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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1916
Page
7
An illustrated feature by William A. Radford advises builders on creating an attractive bungalow with corner entrance, open living and dining areas, and practical kitchen and storage layouts. It emphasizes a broad view of overall design, strategic room placement, and distinctive door and porch details to elevate interior aesthetics.
The article explains how rifle ammunition is delivered to troops near the firing line using motor omnibuses. Drivers receive precise instructions on replenishing pouches and bandoliers, with limits to avoid over supplying one regiment while another lacks bullets.
In northeast Siberia numerous new commercial enterprises have started. Iodine works near Vladivostok harvest iodine from abundant seaweed. A violet and iris ethyl ether distillery opened using Ussuri blossoms. Amber is gathered along the Premorsk coast while new salt workings appear in Irkutsk and Lena hinterland near Viluisk.
Prices for metals are shown with spelter at 18.53 and copper coating at zero. The note mentions New York and a margin or market listing with March silver or December values, but the readable fragments limit clarity on full events or outcomes.
December 1915 Cripple Creek mining districts report an estimated production of 53 050 tons and a gross bullion of 1 545 500 dollars. The year totals 82 697 tons and bullion value 16 135 164 dollars, the best yearly output since 1906. From 1891 to end of 1916 the total production reaches 353 75 830 dollars.
Arizona reports boost in copper prospects with Cinnabar deposits north of Globe. San Juan property in Lone Star district ten miles north of Bisbee to begin operations immediately. Cananea Consolidated Copper Company is moving into full operation as workers are secured in the mines and smelters, per Douglas dispatches from the Copper Camp.
In New Mexico the Chino Copper Company at Santa Rita raised prices to 1 dollar per unit for the past quarter. Bisbee paid 450000 to 5000 workers, the largest payday in town history. Muskogee oil men plan tests of the Artesia field with 3000 acres sought and a 10 inch well planned on J. M. Henin’s land with half of Henin’s 160 acres to drillers and a 10 percent royalty if oil is found. In Wyoming Midwest Oil Company takes over Greshull and Torchlight properties, boosting company earnings as Midwest Refining raises its dividend to five percent and gains rights on a base field near Salt Creek. Gravel and placer discoveries draw attention. a Hurricane district nugget rush spurs locator activity amid heavy snow. Cripple Creek reports 2100 tons produced in November with ore valued at 18 to 20 dollars a ton at Golden Cycle mill. extra dividend declared by Portland Gold Mining Company.
Sudan grass, introduced from Sudan and Egypt, is an annual forage plant suited for drought regions. It grows 4 5 feet tall, yields 2 4 cuttings per year, and matures in 50 75 days. For 20 pounds per acre, sow on warm, deep ground. price 45 cents per pound.
After harvest it is wise to rake burn all refuse matter and vines to prevent bacterial disease and preserve soil fertility. Plow deeply and leave rough to retain snow and absorb rain. Thin crosswise plowing helps prevent soil erosion and keeps land from blowing.
In dry farming districts of the Southwest corn is often unprofitable yet farmers plant several million acres. With heavy rainfall yields up to 70 bushels per acre once recorded in eastern New Mexico. Kafir millet fed to livestock could rival corn, with ten bushels of kafir worth nine bushels of corn for horses cattle hogs and sheep. The shift to kafirs could fatten and stock-grow the Southwest.
Do not turn clover or any cover crop under without first cutting up with a disk barrow. Plowing with a layer of undecomposed material harms soil moisture capillary action and can sour the soil. Double disk the cover crop, plow narrowly, edge the furrow, then disk deeply to avoid injury.
Fall plowing is advised when conditions permit. Deep tillage helps soil absorb moisture and store it in the subsoil, boosting the water supply and improving seedbed readiness without harming future crops.
The piece surveys Bombay and Calcutta New Year observances among Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Parsees, Buddhists, and others. It describes banks closing for holidays, temple rites at the Towers of Silence, Parsee funeral customs, and the mixed reactions of Hindus and Muslims to shared observances, with notes on Chinese New Year presence in Calcutta.
The article notes resilient winter blooms in December with scablous candytuft galilardias pansies wallflowers and English daisy surviving cold. Jack Frost freezes them yet they reappear and bring cheerful color for home guests, as observed in a Hreeze Hill garden year with flowers like pansy English daisy and wallflowers valued more than greenhouse roses.
Austrian newspapers highlight youths called war boys aiding in eastern Galicia. Boys carried water and ammo, gathered shrapnel for reuse, slept with troops, and some died. A fourteen year old ran Czernovitz hotel, others peddled food, guided autos, and served in trenches, shaping wartime history.
Annam, a Croatian city with about 160,000 residents, is famed as the city of beautiful parks. Years of citizen effort built an extensive park system that draws travelers who often return. The city invested over one million dollars to develop the parkway.
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