Gyroscope Steadying Ships Touted At Naval Engineers Meeting
Elmer Sperry described gyroscope driven stabilizers to naval architects and marine engineers, detailing how a gyroscope keeps vessels upright in heavy seas and can stabilize compasses. He contrasted with water ballast and emphasized energy transfer and non synchronous motion, noting applicable installations and praise for Capt. Taylor’s work. Samuel D. McComb discussed fire risk in harbor tugs and the need for larger engines with boiler proximity to woodwork to prevent fires aboard ships.
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New York
Elmer A. Sperry
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Engineering Societies
Mr. Sperry
Sperry
D. W. Taylor
Washington Navy Yard
Mystic Zone of Wrath Making Odor Near Central Park
Report from Fifth Avenue mansions describes a strange scene as central park zoological staff and wary citizens react to a Mexican tomcat escelot near the lion house. Keeper Snyder explains the animal’s powerful scent triggers chaos among animals and people, with attempts to remove it failing due to bureaucratic delays and strong odor.
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Central Park
Seta Monkey House
New York
Fifth Avenue
Central Park Arsenal
Snyder
Mystic Zone
Lion House
Bill” Snyder
Mexico
United States
Yonkers
Stover
Central Park Tomorow
Manicure Parlor Added to Blaine Public School
The building committee of the Blaine public school board orders a corner of the bathroom partitioned for manicuring purposes. The move adds a manicure parlor to the school facility in Minneapolis Minnesota.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Blaine
Board of Education
Beggar Relief Fund Reaches Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred
The municipal subscription to aid beggars in Madrid closed with a total of 14400 dollars. The effort was part of a campaign to clear the capital’s streets of large numbers of beggars and related unrest.
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Madrid
Beggara
Imparcial
Monkey House Frightening Steps End In Fainting
A fragment notes a scene with a monkey house where the animals faint as soon as entering. The line suggests a chaotic moment during moving or display but provides no further context or names.
Snake Laden Ship Arrives in New York From Orient
The British freighter Muncaster Castle arrives with a cargo of snakes by the dozen none under twenty feet, red faced apes huge lizards and a three foot elephant. The ship saved twenty one people from a derelict vessel after it drifted 1 200 miles for seventeen days. A 16 year old girl was among the survivors landed on the Malabar coast.
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New York
Orient
Far East
W. J. Donohue
Muncaster Castle
Malabar
India
Straits of Malacca
Iowa House Committees Pass and Recommit Numerous Bills
Des Moines reports show the house judiciary committee advancing ten bills to subcommittees and two for passage while one measure by Milton of Cedar County was postponed. Other items include bills on school elections, governor powers on pardons, inheritance tax allocations, highway vehicle rules, banning gambling-related venues, and state health board reform. Senate actions include Quigley pushing an undercover sleuth bill and Spaulding proposing a seven year indictment statute.
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Whitney
Woodbury
Lounsberry
Marshall
Committee On Ways and Means
Dun- Tap
Clinton
Christ
Klay
Sioux
Jacobs, Bascom and Koentz
Grout
Blackhawk
Larrabee, Bull and Shankland
Johnson, Hamilton and Smith
Harding
Campbell
O’connor
Committee On Board of Control
Health Board
State Board of Health
Board of Health System
Brown
Decatur County
Senate
Terminal Tax Bill Moves Through Iowa Senate
The terminal tax bill would tax railroads by county value rather than distance, favoring major terminals like Des Moines and Council Bluffs, while county reps with no large terminals oppose losing share. Iowa Senate races saw a deadlocked push for United States senator with Porter and Young leading prior ballots. A second note reports two women lobbyists for nurses and new state salary figures for institutional superintendents.
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Senate
Saunders
Pottawattamie
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Assembly
United States
Iowa
Young
Kenyon
Funk
Byers
Garst
Feely
Franke
C. J. Wilson
Porter
Punk
Henburn
Balluff
Glenwood
Eldora
Vinton
Mitchellville
Tariff Plan 19 in danger amid congress debate
Washington report notes tariff commission legislation faces opposition within Republican factions in the House and possible funding cuts. President Taft pushes for broader support, while Democrats hope a failure aids next year's tariff revision. Taft resumes long foot walks, a shift from prior travel habits.
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George Clinton
Washington
Tariff Commission
House
Taft
Roosevelt
Tariff Board
Congress
Commission
Pardea
Lorimer
Baltinger
Pincchot
Mr. Taft
Mr. Roosevelt
Potomac
Arlington
Fort Myer
White House
America
Tom Moore
Thomas Moore
Corcoran Art Gallery
Lurist
Lord Byron
Tommy
Thomas’ Moore
George Washington
Moore
Americans
City of
United States
Political Primer Voters and the Candidate Dialogue
An office alder questions voters and the candidate answers with a glib definition. The candidate claims voters are people we want to enact love that will compel honesty. The reply mocks the phrase and ends with a teacherly prompt to “go up to the head or the class.”
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Greeley
York
Horace Greeley
Little Square
Broadway
Thirty-third Street
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
Judiciary
Louise Clarke
Charles Clarke
West Ninth Street
North Des Moines High School
Associated Charities
Des Moines Fire Department
Superintendent of Public Safety
Quigley
Clayton
Spaulding
Poweshiek
Pottawattamie County
Registered Nurses’ Association
J. Postlewaite
Dubuque
Isabel McIsaac
Red Cross
Mc Ysaac
Millicent Schaar
Misa Fay Lankelma
Worith Robinson
Ann J. Jones
J. H. Duro
Cameron
State Board of Agriculture
Arthur R. Corey
J. C. Simpson
Larrabee and
Francis
Dolliver
Fitchpatrick
Smith
Mitchell
Wilson
Clarke
Erickson
Cunningham
Committee On Roads and
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