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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
7
The discussion contrasts loving tender care with pseudo scientific limits on infant contact. It cites Italian mothers as models of balanced devotion while warning against overbearing restraint. An English clergyman links health to morals, noting many convicts may reflect bodily defects.
Excerpts discuss Le grand Powers asserting American millionaires are less plutocratic than myths suggest after estate valu ations shrink post mortem. It notes a $60 million Russell Sage estate, China moves toward constitutional rule over nine years, and a Polk City Florida couple naming their son Jennings Howard Johnson amid scattered phrases on Japanese porcelain and other stray items.
The Canadian government will seize the Quebec Railway and Bridge Company assets under a resolution to be introduced in Ottawa. The Quebec bridge reconstruction will be a government project overseen by a board of engineers from Canada the United States and Great Britain. Government will audit all expenditures tied to the bond issue guaranteed up to the bridge’s collapse, likely between five and six million dollars.
The piece highlights the massive rock crusher located in South Pittsburg Tennessee, described as the largest in the world and used to prepare all the rock for various projects.
The cement plant processes 4 000 barrels daily and crushes limestone at 800 tons per hour. The 18 ft 11 in high crusher weighs 425 600 pounds with a 20 ft hopper. Top shell in two halves joined by 14 inch bolts. main shaft 33 000 pounds. Crushing head stands seven feet high, 65 inches in diameter, weighing 2 000 pounds. Crush pressure estimated at 1 500 000 pounds at the head base.
A historical account describes the calorimeter at Sheffield University England used to measure energy from mental and manual work. A man is confined in a copper chamber studied by scientists through a porthole with food fed via a double trapdoor and a telephone for limited communication.
A two part sheet metal window box shown in Popular Mechanics can adapt to window spaces from three to six feet. It features an inner and outer flange with locking holes for secure placement and maintains neat appearance when moved or used on different sized windows.
A reader describes adding a tin coil heated wire assembly inside a refrigerator ice compartment to supply ice water. The coil, made from heavy tin pipe sized to inside a five eighth inch hose, connects a water faucet via hose and attaches to a spigot through the fridge wall, allowing the unit to be moved without leaks.
The article describes a dashboard lever that modulates hot and cold air to the carburetor for easy starting, by adjusting air intake from full open to full closed and mixing hot and cold air as needed. It also notes Simplon Tunnel passenger and freight traffic fluctuations in 1906 07, with monthly highs and a 1906 earnings figure, followed by Burlington Railway plans to treat wood ties with creosote.
A 1910 return of Halley’s Comet is discussed with roots tracing to Halley’s 1682 work and earlier appearances. The article cites predictions, historical sightings from 1066 to 1835, and notes possible observations from 1908 9 with a faint nebula tail. It explains comet tails growing near perihelion and compares Donati’s 1858 tail length to future displays, warning of potential impacts if a large nucleus were struck by Earth.
In September the narrator travels toward Boston in England pausing at Cambridge and Ely. Guided by an archeologist companion he visits locales linked to American saints and heroes, mentioning Curtis Eliot Emerson and Captain John Smith’s birthplace as a comic travel moment.
Gen Philip Reade criticizes Japanese foods in a letter to the Army and Navy Journal noting a diet lacking milk bread butter jam coffee and vegetables. He describes bento boxes sold at stations with tea pots for two cents and a varied array of items described as not inviting to eyes or palate.
A stray OCR passage describes a teacher recounting Lincoln facts to a class on the east side. A student volunteers a muddled memory about President Lincoln, prompting a girl to raise her hand and pose a question amid garbled dialogue.
The article notes Hopi women rule the roost while men perform many household tasks and crafts. It contrasts Hopi society with other tribes, where men and women swap traditional duties, highlighting Hopi basketry and pottery as female domains and describing textiles by Hopi men as equally skilled.
Roy Andrews returns from a five months Arctic Pacific voyage for the New York Museum of Natural History seeking new data on the Pacific whale near Vancouver Island and offshore waters. He recalls a fog bound voyage with engine trouble and dangerous weather during the expedition.
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