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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
2
The piece surveys how a 150000 worker strike impacts thrifty and poor miners' families. It contrasts frugal homes with tumble down shanties, notes immigrant households facing hunger, and cites relief worries as unions drive labor actions. Illustrated homes show both prosperity and hardship amid the dispute.
A humorous wartime style piece advises readers on mosquito control with exaggerated steps. It describes selecting a large mosquito, wearing casual attire, and pursuing it with improvised tools, suggesting humane water cure or a swift ping pong racket strike between the eyes as effective methods.
A discussion notes that electricity rapidly transforms society yet remains largely mysterious to the public. It criticizes the common belief that electricity behaves as a fluid or simple energy form and cites consensus that it is neither a continuous ponderable fluid nor a form of heat energy. The Academy commentary admits wide speculation but few definitive results.
Richard Watson Gilder recalls a friend who treats every new book as a discovery. On a Hudson River trip she described the devil idea in literature and prompted a joking telegram from Peekskill urging her to follow up her discovery.
The New York Mail and Express notes how writers from Martinique framed the Mont Pelee eruption differently. A priest in Morne Vert described St Pierre’s fiery destruction as stones rained, air thick with heat, and flames blotting the town. The piece laments journalism’s failure to unite literary and news aims and marks this priest’s interview as the best account yet.
The Chicago Chronicle profiles Mrs. Marten the sole female enginee r in the nation residing in Cleveland. After her husband’s death she takes his job, keeps the engine room spotless, and shares the same salary as her husband. She handles the engine and coal shovel alike without shirking duties.
A French painter visits the Salon with a friend on the selection committee. Near his work he exclaims his painting is shown upside down. The friend hushes him, saying the committee rejected it the other way up.
Popular Science describes a willow based live wood wall to confine rivers and prevent washouts by roots holding sediment. John Patten of New York City has a patent for curved plantings and terraced embankments, plus a design for a power canal and dynamo at the levee top. Zachariah Xevers of Santa Cruz, California is cited as the inventor of a grain feeding chute mechanism tested with fowls.
The article explains how tiny water droplets in clouds gain electrical charge as they coalesce. As drops merge to form larger particles, capacity grows slowly while charge increases, creating immense voltages that can drive a spark across miles, reaching millions of volts.
Mr. C. H. Davis reports findings before the Society of Civil Engineers of Canada on electric traction. He foresees steam railways adopting electric traction for suburban traffic soon, regardless of cost, while steam remains dominant for long distance freight. For rapid passenger runs between distant centers, electric engines will prevail, offering higher speeds and comfort advantages.
An inventor reveals an automatic poultry feeder with a conical bottom hopper feeding grain into a central opening. A chute underneath controls outflow and a bait box near the ground holds a small grain quantity, promising labor savings and possible grain reduction in flocks.
Violet light from an electric arc lamp excites diamond fluorescence and relates to its lustre under artificial light. Chaumet shows stones with strong violet fluorescence yield the brightest blue radiation, not always the most regularly cut. The test helps judge other gems like yellow diamonds and Burmese sapphires.
A steam locomotive safety valve is shown with a semi circular hood that deflects escaping steam downward to muffle the noise. The device is claimed to be used on 131 railroads to minimize explosion danger through safer valve design.
Experiments by Germanys general telegraph department test the octuplex typographic telegraphy system from Prof Rowland Johns Hopkins University. Regular use between Hamburg and Frankfort will start soon. It claims 18000 words per hour on a single wire with twenty operators versus 2200 with the Hughes system. The sender uses a typewriter like instrument and the receiver prints on paper for delivery.
A top season bride wore a chiffon and lace gown with white satin cords in waved lines. The trained skirt and bodice featured satin trimmed lace while sleeves bore the same adornment. Her veil was tied in a broad bow on the coiffure with orange blossoms.
A sewing detail describes sleeve tucks allowed at the elbow to provide fullness through the forearm. The technique ensures a balanced silhouette while maintaining arm mobility.
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