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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1914
Page
2
A mash of verses about wealth features lines praising millionaires and their control over bonds and blocks, contrasted with notes on worry, doubt, and the pull of luxury. Interwoven are snippets of a family scene with Mr Wimpleton and Dr Temple, plus a chorus of neighbors and a police officer’s weary refrain, ending with a rumination on the stock market looming four years ahead.
An account describes the Macua women in the Portuguese colony of Lourenco Marques creating a white enamel like facial paste. The craft blends white hardwood dust with ant oil on pumice to form a durable cosmetic base treated through secret steps. The paste, once set, resists cracking with facial movement and remains visible for about a month.
P Amaury Talbot records ceremonies of the Ekkpo Njawhaw secret society and its juju Thirt Bong. To call the spirit for harm a leaf is plucked and the name of the target invoked then offerings cast into a stream to reach the shrine and unleash deadly consequence.
The phola or boring clam of the northwest coast is a curious bivalve that bores into rock using its rasp like shell, then relies on secretions as worn away. It feeds on infusoria in salt water and is sought at summer resorts despite epicurean obstruction. Dynamite has been used to blast clams from ledges in some bays.
In France mushrooms are grown in underground quarries at depths of 60 to 200 feet, benefiting from stable temps and limited drafts. Ventilation is provided, beds use manure topped with white stone, spawn introduced a few inches deep, arranged in rows eight to ten inches apart. Beds run long and about 20 to 25 meters wide and similarly tall.
A tower at Kampoen, Pranes tracing back to the sixteenth century was recently examined after claims of excessive leaning. Experts concluded the tilt has not changed by even a millimeter for three centuries, comparing 183% measurements with current data and finding no difference.
An older article explains how to distinguish genuine diamonds from imitations by hardness, polish, and refraction. It notes that real diamonds resist scratching, retain original facets, and sparkle in water, while imitations scratch, smear, or remain dull. It also warns that glass imitations are common and advises tests with a file, sapphire fragments, water droplets, and acid. It then shifts to British Columbia forests, describing vast timber wealth and the need for prudent forest policy and reserves to protect resources.
In a rural comedy set around a cooking-school maid, Miss Coline flirts with a lame auto driven by Hugh Farnham. He follows a plan to expose her, crashes into a fence, and confronts the widow and mother watching as the scene unravels in a tense village mood.
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