24 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1917
Page
1
The text argues that fairness to a child includes patient teaching and training across babyhood and childhood to develop thoughtfulness, self-reliance, and especially self-control, which is essential to manhood or womanhood and does not emerge in a day.
The Duc de Raguse told Gio Countess de Boigne that his allegiance shifted with the emperor’s phrase. When the emperor declared All for France he served with enthusiasm, when France and I he served with obedience, but when I without France he felt compelled to separate from him.
In Cambridge shortly after Leaves of Grass appeared, Lowell and J Trowbridge walked past a doorway with a crooked sign that read groceries. Lowell quipped that Whitman could be found inside among very common goods, producing a humorous sighting.
A Cambridge scientist demonstrated an instructive experiment showing a single grain of wheat sown in June yielding 47 pounds 7 ounces. He notes that one acre of fairly good land can produce 30 bushels of wheat or 1,260 pounds of flour.
A miscellany of notes mentions a Nicaraguan capote a square impervious coat made by pouring rubber over muslin. a New York theater advertiser seeking the most beautiful woman. a Norfolk motor car clearing a drawbridge gap. and a quip about women smoking cigars reflecting social manners of the era.
A collage of brief notes mentions removing varnish with baking soda and water, a five ton whale burial on the Berwickshire coast, a warrantless arrest caveat for police, farm management quirks, and upcoming tech like a portable wireless telephone in England, all reflecting a miscellaneous late 19th or early 20th century press style.
Discovery of platinum in Alaska by Dr. Herschel C. Parker and others triggers U.S. government study. Four experts assess if Alaska deposits could replenish wartime supplies, with next-year determination. reports note finds in Kabilina river gravel and other districts. Prices rise from 45 to 105 per ounce as demand grows. Local socialistic meetings in Roosevelt county threaten to provoke action to stop them.
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