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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1904
Page
7
The Red River Special from Nichols & Shepard Co. boasts a big cylinder and a man behind the gun for efficient separating. It promises to outpace old style thresher capacity, saving grain, time, and money, with a free book on threshing and nationwide agents.
An article explains a hidden ballot box used to vote on applicant admissions. Members cast either white or black balls via sliding pins to keep votes secret. The device features two channels and drawers, but concerns arise about the ballot custodian possibly mixing balls.
The article discusses two inventions: a hand controlled voting method using two or more attendants to guard a ballot box and a pocket portable telephone. It notes secrecy of ballot movements, inventor Henry J. Fox of Denver, and widespread international interest in the portable phone, with military and civil uses highlighted for communications on trains, police, fire brigades, engineers, and ships.
Dr. A. Korn describes a telautography transmitter using a non conducting ibk on metal foil wrapped around a rotating cylinder. A metal pen advances 0.01 inch per revolution, while the receiver spins 1% faster and awaits a sync signal. An electric lamp on sensitized paper glows via Tesla current relay when the pen passes non conductors, illustrating transmitted handwriting specimens.
Dr Gilbert attributes baldness to tight hatbands noting women and savages do not suffer. He advises cork fenders around the hatbend to relieve pressure on affected areas and keep intervening space free for normal growth.
The latest proposals for intensifying the oxidizing action of air on metals are by M Harmot. They aim at treating cast iron to produce refined iron or steel. Molten iron flows through a narrow channel surrounded by an annular air blast that forms a turbulent spray driven forward and collected to rejoin in a chamber from which molten steel can be tapped.
A historical note outlines Paraguay's orange leaf industry once dominated by Jesuit priests about 150 years ago. The escenosia leaf was exported to France and the United States for soap and perfumery and valued in Paraguay as a healing ointment and hair tonic.
Walnut in France is confined to cabinet and carpenter work. Imports in 1902 reached 2 452 tons while exports totaled 5 623 tons, with a four year trend showing imports down and exports rising from 3 600 tons in 1899 to 6 623 tons in 1902. Natural gas powers cooking in over half a million homes and illuminates more than four and a half million people, used in 8 000 factories and supplying lamp black worldwide according to the Geological Survey report.
A fragment notes nature's calming influence on anxiety with views of a deep blue sky and starry heavens imparting peace to the mind as quoted from Jonathan Howards.
A burglar and his son were killed by attacking bulldogs while attempting to break into a Hungarian farmer’s home. The violent incident ends a failed intrusion amid local defense by the farmer and his dogs.
Society women suffer from late hours and constant entertaining causing depletion and catarrh. Letters from across the United States claim Peruna provides invigorating strength and relief for run down nervous systems.
A letter from Mrs J B Finn of Buffalo and Mrs J W Reynolds of Elkton praise Peruna tonic for recovery from fatigue sleeplessness and weakness. The ad notes Peruna’s rejuvenating effects and promises free home treatment and advice for women willing to join a list of poor patients. Details invite readers to send name symptoms duration and prior remedies tried.
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