Wireless telegraphy enhances moving train safety
The article describes tests on the Lackawanna line using wireless telegraphy to create a safety zone around moving trains. Towers at Scranton and Binghamton relay messages to and from trains, enabling faster warnings, with 3800 meter wave lengths achieving up to 36 mile ranges. It notes challenges in coupling with track signals and envisions future phone links to locomotive cabs.
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Ireless
Buffalo
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Lackawanna
Binghamton
Lackawanna Railroad
Scranton
Marconi
Buffalo Limited
Limited
Belief in Our Divinity and Self Worth, Murden
The speaker urges a broader conception of our possibilities and faith in ourselves. They claim no inherent inferiority in humanity created by God, asserting that only self-imposed limitations hinder achievement. Perceived perfection resides in what God made.
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Murden
Indian Campaign Preparations At Fort Strother Detail
One hundred years ago General Andrew Jackson led 900 raw recruits and several hundred friendly Indians at Fort Strother as prep for the second year's campaign against the Creek. With this force he conducted raids into the Indian country with varied success before the end of February.
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Andrew. Jackson
Fort Strother
Stuffed Onion Recipes From A Vintage Cookbook
A collection of onion serving ideas including onions stuffed with nuts with broth, onions stuffed with beans and mushrooms, onions with cheese and white sauce, and lentil stuffed onions. Also includes serving tips and a closing verse about cheerful meals year round.
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Jess
Date Cake Recipe and Related Dishes from Virginia Sweets
A vintage cookbook fragment lists a date cake with butter sugar sour milk dates flour nuts vanilla and salt, plus bake and frost instructions. It also describes Bean Bread from navy beans soaked and parboiled with soda then mixed with graham flour into two loaves and baked, with optional peanut butter.
Fragmentary OCR News Item Needs Readable Summary
Fragmented text from a local page shows garbled phrasing and missing context. readable elements include references to a state or locality and possible notes about actions or people, but key facts are unclear and no coherent event or names are identifiable.
Dr Pierce Pellets Marketed As Constipation Remedy
The fragment notes a patent remedy by Dr Pierce claimed to treat constipation and related ailments. It mentions small sugar coated granules marketed as a pellet form. No further concrete details or dates are provided in the readable text.
Better Gas Mantles Cleaned with Balt Remedy
Discolored gas mantles that give poor light can be refreshed by sprinkling a pinch or two of fine Balt over them while lit, restoring brightness.
This Will Interest Mothers
This advertisement touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children to relieve feverishness headaches teething disorders and stomach issues. It claims to regulate bowels destroy worms and break up colds in 24 hours and notes the powder is pleasant for children and available from druggists with samples.
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Gray
Andreau
Olmsted
le Roy
Nic
Ady
Epigrams and wit spark from Jonceby
The remark notes Jonceby’s reputation as an original figure and mocks him as clever for borrowing epigrams from unfamiliar sources.
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Jonceby
Mechanical Calculator by Swedish Inventor Aids Cash Handling
A Swedish inventor has devised a device that sorts and counts money by denomination. Coins are fed into tubes and retrieved in fixed lots of ten to one hundred pieces. The machine can separate count and divide at speeds up to 72,000 pieces per hour, matching the daily work of fifty experienced cashiers.
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Northern Weekly Gazette
Calculaid Substitute Leather Process Claims Transparency and Waterproofing
German leather workers test a new process that makes leather almost transparent firm celestial and waterproof. The method, a trade secret, saturates leather with hot oil then kneads and rolls it to absorb oil. It becomes tenacious and tortoise-shell like and may prove valuable for arts and electrical applications.
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Hell
School Teachers Learn From Coffee Myth and Health
A veteran schoolteacher recalls years of coffee use and health claims that it harmed the body. He cites episodes of palpitation, headaches, tremors, and fatigue prompting him to quit coffee and reassess classroom work.
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