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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1907
Page
3
Swiss inventor M Koller designs a single heavy wheel skate with the foot centered under the wheel and slanted tread. Brakes and rear drag arms enable controlled stopping and emergency braking, with optional motors and fuel tanks. Also notes on roof ventilator safety hoods and a Arctic rescue update on W S Bruce expedition.
An old tire casing can be repaired to yield hundreds of miles. Clean the hole, cut a ten inch patch from a good tire, rivet it to the casing, apply multiple coats of solvent, cement canvas inside for a smooth finish, and seal as a patch like an inner tube.
Prof Bertram Boltwood of Yale, in The American Journal of Science, announces the isolation of a radioactive element considered the immediate parent of radium. He previously reported a uranium-based separation and now asserts the discovered substance is not identical with any known element.
Scientist B. Boltwood reports a new radioactive element in uranium minerals. He calls it ionium and says it is a disintegration product of uranium, intermediate to uranium and radium, with about 0.8 the activity of radium and no emanation. Further tests continue.
The Russian admiralty plans construction of two battleships at the Baltic works totaling 25,000 tons each to be completed within two years. Each ship will mount ten 12 inch guns and six 8 inch guns.
In a rural note, English farmers reportedly fatten sheep by feeding them snails. The practice highlights local feeding quirks and livestock husbandry methods.
Forester and senate chaplain Rev. Edward Everett Hale warns white pine timber is disappearing as New England supply wanes and Michigan leads production. Prices rise from 15 000 to 35 000 feet to 79 50 to 114 a thousand for top grades, signaling scarcity and urging conservation.
John Cronin of Union Avenue Belleville almost vanished in quicksand in North Arlington New Jersey while rabbit hunting with Belleville Police Chief Michael Flynn and family. Cronin sank to his neck as his dog alerted companions who barely reached him with improvised birch saplings before pulling him free.
Howard Wilson, a former Washington pitcher now in the watch and clock business, tries selling a French clock to Rube Waddell and friends. Waddell balks, wanting a clock he can understand. Also notes the National Good Roads association formed in Chicago on November 21, 1900, with W H Moore as president and Arthur E Jackson as secretary, and global railway value at 27.775 billion.
Washington reports Theodora Shonts engaged to Duc de Chaulnes of France after an 18 month courtship. The couple's families and Paris society anticipated the union. the Shonts opposed an American match but reversed. The duchy owner travels from New York to France. wedding planned in January at the Shonts home. Theodora, 20, mother is Mrs. Theo dore Shonts, and her grandfather was former Iowa Governor Drake.
The Duke of Portland born 1857, tied to a court dispute over the Druce mystery. George Druce accuses his uncle of perjury claiming he saw a Druce body in a coffin. A lead coffin would prove or doom the title as testimonies hinge on the coffin’s contents.
Gold coins issued by the U S mints feature the last work of Augustus St Gaudens. The Indian head design was modeled by Miss Mary Cunningham who waited tables at his Vermont residence and served him his meals when he found his model.
French authorities control all village and commune posters. No one may deface streets or public places with crude announcements. Billboards are rare in Paris and are often fixed into walls and taxed by their area. Temporary screens used in construction are later covered with posters but must receive prior authorization and a license, with revenue taxes applied to each sheet.
Uriah A. Boyden of Boston endowed a $1000 prize to test if all light rays share the same velocity. Dr. Paul R. Heyl of Philadelphia’s Central High School demonstrated equal speeds for visible and ultraviolet rays after testing Algol. The prize, once won, will be kept for future experiments on infrared ray speed.
A boy named Johnnie writes to his mother from the country visiting his grandparents. He reports he is well and sends affection, adding a quirky line about eating a raw red cabbage for something good.
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