Bad Water Hold-Up on a Moving Picture Train
A flashily dressed man stages a staged hold-up on a California train near Bad Water as a moving picture crew films on board. Passengers react with mixed fear and humor until the faux gang theatrically robs none, revealing the stunt was for a film. The demure young lady rejects a fake surrender, while others realize the scene was not real.
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Frank Filson
California
America
Ike
Tiwart
San Francisco
W. G. Chapman
Rural Teachers Pay and Education Investment Call
Statistics show rural teachers earn far less than urban teachers and other workers with many rural schools in one room buildings and poor facilities. The piece argues for increased rural education funding, noting current national spending on war tobacco whisky and schools and urging decisive investment to improve efficiency and outcomes.
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David Franklin Houston
Leslie
Ilinois
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi
Tennessee
Vermont
Maine
North Carolina
Alabama
Minois
Usacher
Indiana
Mystery of the Fifty-First Victim in a Missouri Oven
A passer-by heckles a newsboy asking for a paper. The boy reveals no such issue exists, calling the line the mystery and naming the reader the fifty-first victim in a stray joke from Missouri.
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Newsboy
Guvnor
Missouri
Arizona Forests as Economic Backbone of the West
The Arizona timberland spans about 14 million acres, dominated by yellow pine which makes up 95 percent of merchantable timber. The United States Forest Service manages vast stands with logging projects limited by transportation and environmental safeguards. Logging camps, rail lines, and primitive camps form the rugged core of Arizona’s timber industry as crews harvest logs under strict oversight.
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Arizona
Rocky Mountain
Juan
Sylvan Golconda
United States
Forest Service
Flagstaff
Williams
National Forests
Alleghenies
Mississippi River
Lord of Creation
Out of the Dictograph and social advice mix
A humorous speaker cautions Dug Watson about pretensions with Sallie Hawkins. The passage riffs on romance, reading tastes, aging, and the mismatches of singing, with Grandpa Mintlicker defending women smoking and a quip about a daughter "playing by note" on the piano.
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Dug Watson
Sallie Hawkins
Puzzling Wash Receipts Baffle Mrs Lapsling
In a wry remark Mrs. Lapsling notes that some printed receipts are perplexing. She points to an example listing glycerin forty parts carbonic acid one part vinegar quantum suffragist as a wash for hands leaving readers to wonder about the odd formulation.
Invention Aids Rapid Telephone Directory Lookup
A Scientific American note describes J Sontheimer of Lincoln Nebraska patenting a telephone directory device. It uses circular reference carriers to locate addresses quickly and can attach to a phone without hindering use or adding bulk.
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J.sontheimer
Lincoln, Neb
The
Scientific American
Italy Tests Flat Bell Insulators For Sea Transmission Lines
Experiments in Italy show salt crust forms on insulators near the sea, causing leakage. Researchers found flat bell insulators exposed to wind and rain prevent crust buildup. A 25,000 volt line used them for eighteen months with success and laboratory tests showed 75,000 volts dry and 30,000 in heavy rain.
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Italy
Scientific American
Heated Electric Robe Promises Home Turkish Bath
The wool robe contains 7000 feet of pliable magnet wire wired to a lamp socket. Current heats the interlining quickly to a chosen temperature with no shock. Proponents claim it helps perspiration, cold relief, and rheumatic treatment.
New Telegraph System Replaces Dots and Dashes
Two musical tanks in England are used to replace the dot and dash in telegraphy via a telephone, an experimental method reflecting innovations in communication technology.
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England
Dishes Washed by Machine in Hotel Kitchens
An early motor driven dish washing machine cleans 2 000 to 2 500 dishes per hour with a rotating wheel, spring clamps, and cam operated openings. Two high speed propellers create a strong wash while a cam system sorts plates from cups. One unit reached 17 000 pieces in a preliminary test with minimal breakage.
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Electrical World Magazine
Electric light in opera boxes aids libretto reading
A compact opera-glass box with a tiny electric lamp and battery lets music lovers read the libretto in dim houses. The idea recalls Covent Garden where Wagner festival attendees once carried pocket electric lamps, whose continual flashing created a firefly effect.
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Covent Garden Opera House
London
Electric progress and new signaling by railways
Reports note Swedish railroads adopting signaling flashlights and an automatic telephone system planned for New Zealand cities. A tiny 1/4 ounce dynamo by a French electrician and durable chestnut poles replacing cedar are mentioned. Denver boasts high per capita light, tantalum lamp filaments yield 20 candlepower per pound, and French devices analyze furnace gases. California climates may allow 200000 to 250000 volt transmission in future.
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New Zealand
Denver
United States
California
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