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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
6
The song verses were sung by Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard of Washington who wrote it. Pretty girls urged Mr Taft to let them call him Bill, aided by the chorus and the company on the stage.
Professor David Todd of Amherst College plans a high altitude balloon ascent with Leo Stevens to attempt interplanetary wireless reception when Mars is nearest Earth. En route he will use an aluminium cell to vent carbonic acid and supply oxygen, seeking signals from Mars Venus or other planets. He notes Venus’s atmosphere hints at possible life and outlines potential grounding methods for telegraphy.
Professor Eric Doolittle of the Flower Observatory argues signaling to Mars could be done with large geometric reflectors in Siberia. He suggests triangles squares and circles as visible figures and says Earth observers would recognize if Martians are watching. He also warns the $10,000,000 plan is impractical until Mars habitation is confirmed.
A new society named the Golden Age formed in London promotes a fruitarian lifestyle for philanthropic humane and hygienic reasons. Open to men and women interested in suffrage the club will be social with bridge and games for recreation. A medical leader forecasts men could reach 128 under the proposed diet.
King Leopold of Belgium offers a five thousand dollar prize for the best aeronautics treatise to be published within the year. The award aims to spur advances in air science and related techniques amid growing interest in flight.
W J Lampton writes in the New York Times about the umpire who stays impassive under pressure. He faces crowds daily, calls balls and strikes, and governs the game even as fans demand different calls.
A Chicago craftsmen team formed a map of the United States from twenty eight kinds of native wood sent by governors and territorial officers. Illinois supplied hickory and a creosoted sycamore water surface. Pennsylvania contributed a walnut block with a bullet from Gettysburg.
The prince regent proposes to free all slaves in the service of princes dukes and others forever and to prohibit further slave labor in their employ across China.
The St. Regis Hotel in New York unveils a twelve foot clock built by a crippled Ohio craftsman. It combines time and moon phases with twenty four hour weather forecasts, Niagara water displays, moving U S history paintings, Uncle Sam and Liberty figures, and a phonograph. The mechanism uses 640 feet of wire and 442 connections powered by a standard electric line.
Businessmen in Oaxaca launched a campaign against excessive fiestas urging fewer holidays. In Mexico City 128 feast days exist while Oaxaca records 168. Foreign merchants have pushed cuts but over 100 days remain with closures.
The Geological Society of America backed plans for seismographs in twelve Jesuit colleges in the United States. One unit will be at the Brooklyn College on Nostrand Avenue and Carroll Street to record earth shocks for the northeastern states.
The New York Times notes a Philadelphia built vertical compression tester over 200 tons tall with 65 foot head clearance and 11 000 000 pounds tension capacity could have revealed Quebec bridge weakness. Senator Teller pushes $1 750 000 for machine and $200 000 for a housing building with Emery designing.
A Kentucky farm fragment where Jefferson Davis was born has been bought by a Southern association. The site will be developed into a park and kept as a memorial to the president of the Confederate States.
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