This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
7
A Connecticut inventor develops a box flange hinge for marble partitions in lavatories. The adjustable middle plate uses beveled slots and movable arm screws to fit thicknesses from seven eighths to one and one eighth inches. When tightened, the hinge secures to the partition and acts as a spring door closer automatically.
A new chimney construction combines inner brick walls with outer pressed brick, removing need for temporary framing in concrete builds. The inner fire brick protects the concrete from hot gases while the outer wall enables any design.
A new American process for treating all ore classes uses nitrite acid on sulphate ores to convert sulfides to sulphates. Nitric oxide fumes oxidize to nitrogen peroxide and, with oxygen, pass through a quartz tower with water flow, claimed to yield 98 percent recovery of the metallic acid. The sulphate solution is then recovered by chemical or electrochemical methods, with silver or mercury precipitated as chloride and reduced, or silver deposited on copper plates. Copper recovery via electrolysis with insoluble electrodes or by carbonate precipitation completes the sequence.
A forest service monograph reports that most so called Colombian mahogany is not true mahogany but Cariniana pyriformis of the Lecythigaceae family. Its grain color and straight trunk suit lumber use, suggesting the wood be named by its true designation rather than mahogany.
Indian miners earn as little as 14 cents a day for ruby mining and 10 cents for coat mining, a rate deemed fair by some observers while prompting criticism from others about living costs and working conditions in the ruby region.
J Kaplorowicz develops an artifical gum from dextrarmaterial starch treated with acid or alkali to boost adhesiveness. Potato or flour mash is heated on steam rollers to form paste then desiccated flakes, peelable and grindable. Acid or alkali amounts and roller temperatures adjust adhesiveness.
A hybrid dining chair for infants and adults functions as a high chair with a standard height, tray, and foldable back. When converted to the high chair position the infant seat is supported by steel bars, resembling a jack-in-the-box mechanism.
The text explains that brick size is regulated to prevent fraud from larger bricks. A past tax encouraged oversized bricks, rejected by an act in George III’s reign. Tax removal in Victoria’s era allowed any size, yet changing the standard causes major building and compliance inconveniences due to existing calculations and acts.
India mines over 11,000,000 tons of coal yearly. Hongkong hosts an American equipped shoe factory. Pneumatic hammers cut asphalt pavements. Platinum rising in jewelry manufacture. An asbestos mine near Lowell, Massachusetts, could yield 100 tons daily. Glass may be fastened with a tin and copper solder. China holds the world’s largest iron ore deposits and starts exporting pig iron. Serbia orders 100 American typewriters for public offices. The city of Paris owns a machine that grinds 250,000 paving blocks daily. Slate quarries expand across ten states led by Pennsylvania and Vermont. Two nuts on a bolt facing square sides serves as an emergency wrench. Coal ash mixed with soda and copal varnish yields marble-like artificial stone.
J Maclean surveys Liverpool’s cathedral project as Gilbert Scott shifts from twin towers to a single central tower of 280 feet. The plans, funded by Bishop Chavasse and Sir William Forwood, place the vast Gothic structure on St James Mount overlooking docks, with Lady Chapel already in use and the work progressing rapidly.
An uncouth granger with a mania for obscure words faced arraignment on an assault charge brought by a neighbor. The judge pressed for a plea and Jim denied the allegation, claiming readiness to help the alligator, a flourish that captures the quirky court scene reported by the Liverpool Mercury.
Australian expert Professor McIntosh, visiting Chicago, urges irrigation and intensive farming as essentials to raise crop production and profits in the American midwest. He argues for private water schemes, cooperative efforts, and modern farming methods to offset rising land and labor costs. He cites gasoline pumps, open storage, and double cropping as practical steps.
Practical irrigators learn timing by close crop observation and soil check. moisture retained by soil, plant color, leaf droop, and crop type signal when irrigation is needed or overdone, with field experience over years guiding frequency and amount.
The Colorado experiment station bulletin reports cattle poisoning from ensiled sorghum and kaffir corn. Under slowed growth the plant forms a glucoside that yields hydrocyanic acid, a deadly toxin causing rapid death. No effective treatment exists, so only cautious grazing is advised and to introduce one animal at a time to test the field.
Provides practical guidance for dairy upkeep including water for cattle, cream ripening in cold storage, limited grain feeding with proper roughage, drying up before calving, silage feeding for bulls, sunlight in calf housing, early calf nibbling and weaning, milk ration limits, and regular churning to keep cream fresh. It also notes silage as helpful seasonally to maintain health and milk flow.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.