Parisian Baby Boxes and a Nation’s Hope for Children
A dramatic report from Paris details the Assistance Publique dumbwaiter like boxes delivering newborns to nurses in the care of a shirt factory nursery. It highlights efforts by philanthropists and doctors in Paris and Nancy to reduce infant mortality through cash incentives, day nurseries, and maternal support, led by figures like Prof Herrgott and Senator Piot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Public Charities Establishment
Assistance Publique
Mairie
France
Monsieur
Monsie
Charite Maternelle
Societe Des Creches
Nancy
Alphonse Herrgott
Herrgott
Casimir. Perier
Senator Plot
Academy of Medicine
Tie
Senator Piot
Enator
Edme
Piot
Plot
Burgundy
Senate Committee
Prof. Herrgott
Sterling Heilig
New York Press
Telegraph Operators and the Rise of Automatic Sending
The Technical World Magazine notes thousands of telegraphers have left the field due to hand and finger paralysis from Morse key use. Dynamos replace batteries, spurring study of mechanics and energy use, while new automatic sending machines emerge to reduce manual manipulation and fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Hoskins
Technical World Magazine
Rsket
Mystery of Rainbow Lake Trout Pool Solved
In Maine a banking party fished near Rainbow Lake and used a spring pool to hold trout. A man found a hidden hole beneath a stump feeding the pool with 20 fine fish, explaining how the fish escaped into the lake. A shortage of trout on packing day hinted at the same unusual story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Societe de la Charite Maternelle
Beautiful
Crystal Rainbow Lake
Maine
Rainbow
Bangor
Boston Herald
Fulton predicted submarine warfare and liberty of the seas
A century later, Robert Fulton’s 1810 pamphlet on torpedo warfare is examined as tests of undersea craft unfold. The piece recounts his Nautilus experiments, the Dorothea explosion of 1805, and his defense of torpedoes as a national defense tool amid debates at The Hague and among British and French authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Fulton
United States Navy
New York Harbor
American Philosophical Society
United States Military and Philosophical
William Elliott
Waterstreet
Madison
James Madison
United States
Congress
Fulton
Great Britain
France
England
Dorothea
Pitt
Earl St. Vincent
Kingston
Mr. Fulton
Mr. Pitt
Lord Melville
London
Admiral Holloway
Sidney Smith
Owen
Col. Congreve
Copenhagen
At the dentists and a comic exchange with a rogue
A wild man bursts into a dentist office asking about gas anesthesia and whether it leaves a person sleeping. The dentist confirms but the intruder then tries to force a tooth pulling or a plaster removal. The scene shifts to a quiz about preferences and a coy reply about Hymen.
Coins That Are Spurious How They Are Made and Detected
The article explains die struck counterfeits and molded imitations of gold and silver coins, listing metals used and how they fool tests. It outlines sintering methods like sweating, acid baths, and edge filing, and stresses comparing impress, size, weight, ring, and appearance against genuine coins of same type.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickerman
United States
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Bill Heads
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