.
The Lancet summarizes Colonel G. H. Makins H.A.M.C. on modern pointed bullets. He notes wound characteristics depend on initial velocity and instability of flight, with velocity less critical except for bone-conducting damage when hit at right angles.
A fragmentary reflection on royal power myths, the Kaiser's toad stone ring, and heirlooms tied to prosperity. It recalls Lipsin’s alleged amalgus, a copper and aluminum bracelet, and mentions coronation era events, pensions, and a British force action at Namur with mentions of Luxembourg and Steenkirk.
Sir Francis Wingate, long serving as Sirdar of Egypt, is praised as a superb linguist and officer. The article notes his early Arabic mastery, long tenure, motor vehicle advances in desert transport, numerous despatch mentions, and honors. It also recounts a Petrograd embassy anecdote and the birth of his daughter Victoria on a historic Sudan victory day.
The article traces monarchs long linked to military service from George II to George III, noting George II’s pride in leading allied troops to victory at Dettingen in Bavaria and describing the enduring royal connection to the Navy and Army through history.
A garbled report describes German forces poorly supplied with ammunition and references various historic defenses and skirmishes. It mentions Kickfergen Castle in 1760, soldiers running out of bullets, blue stones used as improvised projectiles, and a Leicestershire Rifleman Private Therwood during the Carolinas campaign of 1776, noting discarded weapons.
The article recalls Gladstone’s 1870 stance on Belgian neutrality amid Franco Prussian tensions and a surge of British interest in Belgian independence. It parallels today, noting his warning against absorption of Belgium and his later pledge to defend public right and liberty, even in war, if necessary.
In a light exchange among the Richleighs, Hogars jokes about being related to Fougs. Foers asks how distant the link is, and Hogas quips that it is as distant as they can keep him, highlighting a playful family dynamic.
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