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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
8
A curious essay compares ant societies to human civilizations, detailing ant cities with multiple floors, sentries at hill entrances, and wartime mobilization. It describes ant kings queens workers soldiers and police, aphid dairies, springtime pasture, milking, nurseries, and winged young.
A playful vignette from the Delineator recounts Eddie, not quite three, seeking a fan from his mother on a warm day. Unable to pronounce the word, he pantomimes fanning himself and asks, Mumey, tin Eddie have one of them j things to brush the warm off with.
A Detroit Free Press poem about a cookie man shaped with crooked legs and bulging currant eyes. The speaker recalls watching his creation bake and laments the moment of finishing the last crumb as if the cookie man looked up with his final currant eye.
John explains two simple tests to tell a hard boiled egg from a raw one. In the first test a rubber band is wrapped around each egg and spun briefly. the hard boiled egg tilts and stops while the raw egg slows to a stop quickly. In the second test spins eggs on a platter and stops the hard boiled egg when touched, while the raw egg keeps spinning.
Tommy learned to swim in Huckins' cove and, invited by his father, visited the city club pool. He felt cramped and worried about causing trouble, then began splashing and performing tricks. Suddenly he surfaced and whispered to his father that he had swallowed water and asked if they would mind.
A young worker warns the firm he may quit if not raised, saying the business could fail if he leaves. The general manager thanks him for relieving an unpleasant duty and clarifies that he will not grant the raise, noting he dislikes firing someone who cannot easily find work elsewhere.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip wonders about a secretary and her supposed English descent in a light office joke. The brief gag hinges on a misattribution of identity and a judge’s remark about language or background.
A patent has been granted for a syringe like device that injects poisons along weed routes with careful delivery to avoid damaging nearby vegetation. The invention promises precise application to curb weed growth while protecting crops and flora along field margins.
A Transcontinental journey from Ogden westward crosses Lucien cut off over a vast arm of Great Salt Lake, making train travel feel like an ocean voyage for about one hour. The lake is barren, with gulls as the only birds and no real vegetation, while the railway, 45 miles wide and 1,900 square miles in area, presents an engineering marvel of straight 34 miles with no grade.
The Flying Bluenose, a noted passenger train in Canada, sits for over an hour as a replacement locomotive is found after boiler tubes fail. American passengers grow restless while crew stay calm, and the brakeman quips about preferring a busy schedule to loafing. The relief engine finally nears, and the train slows its approach, drawing mixed reactions from riders awaiting supper and the boat.
The Lackawanna stock leads global railroad shares with a par value of 50 dollars and trading between 500 and 600. Small trades of 100 to a few hundred shares swing 10 to 40 points. Owned by the Rockefellers, Stillmans, and Astors, the line is run with the same foresight as Standard Oil, delivering huge dividends from a modest capital stock of 26.2 million dollars.
An upcoming Moscow railroad will form an irregular oval around the city, intersecting all nine lines to transfer freight between lines. The route will cut cartage costs and ease street congestion while serving factories previously off rail, expanding Moscow’s industrial access.
A Bellefonte Pennsylvania firm is being organized to manufacture brick using furnace slag as the chief ingredient. The project aims to repurpose slag into building materials. Local investors and business interests are backing the venture.
Emperor William has devised a safety hub and brake claimed to greatly reduce brake failures. He earlier showed interest in technical work but had not pursued it recently. After a Berlin elevated rail accident his activity resumed during a country holiday while experiments remain unfinished. He plans to continue studies in Professor Slavy's laboratory after winter season.
The Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee line from Taft Montana to St. Joe Idaho costs 11.4 million dollars, 190 thousand per mile, the highest paid for such length. It includes 35 tunnels, the longest over 8,000 feet through solid rock. Within five years of completion, traffic is expected to require double tracking to handle demand. The route cuts through the Palouse and Big Bend wheat belts, which shipped over 40 million bushels in 1907.
Returns of the interstate commerce commission show that in the year ending June 30 1904 there were 10 046 persons killed and 84 155 injured on the railways in the United States Of these 70 699 were employed of whom 8 632 were killed and 67 067 injured The greater part of the remaining casualties were suffered by trespassers of whom 5 105 were killed and 5 194 injured It is presumed that for accidents to persons classified as trespassers the railways were in no sense responsible.
A Great Western Railway Magazine report describes a North Wales single line working incident where a signalman could not draw a staff from the instrument for nearly five hours. An insect, a small fly, entered the delicate contact mechanism and perished, blocking electric passage.
A 300 foot long, 200 foot wide earth collapse along Washington avenue and Fourth street sent seven freight cars and four railroad tracks into the Mississippi River. About $75,000 in railroad property was submerged. Bank undermining by high water caused the accident. Illinois Central Railroad owned two tracks and seven cars. Public Belt Sait road owned the other two tracks.
The article describes two innovations in bricklaying the fountain trowel and a brick handling packet system. The trowel increases mortar spread and ensures better joint fills, while the packet system speeds brick delivery from wheelbarrows to the scaffold, reducing bending and lifting effort and keeping bricks oriented with the best face upward.
A short book titled The Care for the Goat argues that goats offer great benefits to small landowners laborers and rural residents. Goat milk is richer than cow milk and may be tuberculosis free while goats are inexpensive to keep needing little space and food.
A simple winter storm entrance project shows constructing a removable cloth covered storm door. Frame uses white pine, 30 by 72 inches, hinged outside, with a spring latch, and the outer surface clad in muslin with tacked seams, then painted to blend with the house.
France has long been a poultry and egg producer but now imports millions from abroad. Russia supplies the largest share, with about 9,000,000 pounds consumed in Paris in 1907. Austria Hungary provided around 1,200,000 pounds and Egypt 250,000, while other nations contributed less.
A wax derived from the rafine palm of Madagascar is being used as a substitute for beeswax. The move follows shortages of bee wax and aims to sustain production in plastics and candles while exploring cost and quality implications.
A brief note suggests that old adhesive tapes can regain tackiness by applying a small amount of a suitable substance. The technique is described for household repairs, offering a quick fix to improve stickiness without replacing the tape.
In practical operations the silvering of horn and leather is necessary. Objects are heated to 140 to 176 degrees Fahrenheit before being painted with a hot gallic acid solution, then with a nitrate of silver solution, repeating the process until a silvery appearance is achieved.
A compact carbon dioxide cylinder with a fuse plug melting at 200 degrees Fahrenheit is recommended to prevent spontaneous combustion in coal. A unit one foot long and three inches in diameter can treat eight tons of coal.
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