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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
3
A brief exchange recalls planning a Rhine summer trip. One speaker seeks advice on what to buy abroad while another offers to refresh memories, ordering wine to accompany the discussion.
The Swiss National Bank in Zurich printed twenty franc war notes totaling 6 million dollars but will not circulate unless Europe conflicts resumes. Police guarded printing offices day and night as the notes were stored in Zurich bank cellars awaiting a potential war outbreak.
An Indianapolis News item recalls a social moment where a mother speaks of Marian taking courses in domestic science and music in college, while noting her infant daughter is only eight months old. A stranger observer comments on looks and potential college plans.
Plans for the Peking to Paris air race were formalized with a September start. Prince Borghese backs a Gobi Desert crossing and a Trans Siberian finish, with stations and deposits along the route. New entrants include two young French pilots eager to compete.
Richard Schoaf of Sullivan County loses donkey after a night in Brooklyn. The animal, led by a man, drank liquor and tabasco sauce at Atlantic avenue and Smith street, kicked the lunch counter, wrecked the bar, and wandered three blocks before being captured and jailed for the night in a livery stable. The owner lamented the misadventure and vowed to restrain the beast at home.
Reports show refined porpoise oil for jewelers commanding 900 to 1200 dollars a barrel, with body oil yielding about thirteen to fourteen gallons per animal. Production varies from half a pint to a quart per porpoise and head oil brings higher value. Carcasses are used as fertilizer.
London in the 19th century recounts Chabert a famed showman who drank poisons in audience view and claimed antidotes. He endured 220 degree oven heat with a raw lamb leg inside to prove immunity and finished by rubbing a red hot shovel on his head and letting wax be dropped on his tongue.
A Venus fly trap grows in a swamp near Wilmington North Carolina. Kept in moss and rich soil it stays moist and sends many shoots. The trap resembles a steel mechanism and snaps shut when a fly lands, crushing the insect and absorbing its nutrients.
The Atlantic coast hosts the only porpoise oil factory six miles below Cape Hatteras near Hatteras Inlet. Fishermen trap porpoises for skin hides sent to New Jersey tanneries, and blubber oil refined in New Bedford. Porpoise head oil from jaw marrow oils watches and delicate machinery.
A Pittsburg area farmer reports his chickens rode sheep to stay warm during a cold snap. The birds perched atop the woolly backs and dug in their toes, moving from stable to stable in search of grain.
A pillar symbolizing London soot year totals stood between models of St Stephen’s Tower and Cleopatra’s Needle at the International Smoke Abatement exhibition. The display estimated the city’s yearly soot fall at 76,000 tons, illustrating the scale of pollution in the metropolis.
The article stresses that child health hinges on normal bowel action and warns constipation causes appetite loss irritability and restlessness. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as gentle effective relief, suitable for children, with a sample offer from Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
Dialogue notes a minister with a perfect voice as Stella muses that hearing him read the burial service would be worth dying for. The exchange captures tonal humor and solemn reflection.
An advertisement claims backache and aching joints signal weak kidneys and promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills as a cure. Testimonial from Anthony Ruf of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin says relief followed hospital admission and gradual recovery. Product is marketed by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York with a 50 cent price and a jailhouse-style warning about hesitation.
Brussels welcomes Dr Clothilde Luisi as Uruguay's first woman minister plenipotentiary. The unmarried Montevideo graduate and diplomat attracts attention at state functions as she studies modern education while abroad.
In Columbus Indiana a ten year old girl stands 29 inches tall and weighs 28 pounds. At birth she weighed ten pounds, and her waist measures 23 inches while her mother's waist is 21 inches. She has never been sick, maintains a good appetite, and plays like other children.
For a boy who recently died at Royal Hampshire County Hospital England the postmortem found two stomachs present one normal and one smaller the boy was very thin.
A brief measurement states 58 miles total with an average visible path length of 45 miles. The figures suggest a notable discrepancy between total distance and observed segment. No additional context is provided in the fragment.
Official data show 7 845 vipers were killed in Seine-et-Marne last year with a government bounty of seven cents each. Pierre Cassi alone accounted for 1 818 of the total.
Unarmed hunter Richard Tovey of California climbed a tree after treed a mountain lion. He left his gun on the ground and captured the animal in the folds of his heavy hunting coat when the lion sprang at him.
In Burlingham Norfolk the church floor dropped within three yards of the rector while he stood nearby. The incident occurred late last week and caused concern for parishioners and officials. No injuries are reported.
According to Vosmos the initial visibility of shooting stars occurs at about 81 miles above the earth. The text asks for the mean height of their disappearance, but the value is not provided in the source.
A carved angel on the roof of St. An is said to be nearly 600 years old, suggesting a mid medieval origin and significance for the church’s ornament.
A French contemporary reports Migula found the bacillus leposporus on glass living five years. Potato disease germs sealed in a tube remained viable for eight years, illustrating remarkable microbial tenacity.
Mandarin oranges from the Mediterranean flood the British market this season. A newspaper notes their popularity and describes them sold in tastefully arranged wooden packages with gold and silver papers and highly colored pictures of a fanciful nature.
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