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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
4
Skate sailing is a thrilling winter sport teaching balance and sail handling. The article details folding skate sails using bamboo or wood spars, T and A shaped frames, and practical rigging with grommets screws and belts. It covers sail construction, material choices, and folding-frame designs for safe, portable use.
A lively English controversy centers on whether Lord Curzon of Kedleston as viceroy of India uttered a political bull. Critics say blunders show a pattern among premiers and statesmen. Quotes from Asquith Balfour St John Broderick Long and Long illustrate the era’s fondness for wry, doublesided phrases amid debates on topics like redistribution mobilization and education.
A Harper's Weekly synopsis notes metals suffer contagious diseases akin to living beings with tin pest causing tin blocks to crumble or form warty growths. Lead and hard drawn brass show spontaneous recrystallization. Temperature influences these phenomena, and tin pest can spread by contagion.
Witham, Esser, England plan celebrating millenary with a pageant this year. Patrice notes the event will take place on Easter on Fifth Avenue in New York, aiming to mark a thousand years.
Albert Weaver of St Francis Kansas argues summer tillage and fallow store 4 to 6 feet of subsoil moisture to support wheat in dry years. He cites yields from 1910 1912 across several farms, notes deep seeding mid September to early October, harrowing after emergence, and calls for more agricultural science to boost profitability.
Professor R C Donoghue argues that a planned crop rotation reduces yield loss from drought, controls major causes of low small grain yields, and emphasizes rotation over tillage. Rotations boost roughage output, requiring more livestock and manure to maintain soil organic matter.
Breeding heavy draft horses is a profitable livestock branch though many farmers miss the importance of size. A horse under 1,500 pounds is not regarded as a draft horse in national markets, while farm mares are typically lighter, leading to small, scrubby lots sold at a loss to breeders.
The right kind of sheepman knows every individual in his flock and ensures each sheep’s comfort. Bach men make money on sheep.
Professor N. E. Hansen reports from Siberia after collecting over a ton and a half of hardy alfalfa seed and 142 pounds of hardy red clover for South Dakota. He also found a large seeded red stem sweet clover, a Mongo lian wheat with a large kernel, white seeded millet, and a hardy cherry. The work aims to boost dry land agriculture and expand forage options with new varieties and cross breeding opportunities.
Miss Mabel Shaw of Chicago recounts Colonel Roosevelt as a handsome ready pupil in tango and small talk aboard the Van Dyke during a South American cruise. She quotes his kindness and encouragement as she dreamt of opera success and performed for the ship’s company.
A tree eight feet long with a four inch radius was sent by Albert Bunnell a Franklin farmer to a friend in Ohio via parcel post. The branches were bound tightly to the trunk.
Walter Loidlaw of the New York Federation of Churches analyzes mayoral race districts by nationality. McCall carried 16 districts with eight Irish, three Russian, five Italian. Mitchel won 48 districts with 30 native white voters, three Austrian, five German, eight Russian, two Italian.
Reverend A Arthur Anderson a Methodist Episcopal preacher from Warner New York was found walking dazed and nearly naked along a road outside New Brunswick New Jersey He said he aimed to reach Atlantic City to swim then visit President Wilson in Washington He claimed rough treatment from a Pennsylvania railroad conductor prompted him to walk to Washington after leaving the train while singing hymns.
In Chicago the groom Thomas Nuhn Jr. used gas to take his own life after not inviting his father to the wedding. The incident is described as a death by own action following a perceived snub.
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