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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1911
Page
5
The Japan Advertiser notes that while Japan rapidly copied war, mechanics, and education, the imitation was merely superficial. External forms dazzled observers, but fundamentals were not grasped, revealing a weakness seen from within the new civilization.
Government leaders in Washington reportedly grant a Chicago film company permission to shoot motion pictures of various federal operations. The project aims to educate the public, with the government receiving access to use the films for lectures while the company profits from paid exhibitions. The plan reflects growing interest in educational moving pictures.
A Chicago woman predicts aviation will become a sport for society due to flight costs. She says women need not be circus performers to fly and expects society to embrace it as a high end amusement. The note hopes New York's divorce crowd takes to air travel.
A Philadelphia Times brief notes a wife admitting jealousy of her husband George. She describes frequent quarrels and confidences with friends. She recalls watching him in a crowded subway where many women passed by, yet George did not look at any of them.
The article notes Lyons France founded the fires veterinary school around mid May 1761. It marks the 150th anniversary to be celebrated in May 1912. Since 1761 veterinary schools have spread worldwide including Germany France England and the United States.
In Maule Seine-et-Oise France a village notice by M Duchesne reserves hunting rights to himself and lists authorized hunters including workers in his employ and any father of five children. The notice asserts the right to shoot game found on his property and to sell what is shot.
A party of sightseers traveling along the shore road from Londonderry to Coleraine near The Vialera in Downhill district faced a two ton rock avalanche from a near vertical cliff about 300 feet high. The mass crashed to the base, shattered, and dispersed debris onto the roadway, but the group escaped just in time and remained shaken.
A catastrophe struck a church near Alloa Scotland during a Sunday service as pew seating collapsed under a large congregation. People were moved to an improvised bench at the front when the form broke sending worshippers briefly out of view.
Captain Evelyn W Baldwin, famed Arctic explorer of the Baldwin Zeger expedition a decade ago, announces a 1914 expedition. He aims to reach ice floe near Barrow Alaska and drift toward the North Pole, hoping to enter the North Atlantic between Sieteberger and Greenland's east coast, not expecting relief from the ice until 1917.
In St Flacre chapel at Nancy France two cleaners discover a tomb flagstone displaced and the grave empty. The tomb should hold the bodies of Cardinal de Lorraine and an army lieutenant both missing. Historians are baffled by the disappearance and motive is unknown.
A fragment explains how horse hair may wobble when soaked, due to water absorption and swelling on one side. It suggests testing by tying a strand and floating it to observe the back and forth motion.
Cheronee Yosser of Peverly, NOS, avoided serious injury when her horse reared and bolted during a roadside incident. The frightened animal prompted quick actions that kept both horse and rider safe on a misty morning drive along a highway.
The text describes a campaign gathering where a group plans to attract wives and daughters to follow fashion, with a probable propaganda push expected to be distributed. The account notes debt skirting and several other features tied to the event and its organizers.
A model prison in Wuchang China proved far too expensive with bright electricity and prison meals better than home. Authorities plan large monthly savings by removing electric lights reducing jailers and switching prisoners to two bowls of rice per day and supplying clothes.
Wireless telegraphy connects Gibraltar with the London meteorological office each morning. Messages are copied en route at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and forwarded to the French meteorological service for inclusion in its daily weather bulletin. The system grows despite early discouragements and promises to greatly aid weather forecasting.
A lecturer delivered a learned talk at a women’s club on language decay. An over‑dressed attendee interrupted, lamenting the modern English and fearing future generations will speak worse.
The term Dog Days refers to the twenty days after Sirius rises, roughly July 3 to August 11, originally linked by ancient observers to the hottest period. They attributed heat and related maladies to the star and noted its tie to Nile floods in Egypt.
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