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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
5
Archaeologists report a shaft tomb with a gold sarcophagus in a chamber 18 by 12 feet. The coffin bears an alabaster lid and a gilded mat with hieroglyphs naming Nebu Sene feru, likely a princess. The tomb predates Cheops pyramid and predates the first pyramid era.
A whale chased herring into a lagoon at Kachemak Bay Selovia trapping itself. It later followed a gasoline boat out toward the Pacific Ocean damaging over $5,000 in fishing nets during the incident.
Edward S. Harkness donated a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington known as the Pinckney portrait to the National Portrait Gallery in London. The bust likeness, of the Athenaeum type, is now in room 12 beside other Stuarts and works by Reynolds Rommey Gainsborough and Lawrence.
An elderly pair, Bartholomew Lott aged eighty and Carrie Lambert aged seventy, wed at the Wood in Parkersburg West Virginia in a ceremony that drew local notice for its unusual age pair.
Two individuals met briefly at the county courthouse and, after a quiet conversation, proceeded together to the county clerk's office to apply for a marriage license. The report notes their separate missions before the license step.
Manila reports A W Prautch of the Department of Agriculture cites growing Para rubber potential in Luzons southern provinces within the typhoon belt after touring Albay and Camarines Sur. He notes 40 000 seeds from Singapore sown in 1912 and many large trees including one with 89 inch girth.
Queen Wilhelmina will gain about 150 acres as land is reclaimed from the sea. The Zuyder Zee drainage project covers 1,400 square miles with an estimated cost of 100 million dollars. Despite war interruptions, dykes on the island of Wieringen have been rebuilt to stand six feet above high tide.
A storm surge left a couple of inches of flooding inland while the mainland town of Monnickendam endured rising tides. Residents prepared for further high water as conditions persisted.
The Sunpie prizes of 350 spurred 152 amateur inventors in England with commercial ideas. About 500 inventions were submitted. four major prizes went to a kettle lid that never falls off a portable fire a relativity based rotoscope for gauging machine speed and a rod and tube bending device. Sir William Grey-Wilson heads the institute and showcases handiwork at home while a chicken house spring opens its door when corn is pecked from a tin under the perches.
A Nebraska bill in the state house of representatives would require all livestock to wear warning lights at night on public roads. The measure covers cows and other animals whether in herds or singly, aiming to improve safety and visibility for rural traffic.
Milan reports Germany has regained influence in northern Italy's textile industry. German capital controls many mills near Milan and a system using cheap Italian labor and skilled German dyeing returns almost finished goods to Germany for processing. Export streams move mainly to Yugoslavia via Italy.
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