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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
6
A collection of short agricultural notes discusses oil, Herefords, cotton, lima beans, and fruit prospects in the Pacific and Texas. It notes corn prices, fruit profits, a Nile dam investment, poultry and eggs, lettuce transplanting, and wolf bounty in Minnesota. It also covers farm equipment, feeding practices, and a peanuts fortune from a train boy who now runs a large operation.
A rural Iowa farmer wins a corn prize with 215 bushels on a small strip of land. Comments critique muddy highways, crop pests, and the value of drag improvements. Notes urge plant protection, cherry netting, cautious medicine use, and the need for strict butter and cheese export inspections.
An aged three tine fork, worn from decades of farm life, rests in a barn. It witnessed Minnesota wheat shocks in the sixties and spring pickerel catches, surviving rough use and harsh days. A mute relic of pioneer labor, it embodies memories of ox teams, plows, cornmeal, prairie fires, and old prices long gone.
A column advocates women's business potential beyond marriage, citing a Dakota woman investing clerk earnings into cattle and sheep. It notes lands improved by drainage and urges forage crops, detailing barley millet, corn, and rye rotations. Observes blossoming week with fruit trees and bees, warns against weak public sentiment and outdated school tree laws.
The article explains historical methods to measure heat, from the eye to a platinized electric pyrometer. It highlights Norton of MIT and the shift to resistance-based temperature measurement, including telephones and thermophones. It notes the aim to accurately record platinum's boiling point in the future.
In Canada multiple mines produce asbestos and a large site near Sherbrooks Ontario is detailed. Open quarries extract serpentine rock, then manual and mechanical separation begins. Fibrous asbestos is freed, fractured rock crushed, and fibers separated by air blast.
A physician returning from Persia notes that locals regard human tears as a remedy for chronic diseases. At funerals tears are collected with sponges for mourners, then squeezed into bottles by a priest who keeps them as part of the ceremony.
A continental scientist introduces Magnasium, an alloy of aluminium and magnesium. Claims it is lighter than aluminium yet as workable as brass or copper and stronger than brass. Reportedly does not oxidize and resists fumes from ammonia and sulfuric acid. It can be turned bored drilled milled fired ground and polished easily.
A Swiss museum houses the tiniest watch ever made. Inserted in an antique pencil case, the three sixteenths of an inch dial shows hours minutes seconds and the days of the month. It keeps excellent time and is a marvel of workmanship.
Consul General Guenther reports acetylene gas experiments at the Altenbruch lighthouse where the strongest petroleum light proved too weak. German papers claim satisfactory results and anticipate extensive use of acetylene gas for lighthouses. A new phosphorescent gas from radium by M Curie is announced, lingering glow for months.
The schedule effective May 26 lists Massillon train times on the Pennsylvania Lines for East and West routes. An excursion to Buffalo for the Pan-American Exposition offers multiple sale dates from May 5 to September 30 with special fares and return options, including a 15 day return and limited five day return tickets. Tickets are available through Pennsylvania Lines agents with time cards maps and official exposition details.
Advertisement for Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway routes via Queen & Crescent and Pennsylvania lines offering low rates direct service to California colonists sales resumed for Northwest West South and Southeast settlers tickets. Details on through time fares available from passenger and ticket agents. Includes a kidney health notice and Masseillon timetable snippet.
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