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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1914
Page
8
Welfare work for Bell Company's telephone operators has improved service and operator well being. Girls are safeguarded with restrooms, lockers, hospital rooms, drying facilities, and a dedicated operators' school. Selection favors healthy, tall, well educated women with good voices.
Miss Rose Coppinger a Webbers Falls Oklahoma telephone operator stayed at the switchboard amid smoke and flames warning residents and calling aid until she fainted and was carried out. Citizens later gave her a purse of 100 and a Carnegie medal was pursued. Similar heroism by operators occurred in the Omaha tornado and Ohio Indiana floods as they kept lines open to send warnings and relief updates.
Old fashioned greetings yield to a modern custom as Chicago’s exchanges record a surge in Happy New Year chatter. An ammeter tracks the load on switchboards jumping from 55 amperes to peaks near 265 as midnight tolls. Reports from other exchanges and cities show the custom expanding nationally.
A fragmented, period piece style note mixes a boyish letter about a feared circus, a tale of Henry Begg and his aunt, ticket prices, and two weeks from Wednesday show dates. It also includes stray dialogue about typhoid, scarlet fever, and a call for direct simple English, plus a science anecdote about lead balls and rebound.
A vivid, sardonic scene opens with a man dressed in half mourning and a Mona Lisa calm, hinting at an undertaker’s business. The narration notes a 24 percent tariff drop making burial cheaper than a year ago, prompting a brisk question of why delay as a jolly figure interrupts.
The article describes French methods of extracting coloring dyes from sawdust using sulphur and caustic soda in a furnace. Sulphuretted hydrogen is liberated in large quantities and the plant matter is dissolved in water, imparting a strong color.
The article describes using twenty three dyes fixed by passing the fabric through potassium bichromate solution. This method applies bichromate as a fixing agent to set the dyes on the textile material.
A crowded street car scene ends with a smallpox themed quip and a big man ejecting a schemer. Mr. Anderson shares war stories after Christmas dinner. Edgar contends that five engagements for sister Edea are not many, nine previously.
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