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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
1
Mansfield readers learn of banking, hardware sales, and farm loan offers at N. J. Craig’s bank. Local visits include Miss Vida and Mabel Coday in Hartville and Prof J A Hylton’s Ava trip. Community notes cover births, furniture buys, school notices, and a Masonry installation with recounts of the festive event.
A wide-ranging piece notes water’s surprising force from hoses and water jets to elevators and hydraulic rams. It describes a blacksmith’s failed attempt to pierce a jet with a sledgehammer, a cavalryman breaking a sword, and a water jet damaging Toledo blades, all underscoring water’s dangerous strength. A domestic anecdote about a blind man, a walking stick, and a beaver hat adds local color from the Atlanta Constitution.
Pike's Peak rises as a beacon in Colorado, forming a wonderland of grand mountains and dramatic canyons. The region features colossal rock formations, medicinal springs, and a dramatic climate praised for health and renewal.
A clipped Marion item praises the Ladies Aid Society for funding and staffing a grand church. It details construction costs, donations by deacons, and ongoing fund raising for carpet and upkeep while humorously noting the sisters’ tireless labor and impact on the community.
The piece extols Alaska’s mineral wealth surpassing California, Australia, and Wales in various metals while praising its vast, fertile lands. It argues the virgin empire is landlocked inland, with rivers flowing north to ice bound seas seven months yearly, and asserts that railroads must be built to unlock commerce from Pacific harbors.
A German engineer says earth differentiation in electricity could allow mining for power as profitable as coal. In shallow bore tests he found weak currents between submerged and surface rods and urges testing deeper 60-foot copper cylinders and buried iron pipes to charge accumulators from earth currents, offering a potential new source of light heat and power.
The Technical World reports that wheat and hog spit can produce rubber, signaling a new value for farm products. It credits English inventor Carr, who formed the material from chewed wheat as a boy, later refining it in sheds and labs before access to better facilities in England.
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