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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
4
Robly D. Evans in Broadway Magazine details shipboard target practice and record keeping. It explains gun pointers firing separately, umpire oversight, and scoring via hits on a canvas target, with speed and cost considerations and pay incentives for accuracy.
Scientific American compares the weight burden of Pullman cars to other transportation modes. It notes that a sixty ton Pullman with sixteen seating sections carries about two tons of dead weight per passenger, far higher than touring cars motorcycles bicycles or horse drawn bogeys, even in first class seating.
A Brooklyn Heights married man returns with a limp after claiming a slipped toe and a wrench. His wife, peering from behind a newspaper, administers home remedies with care during dinner, ending by asking if the foot feels better.
A fragmentary New York Times line suggests debate over the outcome of a specific operation, noting that the result would align with the right choice if it had occurred in the proper circumstances.
An English officer stops in riding to ask a native for directions but is met with a shrug and No Speak English. He calls the man a fool, yet the native proves some English and asks if he understands Maltese, Arabic, Italian, or Greek. After each denial, the officer realizes he is the fool and the man only knows one language.
A New York Times interview with a post office inspector describes methods used to catch mail thieves. He notes test letters, decoy techniques, and careful inference to identify culprits, recounting how a clerk was exposed by a letter’s folded edge and subsequent confession.
A venturous old woman in London Strand Magazine nightly checked under her bed for burglars. One night she discovers an armed intruder with tools and dark lantern. Astonished, he crawls out and leaves. She returns to bed and sleeps.
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