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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1903
Page
10
A sprawling, humorous extract from Logan Utah chatter lampoons travel, careers, and social habits. It touches on London lunches, tattooing dogs, Boston streetcars, and political maxims while weaving in satirical quips about wealth, gambling, and court opinions. Strong entities include Logan Utah, London, Baltimore, New York, Indianapolis News, Carnegie. Headlines mimic early 20th century miscellany with scattered observations and wry lines.
A brief note observes that hot weather and waking at five a m. to endure the furnace of daily chores tests marriages. The author suggests an old adage and reflects on how routine, heat, and domestic life strain wedded happiness.
An editor is told to tense betwean toring bia heal and o et go as Servian conspirators pressure the minister of Justice He to grasp the grim irony of an official stance in New York They seek to keep a bank open at night to allow saloon-keepers to evade limits by hoarding cash in their possession until 1 o'clock creating a loophole through enforcement delays.
Mrs Daniel T Campbell testified in New York court that a millionaire husband can bring more ruin than wealth. She described violent episodes including a silver powder bar being thrown, insults at church attendance, and threats, as she sought a divorce after marriage.
Sir Thomas Lipton arrived aboard the liner with Pierpont Morgan and was mobbed by camera enthusiasts at the New York pier. Morgan, who fears cameras, dodged a post and warned he would bar cameras from shipping trust piers if his demands were not met, yet more than a dozen shots were still taken by persistent photographers.
In Manhattan, Robert M. Budd runs a tunnel like shop on Thirty sixth Street selling back numbers of papers from 1833 to date. A former news dealer, he met rising demand for old issues by saving daily and weekly, indexing them for sale at 140 to 500 percent above original prices. Although his customer base is small, buyers pay high prices for old copies or for the privilege of copying material for other publications, making his quirky enterprise profitable.
In Washington Brigadier General George C. Elliott is appointed to head the Marine barracks in place of General Wood who retires due to age. The change elevates Elliott to a senior post in the capital defense establishment.
While rehearsing for a production of Faust Henry Irving faced trouble from his actors, whose hearty spirits and mischief disrupted the scene. Frustrated, he reminded them sternly that they should act in hell, not at Hampstead Heath, demonstrating his long-suffering temperament.
A French writer’s colored bills expose national traits as posters in various languages reveal character. The English porter appears cold, the French sharp and ironic, the Austrian frail, the Swiss stiff, and the German intricate. Italy shows itself boldly, Bo poster hints at orange zest, while the discoverer notes northern posters echo puritan ancestry, implying he had not crossed the Atlantic.
A Pennsylvania inventor proposes a wire heat detector suspended above a miner lamp flame to indicate gas danger. Heated wires redden with gas concentration, guiding workers to stop before hazardous levels. The device aims to retrofit existing lamps and prevent mine gas explosions.
Nebraska inventor proposes a bellows curtain that blinds a horse during fear reaction. A cord releases the curtain to obscure sight entirely, allowing the horse to stand until the cause of fright passes, then resume travel. Curtain sits in a semicircular casing above the eyes with cords threaded to the bit rings.
The piece notes John W Gates and his role in a European rip line amid market activity. A steamer encounter in New York is described as he parts with a familiar contact. Police Commissioner Greens tightens control on the tenderloin district while Wall Street remains unsettled and tense.
The Sun on March 8 printed Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas about man's place in the universe and offered a commentary deeming them largely untenable. The discussion parallels debates in England, referencing Wallace's original Fort paper.
Prof. E W Brown of Haverford College, expert on lunar motion, states his calculations show Newtons law accounts for the moon's movement to within one millionth of one percent. He adds no other physical law matches the precision of its simple statement as celestial positions gain accuracy.
A new large electrical power station is under construction for London’s district railway system. It will be the first to run entirely on steam turbines, featuring ten turbines of 1,000 horsepower each. Only four field-magnet poles are used, with a turbine rotor speed of 1,000 rpm, enabling a nine foot diameter turbine unit compared with much larger former designs.
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