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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1936
Page
8
The Sidney Livestock Pavilion runs a weekly sale each Saturday. A. B. Rapp will cry the sale for sellers in Sidney or Potter State Bank can provide the date. The ad promises top prices for top hogs or products and guarantees satisfaction.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes a historic Fort Ross orchard planted by Russians in Sonoma County. The old trees include a greenish yellow striped apple parent to Gravenstein, plus likely early prunes, cherries, and pears. A monument could preserve and maintain the ancient orchard.
A Pearson's Weekly summary notes that 385 million Chinese may face mail mix ups as common surnames like Chang Wang Li and Zhao repeat across 400 surnames. With 25 million Changs and Wangs and 16 million Lis and Chaos, literacy and letters would cause widespread confusion. The page explains schoolbooks list 400 names in groups of four for memorization and students often recite the whole quartet.
In Antigonish Nova Scotia a government hatchery studies 100 speckled trout fingerlings from selected parents. Weighing 15 ounces at first and 7000 ounces after under a year, the average is 70 ounces each. They were fed mainly beef liver, a rapid growth compared with natural seven ounce weights in two and a half years. Hatchery stock aids restocking and commercial waters, showing strain improvements.
The world's largest truck named Kathleen Mavourneen from Liverpool carries a steam locomotive and a 70 ton whale over a long distance. It measures 72 feet, has 14 wheels, carries 180 tons, and travels at six miles per hour. Steering is by four men in front and rear, all linked by telephone per Collier's Weekly.
Priceless religious artifacts valued at over $700,000 were taken from Pamplona cathedral Spain. Thieves believed to have fled across the frontier opened treasure chests by exploiting cathedral routines and key access. Chalices crosses and gems were among the loot with a fragment of the True Cross reported missing.
A humorous saying attributes Denmark as three parts divided among ter, bacon and eggs. The region is described as housing about five million pigs, three million cattle, and twenty-two million hens, while only about three and a half million Danes remain to tend them.
Several nurses at a hospital measured their daily activity with pedometers. One nurse reported walking ten miles in a day while another claimed fifteen miles.
A quirky collection of aphorisms and maxims on history pride speech democracy and self improvement. It blends wry observations on fame criticism and human folly with playful word twists and paradoxes. The piece surveys ideals habits and cultural foibles through concise pithy lines.
A compact collection of maxims and observations on self control, patience, social class, gossip, and city life. It notes how conformance and envy shape behavior, with remarks on hats, home building, and the energy of New York, ending with a jab at restaurant browsing without bills.
A Pearson's Weekly piece explains how discarded garments are processed. Cotton and linen fabrics fetch mills or paper makers, artificial silk becomes new yarn, old felt hats are remade, suits are shredded and rewoven, and woolen rags yield blankets and flock for horticultural use.
A Baltimore physician reports to Army Air Corps chiefs after the first high altitude bacteriological test in a Martin bomber. He exposed 12 plates from 19,000 to 28,000 feet. ten showed no bacteria, while two at higher levels yielded one Staphylococcus colony each, suggesting sterile air above 20,000 feet but not conclusive.
A Wisconsin wood worker cites Popular Mechanics Magazine asserting that a beveled chopping block can safely cut kindling without injury from flying pieces. The ideal block is a short end cut from a large log with one side beveled and a projection to rest the work.
Nearly 100 old-time Texas longhorn cattle, almost extinct, receive federal protection alongside wild animals on the Wichita game preserve in Oklahoma. The herd is valued as a link to early western life and livestock history.
Weather maps will look the same worldwide as nations adopt symbols agreed at an international meeting of meteorologists, aiming for universal understanding across borders.
In a witty exchange, Miss Cayenne quips that a woman's place is in the home while noting a man should guard the doorstep to deter bill collectors. The remark highlights gender roles with humor and social banter.
A large sun dial on a Walla Walla street serves as a public timepiece. Passersby stand at its center and read the hour from where their shadow falls, providing an unusual local time-telling feature.
The Balliol college gate at Oxford, built in 1288, has stood for 647 years with paint. After coats were stripped, the timber beneath was found to be in perfect condition, preserving a historic structure.
A wary exchange has a father urging his son to learn arithmetic, insisting that understanding football averages and baseball percentages matters for real life, while the son resists. The dialogue underscores practical math relevance and parental guidance.
A sailor replies that his role aboard a submarine includes holding her nose when they dive, while a nosy boy questions the sailor’s actual duties.
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