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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
8
Business Booster lists 138L milk from the new dairy at 10c a quart with veterinary inspected stock and twice daily delivery. C. W. Chapman promotes the service.
The Sara sota council agrees to add a night passenger track and a parallel Pineapple avenue spur about 930 feet, to be prepared with Seaboard input and on easements, to return for final action. Ordinance 74 on births and deaths advances to second reading and passes, while water issues prompt a flat one dollar monthly residential rate and twenty five percent discounts for public meters. scavenger services are terminated June 1, 1914, with a new driver to be hired at sixty five dollars per month.
Comforts abound as Osprey and Venice stores nearby make the site ready for a club house and first four homes of a new colony designed by Architect Martin of Chicago. The bayfront plot features jungle growth to the north and a Florida south vista, with a natural lawn slope to a ridge and a primitive camp life now housing Kenyon cottages and a screened porch retreat. Warren plans to visit New York to share discoveries and promote Sarasota Riviera mission work.
The week ends with a weather note for early June 1914 and reports the death of Miss Katherine Keith on June 2. Her remains were shipped to Lawrence, Massachusetts, on June 4. The brief combines meteorological observations with a social obituary note.
Mrs Crosslets explains the new cook will leave if her daughter does not quit playing ragtime on the piano. The remark underscores household influence and tensions in keeping staff.
Guidance explains using a India rubber eraser to remove dirt from light colored fabric. It notes spots disappear immediately after rubbing.
A historical paint and varnish guide outlines Brown Use turpentine stained with burnt umber yellow ochre or burnt sienna for depth Gray mix gray with turpentine add japan drier two to one pint stain Apply with brush five minutes wipe with cloth Terre verte yields green while small amounts of white lead yield silver gray Violet Stain uses cudbear carbonate of potassium and hot water White Enamel combines zinc lead and varnish Ebony Paint uses lamp black and japan drier French Polish blends shellac benzoin boiled oil and spirits and is applied with a cushioned pad Sandpaper smooths the finish Shellac can hide marred natural wood finishes.
The article explains that damp coal yields more heat than dry coal. Wet coal burns hotter in furnaces for immediate heat, and even in closed stoves and air tight furnaces it can produce over one third more heat. Soaking large coal lumps in water increases heat by about half.
The library received 24 volumes including Art of Story Telling and Leviathan. A Saturday afternoon food sale at Hart's Commercial Annex will raise funds for new books with donations of cakes pies potato salad and cottage cheese promised. Proceeds support library acquisitions.
The Senate passed a bill authorizing building two additional battleships and a third if the sale of the Idaho and Mississippi battleships goes through.
Recent coal shortages in the Philippines prompt the formation of a Manila association of large coal consumers. The group aims to influence industrial planning as fuel costs rise for island industries and industrial users across the archipelago.
A mother warns her four year old Harry not to remove buttons from a card. He insists he did not take them off but claims they "ist the libertly came off." The humorous misstatement captures a child's playful misunderstanding.
A study notes bird wing muscles are about twenty times stronger than a human arm when scaled by proportion, highlighting birds' flight capacity and mechanical efficiency.
The Bible comprises 3,568,480 letters, 733,741 words, 31,173 verses, 1,189 chapters and 66 books. This overview emphasizes the document’s vast scope and structured division into segments for study and reference.
The Suwanee River flows strong as it reaches the Gulf with a deep current and pine forests along Florida. A legend says a French family settled there during Louis XIV's reign, dying off except for a girl who later wrote the song in a slave dialect, honoring the old folks abroad.
The custom of April Fools dates to ancient times with Hindu Hull festivities ending March 31. Practitioners send neighbors on errands to imaginary or absent people, then share a laugh at the messenger’s disappointment.
In a Cleveland school a young German pupil submitted a piece titled His Composition on Sheep. The essay claims sheep are weak yet useful and notes strange lines about their threat and the shepherd. The piece ends with a quirky line about the captain of the sheep being called the belle-buck.
Three German laborers did a small repair job and agreed to share the $4 evenly. After attempts to divide the amount, the third brokered a witty solution saying two for you two and two for me, too, ensuring each received an equal portion.
The Christian Herald describes tolls at a Tigris ferry ranging from two cents for a poor Arab to eighty cents for a European, with soldiers and pilgrims paying ten and twenty cents respectively. It notes many Arabs swim across, riding gourds bound together as improvised boats.
Instructions describe taking a lady’s handkerchief by diagonal corners and binding it around a baby’s hand and forearm. The last corner projects beyond the hand to aid threading through sleeves, ensuring small fingers do not catch in the gathers. The handkerchief can be removed by pulling the projecting corner.
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