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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1909
Page
6
A New York inventor backed by city financiers proposes five stacked moving platforms on the Brooklyn bridge to move up to 174000 people per hour. Platforms run at 3 6 9 12 and 15 mph with inner seating for six per step, reducing need for motormen conductors and brakes.
The government secret service operates under the treasury to detect counterfeiters and protect the president. Agents may be seconded to other departments on confidential requisitions, a practice lawmakers recently warned against, fearing it diminishes public interest in the service.
A Mombasa dispatch reports 40 000 deaths from famine in Osoga Uganda illustrating the dangers Africa faces despite progress. The piece links famine to failed food supply and transport and cites India as another example. It argues civilization should equalize access to life’s necessities.
New York State bought 950000 seedling trees from German nurseries this year. Three year old trees will be planted in the treeless Adirondack districts while about half the two year olds will stay in nurseries for a year. Germans sell three year olds at about four for a cent, prompting the overseas order.
The piece notes experts must coin a fresh term for an aircraft pilot avoiding borrowed language with odd meanings. It references an editor in town curious if a widower who dyes his whiskers fools others and compares to a bald headed man with a wispy hairpiece.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California is named Theodore Roosevelt professor in Berlin for 1909 by the Columbia trustees and appointed by the Prussian ministry of education.
The article reports on an electric cannon with a 200 mile range described by Col. Frederic N. Maude as a major advance. It envisions cities such as Boston and Canadian targets at risk, with missiles traveling at 6 miles per second and no recoil or smoke.
Dr Charles E de M Sajous lectures in Philadelphia arguing the pituitary body beneath the brain is the somatic brain governing all vegetative functions and housing a disease protecting organ. He claims its secretions regulate adrenal activity and life itself more than the brain, challenging established medical views.
Col. William C. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone, elected president of the American Medical Association. He helped eradicate yellow fever in Havana and reduced malaria in the canal zone, earning international scientific recognition. Born Mobile Alabama October 8 1854 he rose from Army medical corps to major colonel and canal commission member.
Hon Mrs Assheton Harbord of Beaufort Gardens London emerges as a leading female balloonist candidate for the Gordon Bennett Cup in Germany. The eightieth ascent and long list of feats mark her as a prominent navigator, with ties to French aeronauts and a view on cross‑channel ballooning versus Alpine landings.
A Russian patrol battles six gigantic wolves near the Georgenburg frontier station as night falls. The four men hold their ground with rifles then swords. the corporal falls, one man survives clinging to a tree while the others perish in a brutal struggle.
A humorous exchange mocks a pedestrian's order of drinks before punch arrives. The speaker challenges the scoundrel as customs are debated in a witty, life-told quip.
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