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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1922
Page
2
Copper's Weekly highlights American dominance in global mining and manufacturing. The piece notes high shares of gold, wheat, iron, lead, silver, zinc, coal, cotton, copper, alum, auto production, refining, and railroad operation. It also cites prewar debt, postwar indebtedness from foreign nations, and the United States holding the largest gold reserves.
The Southern Pacific Company announced an employee stock program effective February 1 allowing staff to buy company shares via a 43 dollar monthly payment. Each employee may owe up to fifteen shares at any time, with no total cap. Payments are deducted from wages, stock valued around 51.50 per share with about 7 percent dividend. 6 percent interest on deferred payments, dividends go to the employee.
Voice exchanges reveal talk of a quiet evening as Bifkins notes little plans while his wife outfits for a ball in a Wayside Tales scene.
The article extols the modern pipe organ as the world’s greatest instrument, tracing its rise in the United States. It notes Philadelphia’s store organ with 232 stops and 17 964 pipes, large city organs, and a wave of municipal and theater organs transforming music and performance spaces. It highlights mechanical and electrical innovations, including keyboard automation, stops, couplers, and the blend of orchestral and church timbres, plus home player attachments and varied organ tones.
A digest of curious items includes William Gonbert fined for missing jury duty in New York, a German wood preserving method using sap-filled trunks, a Good Will Ship planned for France, and a bread and diamonds lunch tale. other notes cover gyroscopic stabilizers for the George Washington, new water extraction devices for shipwrecked sailors, wireless signature transmission, and a Danish king’s encounter with a convict Eskimo.
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