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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
19
The piece notes a crafted replica of Mrs. Jacques of Dartmouth featuring a chain of six lakes, with trees as moss and cottage bark, praised as a unique example. It also catalogs diverse front-page items from turpentine conventions to French laundry and postal stamp book adoption.
A Stornoway Lighthouse beacon uses a cone of iron plates topped by a lantern with a glass prism. Light is produced by refracting rays from the beacon, creating a reflected light that warns mariners of dangerous rocks below. The North of Scotland beacon has served over half a century and inspired others along coasts. The text also notes a lettuce plant’s milky juice turning brown and having opium like effects.
An English traveler recalls that England lacks wire fly screens while the United States uses them widely. He notes mosquitos and gnats torment kitchens and meat markets, and suggests French windows as a hurdle to adoption, proposing inner mounting of screens on doors and windows.
The Great Western Railway tests and installs an electrically operated audible signaling system on a branch line. Whistle line clear signals are heard in the cab, reducing the need to watch for lamps, with reliability in fog and a fail safe design. Other notes mention China railroad work deaths, German sparkling wine output, and London turbine plans.
A writer nicknamed Scribbler recalls filing pieces from diverse sites including Snowdon summit and a Cornish tin mine lit by a miner's lamp. He notes work done in a balloon above clouds, on the London Monument, in transit in cabs and omnibuses, and notably inside St Pauls Cathedral where thousands of columns are produced annually.
An account of Salt Lake City highlighting the Mormon legacy with the temple and Eagle Arch, noting Brigham Young's arch of triumph and Joseph Smith’s home. Anecdotes humorously mention Smith’s wives, their names, and daily laundry and clothing mishaps amid a cityscape of temples and memory.
An official notes each ship carries 250 flags renewed every three years costing about 60 dollars annually per ship. Foreign flags are elaborate and pricey, with designs like Salvador at 52.50 and China's flag near four dollars. The President’s flag is hand embroidered and takes a month to finish.
The Washington librarian of Congress obsessively notes small textual errors and edits in editions. A visitor compares James Lane Allen's A Kentucky Cardinal to a magazine version, and the librarian proves the difference by showing the original line. Also reported, the Lancashire Private Cotton Investigation Commission says America could grow 30,000,000 bales of cotton with proper labor, though limited in British colonies.
A London artist recalls buying a return railway ticket to save money in 1875. He later used the same unused return half thirty one years later for a brief Devonshire trip. The anecdote highlights long lasting value of a return fare. Salmon industry in British Columbia remains dominant with 1905 output at 1,167,460 cases valued at 3.73 million dollars and over 11 million fish needed to fill fifty million cans.
Novel anecdotes show readers delight in publishing obituaries while typhoons of premature deaths flood papers. Captain Mayne Reid and Blondin are cited as examples of sensational coverage. Consul Kaiser reports railroad expansion spurring new enterprises across the state and international interest in mills and factories.
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