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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
5
Efforts aim to commercialize waste from the Gudd a vast Nile blockage spanning 300 miles at Lake No and extending along the river. The material could be produced for about one quarter the cost of coal transforming regional energy prospects.
A tiny Mediterranean island Tavolara near Gardinia measures just over a mile with a population of 56 souls and proclaims itself a republic, claiming sovereignty despite its minute size.
The first Japanese in America was Manjiro Nakahama a 14 year old fisherman stranded with four others on a northern Pacific island in 1841. They were rescued after three months and Manjiro boarded an American ship and later became Commodore Perry s interpreter in Japan negotiations.
An expert in fish culture demonstrated that a trout in a hatchery pool reacts to a rod and to a barbless hook. The fish approached when visitors appeared but fled when the rod or hook was shown, suggesting a lasting impression from the earlier hook injury.
The Bank of England dismissed its two veteran front-door detectives after over 25 years. They recall odd encounters with claimants, dreamers, and visitors who sought the cashier, the strong room, or to inspect the premises. Some barged in in rags, seeking to count securities or claim royal inheritance.
A description details a creature said to be native to Khan-tel-eligh. It combines camel body with an elephant head, antelope horns and front legs, pelican hind parts, ant-eater snout, ermine fur, newt tail, and pelican pouch.
The reminiscence recounts O Henry skipping a planned weekend with Gilman Hall in New Jersey after receiving a Western Union telegram at 10 30 a m saying he missed the three o clock train. Hall later recalled the incident but neither man spoke of the telegram again.
A Paris Journal des Sciences Militaires report to the French chamber on 1911 army conditions and 1912 reforms links reduced reenlistments among corporals and privates to jokes about food at home. Jokers in regiments harass reenlisting men with the taunt Do you have nothing to eat at home.
A humorous English railway carriage scene pits travelers against each other as they chronicle extreme thermometer readings. The frozen bath, waxed vanity, frozen basin water, and a hot-water bottle left in bed are cited, with a grime-streaked painter joining the banter in a contest of cold comforts.
Ex Sultan Abdul Hamid housed a premier palace collection of precious stones with some sold in Paris. Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria also amasses diamonds sapphires and emeralds valued around £600000. The Kaiser favors old uniforms and antique boots, Bavaria’s regent loves ancient beer pitchers, the late King of Sweden collected rare books engravings and medals, and Ludwig I prized umbrellas from Bavaria.
Conversation overheard at Carnegie Institute notes a woman proud of her child while another says that mere children are unfashionable. The exchange highlights social attitudes toward motherhood and youthful status.
A Chicago traffic policeman, marooned amid the city’s uproar, laments loneliness on the job. He recalls conversations with a wagon driver and reflects that the lone officer among crowds feels deeper isolation than other city workers. The account captures urban solitude through his wandering reflections.
A Portland Chinaman and a young Negro woman staged a comic attempt to obtain a marriage license on the county courthouse lawn. A tall Black witness failed to appear, the pair delayed three hours, and the Chinaman fled with the woman in old rose attire amid a crowd of onlookers, leaving plans unfulfilled.
Levi C Bowser and wife celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in Indianapolis by serving the same menu they had at their 1862 wedding supper. Miss Caroline Dawson married Bowser that year at her father's Marion county home. turkey was the highlight. Only three guests from the first supper attended this reprise: Capt. Byron Dawson Richeson Moore and Mrs Nancy Graham. About fifty were at the original. now only these three remain in Marion county. The couple has spent most of the last forty years in their current home. Bowser’s father was a pioneer farmer in the county.
In New Orleans a clever smuggling attempt sought to move morocco leather slippers under the parcels post loophole. Customs agents identified two shipments from Asia Minor as samples, then uncovered the second bundle containing twenty four pairs of slippers. The recipient paid duty about half the value.
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