Ninety Two Elevators Solve Vertical Travel in Chicago Tower
International News Service reports Chicago plans for a seventy five story Apparel Mart and Chicago Tower will rely on ninety two elevators to move vast daily crowds. Elevators will reach speeds up to 900 feet per minute, with local service to the top floor and six high rise units handling 1,325 people per hour. The system includes four hotel high speed elevators, an automatic garage conveyor, and a main bank of thirty passenger elevators delivering 9,000 passengers per hour with both express and local options. Estimated daily travel distance is 2,436 miles and the building could evacuate 18,000 people in under three quarters of an hour if needed.
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International News Service
Chicago
Napoleon Picard
Chicago Apparel Mart
Picard
New York
Chicago Tower
Storm wrecks claim ships off Swedish coast
In a violent weekend storm, many ships foundered off Sweden's coast near Stockholm but no loss of life was reported.
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Sweden
The
Associated Presse
Stockholm
Prostatitis Remedy Ad Promises Fast Relief
An ad from the W. B. Way Co. of Kansas City offers Rudolphs Prostatitis mail order treatment claiming to stop kidney bladder and prostate troubles quickly. They provide a full $1 treatment postpaid for 10¢ to cover mailing, with a no-risk offer to pay only if satisfied.
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W. B. Way Co
Westover Arcade
Kansas City
Rudolph
Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy Promises Health Relief
Druggist guarantees refund if the remedy fails. Sales pitch targets readers with dental and general health claims. City Drug Store advertises this product as a cure all despite lingering pyorrhea effects on stomach kidneys and rheumatism.
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Leto
City Drug Store
Luna Not Prompt Says Horologist
London reports Sir Frank Dyson told the British Morological Institute that astronomers need horologists to verify moon time. He traced lunar gains and losses since 1630, noting the moon was 30 seconds slow in 1630, gained time by 1720, then fluctuated to be ahead by 1775 before slipping back toward Earth's rotation by 1865 and showing net losses and gains through 1897.
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Luna
Frank Dyson
British
Morological Institute
Frank
Clock trusts and safety in industry rise in talk
Sir Frank advocates placing half a dozen clocks in major observatories to keep time to one second per year. Separately H W Heinrich reports on 75 000 industrial accidents showing that mentally disturbed workers pose as much danger to themselves as to others as physical disability.
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H. W. Heinrich
The
Travellers Insurance Company
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