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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
8
Douglas firs are among the west’s best timber trees with specimens reaching 20 feet diameter and 250 to 300 feet tall. Found mainly in the coast ranges, they outproduce other species per acre and are used for telegraph poles ship masts and interior finish. Full-grown trees exceed 100 years in age.
The piece argues that human nature remains constant while progress relies on continuity. It cites ancient writers and thinkers from Joseph to Thales and Euclid, noting how early observations in astronomy and geometry laid foundations still echoed in modern science and thought. It concludes with John Sterling on the necessity of steady footing to advance.
Describes hawthorn trees in bloom with vivid red fruit around Little Rock. Notes landscape beauty, park plantings, and multiple hedges. Cites Lit tle Rock Gazette on hawthorn lore including symbols of hope and wedding processions, legends of Christ crown of thorns, and tales of bells and cries tied to Christmas.
A historical note describes prospecting wealth beneath sea floors in Nova Scotia and Cornwall. It explains iron and coal extraction offshore with pillar support to prevent collapse and mentions a rare tin vein found at low tide with bulkhead protection before a storm destroyed the site.
Redwood ranks among the most fire resistant woods being hard to ignite and slow to burn evident in the 1906 San Francisco fire. It is light yet strong for general house construction and remains stiff enough for poultry yard structures resisting rot and weather.
The palm yields versatile resources used by natives. Meat is eaten as food, the nut’s center provides a refreshing drink, and the unopened bud sap makes potent beverages when fermented. Husks fuel, fibers rope and mats, shells fuel cups and utensils, leaves and wood supply mats thatching and huts.
The earliest needles lacked eyes and acted as awls to pierce skins. Later devices had a hole at one end to pull roots or leather through hides, dating back to the stone age. Bone needles with eyes appear in reindeer caves in France and central European lake dwellings.
A spiral-spring belt pump is claimed to raise 1,000 gallons per hour from 800 feet depth even when hand operated. The endless belt runs on a grooved pulley with vertical positioning by a loose weight, discharging water from the belt turns at the top.
Red-haired people are described as hot tempered yet not vindictive. They are quick to speak their mind, impulsive, sunny, honest, and truthful, though vain and eager for admiration.
A neighbor reports a dog that bit a child and is described as part poodle and part bulldog. Frank asks his mother which part caused the bite, sparking a child’s curious interpretation of the incident.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. provides Libby castle in Washington Heights as a home for Paulist choristers. The 50 boys aged ten to seventeen study music and academics with training grounds for physical development. The house, built 25 years ago, is a city landmark with medieval Norman and Spanish architecture.
A Savannah News item reprints a tale from the Columbia State about a lone elderly Black man at a Canadian railway station asking for directions to a colored woman. The exchange shows caution and weariness as he explains he has searched both sides without finding her.
Marines at Guantanamo Bay Cuba captured two 200 pound turtles on a bay voyage. When killed more than 100 eggs were found in each. The eggs have soft shells and resemble yolk in taste. They are boiled hard and peeled like onion skin.
In 1775 Congress offered £50 for domestically produced pins equal to English imports. By 1824 Lemuel Wellman Wright invented a pin making machine forming solid heads automatically, and in 1831 John Ireland Howe, a Bellevue Hospital doctor, developed a machine to produce perfect solid headed pins leading to a Derby Connecticut factory.
A surgeon once confessed to Sir Edward Carson that before cross examination he dreamed of being on the operating table with Carson dissecting him. The piece notes the strain of counsel under scrutiny and cites a humorous courtroom moment where a judge mocks misnaming a party as the attorney mixes up Jones Smith and Robinson.
Samuel Slocum of Connecticut invents the first pin sticking machine and Doctor Fione uses it in 1841. The device features a 12 by 6 by 4 inch box with a steel bar bottom that lets pin shanks pass while heads block, feeding pins and papers into aligned folds as rows are punched and pins pressed in.
The Chicago Journal notes the attraction between William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. Hathaway, ten years his senior, married at eighteen and lived in Shottery. She bore him two sons and a daughter, and Shakespeare left her his best bed in his will.
The Saturday Evening Post quotes Sinclair Lewis arguing that wives should be anesthetized before motor tours due to their ignorance of cars. He mocks female drivers as dangerous, claims motor knowledge tests marriage, and suggests a rough cycle of stress, divorces, and renewed affection after a week of driving.
The article recalls hula as Hawaii’s ancient religious rite and social centerpiece, with dancers chosen for beauty and training. It notes the shift from sacred performance to established schooling, while preserving reverence for the art as a disciplined, culturally significant practice.
A reflective excerpt notes that a community’s judgment of a man hinges on the thoughts of children and dogs rather than wealth. Dogs judge by kindness, following the tramp or millionaire alike, sharing in hardship without condemnation.
A reflection on women's moral courage and appetite. The Ohio State Journal ponders whether a slim young woman in fashionable settings can eat more than expected, attributing it to either character or digestive efficiency.
The Ohio State Journal notes John Milton preferred olives for dinner and suggests his writings rarely showed cheer. The reflection pokes at the poet by contrasting his frugal meals with the idea of cheerful verse, mentioning cabbage and prune whip.
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