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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1923
Page
8
The Montreal Family Herald argues that city life has health advantages such as water supply, sanitation, food inspection, and disease control, while country life offers purer air, natural hours, and less nervous strain. It notes urban planning has reduced city death rates versus villages.
A Moscow theater rehearses a Sovietized Hamlet produced by the state Institute of Theatrical Art under the education commissariat. The burlesque adaptation relocates Danish figures to a communist setting with rewrites of famous soliloquies and Polonius modeled after Lloyd George.
Auriol Barron chronicles travel woes from the London Daily Telegraph describing border checks in Czechoslovakia and Germany. Officials confiscate items, inspect clothing, deny access to new-looking goods, tax fur coats, and even confiscate a trunk’s contents or force a child to travel in stockings.
The article traces disputed origins of Mephistopheles from pre Goethe theories to Goethe’s era. It cites a 1829 letter to musician Zu lter where Goethe admitted no definite answer. It notes Greek and Graeco Hebrew theories and Goethe’s use of Mephisto, with Schopenhauer criticizing brevity in the devil’s name.
A Baltimore woman visiting New York attends a burlesque show and smokes during intermission. The manager rebukes her for violating the house rule, insisting the venue is respectable. She retorts she smoked at the opera the previous night.
Egyptian folding beds dating four thousand years back are highlighted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a tomb bed was found to show luxury living of the Nile era. The accompanying 4000 year old Nile boat bunk mirrors modern ship berths in design.
The centenary of Sir William Herschel's death was celebrated at Slough. He conducted many observations with his sister Caroline and the large reflecting telescope remains preserved in the old barn where he carried out astronomical work.
The British ministry of agriculture weighs wind power to supply cheap electricity for rural districts. Proposed_buildings on hill tops would house wind machinery with large horizontal wings extending from the structures to be spun by wind near ground level. If successful, several generating stations could be built in remote areas.
A new safety signal system described in Popular Mechanics combines bell and light signals on one electric circuit. Mounted for the hoisting engineer, a bell is paired with a colored lamp that lights when the bell rings from a mine station. An additional lamp shows the system is active and a circuit closer allows the engineer to repeat or issue signals.
Popular Mechanics describes a process where tar products are driven off from coal before burning in boilers. Coal feeds through a retort into a distilling chamber. gases exit to an extraction apparatus while tar and ammoniacal liquids are recovered, claimed more efficient than separate gas and coking plants.
A bricklayer touting his hard earned savings asks eminent pianist Professor Blank for two or three weekly lessons for his daughter. The master offers one hour weekly for payment equal to the bricklayer’s hourly wage, prompting the bricklayer to call it extortion and depart in indignation.
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