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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1911
Page
5
The Baltimore Sun chides the Cleveland Plain Dealer for promoting Cleveland as the sixth city while Baltimore drops to seventh in a census dispute. It notes history of ranking shifts after 1904 and warns against Cleveland’s daily sign undermining Baltimore’s status.
Harper's Weekly reports Irish experiments using a two foot aperture telescope and a sensitive electrometer to gauge the influence of stars and planets. Venus shows about 0.17 volts Jupiter at least 0.03 volts Sirius about 0.02 volts, with Jupiter likely higher since not all light reached the instrument.
The piece notes a future, comfortable cross Africa trip linking Dares-salam to Ujiji via a new railroad. German East Africa employs 10,000 workers on a 547 mile segment to Tabora, with plans to extend to Ujiji and connect by boat to the Congo River outlet.
A correspondent reports Signor Falcioni, Italian interior undersecretary, caused a scene in the senate by arriving in a fancy morning coat rather than the standard black frock coat. Several senators left in protest, and he later returned in an usher’s frock coat to resume his speech, to loud cheers.
The article recalls Constance Runcie as founder of the first American women’s club in New Harmony on September 20 1855 nine years before Sorosis in New York She later led the Bronte club and a life presidency her title mother of clubs was awarded at the Federation of Women’s Clubs meeting in St Paul five years ago and again in Boston two years later for her pioneering work.
Experiments in France show that powerful searchlights provide little benefit for locating wounded at night due to shadow cones formed by obstacles. The most effective device to date is the acetylene lamp carried by hospital corps as they move litter teams across the field.
The Persian censor forbids a Persian version of Jules Verne Voyage to the Moon, citing irreligious content. The piece recalls a moon mission by scientists in a shell fired from a gun, arguing that aiming at the moon equates to a crime as the moon is sacred in Islam.
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