Moving Stairway Could Aid Public Buildings and Elevators
A Chicago inventor describes a continuous moving inclined plane to replace stairs in places like elevated railways and stores. The belt-like incline carries passengers at 89 feet per minute with a moving hand rail, tests at Coney Island showing safe landings. It could free second floors for business and serve stations and terminals, while a separate astronomy project outlines a vast sky map using 54,000 photographs from 18 observatories.
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Tron
Coney Island
Paris
Tremendous Pressure of Water Castings Scrap Yard
A six by six by some inches phosphor bronze diving bell shell built for Lake Michigan tests failed under immense water pressure. The 23,000 pound structure, with inch thick plates and reinforced joints, collapsed during the test after being towed twelve miles from Milwaukee to a depth with two feet of water overhead.
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Pittsburg
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
The End of the Chimney Age in Industry
In England a large factory reportedly discards chimneys and uses a vacuum system to collect and treat combustion gases. Gases are bubbled through water, soot and products are removed, then led to a Fusometer for utilization. This method allows gas purification and easy pipe extension to draw from other works.
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England
Germany
Mail opener claims to shred mail fast in Chicago
A Chicago post office clerk named A D Ross has created a machine that opens 100000 pieces of mail an hour by shaving envelope edges with a revolving drum. Tested over weeks the device opened 78780 pieces yesterday while the division handles enormous daily mail. Ross, a Scotchman, has been in service for many years and plans a more elaborate version.
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Chicago Record
A. D Ross
Chicago Post Office
Ross
Postoffice
Rushing in Restaurant Sparks Busy Day
A fragment records a brief exchange where Hobbe asks Nobbe about business and Nobbe replies the lunch rush is nonstop. The dialogue notes no time to sleep or eat, describing a day of frantic activity in a restaurant setting.
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Hobbe
Nobbe
Euch
Sunday business lines show varied notes from fields and trades
Sunday lines report German restaurants using paper plates, Italian villages affected by earthquakes, and Russian engineers mapping a White Sea Baltic waterway. It notes Greece imports dried currants, a New York broker Neumegen collected 100000 butterfly specimens, shipping cargo as statuary, Rockland lime fuel savings, Mme Bide in Paris stealing pipes, Vermont maple syrup fraud law, price cuts on Planet Jr tools from LaCrosse Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
White Sea
Baltic
Greece
Berthold Neumegen
New York
Rockland
Paris
Mme. Bide
Vermont
Lions and mountain lions in camp dangers and lore
An excerpt describes mountain lions scavenging near a camp, with a hunter firing at a prowling lion and a companion lantern aiding the shot. The writer insists on manly courage against lions and dispels myths about tree-lying beasts, while noting local attitudes toward danger in the mountains. Also mentioned is Aunt Rachael's Horehound remedy for coughs and colds sold by druggists.
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Brooks
Rachael
A Word for the Hustler and Farmer Settlers Rise
A discussion of small ranchers who fence holdings to secure water and feed, aiming to cultivate arable land and settle permanently, while cattle barons push to expel them. It notes petty prosecutions and bans by stock associations, and contrasts constitutional catarrh treatment with local remedies, plus jokes and brief vignettes.
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Stock Association
Speer’s Wines Dominate N J Market In Unrivaled Quality
The fragment notes Speer’s Old Port Crop wine from his Oporto vineyards at Pagssic New Jersey and his Socialite Tarot vin 188, praised for general use and especially for invalids. Unclear details but asserts superiority over other wines in the ware.
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Speer
Oporto
Pagssic
N. J
Rolling Stormer steamer idea from Argenteuil
A ten ton steamer concept by M. Buzen uses fixed copper cylinders to roll the craft on water promising speeds up to thirty one knots. The writing includes advertisement style claims for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and various quotes on health and philosophy from Amos Kelner and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Argenteuil
M. Buzen
Coffee Berry Seed Ad and Social Note Flash
A reader from Williams County touts Salzer’s German Coffee Berry producing 300 pounds of better coffee at 20 cents a pound. Advertisements urge sending 15 cents for a seed catalog and seed sample from Salzer Seed Co. A social note mentions a man named Dollar marrying Miss Nichol in Oklahoma.
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Goodman
Williams County
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Dollar
Nichol
Oklahoma
Ancient mud baths valued by Tartars and Egyptians
The article notes mud baths were common among the ancients and prized for healing. It cites their continued use by Tartars and Egyptians and lists European sites such as Driburg Eileen Neundorf Vermont Spe Marienbad Franzen braun Fyor Kissingen and Teplita as places where people take them.
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Scientific Corner
Chicago
Planet Jr
Joan A
LaLzex Seep Co
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
J, Chaney & CO
G& Bell
St Elisabeth'’s
Loker
Imbigud
Piso
Amos Kelner
Cherry Valley, Ll
Emerson
Ayer
St. Jacobs Oil
Montreal
Con
Japan
Rentiam Centians
James Vick
RS Acre Vos Eo
Tina Vals
A‘trads Expresso
Ancing Rai
Bane Tal Dee M. G
DR. Kay
Tare
Walter Baker & Co
Samme
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