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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
6
A weary college instructor buys a New England farm and plans immediate work. He boards with Bert Temple who helps hire a carpenter and a farmer. Hard Cider estimates repairs while Mike begins plowing and pruning orchards.
A bachelor narrator forges a garden and lawn project with Hard Cider the carpenter, scraping and shaping a 250 foot slope to level the future sundial lawn while managing a bookcase, a grape arbor, and kitchen plans. He negotiates help from a town road boss for a road scraper, contemplates a library room setup, and ends with news of new boarders including Mrs Pillig and her son Peter along with a New York visitor.
Raffia wax from Madagascar has never been produced in large quantities or exported from the island section. The wax is made from raffia palm leaf dust boiled to a creamy brittle solid. The Majunga coast began its production but shipments never expanded beyond experiments. Tamatave exporters estimate a minimal price of 3 to 3.50 francs per kilo if demand existed.
A narrator reads a manuscript in a chamber while a female boarder mutters about a patient named Mrs Temple. The exchange hints at nerves and a house not ready as painters have not begun.
The narrator revisits lunch with Mrs Temple and plans to delay meeting the female POEs. A road scraper with eight foot blade, pulled by four horses, reshapes furrows as the lawn grows. He adjusts stakes and pergola plans, calculating beds and distances from the house.
A day spent leveling a sun-dial lawn reveals the farmer’s interest in aesthetics of soil work while he questions Mrs. Temple about taking in a female boarder, prompting curiosity about social norms in their circle.
In a provincial English town an famed fast-talking old maid confronts a pedlar at her door. She dismisses him with there's nothing you can sell me that will be of any use. He replies he is selling only mouse traps not muzzles, turning away with a sly retort.
A pew minister asks Mr Jones if he has reflected on joining the great silent majority and jokes about asking his wife to practice silence on earth.
Consul James G. Carter at Tamatave records a price range of 0.263 to 0.307 per pound in a brief trade notice.
An official report cites epoch making inventions of the last fifty years. Thirty six are credited to United States people and fourteen to foreign inventors. The top ten American items include American Telephone, type writer, cash register, incandescent lamp, talking machine, electric furnace reduction, electrolytic alkali production, transparent photograph film, motion picture machine, buttonhole sewing machine. Foreign items include electric steel, dynamite, artificial alizavens dye, siphon recorder, gas engine, wireless telegraphy, smokeless powder, Diesel oil motor, centrifugal creamer, manganese steel.
The Milwaukee public school system has installed 25 pool or billiard tables in its buildings as an educational method. The move draws remarks about using game-based learning to engage students and teach practical skills.
The famed wanderer nicknamed Hobo Matt returns to Bodie to reclaim a long-lost ledge. After facing disbelief from broker J Cain and Lester Bell, Matt’s persistence uncovers a vast vein, fulfilling a lifelong dream and bringing a fortune from the old Beehive era.
In a reflective exchange Meekton pauses over Women’s suffrage as Henrietta’s stance shifts. He recalls past support but notes her current silence on fate and the possibility of changing her mind.
Water from a central natural hot spring in Acqui Italy heats a large hospital formerly a school. The spring supplies boiling water for heating washing and cleaning, removing the need for fires except in kitchens.
A concise view emphasizes that labor forms the foundation of national wealth and progress. It argues work and productivity drive economic strength and prosperity across nations.
Meerschaum waste is converted into a stain removing powder for fabrics and an inferior pipe by binding scraps with a binding solution into solid blocks.
A terse exchange hints at a son pursuing studies at a university while another father notes he is lagging behind. A distant siren interrupts the moment, lending urgency to the scene.
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