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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
2
A New York inventor backed by prominent financiers pitches a five platform moving sidewalk system on the Brooklyn Bridge to replace streetcar congestion. The plan imagines outer platforms at 3 to 15 mph, with an inner seating platform, allowing up to 174 000 passengers per hour and eliminating motormen conductors and brakemen.
The article notes the secret service bureau sits under the treasury but supplies detectives to other departments on requisition. It highlights concealment of agents and concerns in Congress about diverting treasury detectives from counterfeiting work. It warns that reduced public interest could follow if agents focus solely on counterfeit detection.
Mombasa reports 40 000 deaths in Osoga Uganda famine underscoring transport shortages hindering food relief. The piece links this to India famine patterns, noting equalization of life necessities as civilization’s aim and cites New York state’s planting of 950 000 German seedling trees to reforest Adirondacks with three year olds prioritized.
The article discusses Dr Charles B de M Sajous's claim that the pituitary body, located atop the spinal column beneath the brain, is the somatic brain governing vegetative functions and the body’s defense against disease. It contrasts this with traditional views of the brain and cites his theory on the gland as central to life and therapeutics.
Chicago report on Col William C. Gorgas new president of the American Medical Association. He earned global recognition for sanitation work in Havana and the Panama Canal Zone, destroying yellow fever breeding grounds and cutting malaria transmission. He details methods and results from Cuba and Panama, including high sanitation standards and low American death rates in the zone.
English balloonist Mrs Assheton Harbord, famed for eighty ascents and a London drawing room cup, is expected to enter the Gordon Bennett cup race in Germany in October. She notes France offers steadier weather and open country for ballooning, while night ascents and cross-channel flights reveal ballooning’s enduring allure.
The piece cites Col. Frederic Maude describing an electric gun with 30 000 ft per sec velocity and 200 mile range that could obliterate cities such as Boston London Paris and Amsterdam. It notes recoil free design self propelled projectiles and aerial torpedoes as counter measures as airships and aeroplanes may play defensive roles.
A lone Russian soldier survives a wolf attack after a patrol battles six large wolves along the Georgenburg frontier. The four-man squad loses men, fights with rifles then swords, and a crash of night battles ends with the survivor clinging to a tree as the wolves close in.
Excerpt from Life jokes as a pedestrian demands no glasses before a punch is served. The other voice argues such ordering is against custom and questions the propriety of altering the sequence.
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