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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1906
Page
4
The article details how aged warships cost Britain fortunes to build yet are broken up in British waters for small sums. Vessels are stripped of guns and fittings, towed to break-up sites, and disintegrated with dynamite, with steel sold for metal and timber repurposed into fuel, stoves, rails, and more.
The article notes modern paper making machines enable magazine production with a mill at Rumford Falls Maine turning a daily strip of 114 feet wide and 300 miles long. It cites 1,100 U S mills producing large sums, burning coal, shredding wood, and cutting millions of trees yearly, with paper tied to a farm sized forest and microscopic wood specks visible under a microscope.
A Washington Supreme Court justice received decanters engraved with C O D, which a New York Times noted caused a mix up due to initials misread as cash on delivery. The judge’s family name and his son in law’s details are clarified, and a British clerk’s interpretation is explained.
The famed Sweet Lips flintlock gun once said to have swerved the Revolution now belongs to Mr. Ware, U.S. pensions commissioner. It traced from Darling Jones of North Carolina to eastern Tennessee, powering the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, and aiding Cornwallis’s defeat before passing through Duncan and Montcastle families.
Miss Lucille Eaton Hill, director of physical culture at Wellesley College, urges a campaign against uncontrolled basketball in girls schools. She argues the sport fuels the competitive spirit leading to injury and slugging, while praising athletics when properly managed to strengthen and womanize students.
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