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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
6
A Popul Science Monthly essay notes curious plants that lure insects without designed digestion. It recounts Argynnis butterflies with clubbed legs trapped on milkweeds, carrying pollen masses as incidental victims while pollenizing flowers, illustrating nature's broader schemes beyond insect traps.
An Austrian engineer reports a chemical compound added to gaslight mantles transforming thorium-based mantles from a loose fragile form into an elastic glass. The new material purportedly binds its constituents chemically rather than by loose mechanical links, improving durability.
A physician at Hopital du Rey in Algiers reports bacteriological tests found almost all bacteria varieties on currency with suppuration germs most common. Bacteria are short lived on metal currency.
The Aspen tunnel opening marks the completion of a difficult engineering feat on the Wyoming division of the Linton Pacific railroad. The carboniferous formation produced explosive ground conditions, swelling when air entered and forcing beams to fail, with steel girders bending under pressure. Oil and water caused dangerous shaft conditions and led to fatalities in 1890. The tunnel reaches 456 feet below surface with a peak altitude of 7,206 feet above sea level.
The article surveys fashionable dress trends with green palettes, black velvet stripes, lace insertions, and tinted silks. It highlights long sleeves, striped bodices, and empire white silk muslin ensembles, noting chic hats and velvet ribbons as key accessories of the season.
A cream colored straw toque with an ivory astrakhan lining and a shaded lily leaf green feather sits at one side. The heart shaped shape reflects the current vogue for sparse trimming and extensive straw. Foulard dresses remain prominent with white fabrics featuring black designs.
Around the Hoane column mentions sundials as fashionable, warns mushrooms spoil quickly and should be used fresh. Notes a nursemaid training school opening, lace paper dailies for desserts, and culinary tips to sharpen fish sauce with lemon juice and add coffee to chocolate for some palates.
Cincinnati projected 12 foot long American built car aims to prove American superiority in auto manufacturing. W H Summer builds for Wilbern a strong aluminium framed machine modeled on the one horse shay with forty eight horsepower and a top speed of eighty mph racing and thirty five to forty mph touring. The car features enclosed dust proof running gear, aluminium engine block, large aluminium casting, and a 24 gallon tank using one gallon per twenty five miles. An accident involving Wilbern and Miss Hosea inspired the design to demonstrate reliability and American factory potential.
The annual convention of dancing masters approves three new dances for the year the antlers gavotte the Olympia for children and the military dip waltz by E J Connolly B G Bauman and George Lovely. Demonstrations show the military dip adds a forward dip and a backward dip before a standard waltz. The Olympia is described as complex while the antlers gavotte involves a two measure march and several gildes. The dances are expected to be popular next winter.
The New York Press notes top yachting outfits for the season feature white serge or veiling with narrow white silk braid trim. Left arm displays a colored band bearing the yacht burgee for wear on the vessel.
Princeton correspondent recounts Woodrow Wilson as the popular yet firm new professor at Old North in 1890. An anecdote tells how he kicked out a drunken intruder, leaving students with a lasting lesson on authority. A Princeton man later learns a Scribner's Magazine photo of Wilson after a bookstore encounter.
A Dutch grain importer traveling in the United States refutes rumors of a unhappy marriage for Queen Wilhelmina. He says the royal union is a love match and shares an anecdote: the king once mistook a premier for the queen and called him mein liebes Thier. The tale illustrates the king and queen’s apparently close relations.
A Wichita dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald reports Kansas farmer James Woolsey saved a 500 acre wheat field by offering his nineteen year old daughter as a prize to the hardest worker. Willis Rodway, an Illinois mechanic, won and married Anna Woolsey at Pratt. Rodway cut 100 acres over three days and wore out three teams.
Travel notice outlines through Pullman car service on train No 9 via Fort Wayne, extending to Petoskey next season. Massillon and Canton schedules show frequent departures with baggage and express options. Also advertises $13.60 round trips to Atlantic City and other Jersey and Delaware shore points, plus Home-Seekers excursions to West, Northwest and Southwest via Pennsylvania Lines.
Through Pullman sleeping cars operate Cincinnati to Charleston via Queen and Crescent Route and Southern Railway with no change. Departs Cincinnati daily at 8 05 p m. travel passes through Chattanooga Atlanta and Augusta.
Classic 19th century medicine ad touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain gum softening wind colic and diarrhoea. Claims cure for multiple infant ailments at twenty five cents a bottle.
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