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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
3
Pennsylvania Railroad official orders trainmen gatemen and ticket examiners to stop all kisses at Jersey City exits during arrivals and departures. Superintendent P P A Aber crombie enforces rule amid flurry of objections from staff and travelers.
William P. Mullen, a 26 year veteran life saver at Rockaway beach, saved Lillian Conway of Bedford Park last year when she was pulled from an undertow at the Florence house beach. After recovery she and Mullen married, joining a long record of rescues including Gen. Joseph Shelby’s daughter and Webster Davis. Mullen now works with a trained Gordon setter that helps drag people from the water.
Marconi told the Royal Institution in London that a magnetic detector could upgrade coherers and boost reception to several hundred words a minute. He noted readings of messages sent 1551 miles from Cornwall and signals decipherable at 2099 miles, stronger at night than by day, suggesting daylight diselectrification of the transmitter. He believes daytime sending energy could extend trans Atlantic wireless telegraphy beyond night limits.
The Will Herald reports a planned coronation event for King Edward featuring a countrywide chain of bonfires. Districts are set, circulars to follow with details. At 9 55 PM June 26 a detonating rocket from 3000 heights signals 3000 fires to ignite five minutes later.
A Minneapolis Times, St. Joe Gazette, Philadelphia Ledger, and Chicago Tribune pieces push a lamp trust topic with wit and caution. The exchange toys with lighting policy, suggesting alternatives and sparking public interest.
A Richmond Virginia professor has finished a 17 volume Life of Edgar A Poe. The Chicago Record-Herald notes Poe as a rival to Decyclopedia Britannica had not been considered until now.
The Broadway tabernacle at Broadway and Fifty-sixth Street will cost 650000 with a low Broadway front and rear ten story office element. The 80 foot frontage hosts a morning chapel, two 80 foot towers, and a 1500 seat auditorium lit by a great Broadway window and rose windows. An 600 seat lecture hall, 300 person banquet room, 400 seat Taylor chapel, and office floors will be included with no obstructive columns.
The Diamond Special on the Illinois Central carried 250 passengers and faced a fierce storm between Kankakee and Gilman. The wind halted the train twice, flooding Gilman yards and wedging a box car on the switch. Conductor Dawson walked waist-deep water to a telegraph station to learn trains across the St. Louis line were stalled in the storm. The train finished in Springfield an hour thirty late and reached St Louis an hour late. Passengers awoke in their sleepers fearing a derailment.
Charles M Schwab president United States Steel spoke at Pennsylvania State College graduation urging humility toward self trained workers and warning against diploma dependence He cited trusts need capable managers and urged energetic effort Then Mr and Mrs Schwab donated 60000 to the college.
James J. Davidson of Swedesboro New Jersey shipped three barrels of sweet potatoes to London as an experiment. One barrel packed in fine sawdust another in coarse sawdust and the third in tissue paper like oranges. All arrived in good condition though the coarse sawdust barrels were in prime shape. It is believed Gloucestershire county sweets may become a regular side dish with American beef and mutton.
Delegates at the Normal Sehant Association Masters of Dancing in New York practiced many new dances. A seventeenth century minute was highlighted and designated as one of the season’s most fashionable dances. Seventeenth century costumes heightened the effect.
A New Haven board of police commissioners reduced a sergeant to patrolman after he accepted a sandwich from a man off duty one night. The action prompted debate over ethics and disciplinary standards within the police department.
The London Spectator notes two desert adapted animals the addax antelope and Loder’s gazelle. The addax with spiral horns and broad hooves travels the sand likely following rains and storms, while its feeding bases on seasonal moisture though dry spells remain unexplained. Loder’s gazelle is described as more drought inclined.
Hesketh Pritchard notes Hayti as a land of extremes where surprising honesty exists alongside miseducation. He recalls that vast sums move between Jacmel and Port au Prince via rough couriers, with only one documented betrayal, a "fine record" for a country where poverty and dignity coexist.
A French physician argues death does not occur instantly after decapitation. He says neck blood drains the head, the brain remains nourished by residual blood for about an hour, inertia lasts about two hours, and true death follows after roughly three hours, which may comfort those facing the guillotine.
Oscar Fish won a contract to carry mail between Eagle and Valdez Alaska a 414 mile route. He makes two trips monthly earning about 1500 dollars per trip about 35000 dollars yearly transporting 300 pounds of letters and few newspapers per voyage. Authorities say the dog sled route is the most dangerous in the world and the payment is reasonable.
Trigonometric surveyors in India report a singular finding that a buried mountain chain about a thousand miles long may lie parallel to the Himalayas. They base this on gravitation anomalies with plumb lines deflecting southward north of the chain and northward to its south, suggesting a dense rock formation beneath central India observed from two stations.
A 22 year old Roman youth Umberto Diamanti sparked a novel contest by bicycling off a high Tiber embankment and diving into the river below. Diamanti, with iron nerves and swift swimming, completed the perilous descent and landed with the machine amid cheers, outpacing rival Borghi on foot in a dramatic race.
The National Provisioner editor notes edible oils may arise from petroleum after desulphurizing and demineralizing. Costs remain high, keeping the product out of competition. Some claim petroleum stock already serves as soap grease, but research continues on edible uses like salad oil and cooking fat. The writer quips about science vivisecting them.
In a Hungarian village chess is mandatory for all residents as essential as reading and writing. Prizes reward schoolchildren for chess proficiency, with problems for at-home practice. The village has produced top players comparable to Lasker and Steinitz, and a Christmas tournament with burgo master prizes for youth and adults.
The London Chronicle notes ballooning hazards while praising record setters. Charles Green flew 600 trips and died aged 84 in 1870, Eugene Godard had 2000 ascents and died in his bed twenty years later. Capt. Dale and Capt. Whelan died in ascent counts near 200 and 315 respectively. Percival Spencer surpassed all, with parachute descents worldwide. Sweden’s last census shows low death rate with 1649 deaths per 3000 in ten years.
New York has the most thickly populated block but Philadelphia holds the prize block on Chestnut Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets with sixty five physicians. Within four blocks of that area more than one seventh of the citys medical practitioners are located. The density, tied to proximity to the city center, shows a high concentration of doctors in Washington DC exceeding New York and Philadelphia.
A column notes American ingenuity producing goods labeled as foreign or imported. It cites New York artists painting old masters for high auction prices and California wine labeled French. Maine cheese, Scotch whisky from Kentucky brands, and maple sugar from nonmaple ingredients are mentioned, with Vermont newspapers used to wrap cakes to mislead buyers. The piece mocks reliance on foreign labels and the spread of imitator products.
A New York Herald report cites President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard arguing that a library five feet long suffices for an intellectual education. The author computes that 27 volumes, about 20,000 pages and 1,000,000 words, could train a person to understand, challenging the notion of vast study.
A Chicago writer, Lemuel Thornton Kenneys Prime, known as S. Thornton K. Prime, is praised as a premier authority on crop statistics and market outlooks. Born in Convent and educated in Rahway, he is tied to the New York Press and resides near Dwight, Illinois.
Guests attend a dinner then gather in the drawing room to await the cleared table. The Pong game begins after the net is spread. The Tokyo public baths serve 200000 people at about one cent per bath.
Tod Sloan, the famed American jockey, jailed for two days in Paris for driving a car at high speed in the Bois de Boulogne. He sought a fine but was sentenced due to repeated warnings and the offense's flagrancy. Sloan, known for reckless driving on Paris boulevards, has caused prior accidents and drew mixed hopes from Fournier and Charron that he might reform.
Herman the bootblack sits at New York City Hall corner recounting a sudden drift from a $40,000 eastern season windfall to ruin after Tammany-era luck ended. He bets on horse tracks with city hall allies, loses $10,000 at Aqueduct, and borrows to buy gear as his wife remains unaware of his double life.
Col Louis TH Ayme of Chicago United States consul at Guadeloupe returns home from Martinique where he aided in body recovery and relief efforts. The Potomac under Lt McCormack sailed from San Juan to Port de France to fetch Ayme and bring him to New York. Rumors arise of his promotion for distinguished service amid ongoing uncertainty about his whereabouts at Fort de France.
The Rev Delmo C Henshaw of Chicago preached at Kalamazoo Michigan beside his father James Henshaw's grave. The memorial service honored the 100th anniversary of his father's birth. He noted eleven of his father's children, four who fought in the Civil War, and warned that Puritan stock is fading as sons move to cities and moral fiber wanes.
Disappointed in being left out of the royal procession, residents of the East End of London plan a mass petition to their majesties seeking a royal visit soon after the coronation. Promoters target up to 1,000,000 signatures. A New Branch of Trade reports that summer camps have become an established institution, catching the attention of New York furniture dealers as part of their season trade.
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