24 May 1910
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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1910
Page
1
The Goshen Daily Democrat announces Jos A Beane as publisher in Goshen Indiana. City edition notes Goshen Indiana newspaper leadership and local press.
Miss Annie Russell of the New theater praises Bernard Shaw before the Women's Cosmopolitan club. She recalls his kindness during Major Barbara rehearsals, his open interpretation policy, and a $1500 check to keep a young playwright's work running.
The London Daily Mail reports an elaborate hoax at the Exhibition of the Artistes Independants. A donkey painted with colored tail strokes created The Setting Sun by J. R. Boronali, staged in Montmartre's Lapin Agile cabaret. The hoax promotes a manifesto for a new school called excessivism.
A Japanese town governor, lost after an evening visit, could not find his carriage and asked a stranger policeman for directions. The officer admitted he did not know the governor’s residence, sparking the governor to threaten a report. The policeman dryly replied that if the governor cannot find his own home, how could he expect the officer to know.
The Forth Bridge in Scotland is the world’s longest cantilever design with two spans of 1710 feet. Construction began in 1883 and finished in 1890. The Queensboro Bridge measures 3724.5 feet over five spans. In 1879 the Tay Bridge in Scotland was partly wrecked by a gale as an express train crossed, plunging into the water and killing about 80 people.
Despite notices claiming the moon would not be saved this year the traditional ritual for the saving of the moon was observed in all the yamens. The populace pays little heed as the practice remains an official observance.
A wife sobs about losing money at bridge while the husband sternly questions her gambling limits and notes his own recent poker win. The dialogue shifts to a question about Smith’s travel speed and quips that Smith will make good time anywhere, calling him an experienced clog maker.
Samuel O. Dunn explains how 19th century railroad rate making worked on the east to west coast route. He notes the monopoly power of coast-to-interior traffic and how inland shipments paid higher combined rates than coast shipments. the example cites New York to San Francisco at one dollar and Reno at sixty cents, totaling a coast-to-inland rate of one dollar sixty.
Five men were injured when engine No 1878 exploded after colliding with a second engine on the Newburg grade. The runaway locomotive was demolished, debris shattered windows within 200 feet, telegraph poles fell, and a fire started at C P Ellis's home. No fatalities reported.
J W Hendrick vice president of Atchison Topeka Santa Fe argues before the American Railroad Engineering association that concrete lacks elasticity to replace wood. He questions steel for ties due to cost and trial concerns and suggests metal may pace with wood in future if used at all.
Scientific American describes a compact railway ticket printing machine used by Great Western in England. Clerks select station name, insert blank, turn handle, and ticket prints while a continuous paper strip records sale data and fare for bookkeeping. Off duty clerks tally the strip and cash totals.
The report notes 478 persons killed and a son injured on Canadian railroads in 909, reflecting a grim year for railway safety and casualties.
Irad touts bark fashioned into silk like neckties, predicting a vast market. Edgar, wary, questions feasibility as Irad outlines pruning grafting and vast profits, scaling to millions from a forest of trees ready to harvest in years.
The New York Times advises writers to travel to inaccessible places or fictionalize rare settings to gain fame. It warns against writing about well known topics and suggests reading encyclopedias to enrich improbable happenings.
A German invention offers a possible substitute for celluloid especially when color is not crucial. Made from crystallized carbolic acid and formaldehyde, the nearly transparent ruby colored substance resists fire. Adding a white pigment can alter its color, and a flame resistant cinematograph film is reportedly being produced in Europe with notable success.
A Washington Star item quotes courtiers joking about Nebuchadnezzar eating grass like an ox and hoping for the beat. The banter puns on Babylonian beer and a possible old feud with a truat in reference, reflecting historical absurdity.
ThePhiladelphiaRecord advises beginners to select landscapes by form and light rather than color, plan composition with center or off center placement, and note seasonal changes. It suggests chronicling a single landscape through the year from the same vantage point to capture snow, melt, flood, buds, leaves, blossoms, fruit, and autumn frost.
A New York Sun interview on gum sales notes people chew gum year round. The worker on a gum machine platform says cold days reduce sales but spring brings a lift as milder weather boosts appetite to chew.
The piece contrasts ten years of change in Mexico's economy noting many more people in manufacturing yet overall failure risk rises. It cites a drop in American success in business, a large English-speaking presence in Mexico City, and the end of English firms controlling key trades once led by British houses.
Prof Crooks argues universal electric lighting would be a simple portable light source without fixed wiring. Baron Hirsch has sent about 4 000 Russian Hebrews to Argentina aiming for a 100 000 Hebrew community in ten years, with groups of 50 families, a rabbit, and a doctor per company. Germany shows strong demand for gold filled di aing for optics and related goods from the United States.
A dark green automobile on Seventh Avenue sheds a long iron bar from undercarriage as it speeds past One Hundred Sixteenth Street. Spectators alert the driver who stops, retrieves the stray piece, then restarts the car and continues along the snowy street.
A Boston Herald report laments the decline of home made lace in France as depopulation and factory imitation erode traditional lacemaking. Once tens of thousands of dentellieres worked in Calvados Auvergne Lorraine but now only a fraction remain, with Parisian factories dominating and revival efforts urged by commerce ministry advocates.
The Kansas City Journal notes several exclusive Negro towns in Indian Territory. Rentiville lies 15 miles south of Muskogee on the MK&T railroad. Widcat is a government town site where only colored residents may settle. a white visitor is warned away. Wybark sits on the Arkansas river near the Oklahoma branch line north of Muskogee, a shack town with a nearby Negro academy.
Canada gains ground in the Scotch apple market with about half of imports coming from the Dominion. Inspection at Canadian and British ports helps assure fruit quality for shippers and buyers.
A brief dialogue shows a preacher urging devotion and a sinner confirming weekly attendance at services. The exchange highlights tension between judgment and repentance in a religious setting.
A dialogue between two contractors reveals the halt at 22 stories due to rising labor costs. The exchange notes that labor expenses climbed higher than anticipated, stopping progress.
The fragment hints at wealth and power with villas and lawyers. It suggests a recurring pattern where the wealthy may shape affairs to their advantage, implying critique of legal processes. No concrete events or persons are named.
A terse comment about suppressing talk sparks a crowded moment as one man questions another about his frequent affectionate gestures toward his wife, prompting laughter and a quick quip about silencing conversation.
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