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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1908
Page
8
A survey of how brides are chosen and married across cultures from Japan and France to China Egypt and Morocco. It describes parental involvement matchmakers dowries and ritual acts reflecting varied social norms and expectations for women and weddings.
The Canadian government will assume all assets and franchises of the Quebec Railway and Bridge Company. A reconstruction of the Quebec bridge will be a government project under Trans-Continental Railway Commission supervision. A three member oversight board will include engineers from Canada the United States and Great Britain. Government to cover losses from the bond issue guaranteed up to the collapse, estimated at 5 to 6 million dollars.
A monumental rock crusher in South Pittsburg Tennessee powers a cement plant producing about 4 000 barrels daily. It crushes hard limestone to six inches and smaller at 800 tons per hour, with 60 percent under four inches and 30 percent under two inches. The machine stands 18 feet 11 inches tall with a 20 foot diameter hopper and weighs 425 000 pounds. The top shell splits into two, bolted together, and the main components include a 33 000 pound shaft and a seven foot high 65 inch diameter crushing head weighing 32 000 pounds. Design reflects a bottom head crushing pressure near 1 500 000 pounds.
A copper calorimeter near Sheffield University measures human energy by heat output during mental and manual tasks. A man is isolated, watched through a porthole, fed via a double trap-door, and communicates only by telephone as scientists record energy while he alternates between brain work and manual labor.
Consul John H. Sherley reports three black fox farms near Atherton Prince Edward Island housing 20 25 and 30 foxes. Skins fetch 500 to 1800 pounds in London for royal cloaks. The 30 fox farm lies on Cherry's Island with wire enclosures eight feet high and buried posts. Foxes sleep in hollow trees logs year round and are bred to their own king to ensure fur quality.
A two part sheet metal window box design lets a single box fit between three and six feet across different window sizes. The inner and outer parts are flanged to lock at any point, preserving neat appearance when moved to new locations.
A reader describes a makeshift ice water supply using a heavy tin coil inside the refrigerator ice compartment. One end connects to the water faucet, the other to a spigot through the side, with a sketch shown in Popular Mechanics.
This lever mounted on the car dash adjusts hot and cold air to the carburettor and air admission. It speeds starting by allowing full open to full closed main air supply with a turn. By varying hot air cold air or a mixture it gives control over the carburettor for temperature and moisture differences.
Passenger traffic through the Simplon tunnel peaked in August 1906 at 42,622 travelers, fell to 14,545 in November, with the best monthly figure since then at 34,500. Freight rose quickly, reaching 5,658 tons in October 1906. In early 1907 freight totaled about 44,000 tons, aided by Mont Cenis route blockage. First year gross earnings reached about $190,000.
Burlington officials announce a large scale plant project to treat ties and bridge timbers with creosote after testing concrete ties proved unsatisfactory. The plant will be the largest of its kind and cost about 270000 dollars.
The British armored turbine cruiser Indomitable allegedly shattered world steam speed records for warships of her class by reaching a speed of 3214 miles per hour.
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