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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
2
A long farmer’s advisory piece covers livestock care, feeding, calving, and disease prevention. It emphasizes proper milking, clean butter production, balanced rations, and timely haying. It advises on pest control, crop rotation, corn pest management, and new farming ideas from farm institutes for improved profits.
The article profiles Mrs. Taft as deeply invested in art music and literature, supports art tax relief, and notes her views on women voting but not running for office. It recounts her multilingual skills, passion for travel, and a three hour Paris shopping spree that yielded a year’s wardrobe for her and others. It mentions her appearance, family including sons Robert and Charles and daughter Helen, and her White House connections.
In Chicago at 10518 Calhoun avenue South Deering Isaac and Mrs Trow ages by their own efforts created a unique dwelling from a rolled photograph car originally 18 by 8 by 8 feet. They hoisted the car on a lower story and added a second floor costing under 300 dollars including the lot 25 by 125 feet. The English couple aged 25 years in the country reside there happily in their sole home ever.
New York H L Bridgman publisher of the Brooklyn Standard Union has been named by the president as the delegate to the Arctic Exploration Congress to be held in Europe this summer. He has long followed Arctic exploration and led Peary relief expeditions in 1899 and 1901, and served as delegate to the 1906 Brussels Arctic Congress.
In a Washington studio a visitor ponders an antique clock that chimes every half hour. The artist explains the clock’s usefulness: if it rings once and then again after three half hours, one can deduce that two o'clock will soon follow, a practical bit of bedside reasoning.
The Pacific coast fishing industry in 1907 surpassed 26 million dollars in value. The white coast canned salmon pack totaled 4,015,169 cases, up from 3,817,316 in 1906. Alaska pack was exceeded in only one other year, 1902.
Photographs illustrate rapid decay of wooden piles in San Francisco Oakland and Seattle from teredos and limnoria. Creosote and other treatments show limited resistance with lifespans ranging from eight months to fifteen years. Variability in decay even among similarly treated piles prompts engineers to favor concrete and reinforced concrete for foundation work.
A Norwegian inventor, Bjarne Cramer, has patented an automatic coin sorting device in France. Described in La Nature by V Forbin, the system uses an inclined conduit where coins roll, encounter height-graded holes, and are guided to separate receptacles. The apparatus, already used in Paris mercantile houses, relies on centrifugal action and vibratory motion within a central column to eject coins through appropriate openings.
Howard W. Dubois explains methods of salt ing mines and samples to produce false reports. He notes salting can occur in mine or in engineer samples, with financial inducements altering valuations, fixed books hiding losses, and even iron mines salted. Vigilance by examiners is essential to avoid deception.
A rare phosphorescent larva is reported from British Guiana near the Brazilian border known to natives as Macadoub. Believed to be the larva of a beetle, a specimen was brought to England by C. W. Anderson and shown dead at a Linnean Society meeting. When alive it displays a ruby light in its head and two continuous rows of glowing spots along each body segment.
Instructions describe making barium pills from barley meal and precipitated carbonate of barium to poison mice. The paste is formed into hazelnut sized pills and inserted deep into field mouse holes for control.
The article describes a novel churn with a cream receptacle on a spring arm. By rocking the arm the cream is churned, the can held by a frame and brackets that pass through offsets, producing figure eight motion. the design aims to improve butter texture via up and down cream agitation.
Prof T D A Cockerell of the University of Colorado describes a well preserved Miocene wasp from Florissant Colorado. The specimen, in the genus Paratiphia, shows wing venation identical to today including a distinctive imperfect vein that persists in the same form.
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