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Newspaper
Maxwell Maxim
Location
Maxwell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
2
A community notice from Maxwell urges readers to support art and library efforts, proposing a local initiative and inviting suggestions. The piece notes a Christmas observance by Sunday school pupils, cattle and sheep shipments to Rocky Ford, a death in Koehler, a temporary absence of Mr. Case visiting Colorado Springs, active survey work, and resumed beet hauling after snow melt with favorable beet shape and high moisture content.
Colfax County fruit districts show mixed fortunes with Chase Orchard near Maxwell producing resilient trees and Jonathan apples praised for size and flavor. Grants of frost protection via irrigation are discussed, as Van Bruggen families expand orchards, while a raffle turkey and railway labor news add local color ahead of a big Red River Ditch project.
The Rev John L Scudder of the First Congregational Church Jersey City plans a clergymen baseball club. He says the team will play hard ball and notes several clergymen who excelled in college. He will play first base.
A patchwork of biographical notes covers Marconi born in Bologna in 1877, Spanish bullfighter Miazzantini with 3490 bulls killed in a 25 year career, and Senator Smith of South Carolina from a lineage of ministers. Taft sits on ornate White House furniture. Karl Nelson claims three reigns as peer. the Duke of Westminster reportedly owns famed silver. Bernard Ziehn of Chicago is praised as a leading musical theorist and scholar.
A newly patented barrel comes in two halves for nesting during shipment. A trough shaped rubber shield provides protection for linemen working near high voltage currents. A magnifying glass with a cap attachment fits pencils to aid precise drafting work. A Minnesota inventor patents a horizontal band saw on a pedestal with adjustable height to save timber.
Quo Vadis is among revived plays. The Lion and the Mouse tours England with an English company. Frances Starr stays in New York in The Easiest Way for two seasons. Ferdinand Gottschalk will adapt a German farce The Europeans. It is denied that Julia Marlowe and E Sothern will tour together. The Devil is among plays offered by summer stock companies.
German Gleanings notes duels in Germany surpass others with Berlin hosting a 300 member divorce club. Frankfurt authorities lease city land to encourage gardening among workers. Notices at the Essen works deny rumors of a divorce between Herr von Bohlen and Halbach and his wife Bertha Krupp.
An overview notes electric power used on 2.286 miles of street railways in Great Britain, with 148 miles operated by other means. It mentions a Hungary incident where a guard was arrested for simulating a signal to a midnight mail train, while he slept in his box. The piece compares global railway distribution, stating about 10 percent of world rails are in tropical regions and up to 15 percent in tropical and subtropical zones, with most tracks in temperate zones.
A Japanese scientist reports a new chemical element named nipperiuin found in three rare minerals. The article notes air density with 13.82 cubic feet per pound and submarine fog signals audible up to fifteen miles while lightning splits the air and the flash trails the cracks.
In a Scottish pulpit a country minister noted a teapot spout was blocked and quipped that the “dixsna-disna rin weel.” Miss Kennedy retorted that the minister’s own delivery was equally faulty, saying he had an ineffectual speech delivery.
A fragment notes the first English naval review in 1853, remarks on declining forgery and rare coinage versus fifty years earlier, mentions a 1005 birth tax in England with a two shilling minimum, and records King Edward’s chinaware valued at £400,000 guarded with strict care.
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