Duelist professor and three duels end a Southern town’s swagger
Colonel Bunker recalls a youth in a Southern town when a cultured stranger named Professor Mayne revealed a talent for fencing. Six hotheads faced a string of duels sparked by insults and a sneering challenge. The professor’s quick wit and skill led to two duels and a final clash that humiliated one man, spreading caution across the community and ending their bluster.
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Colonel Bunker
Destiny
Professor Mayne
Wien
Dilek Bai Dub
Making Good Putty Instructs Thorough Kneading Of Ingredients
A Blacksmith and Wheelwright guide explains that proper putty mixing ensures a smooth, uniform mass. Thorough kneading prevents dry pigment scraps like lead or whiting from tearing the surface during sanding, saving time and money.
Gate for a stock farm and sapphire mining method
An article describes a farm gateway design to separate small stock from larger animals during feeding, enabling cow and sheep passage. It also discusses sapphire mining features including ore belts, washing to separate sapphires, frost effects on piles, and handling of material through water washing as observed in the Engineering and Mining Journal.
Filling Pores In Stone And Brick With Parafin And Oils
Porous stone and brick absorb water and can crack when frozen. a paraffin and naphtha solution fills pores as the naphtha evaporates. Soft soap followed by alummo insoluble compound also fills pores. A sodium silicate or water glass solution on sandstone, dried, then calcium chloride wash forms an insoluble protective surface.
Dew Point Determination Method by Heygendorff
German meteorologist Heygendorff liquefies water in a cup of conductive metal and adds salt to lower the temperature. When moisture begins to condense on the cup surface, the thermometer reading gives the dew point.
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Heygendorff
Land Surveyors End Old Forest Land Measures
The United States forest service surveyors end the old practice of overestimating forest land in the eastern U S. They favored safety, aiding landowners or buyers who hire surveyors. This notes pioneer surveyors aimed to give full measure and include land as per deeds with a safety margin.
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United States Forest Service
Sheriff Sale in Bottineau County on June 22
John A. McLean sheriff of Bottineau County announces a special execution sale to satisfy a $1188.85 judgment in the Charles Buchanan vs Ed Lawrence case. Read property includes multiple horses, mowers, rakes, wagons, harnesses, plows, drills, and stock. Sale set for 2 p.m. at the front door of Reed Wood's livery, Bottineau, with cash to highest bidder.
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Ed Lawrence
McCormick
Columbia
Miymouth
Joe Lawrence
Maude
Reod Wood
Foitinun
Eatiely
John A. McLean
Bottineau County
Multiplying Card Teaches Slide Rule Principle in France
A new teaching device from France demonstrates basic slide rule methods. The device uses a central disk and a movable pointer arm on a cardboard base to find the product of two numbers by using the sum of their logarithms, as described by Popular Mechanics.
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France
Popular Mechanics
Multiplying Disk Calculator Described in Detail
The device features a central disk with a semicircular multiplicand scale and an inner semicircular scale for multiplicands. An outer circular scale holds products. A pointer on the central disk aligns with the multiplicand, the short arm aligns with the multiplier, and the long arm points to the product, confirming the correct result.
Earnest Wish Joke Exchange in Ledger Entry
A light exchange records a man telling a joke writer not to take him seriously and a woman replying in amusement in a Philadelphia Ledger item. The dialogue reflects playful banter and newspaper style humor of the era.
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Philadeinhta Ledger
City to reconstruct sidewalks on specified Bottineau streets
The Bottineau city council at the June 16 1915 meeting ordered the reconstruction of sidewalks along the south line of lot 4 block 6 McBaine addition in South Bottineau with 12 feet width. Owners must build at their own expense under street commissioner approval or city will undertake the work at the owner’s expense. Assessments for costs will be placed on the affected lots in ten equal annual payments with 7 percent interest. Signed by Mayor Antonio and City Auditor Wes.
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McBaine
South Bottineau
Eau
North Dakota
Antonium
Bottineau
Taken Up Colt Near Bottineau Ad
A year-old dark bay colt with a white on the left hind leg was brought to the owner’s place about May 3. The animal can be claimed eight miles south of Bottineau by the owner at St Adolph Greenwood after paying charges. Subscription rates for the Bottineau Courant are $1.50 per year in advance.
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St —Adolph Greenwood
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