A Duel Fencer Reconciles a Young Tribe of Bucks
Colonel Bunker recalls a southern town incident from his youth when a famed professor of natural history turned out to be a master fencer. The locals challenged him to a series of duels, resulting in injuries and a lesson on maturity.
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Sul
Bunker
Bonoh
Mayne
Cone
Janie Tite
Mose
Dick Bascomb
Tim
Sud
Joe Beaumont
Joe
Making Good Putty for Smooth Surfaces
Blacksmith and Wheelwright urges thorough kneading of putty to avoid dry lead or whiting particles. Proper mixing yields a tough elastic compound that adheres, sands evenly, and resists crumbling, ensuring surfaces glaze evenly with minimal corrections.
Gate for a stock farm and stock separations
A plan to separate small stock from large cattle at feeding time via a V shaped gateway. The design allows hogs sheep and similar animals to pass while cows cannot, with a small swinging gate to form a quiet enclosure for smaller stock.
How Sapphires Are Mined
A description from Engineering and Mining Journal details sapphire mining by the New Mines Sapphire syndicate in Montana. Sapphires are freed from weathered igneous rock by washing and weathering piles, with deeper harder rock disintegrated in piles left to weather then sluiced with water to separate the stones.
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New Mines Sapphire Syndicate
Mont
Hild
Unsinkable ship idea uses air belt around hull
A Wales harbor official and an old sea captain promote a four foot model with a belt of air around the hull. The belt consists of multiple air-filled compartments designed to keep a vessel afloat after flooding. Inventor claims the concept adds about 5 percent to ship cost for large liners.
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Larely
Linnelly
Wales
Apparatus Aids Piano Students With Correct Finger Positions
A newly marketed device resembling a double-spooled stereoscope guides piano students in correct finger and wrist placement. A ribbon of pictures shows hand positions and movements, aiding practice without a teacher.
Filling Pores In Stone With Paraffin and Naphtha
The article describes sealing stone and brick pores using paraffin dissolved in naphtha. After application, naphtha evaporates leaving filled pores. It notes soap waxing or sodium silicate coatings as alternative treatments, forming insoluble protective layers.
Poultry and Eggs Pay Big Profits With Proper Care
A National Blackman correspondent argues poultry yield depends on attentive care and high quality feed. It notes chickens repay farmers with profits only when properly managed and fed, warning against overstocking that wastes grain and money.
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The
National Blackman
Rhode Island Red Fowl Breed Characteristics Noted
The Rhode Island Red, a New England breed from Rhode Island, features single and rose combs. Renowned as good egg producers and rapid flesh growers, they are hardy and active. In winter and early spring they excel, while August and fall bring fewer eggs than Leghorns. the pictured Rhode Island Red is mentioned.
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Rhode Island
New England
Remarkable Hot Springs of New Zealand Largely Lakes
Some hot springs in New Zealand are so expansive they resemble small lakes. A few are large enough to support afloat vessels, challenging common notions of thermal pools in the region.
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New Zealnd
Renaissance Lace Returns To Favor In Lace Craft
Renaissance lace is regaining popularity after years eclipsed by other patterns. The braid construction with few auteries makes it easy to craft. The round centerpieces are now the favored feature, often paired with lace and linen for a splendid effect.
Hauling in the Desert by Motor Trucks
Engineering Magazine highlights a California to San Pedro haul where a fleet of motor trucks replaced 500 mules. The 35,000 ton mission faced 8441 foot altitudes and 40 mile desert stretches, with trucks averaging eight miles per hour for 40 miles and carrying five tons daily.
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Midway Oil Fields
California
Tidewater
San Pedro
Missouri
Puncture Proof Cushion For Preserving Motorcar Tires
A punctureless cushion for tires uses a vulcanized vegetable oil rubber substitute between the tread and the air tube to make tires puncture proof. The idea appears in Popular Mechanics and is integrated with an armored armor-vehicle concept.
To Find Dew Point of Air and Moisture Saturation
To determine the air dew point German meteorologist Heygendorf uses a water filled cup of metal and salt to lower temperature while stirring with a thermometer. The dew point is reached when moisture appears on the cup, indicating 100 percent humidity. Land Surveyors Too Generous. US Forest Service surveyors find eastern land measures favored safety and landowners, reflecting honest pioneer surveying effort to include full measures beyond deed requirements.
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Heygendorf
United States Forest Service
Remedy For Anasmia Promises From Radium Treatment
Anasmia patients show rising white blood cell counts with benzine doses and fall after. radium may replace benzine. In one case cells dropped from 863000 to 9600 in seven weeks and another from 131000 to 7200 in fifteen days. Also notes grease stain removal from steel using unslaked lime and chalk powder mixed 1 to 1 and rubbed dry.
The Stranger in a Swiss Chalet Tale of a Western Treasurer
A traveler from an American state seeks lodging in a Swiss chalet amid late season gloom. An English speaking but Americanized man, hiding a guilty past, is tracked by a lone observer who discovers the fugitive is the western town treasurer Bruceley who stole funds and died in a river after being found with five thousand pounds in English money and drafts for nearly two hundred thousand more. The narrator recalls the man’s vanity, fear, and the moment of revelation as officials close in.
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Thalia
Braceley
Guise
Hunter
Brucebey
Peter
Bert
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