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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1910
Page
3
Oxford lore recounts Dr Spooner famous for verbal mixups or spoonerisms during college meals and chapel. anecdotes describe swapped initial sounds like pigs fleas for figs please and from Iceland's greasy mountains for Greenland's icy mountains.
Clark L Rogers of Newmarket New Jersey trains his hog Bill to pull a cart to combat obesity and disease. He believes hogs can be easily trained as draft animals for light farming and profitable work.
A Kansas writer in the American Magazine extols JF Colburn secretary of the state board of agriculture. Colburn is praised for promoting crop and livestock growth with engaging booklets and for his direct public impact. The piece notes Missourians envy his salary imagine but Kansas values his service.
A London savings bank dispatches wagons across the country to reflect and promote local farmer savings, aiming to boost deposits and widen reach beyond its branches.
In a Marseille capture, Co-Ba a wife of De Tham and thirty four Anamit pirates and Walefactors were held in an iron cage voyage to Indo China. Co-Ba exercised influence over the pirate king and governed prisoners life aboard and at landing she led the procession to Isle de Re Bay of Biscay.
Professor H Saville of Columbia University begins an eight month expedition through Peru and Ecuador via Panama. He will study Inca pottery in Lima and Quito then trek into the interior by mule and canoe to collect native artifacts and learn living conditions of early South American inhabitants.
A South Carolina visitor reports witnessing the letter of the law in Jonesville. J. M. Gault farmed a potato patch and left a plow stock protruding into the sidewalk. Street authorities ordered removal of obstructions projecting over the street to keep passage clear.
A Scranton physician’s claim to convert base metals into silver sparked a public controversy over alchemy and scientific credibility. Critics challenge the doctor’s methods while supporters urge verification and test runs.
A dated and garbled recipe describes combining sulphur antimony carbon and other ingredients in crucibles with caustic soda and fire to form a bead of nearly pure gold. The text notes a possible trace of silver and claims the amount of gold is determined by an unclarified process.
The article reviews Dr Frederick W Lange of Scranton and a wave of chemists debunking his metal transmutation claims as impossible. It highlights Austin Granville a New York engineer who cites Brice’s prior demonstrations of gold production and notes failures due to cost and inconsistent results.
Fragmentary OCR mentions legacy disputes after a death in 1708 and a request to pay legacies, plus a note on a family house and distribution of funds. It also briefly reports a revival of the whaling industry with Belfort and two ships heading to the West African coast.
The local druggists report sturdy demand for their famed Painkiller during hard times, noting that no customer was too poor to pay the quarter for a bottle. The deputy warns that the medicine remains a staple for families seeking relief amid ongoing hardships.
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