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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1907
Page
7
New steam driven torpedo uses burning high explosives to generate steam and double range. Hiram Maxim reports experiments show torpedoes can defy battleships and launch deadly missiles without coming under fire, addressing limits of air driven propulsion amid rapid gunfire.
A Naval inventor describes a motorite fueled torpedo replacing the heavy air flask with a light water filled casing. The motorite burns to produce steam driving the engine, aiming for at least double the range, uniform speed, and lower cost and danger on shipboard. The design suggests rapid ready discharge like a shelled gun.
Montgomery figures Alfred Weaver and John Edward Carney announce a method to harden and temper gold platinum and related metals without alloying. The process lowers fusion points and yields tool-steel like hardness, allowing easy melting and recasting with ordinary blowpipes and making metals highly resistant to abrasion.
The article notes a move from damask towels to outdoor bleached huck with plain hem and durable daily use. It highlights decorative options like fleur-de-lis and chrysanthemum weaves, the preference for clear towel marking, and color coding to differentiate family members' towels for easy sorting.
This page outlines three potato ideas: Potato Rissoles with parsley garnish, Potato Cones baked briefly in a hot oven, and Potato Canapes shaped into round cakes topped with minced chicken or veal. Each uses mashed potatoes, egg coating, and quick browning, served as individual portions.
London reports a peculiar ailment called geel dikkop or yellow thickhead striking Merino and Africander sheep and Angora goats. Heads and ears swell grotesquely after heavy rain, leading to jaundice, organ damage, and about 40 percent mortality in affected herds.
A new social club for the lonely opened in New York with eighty members including forty men and forty women. Letters from lonely residents led to a first meeting, then self-naming members formed the Jonesses with Dr Elmer Lee supporting the effort and Charles Knox funding the hall.
An interior ministry inquiry finds at least 200,000 tramps in France. A 32,000 strong rural guard force fails to curb them, with 466,000 people served by night lodgings in 38,000 municipalities but only 2,000 refuges. Many tramps cannot be arrested due to lack of evidence.
A traditional apple shortcake recipe uses butter flour sugar and spices. The dough is divided with a apple filling baked thirty minutes then cooled and served with icing meringue or whipped cream.
A historic recipe describes boiling calf liver in water then combining it with beef suet lean rump onions galt pepper and oat meal. The mixture is packed into a sheep’s paunch sewn and boiled four hours then served on a hot dish.
A recipe for beefsteak pie using cold cooked meat two bacon slices butter six potatoes and herbs. The mixture is seasoned with thyme parsley bay leaf and pepper then baked in a homemade crust until browned. The meat is diced salted and lightly steamed before the potatoes and bacon are added and the crust closed and baked.
A lawn cloth coat or waistcoat can be cleaned at home by rubbing with pulverized fuller's earth using a small dry sponge or rubber skin brush. After covering every inch, store the garment in a box with the powder inside for three or four days, then remove and brush and beat well.
Instructions describe renewing old looking glasses by backing with a mixture of tin lead and bismuth then adding mercury, using a hare's foot to apply, after melting the metals together.
A consumer guide warns buyers to inspect quality and quantity locally rather than mail order, arguing mail order firms use deceptive pricing and short weight. Accounts from Parma Mich and Sioux Falls SD illustrate losses from inferior, underweight goods and delayed or unavailable delivery. The piece urges supporting local merchants to keep money in the community and protect town economies.
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