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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1916
Page
8
British naval tests show a new shell proves deadly to German vessels. The projectile reportedly ricochets less, strikes true, and remains effective even when it narrowly misses its target.
The article argues Britain adapted new shell technology to defeat submarines and protect battleships. It describes a depth controlled fuse using water and potash, a curtain of fire concept borrowed from French artillery, and a method to detonate mines and submarines at specific depths. It notes implications for naval strategy and Baltic coast vulnerability.
University of Washington physicist Professor Frederick A. Osborn estimates housewives in a city lose about 25 000 unnecessary steps daily. He urges kitchen workflow modeled after modern factories with materials moving straight from door to dining table, minimizing retraced movements.
An outdated car maintenance note describes a carbon remover made from wood alcohol and carbon disulfide with a small amount of fabricating oil. It warns the oil may be omitted for heavy deposits and stresses fire safety and thorough engine cleaning after use.
A novel departure in New South Wales uses two acetylene head lights on the traction engine to plow at night. The bright field lighting allows work as effectively as daylight, promising improvements in operation and lighting adjustments.
A resmer should never be employed to ream out a pipe of any kind. The senile inside the tubing caused by the flux used in welding or ringing is as hard as glass, and no reamer can be made hard enough to cut it.
An overview of eleven thrush species in the United States, highlighting robins, bluebirds, and six others. It notes robins sometimes pest fruits in dense settlements but primarily eat wild fruit or insects, bluebirds near houses but harming none, and other thrushes eating mostly insects with little agricultural impact. The Townsend solitaire is praised for its song and western range. wood thrushes inhabit eastern open groves and protect crops by consuming harmful insects.
Servia grants pensions exclusively to invalid veterans. Ordinary veterans receive nothing unless injured. Pensions are annual, with partial validity yielding a reduced share and total invalidity earning the full yearly amount.
In downtown Boston a short stenographer asks workers building a new telephone, to place it lower on the wall. The foreman jokes that she can raise her voice, noting her height and the need to reach the device.
A condensed epigram note notes Miser as a man who kills two birds with one stone and wants the stone back, and Tact as the art of saying nothing when there is nothing to be said, from Worden's Home Companion.
The doctor notes Henry is more serious than expected as delirium appears. The patient has become very ill and requires careful observation, with Denis and the nurse assisting in care.
The dialogue questions Jones being a leech, but the reply insists Jones rarely sticks to himself. The text pivots to urging the reader to seize the moment and obtain their Jessop from the hour rather than dwelling on past or future possibilities.
A call to readers to identify the town’s most progressive boosters. The piece urges compiling a list of fifty men and women who best support Warren, praising their virtues and urging public recognition and pride in community advancement.
Public bulletin from the Pennsylvania Railroad asks patrons to state why they lack confidence and suggest improvements. It invites candid views to foster understanding between users and management and to address noisy yards referenced by readers near Dallas and Boston Globe comments.
A Jamisville Courier Journal quote muses that ancestors had few health boards and insanity commissions and suggests they might have locked up Sir Isaac Newton Copernicus and Christopher Columbus. The remark contrasts past restraint with modern scrutiny of genius.
In a Louisville Courier-Journal column a humorous remark compares marriage to a lottery. The critic suggests some cultures choose partners by cocoa nut offerings, calling it a muffie. The exchange reflects playful commentary on matchmaking norms.
Captain Cushing A. Rice, U S A retired, back in Denver after travels, cites China’s army strength at 1,006,960 with plans to reach 2,000,000 by ten years and a reserve of 10,000,000. He notes training by German and Austrian officers and says Yuan Shih Kai pursues rapid preparedness. He praises Japan-US goodwill and recounts Rice’s Havana home and NYC club residence.
Federalsburg Maryland residents recall a decade of silver dollar gifts sent by Henry P Wright of Aberdeen to his sister Mary Fleetwood. Each year the coins arrive on schedule with her address on one side and a two cent stamp on the other, never lost or delayed.
Kalamazoo Michigan resident Miss Lacy Vandyke no longer endures long rag-work hours at a local paper plant. A long lost brother, believed dead, has returned from Alabama with money, ending years of searching to trace the family she left twenty years ago.
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