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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
3
The statement confirms that dividends have consistently been issued at the 4 percent annual rate, maintaining the same earnings policy without changes. No additional context or entities are provided in the fragment.
The report lists taxes in St. Louis totaling 62 million plus dollars, New York employing 800 unnaturalized teachers, Chile producing 1.8 million tons of nitrate annually, and Argentina exporting 5 million wet salted hides. Cooperstown plans a 250000 hospital, New York paid 20 cents per pound for sugar, Japan to send 20000 laborers to Brazil in four years, and British allies purchasing 5 million hides in Argentina.
A series of pithy maxims cover ethics society and human nature. Concepts range from vanity and deception to faith and progress. The tone resembles a reflective anthology with terse statements about character motive and civilization.
An array of inventions described includes a Minnesota patent for clock calendar date changes at midnight, Norsk titan ore used for dyes by a new Norwegian company, a carry handle turning a dry battery into a lantern, a metal sheet picture molding for pre plaster hanging, a German potato planter with hollow wheel fed tubers, Iowa hollow tile blocks with dead air seals, and British experiments with overhead currents boosting oats by about half grain and 85 percent more straw.
Britain launches a paper rag saving campaign. Hawaii reports fifteen edible sea weeds. Women increasingly occupy English pulpits. Georgia marble firms consolidate. Alberta plans a Belgian colony in Canada. Rome drinks more wine. Missouri grants convicts Saturday half holiday. Hungarian gypsies flee to Spain to avoid wait service.
Dick Rowland plans a two week Catskills vacation and vows to meet twenty girls at Glenwood hotel. He meets Gladys Graydon on a Kingston steamer, learns she is headed to Glenwood, and realizes he may meet a single girl among many during the trip.
A reflective piece on love and marriage notes that scraps of affection rarely yield peace. It states married men aren’t always best husbands and suggests wives can be better. It praises a dignified man who shops with his wife and recalls a boy's excitement when his mother visits his teacher.
A collection of satirical quips on marriage rules, money, honesty, and social norms. Ironic lines compare courtship and matrimony with guardianship of vice, and jest about spying spouses, managing money, and public scrutiny. Notable quirks include one about a cave man and a wife and playful digs at pasts and possessions.
Burma boasts the world’s principal jade mine. French vintners test ultraviolet ageing of wine. An English inventor creates a gas leak alarm for garages. A soapstone asbestos stove body centers new electric heating unit. Oklahoma sportsman yields a quacking decoy duck. German brewers develop nourishing yeast additives. An English inventor crafts a high‑speed boilery scale remover. A mine safety device uses rock dust to prevent explosions. Aluminum fins boost air cooled motor cooling.
A collection of varied notes: Brazztt Chile yields large saltpeter revenue. parrots taught by phonograph. Zulus sing uniquely. Brazil hides vast unexplored lands. war timber need estimated at 50 million cubic feet. Asoan crater spans 10 to 14 miles. world sheep total about 652 million with Australia 93 million and Queensland 21,786,600. Australia plus New Zealand contributes about two elevenths of the world total.
A miniature electric railroad aids a packing establishment that handles 500000 pounds of meat daily. Nine hundred cars are pulled by seven electric locomotives.
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