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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1903
Page
2
A garbled collection of notes and jokes from Logan Utah and beyond. Observations range from British lunch habits to a tattooing dog market in Baltimore, late-night streetcars in Newport Boston, and humorous quips about politics, crime, and society.
A fragment notes a fading marriage trend among fashionable society as hot weather and early rising at five in the morning are suggested to affect matrimonial happiness. The piece hints at social expectations and personal routines influencing couples.
A murky editorial note describes a grim irony as New York contemplates a bank kept open at night to serve “slott-helpers.” The piece suggests the bank will hold money until 10 o clock the next morning, leaving readers to ponder the practical and moral implications.
Mrs Daniel T Campbell tells New York court a millionaire husband mistreated her during marriage noting wealth bred vicious habits and arrogance. She recalls a bridal tour incident when a silver powder bar was thrown and later him throwing knives and mocking her churchgoing and smoking.
Sir Thomas Lipton and Pierpont Morgan arrive on the same liner as snap-shotters swarm the pier. Morgan dodges cameras and warns he will smash and bar cameras from piers run by the shipping trust, yet more than a dozen photos are taken despite his threats.
In Manhattan's Taland district a dealer known as Back Lumber Budd runs a Thirty-sixth Street shop stocking back numbers of papers and periodicals from 1833 onward. Once a news faker, he saw steady demand for old issues not available at publishers. He buys old material, indexes it, and resells clippings at 50 to 500 percent above original price. His few customers pay high prices for copying passages from old publications, making Budd's unusual trade lucrative.
Brigadier General George C. Elliott is named to command the Navy Yard and Marine Barracks in Washington. He succeeds General Wood, who retires due to age. Elliott assumes the new duties amid a reshuffle of senior officers at the capital post.
In a rehearsal for Faun, Henry Erving struggled with a hyperactive super who kept “picnicking” instead of acting. Erving, famed for his long-suffering temper, finally snapped, reminding the actor to stay in hell, not Hemotead Heath.
A French writer notes posters colored to represent nations like England France Austria and Germany. He observes English posters ironical, French subtle with veiled reflections, Austrian soft and real, Swiss awkward, German intricate, Italian nosy, and Germanic contrasts. The writer hints his own Atlantic crossing status.
A historical roundup describes a gas detecting lamp using heated wire strands to warn miners of dangerous atmospheres. It also reports a Nebraska inventor’s curtain device to blind horses for runaway prevention, and other science notes on automatic portrait machines and Newtonian gravitation with moon motion precision remarks.
All ready for Gates, with no doubt about his intentions. A European rip has whetted his speculative appetite. He saw a man he knew as he left the gangplank in New York. The operator asked about town operations and the reply noted that the tenderloin was cleaned up while Wall Street remained wide open.
A Sun commentary on Alfred Russel Wallace outlines his ideas about mankind’s place in the universe as presented in his March 8 article. It notes that the key questions have been debated in England and reflects on the sufficiency of Wallace’s original paper.
In the London district railway system progress, a large power station uses steam turbines for the first time, featuring ten turbines of 7,400 horsepower each and four sold magnet poles. Generators run at 1,000 revolutions per minute, yielding compact nine foot dynamos instead of oversized reciprocating engines. The item contrasts with New York metropolitan power plants.
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