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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
2
A long, mixed Hollywood of nature and society pieces notes male pine warblers n laying, birds migration, and dress reform. Kahares as famed long distance runners. finrikisha men aging well. a Chicago professor’s debt cost study. cockroaches as disease carriers. and California women policemen on motorcycles.
Premier Robert L. Borden and Governor Sulzer spoke at the University Club of Albany dinner on Canada and the United States shared heritage. They urged preservation of forests and rivers, free trade, and closer commercial ties to make the Great Canadian Northwest a future granary. The remarks cited 4000 miles of undefended boundary and hopes for a century of peace.
A fragmented clipping links editing, an axe, and a teething remedy for children. It claims Mrs Winslow’s product soothes gums and wind colic while suggesting a deaf mute’s knowledge is hands on. It also notes LEWIS’ Single Binder cigars as reliable and a bill collector’s ability to locate people.
The article recounts vast hoards of Egyptian mummies and artifacts from tombs and museums. Hypocephali disks placed beneath mummy heads illuminate inscriptions once unreadable until the Rosetta Stone enabled Champollion to decode hieroglyphs. By 1841 a grammar emerged, accelerating understanding of ancient Egypt.
Touraine the garden of France rich in historic castles along the Loire valley including Blois Chambord Amboise Chenonceaux Langeais and Azay le Rideau. At Blois Joan of Arc raised her standard in 1429. The oldest part dates from the thirteenth century and includes the Louis XII wing with its famous portiere.
A consular report notes Indian corn scarce for the poor in Frances, with chestnuts substituting for nourishment. It describes the chestnut preparation method: shell removal, blanching, then wrapping in a wet cloth inside an earthen pot.
The text notes chestnuts are prepared by steaming in wet cloths and carried through city streets in baskets. Working people eat them for breakfast, with or without milk. Physicians call chestnuts wholesome, nutritious, and fattening, used boiled roasted steamed pureed or as dressings, and even made into bread by mountain peasantry.
A German professor Mein hardus calculated how long a water drop remains in the ocean before evaporation and return to the sea. He estimates total evaporation and ocean volume imply a drop stays about 5,460 years if waiting its turn, but surface water may exit sooner, averaging 12 days.
The will of Mrs. Margaret Carmichael Webster, burned to death at her Flushing New York home, directs cremation and that her ashes be scattered on the central flower bed in front of the Fresh Pond crematory in Queens. Made October 27, 1895, it was filed for probate recently in Queens County.
A look at pin production shows Birmingham factories can churn out about 10 million pins daily with dozens of sizes from tiny naturalist pins to four inch blanket pins. Pins and hairpins flood sewers and streets as cheap items quickly discarded, while automatic machines turn wire into finished pins in one pass.
A giant Dutch windmill, the largest in the world, was recently completed in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Standing 86 feet high with 57 foot rotor span, it cost 25,000 and can pump 70,000 gallons per hour through a 12 inch pipe over two miles in a 30 mile breeze.
A wireless operator in Persia sent a message that was distinctly received on a receiving setup near Melbourne, covering more than 6,200 miles. The long distance transmission demonstrates the reach of early wireless communication between Persia and Australia.
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