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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
1
A syndicated column reviews wealth, power, and manners with satirical quips. It discusses Henry James in England, the idle rich, wireless memory aids, King Menelik’s pet lions, and the Sheridan statue project in Washington, noting social contrasts and curiosities while lampooning pomp.
The German press reports experiments in France using a platinum wire heated by electricity to cut trees. The method felled timber faster with no sawdust and slight carbonization acting as preservative. It reportedly takes about one eighth of traditional time, but details and scope remain unclear.
A suburban resident recounts a street anecdote about drying wet legs and feet using improvised electric heat. He describes loosening wire, lifting a light to his trousers, and drying each leg in about an hour, then drying socks and shoes with the warmed air. The tale blends novelty with practical, if risky, ingenuity.
In Folly New York Orleans county thirteen families form a cooperative boarding association to solve the servant girl problem. Twenty nine people join with five dollar contributions to equip the kitchen with two ranges and dining ware. Members share kitchen costs tables and linens pro rata while provisions and cooks are paid by the group. Observers await long term success.
The text explains how the term corn varies by country and region. In the United States corn means maize, in England it refers to cereals like wheat, in Scotland oats, and in northern Europe corn can denote the grain used locally such as barley in Sweden and Iceland. It notes historical usages like Frederick the Great and Carlyle’s meal carts and cites Jamieson on regional meanings.
The London Athenaeum notes few rivals in Goethe correspondence. The Weimar edition will comprise about 48 volumes with roughly 13,000 letters, reflecting a vast epistolary legacy.
Janesville authorities decide that young people may make love on the schoolhouse steps. Older men recall the policy as the most delightful part of their education.
The City Investment Company's building in New York, rivaled by the Singer building, is described as massive enough to hold about 30,000 people. When finished it will surpass all others in height and cubic capacity, eclipsing Margate's population footprint with its immense floor space and record height.
The Turfan basin in Chinese Turkestan lies 300 feet below sea level and shows ruins of forts stupas and monasteries. Explorers Huntington Gunwedel and von Le Coq found manuscripts during geographic and archaeological surveys. The area once habitable now desert due to vanished surface water with saline underground aquifers.
The derelict Gardiner B Reynolds drifted near shipping lanes between North Atlantic ports and the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Sighted December 4 by the Caracas of the Red Dine, the vessel was aflame and awash with foremast standing. Capt Furst of the Cara cas reports the derelict near Cane Head as a navigation menace. built 1887 in East Boston, 231 tons, 142 by 33 feet, owned by F E J Hinkley. Crew of seven left Wilmington November 27 for Portland, Maine. gale carried away two masts, vessel sprang a leak and was abandoned, later rescued by the Manuel de Larinaga and taken to Liverpool.
In Meath's Summerhill crowds flocked to glimpse the Empress Elizabeth of Austria during her Ireland visit. She rode with haute ecole technique, converted a boudoir into a gym, wore a safety skirtless habit, used a fan to shield spectators, and carried rice paper sachets as improvised handkerchiefs, following Capt. Ray Middleton's urging to ride on.
Field test among reapers turned into a fierce wheat-field chariot race that wowed farmers and shook industry. Judges marked acres as battlefields while rival makers abused machines, boosted prices, and spurred a nationwide push for better harvesters.
A clergyman visiting a poorer London area drew a large turnout to back his work. At the close a generous donor pledged £50, prompting joyful thanks. The clergyman thanked the donor and wished their enterprise prosperity in the year ahead as a hush fell over the gathering.
A humorous vignette follows a bald man trying cures and cap remedies to grow hair. A fairy apparently succeeds, but a brindle cow licks his crown, leaving him still bald. The piece closes with wry maxims and anecdotes from Indian Town Inklings and a Niagara honeymoon tale.
Daniel S. Queen of Salem Virginia describes years of back pain and kidney trouble ending after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He credits the remedy with restoring health, noting the first box helped little but subsequent use made him well at age 81. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In a perilous moment on the riverbank Willie Mouse exclaims his luck as he drifts without a rudder toward a stand of cat tails, with the wind driving his small craft. The scene captures a tense, swaying drift and a narrator noting the looming danger to the tiny boatsman.
The state will open irrigated Government land in the Big Horn Basin for settlement under the Carey Act. A drawing is scheduled for May 12. The Irrigation Department has published a report with maps plots and full details, available free from 405 Home Insurance Building Chicago.
A brisk quip from a Philadelphia Press item features a farmer asking what the motorist swore about as a broken machine stalls him. The motorist mutters between oaths, while the farmer jokes about a previous passerby who could not get his machine to stop, signaling comic frustration.
Daily March and April low one way tickets from all points to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Puget Sound. Tours in tourist sleeping cars via Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line double berth $7.00 through from Chicago. Contact S A Hutchison Manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark St Chicago or nearest agent. Additional notes promote reforms and seed company catalog offers with various seeds and promises of free samples.
A brief Harper's Weekly quip mocks domestic helpers by joking that saying the word carpet causes tramps to depart. The line features Mistress Bridget and Maid No in a humorous exchange about driving away vagrants.
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