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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
2
A jumble of quirky observations on daily life includes gasoline pumps undercutting measures, hungry workers, appetite and fashion musings, and a note on tilefish trade. A miscellany of opinions, rumors, and snippets reflects early 20th century newspaper brevity and variety.
A Houston based report surveys new devices and ideas: a recording device on rotating paper via auto vibrations. Frenel long distance lens for distant portraits. French surgeon uses hair cells to replace skin. sewer cleaning scraper operable from street wind windows. Philippine veterinarians control rinderpest with lean cattle. wind driven dynamo turbines power aircraft instruments. movable platform for unloading autos from freight cars. Uruguayan cactus juice makes durable white wash.
Odd reflections on words, magic, and economic excess mix with concerns about sugar beet yields and potato neglect. The piece questions personal liberty when government employment spreads widely and dreams of reform blur into impracticalities.
A collection of figures notes Minnesota banks Wisconsin mileage New Jersey treasury figures for Philadelphia October building costs Berlin population change Huntington murder files and New York education department spending in 1917 totaling several million dollars in varied metrics.
The passage critiques nerve, gratitude, and modest ambition. It links insecurity to worry, notes harsh views about ungrateful behavior, and argues a touch of conceit can be human in character.
Mary Goods of Swissvale Falls to a million dollars in a startling financial tally. C Taylor finds gold while cleaning an old well on his Lynchburg farm. T B Burnham of New York inherits 100000 by renaming himself Van Nest. R Robinson of Wilkes‑Barre keeps a red bandage for signaling drivers. Gudrun Bodvarsdottir Oddson Reykhboltdal hints at a strange tale of migration and empire.
A long list of property deeds shows transfers from numerous individuals to various buyers. Entries include lot purchases, quarter sections, and blocks in Beaver and Gate City, with prices ranging from $1 to thousands of dollars and dates spanning 1920s era land dealings. The document notes grantees such as Vi Skinner, Willis Raibourn, and Charles A Barquin among many others, with specific sections and parcels identified.
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