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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1913
Page
6
Practical kitchen notes describe hanging curtains with a spring bracket that tolerates slight misalignment and allows two shades. It also covers pork sausage making with lean and fat ratios, grinding tips, and seasoning using salt brick pepper and sage. Additional recipes include liver pudding and mutton stew with stepwise prep and cooking guidance.
A fractured London Standard account recounts Witttunt Howe’s sudden disappearance followed by a court inspired reform. Howe’s arrest of his wife, her marriage, and the discovery of an apartment reveal a tense domestic saga. The wife’s letters suggest continual surveillance and an uneasy, fragile union.
In Tuxpan Mexico on November 29 rebels occupy the city. English oil interests appeal to the United States for protection as consular agent Arthur Payne sends his daughter Inez Payne to the battleship Louisiana. Americans depart aboard Bloomfield and oil tankers flee toward safety with a Lancaster likely to arrive.
Baku on the Caspian Sea is a major oil hub in Russia with mixed Rossinov Tartars and Persians dependent on the industry. The Baku oil field features windlass extraction and rising wells nearby oil beds. typical well cost around 80 000 to 110 000. Last year daily well output averaged 64 to 52 barrels and this year output rose to 2406 barrels per day for seven months totaling 25 788 000 barrels with 4.08 percent yield. prices expected to hold.
A village headman in Gwalior, India, trapped four man eating lions with fly paper spread around his hut. The lions entered, halted after two weeks, then charged into the paper, got stuck to paws and tongues, and roared while tangled. Villagers used ropes to subdue them and sent the tale to London Tit Bits.
A novel safety device uses self acting doors along mine passages to slam shut at a draft cue and water from pivoted pans to douse flames. The system aims to interrupt dust explosion air waves, progressively blocking the mine with water and stone ballast to protect workers and equipment.
A fragmentary humorous exchange recalls a traveler dismissed as a nuisance and a witty comeback. The tale pivots on a rainy day, a Alpine lake hotel scene, and a quick weather shift from sunlit beauty to snow, ending with a sharp reminiscence of a childhood snowball incident in Minnesota.
A garbled note appears to reference Chino Moword Head and a judgment, with unclear phrases about respecting authority and a person who informs others. The readable bits hint at a court or legal context but lack concrete names, dates, or places to confirm specifics.
A New York dispatch reports Governor Tener of Pennsylvania is chosen to succeed Tom Lyteh as president of the National League on December 9. The piece traces Tener’s rise from Pittsburgh clerk to a baseball pitcher, business leader, and political figure, noting his long influence in sports, industry, and politics and his role in reviving league harmony. It recalls his birthplace Tyrone Ireland, emigration age nine, and career from pitcher to executive, congressman, and governor.
London reports Winston Spencer Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty will turn forty tomorrow born November 40 1874 to Lord Randolph Churchill and Milas Jennie Jerome. The article notes his stepfamily and a reference to public life and a separate item mentions Harry Wolverton of the New York Yankees now heading a Sacramento Pacific Coast League team and an offered Japan trip, plus Oakland police stopping a white slave play.
A fragmentary quote notes a reported confrontation as a man named Mita Millions is referenced and another figure claims he did not strike, claiming to have seen the assailant approaching. The phrasing shows disputed violence and a local eyewitness account from a Pittabungh Press source.
A quirky dialogue unfolds between a motorist and a farmer as they discuss finding a road to Squigglesville. Mrs Keepup and Mrs Gotthere are cited, revealing a humorous exchange about remedies and insomnia with neighborly tension and practical vanity.
Chicago's International live stock exposition opens at the stock yards with millions in exhibits. Purebred cattle from Europe Canada and many U S sections join carload lots from Texas and the West. One hundred thousand breeders and bakers are expected to attend for cattle judging contests speeches from U S Department of Agriculture experts and visits by governors and southern agricultural officials.
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