The Brattleboro daily reformer

From the original pageDe la página original

This page carries the passage as it was found on the newspaper page, copied with its reading errors and all. The article's fuller presentation is still to come; the original page is linked above.Esta página lleva el pasaje tal como se encontró en la página del periódico, copiado con sus errores de lectura y todo. La presentación completa del artículo aún está por venir; la página original está enlazada arriba.

the boats 'wefte built as economically .ln length.

been

les

and quickly as circumstances' permitted.

Completion, of sixty of the boats and

cancellation of contracts for fifty-two

were approved by the sub-committee.

In Italy "tho day "begins at midnight

and is reckoned" on the twenty-four

hour system.'

.-considerable success iit Cuba, Hayti and

me Dominican Kepubhc.

Tlie wood used is very tough, having

a twisted grain that curls about the log

in such-a way that to split the timber

with the ordinary means is almost im

possible

The best tre?s are selected and a piece

of the log five or six feet in length and

about one foot in diameter is cut. After

the bark has been removed and the log

made perefctly Tjund,- it js swung up on

a crude truss and a hole burned -into

i it from one end. The log is wound with

fresh rawhide,' which shrinks and hardr

ens. When the cannon is covered another

layer is wonnd on' after certain treat

ment, and this is continued until the

weapon has increased several inches in

diameter.

Then the weapon is treated to a hot

blast.'which tends further to contract the

hide binding until it becomes almost as

strong as wire.

These crude cannon have been em-

The deepest-known-lake-in the worldpi0yed with effect in a number of in-

Within Her Rights. -V:

"Well, if "you've had 10-years' experi

ence taking care of children I think you'll

do"' r?.: ::--.,ii-;:vi-,..;.

.i. 'I'll just take a look at ths' children

i and see if they'll do.'Browning's Maga

zine. :M i-.'-.t-

is LakC Baihal in'Siberia.

Wealthy Russians-arc often buried in

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Brattleboro daily reformer. (1919). Brattleboro, Vt., 1919-03-05. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86071593/1919-03-05/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Brattleboro daily reformer, 1919-03-05.