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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1910
Page
2
The article surveys growing interest in camping beyond primitive tents toward permanent camps. It notes women and families increasingly adopt camp life from June to October, with options from canvas “tent houses” to cabins and stone lodges, and even multimillionaire retreats with luxury amenities.
The article urges light portable tents with jointed poles and floor cloths, plus canvas packs and fire-safe setups. It shares a cold night anecdote in Yellowstone without a tent, explains bed options from bough to wool blankets, and notes ideal camp sites across the Northeast and Great Lakes region with USA coast to California camp settings and a description of a Coronado beach tent city.
Dana Dudley of Wakefield Massachusetts has developed a pan angle telescope adopted by the war department. The device uses 80 reflecting lenses in a tube to view objects from concealment and can locate enemies without exposing the operator, even with disappearing or trench guns.
A collection of brief notes covers global figures in area, production and demographics, plus several inventions. Topics include fertile land estimates, cigarette usage in Russia, diamond transparency to X rays, corn production, moving pictures in Siam, weddings, UV sterilization, a balanced piano, a Mars canal claim, a duplex compass, slide trombone gas fixture, a wrapping paper advertising roller, and a window trap for flies.
A Pennsylvania inventor builds a large truck mounted street cleaner with a powerful suction pipe capable of drawing in bricks. It cleans dirt from streets rapidly without creating dust or disturbing pedestrians, offering a neater alternative to manual brigade cleaning.
An article describes portable polar cookers used by explorers. It explains materials like aluminum and German silver, weights about 8 1/2 pounds, and the fuel efficiency of about four gallons sustaining two meals daily for 120 days. It notes alcohol drawbacks and Peary’s use of mineral oil as a substitute.
Johaasson Swedish engineer showed a Paris Academy demonstration of smooth grinding and polishing producing near perfect plate contact. Two steel plates separated by less than 1/12,500,000 inch resisted separation under heavy weights as electro magnetic influences were ruled out.
A special astronomical camera is set in Honolulu to capture Halley's comet as it completes a 3.1 billion mile solar orbit May 18. Dr John H Brashen says the head will cross the sun's disk and be visible over the Pacific. The 58 minute transit could reveal solid matter in the nucleus, with shadows marking spots if any over ten miles across. The comet will be 15 million miles from Earth and unusually bright then.
Instructions describe building a heavy hardwood fuel box with a front slope bottom and hinged lids. It notes waterproofing, no partitions, dove tailed joints optional, back attachment, and hardware store screws for hard wood construction.
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