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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1919
Page
4
The French Government expresses great satisfaction and sincere gratitude for the services rendered to women workers in government factories through Y.W.C.A. foyers des Alibces clubrooms for maniflonettes. These foyers improve physical conditions and morale and provide social education. Minister M. Loucher signs the note.
A visitor asks about ruins and the hotel proprietor deflects with a note that old Judge, defeated four times for the United States Senate, is in town, implying a different kind of landmark.
War work by the W A C A creates a women’s cooperative in Moscow where princesses and peasant women work together sewing, millinery, and dressmaking to support families. The program funds permanent earnings and helps a general’s wife avoid poverty. Separately, researchers report potential oil from cocopal palm nuts in Central and tropical South America.
Nurses at a French base hospital staged a living picture show without film or props. A Roumanian countess attended as a guest while other nurses from a nearby hospital watched the improvised western with broom horse rides and improvised scenery.
Insignia and plaid summer dresses were reconstructed into window curtains to furnish the Archangel YWCA Hostess House for American troops amid shortages. The article notes Archangel as the fourth Russian city with YWCA presence, with centers also in Petrograd Moscow and Samara. It mentions plans for a second Hostess House in Castner Hawaii and a 15 day period hosting 2,152 visitors from multiple nationalities, plus a note on Kwakiutl carved wooden dishes used for Indian festivals in New York City.
Small splinters from Cremona violins yield a consistent note when bowed, and the pitch increases when the wood is taken from the belly of the instrument. This finding contrasts with wood from other parts, suggesting a structural influence on tone across the instrument’s body.
Popular Science Monthly notes railroad ties last about eight years under normal use and doubling their life with kiln drying and hot creosote. Treated ties are waterproof and rot resistant, but renewal costs and labor are high. The lute, once an old prized instrument with a beautiful tone, vanished due to its size and complexity. Modern minstrels favor mandolin guitar or banjo.
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