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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1903
Page
2
An old traveler recalls a man selling pies in a rough mining town after a failed Westward quest for fortune. A friend offers pity, but the pie seller counters with a sharp demand to buy a pie, proving sympathy is best expressed by action, not words.
The article reviews Michigan’s Civil War roll of honor with six infantry regiments two cavalry units and batteries including Battery D of the Fifth Michigan Light Artillery. It quotes Charles Tronele Adame praising Lee and recounts a speaker’s defense of the Confederate general while honoring Union soldiers. It also notes Governor Broun’s wartime leadership, Dan McCook’s feud with Brough, and a Livingstone anecdote about a perilous Atlanta mission and a postwar friendship with Gen Coppswell.
A letter posted in Verona Italy in March 1003 reached the London Express office after a long journey. Cramped handwriting caused it to move through London Ontario Lorado Texas Lowlerine Kentucky Lowell Massachusetts Lyons France and wander the continent before its final destination was found.
A sanitized survey of early 20th century device ideas. It describes a tactile typewriter using fingered springs, a water curtain fire protection system for theaters, a kitchen hood catching odors via a chimney, and a revolving toothbrush design that moves bristles in one direction for efficient cleaning. Names include inventor William F rounds of Athens and Homer Pollne of Curtin.
Dr F T Schidlovsky claims a meat preservative injected through the heart replaces blood with a preserving fluid, keeping meat usable for up to seven years aboard ships. Carcasses are packed in tins with a light salt sprinkle and reportedly with minimal deterioration after tropical six month voyages. Separately Nichols and Hui demonstrated light pressure on carbon dust in a vacuum tube, noting larger particles lag while finer ones moved with the beam, aligning with radi ant pressure ideas.
Recent experiments show yellow and green colors in silk spun by certain caterpillars come from coloring matter in their food and passing through the blood. Impregnating leaves with color produced orange yellow to olive hues in the silk, verified by spectroscopic analysis of pigment in the dead Ute animals.
Lealie's Monthly reports a sizable Chinese population in America with an estimated 100000 Chinese in the United States and 20000 in San Francisco. It notes colonies in New York Philadelphia Houston and Chicago, limited education and literacy, and that most emigrants hail from Kwong Tung province whose capital is Canton. The piece emphasizes adventurous provincial traits and profit motive.
A writer proposes a test to distinguish real apparitions from illusions. By pressing one eyeball, if the figure is real the two outlines persist or diverge. if only subjective, a single outline remains. The piece urges nervous, brain-weary readers to seek medical help rather than live haunted by supposed supernatural visions.
The article notes rich men rarely retire and centers on Hewitt who cannot retire due to terms and honorable options. Hewitt explains he cannot exit on terms that would shut down his Toronto works and leave about 600 workers jobless, many with long tenure and homes in Trenton. He expresses his burden, saying only death might relieve him.
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