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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
6
M L Petit of France has devised a compact field opera glass that folds to fit a pocket. A brass frame holds fixed eye pieces on top and pivoting object glasses below swing to align perpendicular or lie within the frame, enabling open or closed positions.
Swiss residents Max Kern and Alfred Wiget patent a method to oxygenate transport water for fish fry. Their system uses compressed oxygen from a cylinder, transferred to a reservoir, and released as bubbles from the tank bottom to mix with water. An attendant can recharge the cylinder via a small pump on the vessel side.
A newly discovered remedy for smoke claims attention in Ungkind where injection into the furnace of manure quashes smoke and increases combustion efficiency by about 20 percent. Cost is estimated at 6 to cents per ton of coal burned.
A large team is assembling for Atlanta company on the Chattahoochee to build a concrete dam 1100 feet wide, 50 feet high at the base tapering to 14 feet at the top. The project, costing about 1.5 million, will use three cable systems and overhead construction to ensure progress despite floods. Initial electricity output aims for 11,000 to 15,000 horsepower, rising to about 20,000 after upgrades.
Navy surgeon Percy Crandall in Guam receives an outpouring from Lonely Lambs Club and 100 other peers. Letters, poems, cartoons and telegrams arrive from across the country, including De Wolf Hopper, Dixey, Remington and many Lambs members, to lift his spirits.
Lipton, after contesting for the America's Cup, weighs renaming his yacht from Shamrock. A New York Yacht Club member, just home from England, quotes Lipton saying he might call the vessel Thistle to reflect his Scottish heritage and to better lift the cup.
John D. Rockefeller, head of Standard Oil, is named an honorary member of the North Tarrytown fire patrol in New York. He remarked that at last his boyhood dream is realized, joking he is a fireman after nearly six decades of waiting. The dispatch notes the pleasure of him and the patrol alike.
Secretary Hitchcock forwarded documents to liveryman Simon Cooper of Hot Springs Arkansas authorizing pumping Hot Springs waters to his stable for horse cures. Cooper has installed large baths where Thoroughbreds will receive treatment similar to the visitors at the resort seeking health.
Akron inventors George C. Jontz and Elmer A. Gault unveil a new ride named the whirl the whirl. The design features a fifty foot tower twelve cars and 3000 feet of track. The ride lasts about two and a half minutes from top to finish.
Sufferers from kidney disease are urged to regulate diet and avoid alcohol to reduce waste buildup as kidneys struggle. The guide recommends simple drinks like water and barley water, sipped between meals, with milk as the best food for rest and restoration, cautioning about mixed diets and long milk-only regimens for some.
An Indianapolis dispatch reports Emmet Greenfield, a molder from Evansville, asserts a new energy device that could solve fuel and heat needs. He describes a secreted battery-like unit that extracts solar energy to power motors and furnaces, claiming a working model delivers intense heat for stoking.
A London Mail dispatch reports Dr Koulaike claims he has reanimated an infant heart extracted from a child who died 24 hours earlier. The heart beat regularly for one hour and may aid future resuscitation after drowning deaths.
A Lon don Globe contributor notes growing familiarity with Mars and other worlds. German observer Herr Arendt, using the Urania observatory instruments, reports markings on Venus suggesting large elevations seen through clouds, reviving an old idea once supported by Schre ter about twenty five mile high mountains. Arendt's view implies Venus rotates in about twenty four hours, challenging Schiaparelli's tidal lock theory that Venus always shows the same face to the sun.
In Harper's The Newest Conceptions of Life Carl Snyder suggests recent science may extend youth. He argues that growth control hinges on enzymes and fermentation processes, linking aging to biochemical reversibility and the potential arrest of death through advances in biochemistry.
The London Graphic notes a medical coinage for excessive cleanliness called mysophobia or mysophilia. It describes the mysophobe as one who inspects a glass for fingerprints, dabs at smudges with a napkin, and dusts papers, a trait common among housekeepers in spring, with the press favoring scientific names over cures.
Dr E Castelli in Washington receives a report from the Italian ambassador detailing a seasickness remedy: lie horizontal and fix eyes on a mirror while dressing to relieve symptoms. The letter urges scientific consideration of the observation. Also notes proposals to warn Santa Clara valley fruit growers of frosts with electric lights and flags and mentions a 220 foot electric tower near San Jose.
A Copenhagen chemist has succeeded in producing a material named soll eum derived from asphalt. It promises great importance for the caoutchotic industry by enabling linoleum, rubber, and insulating products. It is claimed to form an absolutely waterproof paint in all colors.
Four Turkish districts allow entry to meerschaum mining for a 5 piaster license as 5,000 miners—mostly Kurds and Persians—work in small gangs to dig red clay beds, extract blocks, wash and sort, with exports via Eskishehir pipe makers. Separately, acetylene headlights improve night driving, using Bleriot searchlights and an acetylene generator by Letang and Serpoliet for purer gas and easier cartridge charging.
A Russian naturalist conducted eight series of thermo electric measurements on insect temperature. Human body temperature remains similar across tropics and poles. Under naval conditions insect heat rises with ambient air, but more slowly. movement raises temperature until motion stops. Heat paralysis occurs at 102.2 F, dissipating as temperature falls. Saturnia pyri’s life limit is 115 F, near vegetable fattening temperatures.
G G Ward and Pacific Cable Company officials told Secretary Moody that once Pacific lines are completed, they will transmit a message from New York around the world in 39 minutes or less. The plan includes war-time government control and voiding foreign contracts, with a Manila to Shanghai extension and an 8,000 mile San Francisco to Manila cable route.
Dr. James Chancellor describes abundant game in Spottsylvania including squirrels wild turkeys and deer in the wilderness. Partridges and wild hogs are plentiful as leaves fall and hunters aim for hogs and other game for fresh meat.
Northwestern University professor J Scott Clark told Evanston audiences that a man can dress on 36 dollars a year and a woman on 50 dollars a year. He argued laboring men do not receive a fair share yet can still save 1000 by age twenty eight if starting at eighteen.
Count Stagard to play the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a realistic stage spectacle in Vienna. A thousand tame rats will follow him on cue as he leads the performance, matching the pipes in a striking, unconventional display.
M Cartleux chief engineer of the Northern Railway of France predicts coal mining will not pay within ten years due to competition from petroleum and alcohol, asserting that in 400 years the world’s coal will be exhausted as Lord Kelvin once claimed.
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