Veedersburg School Board seeks proposals for public funds deposit
The Veedersburg Indiana School Board of Finance invites written proposals from Indiana banks and trust companies to deposit public funds of the School City of Veedersburg. Proposals accepted 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the board office, with bonds and official forms as required, under the 1907 act creating boards of finance. G M Billings, President. Zeb E Booe, Secretary.
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Veederaburg
Fountain
Indiana
United States
General Assembly of
Veedersburg
School Board of Finance
Lad
G. M. Billings
Zeb E. Booe
Notice for Bids for Fountain County Asylum Supplies
The Fountain County Auditor invites sealed bids for three months of meats groceries dry goods house furnishings and other materials to support asylum inmates. Estimates are on file for bidder inspection bids due by noon and must follow the requisition in the Auditor's office. The commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids.
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County Asylum
Hia
W. B. Gray
Board of Commission
William B. Gray
Fountain County
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf Cast
United States
Bermuda
B. Fletcher
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Bau
Fountain County Sealed Bids for 1908 Supplies
Notice from Fountain County Board of Commissioners invites sealed proposals to furnish year long materials and supplies including blank books stationery pens ink and related items. Bids due by 12 noon with separate bids per class. terms governed by county acts. open to public inspection in Covington.
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Board of Commissioners
County of
Fountain
Fountain County
Auditor of
Covington
Indiana
Ald
Whitewash to modern track leveling method described
A vintage railway article explains how early railroads used a whitewash car to detect track unevenness by marking spots with whitewash as trains moved. It mentions a later upgrade to a scientific coach that records track irregularities, mileage, and station names on paper for targeted repairs by department heads.
Ferdinand Proclaims Himself Czar in Tirnovo Comedy
In Tirnovo King Ferdinand of Bulgaria declares himself czar. His entourage and ministers impose fines of 10 francs for not using the title majesty. During the rail journey the ministers pass out coins, and Ferdinand fines himself after misnaming the czarina as princess.
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Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Tirnovo
Czarina
Sevres Blue and Celadon Reproduced Elsewhere Say Experts
Louis Franchet in Revue Scientifique argues Sevres Blue can be made in other French potteries with pure cobalt oxide and proper care. Celadon green, though Chinese origin, can also be reproduced abroad. London barge traffic declines as Thames coasting suffers and barges seek work elsewhere due to poor demand.
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Sevres
Louis Franchet
Revue Scientifique
China
London
Thames
London Express
Cost of Dreadnought battleships estimated at 17.5 million
London Answers pins annual running costs at 500000 with 200000 for salaries. Peace-time ammunition costs 60000, target practice heavy. Original cost 7500000 with a 20 year life yields total life cost about 17500000 from draft plans to junk sale.
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London
Instructs on gloves and collars for field service
A decision of the inspector general of the army bars gloves for field work and requires enlisted personnel to drop white collars. Officers may wear white collars only when in garrison with the service uniform. White gloves are forbidden as well, removing a formerly common field accessory.
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Inspector General of the Army
London Men Embrace New Gold Engagement Bracelets
The latest London fad features plain flat gold bands worn above the elbow. Bracelets fasten with a buckle or invisible spring and can only be removed by a specialized needle that inserts into a tiny dedicated hole.
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London
Dainty Scale Weighs Fly Soul On Tiny Air Scale
A Californian jeweler created a miniature open air scale to compare the weight of a living fly to its dead body, claiming the difference is the fly’s soul. The device uses a watch dial marked in degrees, each degree equal to 1/4 millionth of an ounce, with tests showing the exact life death weight gap.
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Californian Jeweler
J. L. Liedler
Liedler
Five Dewey Brothers Return to St Michael's Pew
Fifty years after the dedication of St Michael's church in Cambridge Junction Michigan, five Dewey brothers A F Dewey George Dewey I S Dewey F S Dewey and J W Dewey occupied the same pew at the fiftieth anniversary celebration. The church organized in 1840 and its records have been kept by Francis B Dewey and his son John W Dewey the present clerk.
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St. Michael's Church
Cambridge Junction
Mich
A. F. Dewey
George Dewey
I. S. Dewey
F. 5. Dewey
J. W. Dewey
Francis 8. Dewey
John W. Dewey
Acoustic Oscillograph Demonstrates Music Voice
A Mr Bowron devised an acoustic oscillograph that shows a visible music representation. A small wirror oscillates with diaphragm movements of a phonograph, reflecting light from two mirrors to form a luminous curve on a screen that varies with the sounds.
Old Time Surgery and Galton on Prechloroform Hospitals
Francis Galton, aged eighty six, recalls his early surgical training before chloroform. He cites Birmingham hospital cries as characteristic for each operation, noting the sound initially terrible but gradually seeming disconnected from the procedure as focus fixed on the operation.
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Francis Galton
Birmingham Hospital
London Graphic
Grayson attacks Commons members over unseen aims
Victor Grayson criticizes members of the house of commons as surprising and serious, stating they wear large white shirts to conceal that they have nothing behind their foreheads, as reported by the Westminster Gazette.
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Victor Grayson
House of Commons
Westminster Gazette
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