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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
The piece discusses imagination as a driving force behind progress and beauty. Emerson and Lida A Chorehill are cited on enthusiasm and vibrational art influencing home life, industry, and education, advocating mental discipline and refined senses for health and happiness.
A Renue Scientifique writer criticizes the proliferation of scientific congresses. The Lisbon Medical Congress is cited for language diversity delays and repetitive reports. Attendees waste time on fetes and some eminent men present papers indirectly, yet the urge to attend remains strong.
Germany competes with the United States for New Zealand business as the main outside supplier besides the UK and colonies. In 1904 Germany sold about 250000 dollars of mainly cheap pianos to the colony, while US sales were under 32000 dollars. The gap results from aggressive German sales and easy payments, though US makers could offer similar terms.
Walnut production runs about 25,100,000 feet annually with most sourcing from Arkansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory while eastern stands remain near Guyandotte West Virginia. Domestic use centers on gun stocks and novelties with Germany Hamburg the main export market. Japan plans to boost its army by 86,000 as part of its peace strategy.
The principal of St Andrews University advocates spelling reform citing the need to modernize Scots orthography. Reuters notes and Auld Licht Idyls are aware of the issue, signaling broad awareness among Scottish literary circles.
The article describes beauty doctors who specialize in shaping the nose to be attractive and aristocratic. It recounts a red nosed woman who improved after following their methods, including massage and alcohol rubs, and warns against neglecting a coarse nose as it signals aging.
An essay on overcoming depression and despair arguing that the blues are a temporary burden. It contrasts physical causes like a troubled liver with spiritual remedies through faith, prayer, and hope, urging resilience and heavenly perspective to release the mind from gloom.
In Dakerville a beauty named Caroline Osborne binds her life to a vow never to speak or look at a man after her father Albert Osborne ordered her fiancé Walter Lumpkins from the house at Christmas twenty five years ago. Now aged and reclusive she parts every day, never meeting men, while Lumpkins, a prosperous New York area jeweler, has since married elsewhere.
In Jefferson City Missouri Frank Ramsey reports his game chickens have learned to catch and kill mice. A brood of about 50 roosters and hens now hunts rodents around the barn and nearby, with the famous game rooster boasting prowess against cats in stopping mice. Ramsey, son of Col. George C Ramsey, plans to pit his rooster’s skill against any cat. A Quaker Whisky Cure is also recounted by William Penn in a humorous anecdote about moderation.
Portland Oregon street railway power plant uses sawmill refuse as fuel and operates a cinder separating system. A strong draft from a fan drives furnace smoke through a steel cylinder with a conical bottom to gather cinders in a hopper. Cinders drop back to furnaces, reducing nuisance and boosting boiler economy.
A dialogue notes a claim that a Russian grand duke grafted 25 million dollars in a year. An ex-insurance official comments that in that society a person need not share profits with many people to keep them quiet.
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