Snails and Cathedrals Highlight Todays Folios
The column surveys snail farming in Europe and Africa with market values and exports, then cites long building timelines from Cologne Milan and Cornwall. It notes historic projects like St Peter’s Cologne 632 years and Milan 419 years, with funding concerns about taxpayer costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter
Cologne
Milan
Rostermel
Cornwall
Lord Bute
Isle of Bute
Dukes of Atholl
Scotland
The Ballnons Ween Son The Weekly Sun Promotion
The Weekly Sun offers attractive country market reports and a woman's column amid varied departments including household interest. One dollar yearly plus mailings to the United States Canada and Mexico with advance payments. printers Abell Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun
United States
Europe
China
South Africa
Philipines
Porto Rico
Cuba
Washington
New York
The
Baltimore
Nefok
Charleston
Chicago
Philadetphie
Mail
Daily Sun
Sunday Sun
Weekly Sun
Weekly
Theaily
Canada
Mexico
Oddities of Color Blindness in Monochrome Vision
An oculist notes color blindness affects about five in a hundred with most cases minor. He cites two individuals with monochromatic vision where all colors appear as gray shades. A garden photograph illustrates how nature would look to such sufferers, reducing colors to grayscale.
Quotable Wit and Mordant Descriptions in Peel Reference
A passage contrasts QC QConnell’s sharp phrasing about Peel with a harsher line about a similar temperament. It notes a woman described as poker like in coldness, revealing a caustic, sardonic tone.
Diet Rules for Diabetic Patients Excerpt
The text outlines a diet for diabetics allowing eggs cream buttermilk and all cheeses freely. Tart fruits like peaches and strawberries with cream are allowed without sugar. Forbidden are sweet fruits, most cereals drinks are koumiss and coffee with cream without sugar are allowed, tea excluded. Vegetables with sugar or starch are forbidden leaving only cauliflower lettuce string beans spinach cucumbers greens and onions. Olives are allowed and a moderate fat diet with all kinds of fish is recommended.
Fences Fixed Political Motto Origin From Century-Old Quip
A Philadelphia Times quote traces the phrase keeping your fences fixed to a remark by Senator John Sherman. The tale involves a book hawker and a remark about saving money to keep fences intact. The line spread from Ohio to national politics. The Washington Star adds a wry note on cures for colds.
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John Sherman
Sherman
Ohio
Philadelphia Times
Washington Star
Glass for Windows Through Arsenic in House Panes
An Indianapolis News report explains how window glass is made in two departments the tankhouse and pothouse. It details how arsenic may enter the glass, the melting process, gathering forming and flattening, and the recycling of scrap before packing for market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ehrough
Indianapolis News
Expanded Them and Expanded Debts
A daughter answers her father that she has expanded her debts rather than contracting new ones. He questions the bills from milliners and dressmakers, reminding her he forbade incurring debts without his knowledge.
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Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Ass’n St. Louis, U. S. A
Michelob
Faust
Anheusers Standard
Che Sun
Baltimore, MD
Paris
Africa
Edward
Pollod
Burgundy
Champagne
Provence
Dijon
Switzerland
Austria
Spain
Italy
Algeria
Cairo
Rome
Ballnons
A.8. Abell Company
Publishers, and Proprietors
Peel
Lees
Tucson
Parloes
O. CO
Parker
Ariztona
Bubst
Yuma
Yuma Bakery
W. If. Shorey
G. Fi. Doe
E. G- Woodard
DOE & Woodard
Congress
P. O
Telephone
Arizona
Matilija Hot Springs
Ventura County
California
Santa Inez
Matildja Hot Springs
Ventura County, Cal
Nordhoff
United Typewriter and Supplies Co
W. Second St
Los Angeles, Cal
Pease Novelty Co
Court Street
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