Rockefeller Gift to Education Strikes Wide Depth of Impact
Rockefeller’s thirty two million dollar gift to education is analyzed for its immense potential. It could fund public schooling for hundreds of thousands, build tens of thousands of homes, and pay national debt interest, with experts weighing the social and economic consequences. Prominent voices including J G Phelps Stokes and Andrew Carnegie’s libraries are cited, debating charity versus systemic reform and the role of education in alleviating poverty.
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Denmark
Greece
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
New York World
Standard Oil Company
Europe
Norway
Mexico
United States
Carnegie
Sir John Lubbock
New York City
Standard Oil
Providence
Kansas City
Rochester
Ures
General Education Board
Brooklyn
Albany
Newark
Washington
Milwaukee
Detroit
New Orleans
Ansonia
Rockefeller Gifts Eight Best Books Debate Sparks Public Inquiry
The piece notes Rockefeller's charitable gift of eight books to every U S family prompts questions among educated readers. Mayor Johnson warns the gesture could anchor public service against future corporate privileges. The gift, likely railway securities, would mortgage the future and provoke pressure on railroad stock values.
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Rockefeller
Rockefeller gift sparks European debate on wealth duties
Paris dispatch reports mixed French views on John D Rockefeller's large bequest. Portrayals range from wealth as a burden on society to the obligation of charity. Observers debate motives, temperament and cultural contrasts in America's approach to great fortunes.
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Europe
Paris
Rockefeller
Petit Parisien
Great Rafts on Ocean Lure with Timber Transport by Sea
Massive log rafts rival transatlantic liners in length up to 650 feet carrying as many as 5,000 timber pieces from the Columbia River and Puget Sound to California. Each raft features a cigar shape for wave resistance, a cradle-like shipway, boom derricks, overlapping timber, iron chains, side lines of wire rope, and dual towing steamers guiding the journey down the coast.
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Columbia River
Puget Sound
San Francisco
California
Taing
Somnambulism as Hysteria Discussed by Pierre Janet
Eminent French professor Pierre Janet, lecturing at Johns Hopkins, describes somnambulism as a key hysteric symptom. He cites cases from Gib the 29 year old, a 25 year old lioness frightened woman, a 30 year old paralyzed man, and a despairing girl, illustrating deranged trance, delirium, and nocturnal climaxes.
England and Detroit Rail Systems Move to Concrete Bases
For years street railways in England have laid rails in longitudinal concrete beams, not wood crossties. The same method appeared in Detroit. The rail base was embedded in the concrete while soft, allowing adjustments as the beam settled and the track matured.
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England
Detroit
Concrete Track Base With Vitrified Clay Infill Rails
A concrete track base uses a longitudinal hollow grid with square openings at intervals. Vitrified clay blocks or wooden substitutes fit these holes to cradle the rail and are spiked down. Tar seals the joints to prevent water ingress after installation.
Convenient porch shelf for outdoor kitchen work
A simple guide describes building a broad back porch shelf to keep the kitchen tidy. It advises a height just above a kitchen table, two slanted feet from the front edge to the baseboard, rounded corners, and a final paint finish for a sturdy, practical shelf.
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Orange Judd Farmer
Emergency tire repair using garden hose and rug
A Popular Mechanics reader describes a makeshift emergency tire fix. Cut garden hose to fit inside the rim, insert rope loops, bundle with carpet or burlap, and wrap tightly to form a substitute inner tube. Refill with more material as the tire wears.
Prediction of a 1200-Foot Ocean Liner in 25 Years
Joseph R. Oldham writes in Cassier's Magazine about a monster transatlantic liner expected within 25 years. The predicted vessel would be about 1200 feet long, 125 feet wide, 81 feet deep, with a 40 foot draft and a substantial gross tonnage.
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Joseph R. Oldham
Cassier
A Ship of Nickel Steel Says Mr Oldham Could Be Indestructible
A proposed steamship of 500 tons passenger capacity 6700 with 170000 horsepower, 35 mph speed, coppered bottom teak, nickel steel hull and 24 bulkheads is described as practically indestructible by Mr. Oldham. He sees the design as a serious coming advance, not a fiction, with an estimated cost of 17000000 dollars.
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Oldham
Jules Verne
Utility of the Telephone in Confessional Use by Clergy
The article notes that the telephone, now pervasive in homes, is being discussed by Roman Catholic clergy regarding its propriety in the confessional. Telegraphs remain essential for emergencies, but telephones serve everyday needs, though their use in religious practice prompts debate within the clergy.
Electric Power Opens Guanajuato Mines to Old Ore
In Guanajuato Mexico electric power from water drives mining and milling, reviving profitable operations once hindered by fuel costs. Transmission over distances benefits wooded districts where on site fuel is burned and power sent to mines. Also notes a smart tweezer magnifier combo and a remark that 30 day notes leave ink marks lasting 70 years.
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Mexico
Guanajuato
A Carpenter's Trick Involves Splitting Board For Floor Patch
A carpenter recalls a contractor’s ruse to fill a 12 by 12 inch floor hole using a 9 by 16 inch piece cut in two. The plan required lowering materials from the ground floor to the third floor where the hole lay, prompting the worker to think through the improvised fix.
How It Was Done and Other Old Time Notes
A compact survey of odd science notes and practical ideas from Popular Science era items. It covers a sketch about a 12 inch square board made from two step-shaped pieces, copper refining by electricity with reduced labor and faster vats, a London speed indicator idea for railways to prevent fatal speeding, a method to make real diamonds from iron and carbon in a crucible, stage fright treatment via suggestion, and a view that wealth brings anxiety while modest means offer contentment.
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Popular Science
John B. C. Kershaw
Cassier’s Magazine
Cottage Water Systems and Modern Home Conveniences
An excerpted plan for a 30 by 46 foot cottage priced from 1800 to 2200 describes five upstairs bedrooms and a single multifunction dining living area. It argues rain water collection via cisterns and windmill pumps can supply a small home, with pressure tanks, running hot and cold water, and a compact kitchen annex. The piece promotes savings and comfort in country or village settings and notes costs and maintenance considerations.
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United States
Strange Foods and Distant Dishes Across Cultures
A fragment notes that various cultures historically ate unusual foods. It mentions Native Americans eating grasshoppers, Palestinian desert tribes consuming locusts, West Indians eating a palm grub called gra gru, and Australian aborigines surviving largely on a butterfly known as the bugons. The text ends with an unclear offer of ten dollars.
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Palestine
West Indies
Australia
Ought to Have Money
A brief overheard dialogue between Brown and Green on gambling drinking and smoking habits ends with Brown calling Green a chai he neither drink nor smoke.
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