Telephone Girls Romance And Licensure Notes
A light feature contrasts Carrie central with a cottage voice and humor about hiccups in domestic life. The piece lists names of teachers who passed the April examination and notes others who earned grades but not qualifications. The Rockport Democrat records the next exam set for Rockport on May 30, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Hile
Bertha M. Maslowsky
Eugene C. Shelton
Amelia Link
Anna Link
Eric W. Merrell
C. J. Kemp
W. W. Barton
Joe N. Mattingley
Anna Davidson
Blanch van Winkle
Lillie Jones
Peal Cox
M. Coletta Kaus
Maude Richardson
L. B. Haskins
Ed Rinegmann
F. A. Pierson
Southern Line to French Lick and West Baden
The Southern Railway will start regular passenger trains on the French Lick West Baden Extension. The health resorts will be easily reached with attractive round trip rates from all points. For rates and schedules, contact any Southern Railway agent.
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Southern Railway
French Lick
West Baden
West Baden Springs
Southern Railway Company
Oldest US volcanic rocks found in Maryland peaks
Prof. Philip R. Uhler reports in the Baltimore American that three peaks in western Maryland, led by Buzzard's Knob, are ancient volcanoes forming the oldest rock type in the United States. The domed craters produced lava vents and the region yields gray green and gold copper-bearing specimens.
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United States
Philip R. Uhler
Maryland Mountains
Baltimore
Maryland
Uhler
Highest Altitudes Reached by Men and Women in Historic Climbs
A London Post summary traces peak altitudes from 20,992 feet in the Himalayas where explorers lingered six weeks in 1902, to 21,910 feet by Mrs Bullock Workman, 23,292 feet by Bullock Workman, and 26,240 feet for oxygen aided aeronauts. Everest stands 28,995 feet, with 35,424 feet noted as the maximum altitude reached by M. Bergen in a 1901 balloon ascent.
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Himalayas
Buttock Workman
Bullock Workman
M. Berson
MM. Croce
Spinelli
Sirel
Tissandier
Mount
Everest
M. Bergen
London Post
Remarkable Vienna Patient Demonstrates Voluntary Muscle Control
Medical circles describe a 30 year old man in Vienna who can willfully move abdominal muscles to create undulating motion, alter larynx position, contract or dilate pupils, shift the diaphragm to displace the heart by four inches, and even transpose the intestines into the lung space as reported by a Lancet correspondent.
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Vienna
Lancet
Oxygen to Cut Metals in Liege Exhibition
A Liege demonstration showcases the Jottrand metal cutting method using an oxyhydrogen flame to heat the work followed by a jet of pure oxygen that burns the heated metal, forming a clear saw like channel about one eighth inch thick as the tool passes at six inches per minute.
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Liege
Jottrand
Electric Round-Fire Gun by Lithuanian Inventor
A Lithuanian gentleman M. Feodor Troitz claims to have invented an electric gun capable of 1000 to 12000 shots per minute with a three mile range. He asserts it could surpass standard magazine rifles and only requires one person to operate it.
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M. Feodor Troitz
Gue Wan
Luminous shrimps found by Prince of Monaco in deep sea
The Prince of Monaco has discovered luminous shrimps during a deep sea fishing expedition in the Mediterranean. They inhabit depths from 1,100 to 1,600 fathoms, resemble fine prawns, and are studded with small phosphorescent pots that light their path in the deep.
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Prince of
Monaco
Mediterranean
Railways In Mexico Modernize Ports and Harbors
Railways in Mexico are being extended and transport facilities improved. The port of Vera Cruz has been upgraded at about 15 million dollars to become one of the world’s finest harbors, with miles of stone quays surpassing the wooden waterfronts of New York and San Francisco.
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Mexico
Vera Cruz
New York
San Francisco
Governess Charged With lese majeste Over Hotel Nook Entry
Kathie Lehmlidt, a governess, faced lese majeste charges after she wrote her name in a visitors’ book at a Gross-Lichterfelde hotel, directly beneath signatures of the king of Saxony and two princesses. The act sparked a legal case centered on royal insult in a historic period.
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Kathie Lehmlidt
Gross-Lichterfelde
Saxony
Better to Take Things as They Come Than Chase Them
A succinct reflection on patience, suggesting it is wiser to accept events as they occur rather than try to pursue or anticipate every moment. Applies broadly to daily decisions and unexpected changes.
Pain Free Surgeries by New Anesthetic Discovery
Dr. Hal W. Foster of Kansas City with Dr. John Young Brown performed four operations at the city hospital using an in-house anesthetic. Patients remained conscious, even during a strangulated hernia, watching the surgeon and conversing. Observers hail the breakthrough as potentially invaluable to medicine.
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Hal W. Foster
Kansas City
John Young Brown
City Hospital
Foster
Tall 126 Foot Fir Pole Sets Record by Chehalis River
A Pacific States Telephone pole near Aberdeen Washington rises 126 feet making it one of the world’s tallest. The single stick of Washington fir weighs 6000 pounds and was erected by six men using a 12 horsepower hoisting engine after being cut 12 miles away. The pole, eight inches thick at butt and top, is set twelve feet in the ground and secured with steel cables and dead men eight feet deep.
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Washington
Pacific States Telephone Company
Chehalis River
Aberdeen
Wash
Cedar & x & Inches
Tacon Theater in Havana A Storied Classic
The Tacon theater in Havana traces a dramatic past from 1835 when pirate hunter Francisco Marty earned a paroled life and later helped secure a national theatre on Parque Central. General Tacon aided building with convicts, ending in a marble faced venue seating over 3,000.
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Havana
Tacon
Francisco Marty
Cuba
Bope
Seave
Taron
Heine
Ut Fs
The Catlike Fox and the Field Vole Plague Report
Witnesses in Scotland testified before a board of agriculture in 1893 about a fox behavior during a vole plague on lowland sheep farms. The fox hunts field mice, bites them, and transports multiple prey to feed others.
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Scotland
Board of Agriculture
London Graphic
Interest Dips as Woman Sells for 99 Cents
A Drovers Journal note points to a reformatted price drop from $1.00 to 99 cents regarding a woman referenced in a marked down article.
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Drovers Journal
Ballooning winds and a saying on weather sense
A fragment quotes a proverb about reading the wind by going aloft in a balloon. The line suggests not to delay in seeking knowledge, reflecting a bygone era’s interest in flight as a way to gauge natural conditions.
Unusual Japanese blood remedy amid wartime curiosities
A man in Japan is seen to claim curing blood ailments with crow charcoal pills made from a crow taken before it drinks water. He cracks a crow, bakes the clay crust, burns it, and grinds the result into pink pills, praising their rarity and efficacy amid postwar medical progress.
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Japan
J. Ingram Bryan
Harper’s Weekly
Red Crags Society
Globe
Washington Post
Reputation and Luck in the 99 Year Lease Era
A Chicago landowner named Jennings popularized the ninety nine year lease to secure fixed rent for a century. When rents later rose, the town praised his foresight but lamented his past restraint as Jennings’ holdings could have earned much more.
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Jennings
Chicago
Mr. Jennings
Horses Share Hay With Clever Wagon Team Tactic
A white horse leaped toward a hay stash outside a Kensington avenue feed store while a brown mate watched. The white horse pulled hay within reach and used sweeping head motions to allow the partner to feast. By the owner's arrival nearly half the bale was gone. The owner praised the ingenuity and accepted the loss.
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Atimas
Kensington Avenue
The Wise Indian and the Grafter Tale
A Kansas City Journal note recounts a grafter who deceived an Indian by promising to pay dental bills to secure a deed signature. The Indian spent 238 dollars on gold dental crowns, paid by the grafter, leaving the deed signing uncertain.
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Kansas City Journal
Reading and Reflection Feed Dignity in Old Age
A reflective adage notes that a lifelong love of reading, coupled with thoughtful reflection, provides a perpetual feast for well spent years and enduring wisdom in old age.
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Carrie
Southern
CLO Nols
Wilnoul Cnatze
1Mlas Scientific Americatt
Allews
Munn & Co
St St
Washington, D.C
John Schmidt
Leicester
Peter Durchholz
Joseph Gerber
Jos. Goephrich
Henry Weyer
Mary Beckman
Oath
Wagner
Elizabeth Laake
Kasper Huelsmann
Will Bickwermert
Deerman
Richardsons
Henry Beckmann
Tacon Theater
the Wise Indian
Harfoe’s
Victor Calking Machine Records
J. A. Sondermann
Ferdinand Electric Light Co
Indianapolis, Indiana
America Farmer
S. L. Goode
Supscripe
Missouri
HL Reckmang
Sauer
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