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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
3
An elderly captain recalls a scientist, Wellington Montgomery, who trained a fly to write using ink and a typewriter. The tale centers on Stenny the fly, paychecks, a mistaken signature, and a tragic end, with reflections on insect intelligence and quirky research along the Maine coast.
Professor Harman Morse of Johns Hopkins invents an electric stove with a clockwork heat control to start and stop heating at set times. The device aims to free households from early rising for furnace tending, letting homeowners rest while the clock maintains proper temperature.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls two waiters reflecting on tips from absent minded patrons. One man hands a sulfur match as a tip, thinking it a small gesture while another solemn guest gives a dollar plus a handful of cloves. The waiter notes absent mindedness often fails to loosen purse strings.
The article advises keeping the head raised, not tilted back, and using handkerchiefs to absorb blood. Pressing the upper lip can stop bleeding by constricting the nasal artery. If necessary, place a paper wad under the lip, and in a pinch use adrenalin soaked cotton to treat the interior nasal passage.
A quotation argues that cultivated men avoid optimism and pessimism and that education teaches balance. The author asserts realism as essential in business, finance, law, and war, noting trustworthy people see things as they are to achieve worldly success.
In a boutique restaurant Uncle Dewberry orders ale and is impressed by an electric cigar device. The waiter offers aged ales while the scene hints at novelty and humor in a refined dining setting.
The piece argues the United States lags European social policy and outlines aims to protect living standards for wage earners. It urges employer financed or compulsory insurance for accidents, postal savings banks, and universal child labor and working hours laws, plus strict safety and sanitation rules to sustain energy and enterprise.
The text argues that every child has a natural right to play for growth and health. It contrasts a schoolfocused society with one that reserves space for playgrounds and physical activity, citing ancient Athens and Rome as models and warning against extremes of intellect over body.
The piece argues that fluctuations in trade and rail stocks are inevitable, like weather and atmospheric changes, and do not signal permanent decline. It urges sagacious business practice and confidence in a durable, prosperous industrial base despite short term volatility and strong, inexhaustible resources.
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