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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1913
Page
24
The readable text presents a jumble of misread lines, varied quotations, fictional snippets, and odd attributions. Notable items mention wire fatigue, tin production shifts, a dismissed dinner with a trust magnate, and a mock exchange about prescriptions, all in a collage-like newspaper fragment. The sourcing shows scattered phrases rather than a coherent single event or article narrative.
Colon, Panama October 1 The Panama canal stands nearly complete as gates open to flood Gatun lake into the Culebra cut marking a step toward final destruction of the Gamboa dike. Officials expect the dike to be blown on October 10 and the canal opened to the world for navigation within a year beyond its official completion. Col. Goethals and aides say the project has entered its final phase with locks, dam, and channel nearly finished after nine years of massive engineering by American troops and engineers.
In a reverent note about nuts, the piece traces a shift from walnuts and chestnuts to pecans as America's favored crop. It highlights rich but hard kernels, the rise of pecans as a major natural and economic resource, and the use of mechanical shucking to ease harvests. A southern emphasis marks the evolving appetite and agricultural worth of the pecan.
The article traces 12 hour day division by early Egyptians, a habit adopted by Jews and Greeks from Babylonians. It notes Rome’s first sundial around 293 B C and public criers before water clocks appeared in 158 B C. England’s early timemeasures used burning wax candles and Alfred’s six candles for 24 hours.
A quip by Simeon Ford, the New York humorist, comments on J Pierpont Morgan’s death. He notes that wealth and poverty both fail to guarantee happiness, pondering what a man should do.
Alexandria, Egypt's principal port and commercial hub, ranked third among Mediterranean ports in 1908 based on statistics. Twenty one ocean navigation companies maintain regular scheduled service at the port, underscoring its busy maritime role.
The text cites CASTORIA and Fletcher's Castoria with claims of safety for infants and children, then shifts to a tangential joke about dry cleaning and a judge remark. It ends with a clipped wedding line about a bride being very shy, suggesting a fragmentary newspaper memory of a social note or humorous aside.
In Grayville Illinois Mia Jessi Schaar reports severe irregularity and cramps kept her bedridden. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her health improved greatly and she can hardly speak highly enough of the medicine.
Frightful menstrual pains and displacement prompted Mrs Tully to try Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound after doctors offered no help. She reports relief and encourages others with even a hint of doubt to write for confidential advice to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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