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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1912
Page
9
A quirky vintage note describes a letter weighing experiment for children. It explains using water displacement and a simple balance to determine letter weight and postage, noting how to mark the water level and use commercially weighed weights to calibrate. The piece encourages hands on learning and promises accurate results with a home made scale.
The text notes salt production as one of the world’s oldest industries centered in Italy, with a 2,500 year commercial history. It describes salt as vital for existence, a source of conflict, a taboo in diplomacy, and a greeting in some cultures, even as scarce salt appears in seafood, grains, and plant dishes across regions.
Readable fragments describe a ferret named Jumbo and a kitten or small pet pairing in playful romps. The text suggests lively antics, rolling, chasing a ball, and ready play behavior. The tone feels like a light local pet feature with charming details.
A quirky verse fragment shows friends and companions reacting to a ferret’s swift dash. The lighthearted scene shifts between exclamations and questions as characters name time and playful mischief.
A partial line appears to mention Nant and Rees in a cryptic context. No clear event, date, or source details are legible to establish a full news item or outcome.
A garbled early line hints at a local event or feeling with phrases about thinking someone is wrong and happiness in the moment. The readable bits suggest a regional tone but lack clear names, places, dates, or concrete actions.
An illustrated guide explains building a dry can telephone using two tomato cans and parchment drum heads. Waxed twine runs between the heads, punctured holes allow sound to travel. when taut, tapping a drum-head lets a person in the other house hear clearly.
A New York man has devised a bicycle horn using a clapped device mounted near the front wheel. It uses a light aluminum frame with pulleys and ball bearings driven by the tire to produce sound. The siren’s pitch varies with wheel speed, producing a shrill warning as the machine moves faster.
A quirky tale describes a monk attempting a playful thread experiment in strong alt water. He dries the loop and repeats the process two or three times, then fashions a small ring that fits a door with no thread breakage and no damage to the loop.
Dick Malstes, after grasping Maurice’s fishing debt, joins a plan to win Margaret by morning. A rescue at sea brings Margaret’s gratitude and sparks a bold confession from Dick: he loves her and asks for a chance to prove it, leaving Maurice jubilant about new fishing gear and a hopeful future.
A quirky tale recalls Augustue Athrobald Robbinson who moves up after a harsh dismissal scene. Jim endures fear as he is urged to quit, later returns, rises to manager, and now sacks his own young successor Nebie as the cycle repeats in the office.
A fragmenting OCR item hints at a shocking confession theme in a theater setting. Vague lines mention a person named Pell and a case involving a wild desire to mark a place with charcoal, suggesting a crime or dramatic confession unfolding on stage. The text is incomplete but conveys a tense, sensational scene.
Clarence Fielda of San Francisco completed a coast to coast trip on Lackawanna and other trains in one week and three minutes to reach New York for medical treatment. He recounts being kicked off trains, riding in dangerous grades, enduring two days without food, and hitching rides across the country amid coal dust and storms. Fielda describes deftly beating a ferry to reach New York.
Bernard F ONeill, once a New York newsboy who rose to directorships at the Carnegie Trust and president of the Wallace State Bank of Commerce, was arrested in Vancouver on a warrant for liability in the Wallace bank crash. Penniless, he planned to start anew after a fortune of over a million vanished. indictments reached other Washington elites as his downfall followed the bank's suspension. He had previously run for governor of Washington and had ties to many esteemed banking circles.
C W Massee a St Louis millinery porter lives lavishly on a $50 monthly salary. He drives a 60 mile an hour touring car, owns 3000 acres in Minnesota, four servants, and a nine room house while bossing twelve workers. A Minnesota farmer at heart, he dreams of returning to prairie life.
In Topeka a traveling salesman named Conehinon sued after a railroad lunchroom refused his ham sandwich bite. A store clerk allegedly mishandled the wrapped meal, and a platform confrontation led to a damages claim for distress and ruined appetite. The case has lingered in district court for months.
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