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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1917
Page
7
An expert explains that a vehicle’s weight when loaded determines optimal tire air pressure. By calculating load per tire using simple divisions, a motorist can maintain tires as effective shock absorbers and protect sidewalls. Example shows a 2880 pound car with four inch tires needing 60 psi.
A Scribner's Essay excerpt discusses gardening as a lifelong devotion, comparing it to Chaucer and other passions. It portrays gardening as a stable, enduring hobby that grips both young and old, including bachelors and spinsters, and calls it the recreation of poets and artists across ages.
The article notes heat as vital for plant growth and says well drained soils stay warmer and warm faster after cold spells. It also mentions dynamiting heavy soils as potentially paying, and includes a stray, decayed folk passage about moss bread made by the Sabla river Indians and other garbled phrases.
O H Claudy notes in the Woman's Home Companion that baseball fielding hinges on swift execution. He says it takes roughly the time from plate to first base for a ball to be fielded and thrown by the shortstop to the catcher, with any hesitation prompting a safe call.
A partial text discusses how facial appearance is not a sign of inner character and questions understanding based on external looks. The readable segment hints at gendered voice and uncertainty about interpretation.
The American Forestry association warns of the white pine blister rust threatening vast pine forests in the United States and Canada. It urges immediate destruction of currant and gooseberry bushes and infected pines to halt spread, noting billions in pine value at stake and the rust’s potential to devastate regional forests.
The gamma rays from radium are about one ten thousandth of a millimeter long and extend to waves over 10,000 meters. Professor David Vance Guthrie of Louisiana State University notes the scales of electromagnetic waves cover about forty eight octaves, with visible light making up a single octave.
A. A. Saunders of Norwalk Conn says the wren is valuable and interesting with a cheerful song. Insects form most of its diet as wrens work from daylight to dark in June gathering caterpillars to feed their young.
Chief Justice John Marshall states that a constitution is the superior law unchangeable by ordinary means or alterable only by legislative action with consent. He argues all written constitutions are fundamental law and any legislative act repugnant to the constitution is void.
A good potato should be firm and crisp when cut. Holding the potato to light shows a uniform starch distribution across the whole tuber, unlike a large translucent watery center. This even starch ensures uniform cooking and texture of the mesh when cooked.
Small metal office clips prove handy for clipping curtains at night avoiding holes from pins. Clips prevent curtains from blowing out of screenless windows and leave no telltale holes.
The National Hymn The Star Spangled Banner is honored under military service regulations requiring it at colors and retreat rather than by act of Congress.
A fragment from a 19th century poem notes dew refreshing faded fields and kind words cheering a suffering heart.
Baldwin Stone spends his two week vacation with his mother in a city apartment amid rumors of a distressing cry from the floor below. A chance meeting with Abigail Martin, a medical student and would be doctor, leads to a double life plan and a surprise proposal as both head to Argentina.
Major Grayson Murphy relays a full cable from Harvard University base hospital in France detailing a German air attack on September 4. Five bombs killed Lieut. William Fitzsimons and wounded several officers, privates, a nurse, and 22 British patients. hospital staff worked through the night and the next day to treat around 200 wounded amid smoke, torn tents, and medical urgency.
At a Klamath Indian Progressive club meeting, members pass resolutions asking the U.S. government to treat them as individuals rather than as a tribe. They seek to sell tribal timber and divide the proceeds among members while noting the reservation spans about 50 by 60 miles with timber and water resources.
A report from an American harbor cites new German U boat periscope plating aimed at evading detection. Officers claim silver coating makes periscopes appear nearly invisible to observers at Atlantic ports.
The Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, dissolves gravel, cures diabetes and rheumatism, and helps back and urinary issues for men and women. If not available locally, can be mailed on receipt of $1.00. Each small bottle lasts two months and often completes a cure. Testimonials available from Dr. E. W. Hall in Saint Louis Missouri. Sold by druggists everywhere.
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