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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
2
Kent, despondent at life, and a surviving passenger woman cling to hope as the stormy Senator sinks. They share a vow to face a new life together after a perilous voyage and near-suicidal impulses. Firelight moments reveal a potential rekindling of love and resolve.
The author contrasts two men in identical operations and pressures, one surviving and one failing, attributing the difference to vitality. It cites hospital cases, shipwrecks, and recoveries, arguing an inner reserve or aggressive resistance governs outcomes, yielding joy and success over despair.
An editor notes a wide array of specialty journals from hay fever and dancing to bee weeklies and patterns. He observes trades like shoemaking and bricklaying publish their own papers and predicts new topics such as automobiling and flying generating devoted presses even before arrival.
The article recounts the evolution of British lighthouses from 25 beacons and six floating lights in the early nineteenth century to 880 lights now. It traces ancient precedents like the Pharos of Alexandria and Roman towers, notes early fuel use, and cites Scotland and England shifting from coal to modern methods around 1816 and 1822.
A man and a professor discuss a bundle wrapped in a yellow handkerchief. The man presents pyrites and claims it is gold. The professor declares it worthless iron pyrites and demonstrates by burning a sample. The speaker adds a widow owns a hill of pyrites and hints at marriage as a punchline.
A young wife reads a telegram from Douglas fearing a railroad accident. He confirms he is well and will be home tomorrow but uses seven words where three more could have been added, leaving concern in the family.
A philosopher notes people fail to recognize their own faces though they study them closely in mirrors and photos. In Boston, Young Stearns reunites with Brown and dines with his old Princeton roommate. The Brown children, warned to ignore ice cream, erupt in a chorus of We have it every day.
In August 1838 Bavaria issued a royal ordinance banning civilians from wearing moustaches with police shaving officers empowered to enforce it. A French account says moustaches disappeared quickly and no arrests occurred. The piece contrasts with Anglo Saxon fashion under Norman conquest, noting long hair as a mark of difference.
The hoatzin of South America is noted for nestlings with hand like wing claws enabling tree climbing. Claws disappear as they mature revealing an ordinary bird form, illustrating dramatic steps in the evolution of modern birds from primitive ancestors like archaeopteryx.
Augustus and Elvira discuss an engagement and awkward proposals. Elvira admits she hurried to invite two couples into the back parlor so the men could hear their lovers' sentiments. The scene hints at social pressures and embarrassment among couples.
The device attaches to a road scraper to lift earth from side ditches for loading. It resembles a snow plough with a shorter left side and a vertical perpendicular face acting like a landslide. The beveled right side shoves earth out, with the ditch offset about ten inches from the point and adjustable.
Farmers urged to keep water off roads and repair drains after thaw. D W King of Indiana demonstrates a split log drag method that concentrates dirt to the center, smoothing surfaces and preventing washouts. Each farmer should drag from house to house, keeping roads passable with minimal cost.
Instructions describe digging a deep underground cistern with an arch and a two foot neck, plus a separate filtering cistern fed by a perforated bucket. A three inch sewer tile connects filter to cistern. packing materials such as brick, charcoal and slate in sand filter water slowly while allowing easy cleaning and removal.
Advice from a manual on ice cutting and storage emphasizes sharp ice tools, an old crosscut saw as a usable ice saw, sawdust lining the ice house, rubber arctic boots, grain-sack aprons, and dry clothing. It recommends preplanning loads, using two strong workers with short tongs, and storing blocks eight inches thick when feasible.
The Chicago Tribune notes British trials using creosote oil on macadam streets in Liverpool. Creosote with resin gave cleanest surfaces, creosote with tallow had least odor, Texas crude gave longest effects. Oiling curbside wood pavements in Liverpool cut dust better than frequent watering.
A Prairie Farmer correspondent sketches a stile for crossing a wire fence without cutting a gate. The fence stands a foot and a half high with seven foot imbedded steps and a hand support built on one side. Mittens fashioned from old wool trousers prove superior to leather for handling wet work. Proper ventilation and drainage are essential to good farming.
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