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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1907
Page
6
Ohio Mayor Tom L Cleveland denounces double taxation and unequal assessments. He argues tax duplicates understate value and proposes local levy power plus state and county shares to fix the system.
A Washington correspondent describes a new wireless telegraph apparatus for the army that fits in two chests and needs three mules and a few men to operate. It can send messages twenty miles and is already used by U S forces in Cuba, offering rapid front line communication without long wagons or wires.
A London trend called the telephone dance has grown in popularity this spring. Hosts host informal dinners followed by a dancing evening with no chaperones, inviting fifty or sixty friends by phone or wire and settling plans on the spur of the moment. A large dinner typically precedes the dancing, while refreshments and sit down suppers are not expected.
George Bernard Shaw urged the national art collection fund to demand more money from England’s wealthy class. He warned of a large unworked wealth and said if the rich did not respond, they ought to be guillotined.
A compact meditation on money’s pull and social trust. The lines pair remarks on love, fortune, and the artful lure of ads while noting youth’s fleeting nature and the moral risks of the transgressor’s path.
Plans for the National Corn exposition detail a corn paradise at the Chicago Coliseum from Oct 5 to 19. A. P. Daniel designs a blue starry ceiling and Grecian corn decorations, including a field scene, a corn sacrifice, papier mache ears, and life sized corn portraits of Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Samuel L. Clemens on the Minneapolis waves heads to England to receive a Oxford University Doctor of Literature on June 26. He speaks of returning June 29, notes he may linger if energy lasts, and warns his autobiography will be dreadful until after all mentioned people are gone.
At the Jamestown exposition a historic literary section displays muster rolls of West Virginia troops from the Indian wars the Revolution the war of 1812 and the Mexican war along with autograph letters parchments deeds of Lord Fairfax and other Virginia papers.
Frederick Mead a Ossining mer chant wandered without a hat on a North German Lloyd liner voyage to New York from Naples. He claims no hat improves health and cites sunburn freckles and hair as proof while noting growing bareheaded trend and talks of a society with himself as president.
Dr. T Frank Lin Gifford of New Jersey urges sanitary kissing to prevent germs and microbes. He describes kissing as a potential disease carrier and recommends sterilizing each kiss after every embrace. He clarifies he does not oppose kissing but supports hygienic practices.
William Bartley, a large bee raiser from Big Leaver township, tells Beaver Falls correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch that prolonged cold seems to make bees conclude there will be no summer. He notes worker bees are killing and dragging drones from the hives, a fall practice now occurring in spring.
A series of humorous maxims on advice expectations luck and social roles. Notes on antidotes women trust men and the paradoxes of genius and experience. A light satirical collection reflecting social attitudes.
A nostalgic poem describes a beloved woman with mild brown eyes and tender gaze, contrasting her gentleness with the stern mother and the clenched fist of the brother. The speaker recalls her plump hand and graceful foot, praising beauty and grace while noting family contrasts.
A playful vignette centers on a man wooing a woman who aces the bird’s eye view of flirtation. She offers a lemon as a sign of unattainable favor while his request for a peach remains unmet and comic.
A New York specialist warns that women who avoid house work risk losing their arms to disuse. The piece imagines a future with armless Venus de Milos figures and a society reliant on machinery, noting practical chores become impossible.
The article prescribes rinsing the mouth with warm water and listerine for tender bleeding gums and using salt water for tonsillitis. It notes nutrition from greens for complexion and suggests flaxseeds to remove foreign objects from the eye.
The text explains cyclone weather, noting warm air in front and dry air behind, diameters from 100 to 3000 miles, common sizes 1000 to 2000 miles, lifespans from a day to two weeks, and eastward movement around twenty miles per hour. It then shifts to aphorisms on battle roles and personal conduct about caution, responsibility, and folly.
The article notes Queen Elizabeth’s rumored eighty false hair outfits and Portugal’s king who shoots fish from a lakeside palace ground rifle position. It also mentions Prince Vinzenz von Windschgraetz briefly serving as a temporary clerk in Dresden to learn financial affairs and King Edward signing around 60 000 official documents annually.
The piece notes US imports abroad in 1906 near 5 million more in vehicles and railway cars than in 1905. Cement telegraph poles with iron cores are a new railway and telegraphic construction feature. Europe has 47 million factory workers producing goods valued at 3.7 billion pounds yearly, while the US yields 2 billion pounds. Secretary Metcalf says Mare Island navy yard will employ at least 3,000 men this coming summer, with little chance of decline unless national policy shifts.
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