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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1908
Page
10
Hungry Billy believes he is truly hungry for candy and dreams everything in his house becomes candy including his mother. He wakes sweating, grateful bread and butter are real. He vows to save Saturday money and eat what his mother offers, appreciating ordinary food again.
A Newfoundland named Victor rode out the Copenhagen battle aboard H. M. S. Bellona. After peace, sailors fed him roast beef and plum pudding as party fare. Victor refused copper coins, but carried a silver sixpence to the captain, refusing the copper amid laughter.
A playful riddle compares a hen crossing a road to assault and battery with a pun on foul. The joke hinges on homophones and a legal term twist, delivered in lighthearted newspaper brief form.
W Y Connors now head of the New York Democratic state committee recalls earning his first major freight contract. At the Ohio street dock, he gathered a thousand dock workers and boasted he could beat any man. One worker challenged him and refused to be intimidated, prompting Connors to send him to the office for payment.
A landlord with a square plot has a house occupying one quarter and four apple trees planted in the remaining space. He asks his four tenants to divide the land around the house into four equal plots, each containing one apple tree, and promises land without rent increase. The tenants solve the puzzle as shown in a second sketch.
The article notes cats cling to old walls and follow their master to the ends of the world, yet remain timid and easily frightened. It stresses cats’ independence, need for warmth, and the care required to keep them safe, contrasting feline behavior with dogs.
The text states Maryland covers 12 210 square miles with 2 350 miles of water. It notes seven states have smaller areas, listing Maine New Jersey and Delaware among others, and asserts none match Maryland's land area.
The article surveys dragon fly life from egg to winged adult, noting tiny fairy fly larvae inside the eggs and the insect’s harmless, voracious prey on the wing. It cites F Enoch’s monograph work, fossil history, and historical swarm reports across Alderney and the Gironde with wide flight columns and river journeys.
Alvah H. Doty M D Port of New York warns scratching mosquito bites causes infection and blood poisoning. He notes alkalies relieve stings but immunity and vigilance remain essential, malaria spread by anopheles mosquitoes can be prevented with proper control and precautions.
General Manager Battin of Winston Bros reports Taft area progress on the St Paul line despite extraordinary difficulties. An electric cable way over the Bitter Root divide carries timber for trestles and bridges, with 20 structures from 125 to 200 feet high under construction. Work continues day and night as crews push toward a spring meeting of forces.
The piece notes that older nations have stripped forests, turning attention to Brazil with its vast timber. It reports Brazil's woods feeding growing sawmills near rail lines, while other forests are near exhaustion. It warns of renewal needs as timber moves from interior to Rio de Janeiro for packing boxes and matches.
It is not advisable to paint on exterior cement work until it has been exposed to the weather for about one year.
Dr Capitan of College du France notes in America the evolution of primitive peoples mirrors Europe. Early nomads faced extinct beasts, with shell heaps and crude to polished stone implements showing similar sequence. Cave dwellers emerged, and some Argentinian communities still ornament caverns with carvings and paintings.
Railroaders often scoff at premonitions in stories yet admit the heroics of engineers conductors and firemen when danger looms. They recall that most real omens fail, and dramatic rescues are remembered more than the failed predictions.
The locomotive completes a second hospital trip after logging 240 000 miles. Nine inch steel axles are replaced and not reused in the drivers. After circling the globe ten times, the metal’s stress makes welding and forging necessary to again fit the frames.
The Chicago Milwau kee and St Paul railway rails have been laid through St Maries and freight is already moving. The line is pressed to complete soon with several top transcontinental trains planned. A branch will run up the St Maries river tapping a vast white pine belt.
On November 8 1888 the first uteam locomotive the Rogers ran in Illinois on the Northern Craig railroad now part of the Wa kaabh system.
Rail work on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line accelerates across the Kittitas country with a machine laying steel at 2½ miles daily from Murdock to Clealum. Hand work east of Murdock lags. 14 miles spiked near Mur dock. Bridges and a 2000 foot tunnel delay progress, while trestles and a Narrows bridge rise. Abutments for the Columbia River span are done. steel stockpiled at Murdock for five bridges.
General Passenger Agent Miller reports the German emperor asked for details on the Milwaukee & St. Paul railway car cleaning system. Through German consulate attaché F W Gutbrod in Chicago, Berlin seeks pictures descriptions and literature. The apparatus was demonstrated in Chicago and information sent to Emperor William.
The vital area on Pacific type locomotives lies in the boiler with 302 tubes. In overhaul, tubes are welded and tested under 100 pounds pressure. any pinhole bubble rejects the weld.
A compact study of how rapid car progress mirrors the locomotive power of eastern express trains, yet warns that reckless, intoxicated speed maniacs threaten lives as machines grow more formidable and driving danger rises across the nation.
The article notes artesian well drilling being difficult with Grenelie France requiring from December 24, 1833, to February 26, 1841, Passy achieving faster depth, and Maisons-Laffitte expected to reach 560 meters after reaching 460 meters, with De Dion Bouton Journal referencing engineers predicting one year to complete the Maisons-Laffitte well.
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