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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1913
Page
6
A long, fragmentary report on prize essays for the ten greatest inventions of the last quarter century. It cites winners and runner ups with dates of adoption, from electric furnace in 1889 to induction motor in 1890 and other landmark feats, plus reader voting results and noted omissions.
Ancient guide offers a drastic, unsafe method to force a balky horse to move. It prescribes removing gear, tying the tail, using a halter, and spinning the animal until dizzy, then harnessing and driving it quickly. The instructions warn to avoid excessive force but promote repeated, risky steps.
A minister was summoned from the dinner table to marry a couple. The youngest child, a boy of four or five, overheard his mother say the father had gone to marry somebody. After a brief pause the boy looked up and asked with a quivering voice, Won’t he be our papa any more.
A patriotic citizen calls the Declaration of Independence a wonderful document while a legal expert notes its remarkable quality and points out that none of those who created it received payment for drafting it.
A giant pine near Osaka Japan is noted for its strange growth. The main stem rises from a mass of tools more than ten feet above ground. The tools resemble octopus like tentacles creating a eerie, uncanny look per Boy's Magazine.
In a courtroom scene Mrs. Crawford asks how she can tell if their daughter and the young man have reconciled. The judge replies that the gas has been turned up high all evening, signaling tension and unresolved quarrel within the Crawford family.
The Bishop of London told an audience at Queen’s College for Women that at any moment he can produce nine happy persons for every miserable one, stressing optimism in social progress and moral improvement during the address.
A St. Louis judge states tipping a porter is voluntary, noting the judge’s remark that he lacks porter experience. The Chicago Journal echoes the quip that such gratuities are not compelled, reflecting a humorous legal take on customary tipping.
The English prison mission distributes Christmas greetings to inmates in England, sending twenty thousand personal letters from church volunteers to prisoners in jails nationwide.
A diner confrontation erupts as a waiter tells a customer he is unfit to serve a pig. Walter retorts that he is doing his beat, prompting a judge to weigh in on the exchange.
A Madison Democrat article from November 18, 1913 reports A. R. B. Hirst chief engineer of the state highway commission advising the county board to adopt concrete pavements on main thoroughfares and heavy traffic areas. He warned higher costs for surveys after January 1 and proposed funding from auto license tax to maintain existing roads.
A 1889 Rouen clock endures beyond five centuries with minimal care. It keeps mood time, strikes hours, and chimes quarters, illustrating the superior longevity of man made machines compared to living beings.
A quaint tip explains saving a pineapple top to root in water then plant as decoration. The prose mood shifts through dusk sounds, a brown thrush, crickets and bats, ending with twilight, stars and a hush as nature’s altar inspires quiet worship.
A man named Fulmer employed at an airbattoir was crushed to death after falling into an elevator shaft in Philadelphia. His cries were drowned by machinery noise as he struggled against the freight elevator.
A Denver capitalist derides pessimists about a dishonest liquidation. He quips that in a marriage the wife adopts the husband’s name, while in a liquidation the husband takes the wife’s name, using a biting analogy to describe the failure.
Fragmentary notes compare speeds of a sailing vessel a boat river currents a rifle ball and light. Mentions mph knots rapid rivers and electric motion but lacks clear context or complete sentences.
A boy explains that instinct would make us know everything without learning, yet humans rely on reason and must study themselves to avoid blindness or folly. The remark contrasts natural instinct with conscious learning and rational thought.
Attorney J A Gaynor advertises services at the A A W office over the Postoffice on the East Side with a stated willingness to practice in all courts and a telephone contact number 142.
Grand Rapids Veterinary Hospital announces Dr V P Nortopy leading a new fully equipped clinic in the city. The facility offers modern appliances, on site services, and a residence at 161. Telephone 683.
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