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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1908
Page
7
Article stresses Middle West farmers as vital in expanding the U S Navy enlistment to 44 500 personnel and the push to recruit 16 000 more over the next year. It notes enlistment terms, training, education and higher standards for height weight honesty and sobriety, while praising discipline and adventure as attractors for ambitious youths.
The recruiting service expects to meet the quota, citing the past year’s success when eight months of the fiscal year filled the quota amid prosperous industry. The Midwest provides the best recruits who, though unfamiliar with the sea, enter training healthy and eager to learn. Newport, Norfolk, and San Francisco host apprentice stations with a Lake Michigan facility forthcoming near Chicago. Pay starts at 17.60 for unskilled youths and rises to 77 for a chief petty officer, with potential to exceed 90 after several enlistments. Savings incentives and retirement after thirty years reward service.
A full grown golden eagle was captured in Ross shire after resisting three surfacemen from Ardgay. They wrapped the bird in jackets and secured it alive with seven feet one inch wingspan. It supposedly cannot rise from level ground due to wing span and short legs.
A jumbled narrative presents fragmented quotes about psychology class testing and a professor's seeming disappointment. It references brainy food, Arctic atmosphere, sound transmission, and an explorer named Egbert with a curious reply.
A quirky dialogue snippet features a man named Wood and his wife, joking about naming, with a playful repetition of Wood as a surname. The short exchange highlights wordplay on names and kinship in a light, humorous tone.
Fragmentary OCR reads about a racer named Rasia and mentions changes and attempts to peludergome various phrases. The readable content is inconsistent and lacks coherent events, dates, places, or organizations.
A neighbor recounts watching a man enter a house through a door with no keyhole while a detective investigates. The twist reveals inventor Mr. Merwin removed the keyhole to display a new door knob mechanism that avoids visible keyholes, ending the narrator’s unsettling vigil.
In a reminiscence from Memories Maj. Gen. Sir O T Burne recalls a Highland minister urging gratitude for living in Great Britain and Scotland. A strong wind from Ben Nevis interrupts the sermon as the preacher extols the islands climate over harsher lands.
The Hudson river tunnels use a complete block signal and automatic train stopping system with signals every 367 feet. Green means go yellow means caution and red means stop, with automatic brakes triggered at red signals. Two stop arms per car ensure braking even if the operator ignores signals, and both rails carry propulsion and signal current for broken rail protection.
Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw reflects on aging telling the narrator that he still works as early as ever but feels age, noting shoes lasting longer as a sign. He states there are no aches yet recognizes slower pace and reduced shoe purchases as proof of growing old.
A fragmented passage in mock dialogue ponders why people value friends. It suggests true friendship is not based on usefulness or utility but on inherent goodness and character, challenging the idea that affection hinges on what one can gain.
The 1906 railway totals show Canada at 21 353 miles with the United States at 224 363. By 1907 Canada’s provinces reach 22 452 miles, led by Ontario 7 638 miles and Quebec 3 616. Canada claims one rail mile per 289 inhabitants, higher than New Zealand and Australia, with the US at one per 881 and other nations showing larger gaps.
Travelers entering Shrewsbury by Abbey Foregate station notice a remarkable feature a stone pulpit perched above coal wagons in the station yard. The ancient structure is the last remnant of the abbey buildings once used for preaching and reading lessons in the monks refectory.
The St Clair Tunnel has been electrified and all trains are now pulled by electric locomotives. The new system eliminates engine gases and smoke, making the tunnel interior as bright as day for crews and passengers.
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