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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
2
Article surveys postwar locomotive shifts from compound engines to simple expansions, noting outside valve gear, discarded compounds, and a push for larger boilers. It recounts the Marchioness of Stafford and Queen Empress trials, American–British exchange, and wartime impacts on railway technology.
A whimsical spoof recounts Alice tumbling into a rabbit hole and entering a deep chalked shaft with imagined maps and upside down worlds. The narrator riffs on travel to distant places while pondering Dinah and feed routines, echoing early 20th century parody style.
The article surveys shifts from compound and reciprocating steam engines to turbine and booster systems. It notes fuel and space efficiency driving change in ships and locomotives, the rise of turbine and electric propulsion, and the decline of large coal-fed reciprocating engines. It also mentions updated locomotive features like booster engines, superheaters, and redesigned cowcatchers, while observing that speed remains a secondary priority to efficiency and reliability.
An old advertisement promotes Bayer Aspirin as a trusted remedy used for headaches toothaches neuralgia rheumatism and colds. It touts genuine Bayer packaging with directions and large and small tablet boxes priced as affordable medicine and endorsed by physicians and millions of users.
Joseph Barcroft, a Cambridge physiology reader, spent six days sealed in a glass chamber to study oxygen needs at high altitude. The chamber simulated 16 000 feet with a bike exercise frame and bed. nitrogen was added to reduce oxygen. Barcroft endured sickness and sleeplessness but completed the test, with results to be presented at the British Association meeting.
In London Paymaster Commander A M Cree warns against floppy dancing and advises women to keep heads steady and not bob about. He says trust the partner to steer, and notes avoid dipping shoulders rolling the body and pump handle arm action in the one step.
Toughkeepsie New York story: Tod Barttstoni, a West Mountain farmer near Stissing, was seriously injured after being gored by a mad bull. His three children aged nine to under seven bravely confronted the animal with pitchforks, driving it away and saving their father who lay prostrate.
James McCoy of Redding reports his chickens uncovered about 1000 worth of nickels in a snailed yard. He does not dig. he simply collects the coins after the birds scratched them up over three days.
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