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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
2
Captain Ez Titcomb unveils a modern wrecking vessel, the Diving Belle, with a 16hp gasoline engine and complete gear. Bradley learns they can buy the craft for 5000 dollars cash, forming the basis for future large jobs on the Jersey coast.
Bradley and Captain Titcomb invest in the Diving Belle after selling the Lizzie and a cranberry stake. They face a burglary scare in Orham while preparing the vessel, which gains a powerful engine and a secure cabin door with a hidden key.
On the Diving Belle a spring lock traps the crew until they retrieve a key on the cabin stairs. They use a fishhook to reach it and then dynamite to clear the hull while Bradley focuses on the work amid harbor intrigue and shipboard tensions.
The piece details horn composition as phosphate of lime gelatin and sibumen, noting lime hardens without brittleness and gelatin aids cutting. It explains horn core is bone removed by soaking, horn portions used for crucibles in precious metal melting, outer horn for knife handles, hollow horn softened by boiling, then flattened between iron plates for translucent horn sheets once used in windows and lanterns, and the horn's malleability when heated for various forms.
A shoe maker Karol Kowates in Pesth Hungary attracted patrons like Count Andrassy. He experimented with meerschaum cutting two pieces from a block and smoking one. Waxing the pipe created pale brown stains and a finer aroma, leading to waxed meerschaum becoming popular.
A Frankfort stock dealer asked for a stockman's pass to ship a calf from Frankfort to Kokomo. Eli Marvin, a Clover Leaf official, decided the calf should ride free as a passenger, noting the calf’s fare would be 70 cents if the man rode. The farmer could then pay the calf’s fare, effectively granting the calf a pass.
A new strawboard manufacturing method claims to harden straw pulp enough to substitute metal for machine journals. It is asserted a practical test proved the journals frictionless and requiring about half the lubrication of traditional metal journals. Dampening allows molding into shapes while maintaining rigidity when set.
London hospitals gain from the King Edward’s Hospital Fund with Carnegie’s 500,000 gift and significant royal and private contributions. King Edward and the Prince of Wales donate, while bequests from Mrs. Lewis-Hill Alfred Bell and George Herring fund the fund alongside other large gifts and loans.
Atherstone divorce of a planned marriage between 90 year old Marlow and his 64 year old housekeeper Gillett occurred after the registrar learned they were uncle and niece. The registrar refused to perform the ceremony, prompting the couple to cancel notices. The elderly man hoped to leave his fortune to his niece. They cited a Nun Eaton case as precedent.
Mr John Burns visited Berlin and German towns to study working conditions and the people. He observed guard corps manoeuvres at Wreschen, joining marches and camps to assess the nation’s physique for social betterment purposes.
The Illinois asylum inmates favor Henry James as top author. Gabriele dAnnunzio buys a car and aims for eighty mph. Hall Caine, a major landowner, has reclaimed bog land near Sulby. A memorial movement forms in Portsmouth New Hampshire for Thomas Bailey Aldrich to convert his grandfather’s old house into a memorial museum.
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