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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1901
Page
7
Dr Max Nordau, famed European physician and author of Degeneration, argues that modern tendencies lead to degeneration. The Budapest-born writer, aged 52, has influenced literature and social thought with works including Conventional Lies of Society Paradoxes and Degeneration.
A young Pennsylvania chemist reports a dream that allegedly revealed a practical tempering formula for copper to regain hardness enough to cut steel. He pursued copper experiments seeking a government reward and claims a tempered sample sent to Washington passed all tests.
A European engineers society, formed abroad to advance railroad engines of exceptional speed, tests a Siemens Halske electric motor on a military railway at Berne and reports a promising preliminary exhibition under Imperial order.
The article notes a growing Oregon industry extracting oil from pine needles. Leaves yield 600 to 800 pounds per tree every picking, with ten pounds of oil produced per two thousand pounds of leaves. Remaining fibre becomes fabric, mattress filling, and cigar filler. Germans predominate in the workforce.
In Paterson New Jersey Philander Simon and Bertha Karger face a cooling courtship led by thrifty mothers and clever counting. She sues for $25 travel and meals while he counters with $86.80. two years of Sundays and gifts swing to a wedding as both sides push and lawyers scheme. An engagement is formed and suits dropped as Philander wins by careful figuring.
Justice White of the New York Supreme Court in Buffalo affirmed a divorce for Mrs Florence Rogers from Edward F Rogers. The case followed a murder by cyanide delivered to Kathleen Adams by Roland Molinewitz, linked to Harry Cornish of Knickerbocker A C. Mrs Rogers, daughter of the late Mrs Kate Adams, had lived in New York while her husband remained in Buffalo. She sought alimony amid claims of a “New York bash house” lifestyle but evidence showed Rogers contributed to her support while they lived apart.
Consul General Gunther reports a channel mail steamer with wireless gear relayed a warning from a French lightship officer near Dunkirk that it could not light the beacon. A message to La Panne and Dunkirk prompted shore aid, a repair boat was sent, and the lightship was restored.
Henry Clay Evans, long active in Tennessee politics after moving from Pennsylvania, enjoyed broad support and was twice Chattanooga mayor. In 1890 he won a Congress seat by 18,641 votes to 18,253 amid a tight race, drawing praise for his pension administration and a noted war record.
A premier delivers dedicatory speech beside a monument raised by Japanese admirers to Commodore Perry. The event signals Japan’s progress since 1853 when Perry forced opening of ports, reflecting a transformed view of the American sailor from interloper to honored figure.
An amateur artist named M Albert Jagat has invented a mechanical calendar that indicates days, weeks, months, years and leap years. The device, wound like a clock, uses a disc and five cog wheels with ninety six teeth, three weights, and ning fevers. It is precisely adjusted to function until wear ends it, with one wheel designed to last 300 years.
A crowd, including many women, attended the Monday start of a Presbyterian preacher’s trial before a presbytery committee. The piece argues that members could bar women with no direct stake, noting expectations of sensational testimony.
Boston correspondence recounts Lawrence mass filtration lessons from 1887 and Sedgwick's work on microbes and river water safety. It notes Albany Hudson filtration, Chicago drainage impact, and St Louis Mississippi supply potential, with a legal tale of Mr Koch seeking divorce and settlement.
James J Van Alen seeks to attend court for a Knight of Grace Investiture while his daughter Miss Sara Van Alen plans to sail to the United States to marry Robert Collier editor of Collier's Weekly. Van Alen opposes the match though his influence wanes as his children stand independent in marriage and fortune.
Anthony Koch faced a strong case for bigamy after taking a second wife before divorce from the first. The second wife, living in an awkward situation, seeks support, suggesting a practical arrangement might yield a more useful citizen than prison.
The Italian census records 392 residents aged over 100 with sixteen monks among them and a note about ByRe.
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