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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
5
For new cars care in the first months is vital as the varnish hardens slowly and is easily scratched. Use pure castile soap or non alkali soaps to remove grease, avoid gasoline, rinse with lukewarm water, and wipe with a chamois skin. Dry carefully and dust interiors with a woolen duster. Plate glass windows cleaned with soapy water.
A Popular Science Monthly note explains a waxing technique using a chamois to absorb moisture from the skin after rinsing, ensuring the cloth is grit free. Wan polishes have long been marketed and applied with a clean cheese cloth to apply and distribute the wax evenly.
A reader describes an inexpert method to prevent engine overheating by soldering a copper wire to the top of a cylinder. The sizzling solder melts and the engine stalls, illustrating dangerous and faulty repair attempts.
The article advises carefully inspecting the tire after removing the puncture, running the tire to determine if the damage was caused by nails or other objects, and considering the possibility of a faulty replacement tire affecting the cause of a puncture.
Don’t run your car with wheels out of alignment or let tires underperform. Don’t underinflate or overinflate and ignore cuts. Don’t use tires smaller than recommended or nameless tubes. follow maker guidance and rotate inner tubes every three months.
A practice for cleaning gasoline engine cylinders uses long handed scraping tools with hardened edges. The piston should be in the uppermost position to prevent tool slips that could scratch the cylinder wall.
Underinflation harms tire mileage and life. To estimate proper pressure quickly divide the load by 48 for four inch tyres or by 64 for five inch tyres, then adjust to maintain correct air pressure for optimal mileage and engine efficiency.
A garbled car care column warns drivers to avoid aggressive driving and misadjusted components. It emphasizes not overloading cooling and ignition systems, checking radiator flow, and preventing headlamp and bulb damage to avoid rapid wear.
Travelers report wartime Hamburg shows little visible devastation yet deep misery. About 150000 out of work, prices sky high, homes scarce and rationed basics create strain. Wages reach 50–60 marks daily while essentials like pork, butter and bread command steep prices.
The passage describes widespread discontent in Germany with profiteers called Scheibers profiting from wartime licenses while workers, teachers, and clerks struggle to feed families. Hamburg faces daily strikes as 450,000 are unemployed, including 40,000 seafaring workers. The town hall is barricaded after a recent revolution, and tax changes will force a 40 percent income tax rise.
Charles TH Spencer unveils a gravity fed water system drawing on an underground flow from San Francisco mountains. He creates Crater Lake reservoir with 150 million gallons and uses seven extinct basins with 2 billion gallons total capacity. No pumping needed, water flows by gravity to irrigate Arizona desert lands.
Ottawa reports the United States as Canada’s largest customer for year ending May 31 with exports totaling 1.259 billion dollars, down 819 million from last year. US shipments rose by 22 million while UK exports fell sharply by 101.7 million. Total imports of dutiable goods jumped to 72.08 million, with free goods up 37.13 million, driven mainly by the UK US British West Indies and Cuba.
Cottage Grove resident J W Eddy found that feed affects egg quality. He fed sunflowers to hens and one produced an egg with a sunflower shell impression. He plans to name the place the Sunflower chicken ranch.
A storm toppled the Ottoman era bul mi known as the tree of fate outside Jerusalem’s walls. Once tied with iron hoops and braced by posts to prevent collapse, the withered tree’s destruction is seen by many Turks as a fatal omen for the empire of the Caliphs.
The unemployed form bands in Hamburg as Reichswehr units: gray clad soldiers carry rifles and swords with orders to shoot bandits on sight. Housing strains grow as workers flood the city, drawn by higher benefits, while American firms like American Express and International Mercantile Marine establish offices in Tampurg.
In Columbus Indiana Mrs John Sprague escaped death when her horse bolted. Charles Hiatt fired up his fligger with David Marr aboard to pursue. Marr leapt from the auto, seized the reins, and halted the horse just before a high embankment.
Cammie a mascot dog who served thirteen months with the third division in France died at the home of his adopter John Ways in Shadyside Ohio. The dog was found in Cohan near the Marne during the Aisne Maine offensive and became the division mascot.
The Agricultural Department reports U S rice exports to Japan exceeded 300000 pounds in the first quarter, vastly higher than all of 1919. California rice fields, starting 1912 Sacramento Valley, now power a $21 million annual trade with 12 mills and strong growth prospects.
Mrs. Ia E. Ess of Batavia owns a pig with three eyes two snouts two mouths and two tongues. The unusual animal can see with all three eyes and squeal from both throats at once. It is one of eleven pigs and shows signs of living healthily.
In Collenz Germany Arthur Schultz, now a 2% Military policeman, encounters his childhood friend Bertha Borgolte, once a yellow haired neighbor girl in Toledo. Bertha plans to join Schultz in the United States as Mrs Schultz after years apart and wartime separation.
In Brownsite Indiana B J Rew sought safety in a cherry tree after a bull charged him on his farm. The enraged bull kept guard beneath the limb all afternoon while Rew waited for rescue. Evening passerby W M Martin used a club to drive the bull off and end the ordeal.
Edith Sergent, seventeen, denies love for the mountaineer Uriah Bates alleged in the murder of her father Sarah Sergent. Bates and his brother Bobbie stand trial as the elder Sergent is lured to the mountains and slain. his body found in a ravine two weeks later after a marriage license plot surfaces.
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