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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1908
Page
8
A Detroit Free Press note lauds boy inventors who shaped engines and looms. A miner’s boy improvised valve control to automate a steam engine, while a farmer’s son crafted a power loom, later earning profits through a blacksmith’s backing and a dramaticfatherly reversal.
A hexagonal lead pencil placed against a door or window casing can be slid with firm pressure about 3 to 4 inches and appear to grip the surface. The trick, as Popular Mechanics notes, makes the hat seem hung on the pencil without any visible support. Figures illustrate the pencil on the casing and the hat hanging from it.
A wartime vignette tells how a young woman named Charlotte Hillman kept a toll gate open for Sheridan and his army marching through the Shenandoah Valley. She collected tolls by notching a tall pole, earning a final payment sent to Washington after peace returned and relations were restored.
A simple wooden ice box can be built for 25 to 50 cents. Use a box about 13 by 18 inches and 12 inches deep. Line the bottom with sawdust and place an eight inch diameter tin pail inside to hold the milk bottles.
A compact milk cooling device described by Popular Mechanics uses a tin cylinder around a pail placed on sawdust with packed ice and broken ice surrounding the bottle. The setup fits a quart bottle and reportedly costs about two cents daily to operate.
A meek clerk Thomas Chett, prone to careless letter misdirections, delays a month mail with errors. His employer, fed up, sets a firm course to stop wastes of time and money, noting how envelopes with their address in the corner expose mislaid letters.
A Washington Star paraphrase recounts a judge explaining evidence with a parable of a house hunter asking a boy for the distance to Mr Smithson's new block. The boy says twenty minutes, the hunter doubts five minutes from an ad, and the boy notes you can believe either the boy or the ad but not trying to deceive.
A dialogue highlights a grammar clash as Willie questions correctness of the line My sister has come to School. The teacher insists on standard form and notes the sister has went home.
A historical sketch details a compact drilling machine built from a wood block about eight inches by eight, with an iron band, a central wooden shaft, and a movable crossbar. A cord and pegs drive the bar, drilling via a triangular-file drill. operation relies on lifting and pressing the bar to wind and unwind the cord, yielding rotation.
A correspondent from American Miller explains dam design to resist undermining and washout. The stone and cement abutments rise above flood crests, with stone gravel fill upstream to raise weight and a multi section, tied structure that would fail only if the whole dam is washed out.
A Popular Mechanics note describes a knot once used by a major English football club to secure the rubber hose on footballs. The article explains the knot in two steps with two identical loops, showing ends at each side of the cord, and notes its versatility for grain sacks and similar uses.
A carpentry note explains that each varnish coat must be sanded or rubbed for a perfect level surface. The final coat should be finished with steel wool and pumice, then rotten stone and oils, and cleaned to avoid scratches. For a very fine polish mix one pint shellac with a half pint raw linseed oil and apply briskly until hard and lustrous.
Manganese steel is now generally recognized as the only suitable material for street railway track work with heavy traffic. engineers note its extreme hardness makes it resistant to ordinary cutting tools such as chisels, saws, and files, requiring special tooling.
One of the nation’s largest concrete mixers is used for the Monongahela river dam project in Brownsville Pennsylvania. It can pour 45 cubic yards of concrete per hour and is operated by a single man. The unit travels on a tramway as work advances with sand gravel and cement fed from an elevator into top bins. Sand and gravel hoppers measure 16 by 16 feet while the cement bin is five by seven feet.
New glass making tech replaces blowing with a continuous sheet machine that lowers labor. Lubbers pioneered a 1903 blowers' method and Irving W Colburn now perfected a system costing $300,000. It produces plate and sheet glass with higher purity using one man and two boys to do the work of thirteen mechanics.
Power describes a flexible glue for leather to metal using four parts glue and one part Venetian turpentine. The mixture is heated in a glue pot until sticky and bubble-free, best when fresh.
California lists gold and petroleum among its most valuable mineral products with petroleum rising in value and gold historically central to the state's mining economy.
Railroads tackle fuel waste by teaching smokeless firing. Lecturers ride engines to demonstrate proper firing, foremen coach firemen, and stations record smoke color and engine data. If smoke indicates waste, firemen face discipline. faulty engines are repaired, and smoke consumers aid near smokeless operation.
An English visitor boasted of Britain's rail system at the Waldorf. He spoke of speed and safety and vast freight tonnage while American listeners listened. A skeptic remarked on American progress noting coal trains so long the engineer needs a field glass to view the caboose.
A Puget Sound electric railway adopts a combined locomotive and flat car. The mechanism sits under the car floor to store rails pales and repair gear. The central cab spans the car width and is raised for a clear motorman view of the track during operations.
On June 16, 1908 President Manuel Estrada Cabrera established by executive decree a commission of engineers to select and definitively survey a railroad linking Quezaltenango in the western part of the country with the national railroad system.
A writer in a current magazine describes rail tramps as a grave danger to interstate commerce and public safety. He notes tramps ride openly in baggage cars and on top of freight, sometimes causing wrecks and fires. He urges severe penalties for trespassing on railroad property to protect lives and property.
Marion R. Lux of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railway received a silver medal and $1,000 toward a home for his daring act. With the train at about 25 miles per hour, he leapt from the cab and, despite the child being on the track, rolled free with the child as the engine slowed, narrowly avoiding the wheels.
A heavy goods train on Siam’s Royal State railway between Ban Phayi and Bangkok struck a wild elephant on a curve. Both engines overturned and one plunged into a bank, the other capsizing across the line. Two workers died, several injured, 13 cars derailed and six telescoped. The elephant died, hurled 60 feet. This marks the year’s second such accident in Siam after a February incident near Lapburi.
An item from The Railroad Man's Magazine reports a near archaeological find between Oil City and Franklin Pennsylvania. Half a mile of rails and ties were uncovered bearing the Brady's Bend Iron Company mark B B I C indicating early production west of the Alleghenies.
A dusty fierce cat aboard an express train into New London was not removed despite inspections. Conductor allowed the animal to ride, with crew keeping watch at stations. The cat fled upon reaching New York, believed to have boarded in Boston.
The plan calls for locomotives from Austria, America, and Britain to be used on private Austrian rail lines. The government will purchase about 2000 miles of track next year at an estimated cost around 15.9 million. The move aims to expand rail capacity and standardize equipment across lines.
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