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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
6
Hiram Maxim asserts a patent on a silent firearm device that muffles gun reports using a valve system to release gases gradually after bullet exit. Military experts say the noiseless mechanism could transform warfare by allowing skirmishers and sharpshooters to operate unseen and strike along a hidden front.
Brooklyn elites hail a first male debutante Herbert Dickinson Lewis II at 20 Remsen Street. The 20 year old’s coming out includes a receiving party with three girls and two young men, amid society praise for this leap year novelty by his parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Lewis.
W B Waters of Milner uses jackscrews and heavy timbers to move mature cedar trees. Last autumn the trees were dug with large root masses left in several tons of earth. Now frozen, the trees are raised as a whole and relocated to prepared sites, expected to resume growth in spring.
The Wilmington Delaware built cutter bound for the Pacific coast attracts shipping interest for a novel life saving system. It combines a cableway and breeches buoy with an automatic reel to transfer people between moving ships and wrecks. The reel winds and unwinds the hawser to keep the line taut whether the vessel is moving or stationary.
Ten black banks in Mississippi have organized their own association named the Mate bankers association, reflecting coordinated efforts within the state banking community.
Ellen Beach Yaw a Metropolitan Opera member nicknamed the California Lark has a remarkable high voice and wide range. Born near Buffalo she debuted there about nine years ago and spent years abroad as Mile Elvanna in Italy and France before returning to the United States. Her marriage to Vere Goldthwaite followed a long romance that began when he heard her sing in a western mining camp and joined Buffalo Bill's troupe to pursue Europe. In Paris in 1902 she sang The Star Spangled Banner at the McKinley memorial exercises inspiring a large crowd.
A collection of brief vignettes covers Mrs. Dixie Strothers of Greensboro with a unique marriage pattern and four children born on Thursdays, nurse Agnes Messmore’s brave arrest of a burglar, Aunt Lucy White-Purington’s memory of historical events, Florence Nightingale’s freedom of the city for her Crimean War nursing, Mary Woodman’s service to the Portuguese king and promised nobility, and social curiosities about Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Dudley in Eastnor Castle.
R. W. Leader declares clouds the hardest study for artists. Death comes for Harry Arthur McArdle, noted for Dawn at the Alamo and The Battle of San Jacinto, in San Antonio. James Otis Kaler of South Portland, a prolific boys writer, reads manuscripts to his friends. if unengaged he discards the work and starts anew. His first book appeared in 1878. Harris Merton Lyon, famed magazine writer, soon to wed Hyacinth Tawana of Nagasaki, whom he saved from death, as she travels to San Francisco to meet him.
James B. Connolly reports on the U S Navy’s Atlantic fleet journey from Hampton Roads to Magdalena Bay, highlighting tight 250 yard intervals, 10 to 12 knot speeds, the unity of effort, and the striking impact on Chile, Brazil, Peru, and other ports as officers and men earned praise for discipline and conduct.
Representative Charles F. Scott proposes 100 experimental farms of one acre in four western states to demonstrate best crop methods. Farmers supply land and labor while Department of Agriculture experts guide cultivation with no new congressional funding required. He criticizes farm bulletins as poorly understood.
A new international mining exposition will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York from May 25 to June 30. Managed by a recently formed exposition company, the event aims to educate the public about mining with seven departments including mining machinery minerals mining camps and mining deposits.
News wires report a Klondike like rush to Rawhide Nevada midway between Reno and Tonopah. In weeks 8000 prospectors converged on a tent city with four newspapers and three banks. Automobiles bring miners at high rates and beds in tent hotels are rented in eight hour shifts. ore samples assay up to fifty thousand dollars per ton.
A new novelty lets men wear state pride as a scarf pin lapel pin or charm. Each pin features an outline map with rivers raised lines capitals dotted, and the state name stamped. Prices start at 10 cents. optional diamond set in the capital area is available.
John D. Rockefeller visits Augusta Georgia for Planters Loan and Savings Bank opening reception. Guests receive aluminum pennies bearing a Save me you never will go broke slogan. Rockefeller jokes about a tobacco song.
The Brooklyn Eagle surveys spring fashion with tassels playing a key role in dresses. Empire waists rise as the new standard while backs become short and high. Skirts hang in straight lines and cling closely, with wide satin sashes from the waist. Petticoats favor sheath fits and tailored silk petticoats lead.
The article lists shade tolerant flowers Primroses fuschias lilies of the valley begonias Roman hyacinths and paper white narcissus. It notes 1109 Philippine forest tree species in herbarium collections with expected growth to 1600 1800. Timber land is government property under the bureau of forestry. The southern Appalachians including the Alleghanies are the main white oak source and its key commercial area.
Oxford is described as the largest university with twenty one colleges and five halls. London county council schools accommodate 721 673 children with an average 88.2 percent attendance. Abyssinian male children over twelve must attend school. The state funds education and builds many schools. University of Chicago raises teacher salaries by 25 percent, adding 32000 dollars to the budget.
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