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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1911
Page
32
A historical note describes a powerful light design for divers using a storage battery lamp. The heavy battery housing and glass front withstand pressure and impacts, allowing a diver to remain submerged without surface cables, strapped to the chest so both arms stay free.
In the So Different saloon Alaska, MacCormack keeper and former friend of slain Cal Tripp contends with a postmurder vigil. Haunting sensations, a moving sheet, and fear-tinged bravado collide as he battles imagined revenants and plots a new life with Tripp’s widow.
The article describes sailors hoarding plug tobacco as currency aboard and ashore. Officers ration and vote on accepted plugs, while sailors trade tobacco for liquor ashore, trading value may reach luxury prices. It notes tobacco credit at 30 cents a plug against accounts, with potential ashore value higher.
Lewiston writer reports a Maine cat named Prince owned by Mrs. Lutie Rowe who waltzes to music. The one year old, eleven pound cat is playful and has avoided serious injury as a fighter. A second item notes a pure white ship cat weighing about one pound arrived from Texas aboard a derelict schooner Holliswood destined for Captain Wal’s wife with box markings Water Me Feed Me Tom.
In Falmouth Pendletonian reporting, Clay Cummins and his cousin Kirk Cummins found a remarkable tree teeming with wildlife last week. They trapped seven goons in the upper branches, five possums in the trunk, and three squirrels in the limbs of a hee tree.
New York Herald notes that food color affects appetite and digestion across humans and animals. Red boosts nerve activity and excitement. green or yellow can calm or reduce hunger. blue and green shades deter healthy appetite. Green rooms and violet tones depress mood, while pink and red influence children and diners differently.
Washington cor pgh dispatch reports Bureau of Standards chemists failed to protect bookbindings from water bugs in tests ordered by Public Printer Donnelly. Bugs survived strychnine and corrosive sublimate, proving pests can outlive coatings and ruin materials, leaving officials to admit defeat.
A look at the circus year split into road and winter quarters with five winter hubs and a pay structure from 12 to 60 dollars a month. It notes personnel roles from razors to press agents, entry in March, and the harsh realities behind sensational posters and high wire acts.
Joe Kennedy, once a circus runaway at 16 and now Central Park Menagerie’s lion house keeper, recalls a life of wild wagons, elephants, and monkey escapes. He describes rough road antics in Elkton, the razorbacks, weather’s toll on tents and animals, and his own clowning feats including tumbling over elephants.
London Chronicle surveys beard fashion across eras, noting shifts in moral judgments. It cites William Rufus era views, Scots stereotypes, and Holyoake's 1903 reflections on Birmingham beard wearers including Joanna Southcott followers and George Frederick Muntz in Parliament.
F. B. Crane entered the government office with a chewed five dollar note, found on Potato Clark’s farm seven miles from Parker. Grasshoppers had attacked the Indian head design on the bill, leaving little of the currency.
In Jamaica a plant is used as a toothbrush by fraying a stem piece to create fibers. This sanitary idea spreads from a local initiative, contrasting with hotels in Japan that provide guests toothbrushes.
Scientific American outlines an Army plan to uncover the Maine wreck in Havana harbor. An elliptical cofferdam wall will enclose the hull, water pumped out, mud removed, and the ship studied in place to determine the explosion cause. Costing about $225,000 from a $300,000 appropriation, the work aims to expose the hull within months for a final disposal decision by Congress.
A rugged woodsman and companions discuss a new sneeze powder called Cachoo used to stupefy fish and game. The tale describes sneezes triggering water inhalations killing trout, and later using the powder to flush game, with wary talk of an illegal dynamite alternative and wild hunting claims.
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