Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls; or, Nick Carter's Porto Rico trailCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 143, June 5, 1915: The sultan's pearls; or, Nick Carter's Porto Rico trail
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
The lobster, which in its natural state weighed thirty-three pounds
and one ounce, measures forty-two inches from the tip of its tail to
the end of its giant claws, the body alone measuring twenty-three and
one-half inches. Since arriving here the lobster has been boiled, the
meat removed, and the shell painted so that it now looks much the same
as it did when it left the waters of Newfoundland.
This giant lobster, the biggest one ever seen here, according to some
authorities, and one of the biggest on record, was caught off Grand
Manan by a fisherman named John Moses.
Buy-a-Pig Movement, Latest.
Isn’t it about time to buy a pig? This is no joke. One of the causes of
the high cost of living is in the fact that society is growing faster
than the farmers. There is no more profitable animal than a pig. He
improves the dressing and gives the gardener a valuable asset to begin
the season with. He stands in the doorway to keep the wolf away through
the winter. And the social part of it is no small item. The pig is the
most social of animals, especially when he is hungry, and a good pig
has a continuous appetite. It is no disgrace for any one to raise a
pig--not even a school-teacher. Buy a pig and get your name on the roll
of honor.
Motor Saw for Felling Trees.
In attempting to develop an electrically operated device for bucking
and felling trees, a lumber company in Marshfield, Ore., constructed a
portable motor-driven chain saw, which will cut through a two-foot log
in less than a minute, declares the _Electrical World_. The cutting
element consists of a motor-driven saw-toothed chain traveling around
the peripheries of two pulleys, one at each end of the frame. The
motor is connected direct to one of the pulleys and is supplied with
electricity through a flexible cord. The apparatus weighs only eighty
pounds complete.
Left Home on Freight; Back in Limousine.
To celebrate the anniversary of forty years ago, when he jumped a
freight at the old Delanco, N. J., station and beat his way in a
side-door palace car to a near-by metropolis in search of a chance to
make good, which he thought his home had denied him, a former Delanco
boy came back a day or two ago in a limousine to call on old friends
and renew the friendships of school-days.
The boy was John Cahill, who is now chief counsel of the American Bell
Telephone Company, with offices in New York, London, and Paris.
Is Given Fullest Penalty.
Judge Maxwell sentenced Merton C. Pierce, of Canton, Pa., to three
months in jail and a fine of $500 and costs of prosecution, for
furnishing liquor to a person of known intemperate habits. Pierce
pleaded guilty to supplying liquor to a man who could not buy for
himself.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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