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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1922
Page
4
The piece envisions a zigzag population rise to 1860 peak and 1920 low, with Senator-elect Dr. Royal B. Copeland predicting 2020 counts near 30 million. It warns of meat shortages, urging sea food reliance, and notes growth will stretch Brooklyn and Manhattan, amid possible war or pestilence.
Veterans of Foreign Wars leaders press for a sales tax funded bonus with exemptions for food, hoping a presidential approval and rapid action. The American Legion forms a bloc to back the five priority bills, including the bonus, betting on near-term passage though doubts linger about this session.
Census experts discuss New York City population forecasts for 2020. Dr Walter Laidlaw projects about 14,408,000 if post-1910 growth trends continue. Deputy police commissioner Dr John A Harris foresees up to 25,000,000, assuming a faster rise. The growth pattern has been irregular across decades.
Twenty one years after the December 1901 transatlantic signal Marconi’s wireless achievement moved from skepticism to widespread use. By late 1902 news could sail by wireless to ships and the new medium grew into telegraphy and telephony shaping daily life and even broadcasts.
The department of agriculture says beaver farming could become profitable where conifers are planted on burned or cut-over lands in the northern U S and Canada. These areas, poor for agriculture, may yield income as forests regrow while beavers thrive.
A brief note credits J A Sanders secretary of the Montana Historical Society and the Montana Pioneers for compiling yesterday's reminiscences. It identifies Sanders as central to preserving state history.
Montana history notes mark December 19 1804 and 1862 events. The Nevada City trial of George Ives for Nicholas Thirhalt's murder opened with H P A Smith and others for Ives and W F Sanders and Bagg for the people, lasting three days and ending in Ives’s conviction and hanging.
The dialogue features a broadcast discussion at a high school A R L meeting about transformers for wireless. It explains transformer basics: iron core, primary and secondary windings, and how turns affect voltage. A note on power and the idea of a perpetual motion scheme is introduced, with calculations showing large output from small input under ideal conditions.
A dialogue on transformer basics and losses discusses turns, resistance, and heating in iron with examples of motors and generators. It covers open core and shell type transformers, silicon steel cores, current and potential transformers, and a 19 to 1 voltage step down.
Friendly stars rule the day with Mercury Mars and Uranus in benefic aspects. The reading signals favorable conditions for advertising newspapers magazines and aviation progress while new books travel and industry may see gains. Children born today are clever energetic and positioned for a successful life.
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