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Newspaper
Pocahontas County Sun
Location
Laurens, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
6
The patent office will require a working model with any perpetual motion patent filing. Applicants pay 15 dollars and an examiner decides merit. meritorious claims proceed to model tests, others lose the fee. Officials say the rule saves time and money for the government and for financially strained inventors.
Bemidji Minn Ninth installment of a treaty payment to Red Lake Indians is under way at the reservation with 1 479 participants. Each receives 61 75 dollars, totaling about 91075 for this payment, two thirds already disbursed. Before payment, the agency physician must examine each patient and vaccinate those indicated, recording a card index of all examinations.
New York opens a science driven restaurant offering a 10 cent meal providing 1000 calories for light work. Menu devised by Professor Graham Lusk includes beans pork butter milk and coffee totaling 1000 heat units per Luncheon. Three meals reach 3000 units, enabling more calories with a larger evening meal.
Vancouver recalls a weak tomcat found wandering from a sealed Milwaukee beer car. Customs officers fed the malnourished cat at the Canadian Pacific wharf and expect its recovery. In Colorado a mountain lion is blamed for elk killings near Estes Park, with park rangers and trappers searching for the animal after missing traces.
Vienna reports the ailing emperor resists leaving Schoenbrunn fearing abdication. He endures a cold, hunts in youth, and to stay put keeps to rooms and walking in a sunless gallery. Crowds in the capital show devotion as Vienna awaits news of his recovery.
A farmer tells how starting a bank account with ten dollars transformed his finances. He notes cash enables seizing opportunities, paying for good buys, and building discipline. The piece argues that savings foster ambition, activity, and community improvement. The Chicago News reports.
The weather house, largely Swiss made, uses catgut twisting to move a platform with two figures. Moist air twists the catgut to reveal the man at one door while dry conditions bring the woman forward at her door. Making a weather house is described as an easy matter.
A shopper in London Opinion recalls buying a sable scarf after a salesman suggested a two headed fur. The sister critiques the purchase with a wry line about the scarf having thirteen tails, highlighting the joke on unnatural furs.
A London Chronicle remark argues that true chance is unknowable due to the unseen physical and mental forces behind a coin flip. It suggests ignorance of these forces makes luck the only element left, and even calculating them would not let one predict outcomes.
A Hindustan fakir custom involves gripping the hand so tightly that nails grow through the palm and emerge at the back, with the arm supported by cords as muscles fail. The practice, described in a historical note, centers on prolonged static posture and pain as a test of endurance.
The passage chronicles how caricature surged in the 18th century driven by financial schemes in France under John Law, inspiring artists like Hogarth in Britain. It notes nobles chasing shares, mass contract work, and the political use of caricature to challenge leaders, influencing public opinion and governance.
A famed English gentleman hired a tall highlander as gamekeeper. After weeks with no poaching, he dressed as a poacher at night, was attacked, kicked, and beaten until nearly unconscious, and his gun was taken. He returned home ill for two weeks, left doubting the keeper’s loyalty.
The teacher asks Peters what makes sea water salty. Peters answers with a detailed definition of saline flavor caused by chloride of sodium. The teacher confirms and moves to the next student.
A London Telegraph note recalls a foreign painter who breakfasted with Whistler at Chelsea. When asked if he had visited recently, the artist says he was invited to breakfast but left after paying cab fare and half a crown. He describes a goldfish bowl and a single egg with toast.
In a Puck excerpt an architect pleads for design discretion as Mrs Drippin gold demands visible towers for the planned country house. She specifies ancestral Norman or Gothic towers, framing the grand project in Renaissance, classic and Queen Anne styles.
Herr Slager, a wealthy banker, was repeatedly robbed of watches yet gradually stopped guarding his pockets. One evening he read the news and learned a watch had detonated, shattering a thief’s hands and destroying an eye, as the banker had packed the case with dynamite to trigger during winding.
Samuel Butler, author of Hrewhon, now better read than in life, died 1902. A notebook anecdote recalls a scene with Charles Darwin and a hippo cage as a little girl misreads a bird as dead and urges her brother to move along.
Kits of sailors lost at sea are sold regularly at auction at the Albert docks in London. The sale displays many sea chests bearing ship names, drawing attendees who mourn lost friends or relatives as familiar objects trigger the first news of a loss.
The article traces the craft of weaving stockings to England and Rev. Mr. Lee of Cambridge who devised frame weaving in 1589, twenty five years after learning to knit with needles. It notes cotton stockings first appeared in 1730 and contrasts ancient cloth coverings with later knit hose in Europe.
Two weeks in Colorado costs no more than a standard local resort vacation. Rooms from $7 weekly with meals possible. Travel on daily Rock Island Limited trains to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo aboard modern all steel equipment with dining car service. Agents Hal S. Ray and Des Moines office assist planning and bookings for June 1 to September 30.
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