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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
5
Minnesota senator Knute Nelson nicknamed the Polar Bear sits in the Senate chamber discussing how cold Nordic air and brisk weather keep him young. He argues a harsh climate boosts energy and counters sluggishness and asserts Northern vitality contrasts with southern races.
London society discusses the official engagement of Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of the Duke of Connaught, and the Duchess of Fife, elder daughter of the Princess Royal. Arthur, born 1883, educated at Eton and Sandhurst, has a noted courtly profile and prior speculative attachments including Lady Marjorie Manners.
The article profiles Chief Justice White of the United States Supreme Court as a relentless walker. He treks from his home on foot to his office every morning and returns each evening, weather permitting, keeping fit through daily exercise despite Washington heat.
Postmaster General Burleson long favored six weekly Mexican wilderness hunting trips for rejuvenation. The Mexican revolution ended those excursions, so he now walks daily to ease stress and remains fond of swimming and aquatic stunts when possible.
In Washington Navy Yard a tiny brick toy shop houses six skilled workers crafting miniature fighting ships and war equipment for display. exact models scaled at one quarter inch to one foot replicate the nation’s craft with precision.
The four Civil War era field guns surrounding the Jackson statue in Lafayette Square are bronze muzzle loadings with two inch caliber. They show age wear and odd carriages with wooden hubs and fourteen spokes. Col Spencer Cosby notes nine years of research failed to yield firm provenance or records on the guns.
Dr. L O Howard chief of the bureau of entomology at the U S Department of Agriculture calls the failure to destroy house flies a blot on civilized life He urges preventive methods as the only feasible eradication and cites flies spreading typhoid and other diseases The fly nuisance should be tackled by sanitation and stable refuse prevention with health department supervision by Arthur L Murray of the District of Columbia study group
A Washington hotel executive notes a global issue in hotel management as big hotels weigh raising salaries versus providing meals for staff. Various practices exist from feeding in kitchens for lower grades to full officer meals in Chicago and New York, including per meal allowances and weekly salaries without board.
A basket of crabs tied to a motorcycle seat caused a crash near the Episcopal Hospital after a crab crawled up rider Harold Wilson and bit his neck. Wilson, 23, from Westmoreland Street, was hospitalized with a fractured skull as bystanders fled the scene and crabs scattered through the crowd.
A plain middle aged witness recounts her evening chores after a police arrest. She describes bread rising, mending stockings, washing, preparing hash, mending clothes, setting the breakfast table, tidying the kitchen, baking prep, lighting the fire, and checking the furnace and cellar stores before bed. She notes nothing dramatic about her actions.
A man with bright pink bushy facial hair bursts into Judge Robinson’s courtroom, threatens the judge, and fights bailiffs and a clerk before being ejected from the ninth floor city hall chamber. Observers mistake him for Senator J Ham Lewis, authorities say.
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