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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
2
The San Francisco Chronicle discusses the word eugenics as new and popular. It explains Francis Galton as Darwin’s nephew who linked heredity to marriage and offspring and proposed statistics to improve the human race through selective mating.
A method to fight shipboard fires uses flue gas to smother flames. Pipes from the boiler room would deliver low oxygen gas into burning holds, reducing oxygen below the level needed for combustion. The system, already installed on some vessels, aims to control fires like those that destroyed the Volturno.
A sample of dried mature elephant grass was sent from Uganda to the Imperial Institute to test its use in paper making. It weighed 177 pounds on arrival and 145 pounds after air drying, yielding pulp of good color with fibers longer than esparto and about the length of bamboo. British experts expect to improve the process to make it a profitable substitute for wood pulp.
Four years ago letter carriers in a Cincinnati branch office began saving twine from incoming mail. They formed a ball from unused twine, now 29 inches across and 75 pounds, estimated to stretch at least 35 miles.
In Winnipeg Manitoba a freight car was torn from its restraints by ferocious wind and hurled along the track at about sixty miles per hour. It crashed into a passenger train, slamming on top of the locomotive and causing a dramatic wreck.
Convict Ralph Kirby escapes after a cyclone scene and a series of disguises. He uses a dead man’s clothes, hides in wrecked villages, feigns death, and evades rescuers until slipping onto a train toward Australia where he is now a sheep raiser hunted for information about the crime he was convicted of.
A convenience offer lists items readers may request from reliable firms. Check options like Hay Loaders, Hay Presses, Lighting Systems, Milking Machines, Nurseries, Pianos, Pianos, Pumps, Mop, and other farm and household goods. Readers may write for information or suggest missing items.
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