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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
5
J J Ferris of Anderson Indiana claims a wheel that screws into air to lift itself and powered forward or backward when vertical. The wood prototype flew apart on a test and damaged a sprinkler pipe, while metal wheels are planned to gauge lifting power for airships and fast boats.
Mrs J K R Davis of Washington DC, visiting Elwood Indiana, demonstrates a secret method to make artificial fruit so convincing that passersby mistake them for real. She claims a Japanese visitor once shared the receipt, but she refused offers of money and says an expert failed to analyze the contents.
Boston Herald reports Montpelier Vermont firms produce clothespins by the hundred millions yearly with a steel wire spring design. One company alone ships over 100000 gross annually and offers dozens of clip variants for papers bottles and carriage work. The world buys the U S clothespin as a staple of laundry and the brand is known from Peru to Russia.
The Boston Herald recounts House Democratic Leader John Sharp Williams repeatedly missing social engagements due to absent mindedness. On a dress night he prepared for an evening function, only to be reminded by his son that he forgot to wear pants, revealing a humorous memory lapse.
A Harper's Weekly collection of schoolboy and schoolgirl exam answers offers humorous missteps. A boy defines butters as a butter maker, another cites cork screws for blood, a pupil calls gravity an autumn apple effect, and a primate as the prime minister’s wife.
An address to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Nottingham quotes Dr Charles Bell Taylor and Dr Brachet detailing brutal vivisection methods. The account describes blindfolded dogs subjected to eye removal, ear and nerve damage, and repeated brain washing, with dogs showing distress and begging for mercy.
Roeder of Quammey Illinois, aged 108 in excellent health, recalls witnessing Blacher Wellington and Napoleon at Waterloo. He claims to possess a government issued German Walder buch and to have served as a youthful messenger for Blacher on the eve of Waterloo.
Nearly one hundred women visited the Capitol for the annual plea for voting rights. Hearings occurred in the House Judiciary and Senate suffrage committees with speakers including Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
Kenyon Cox writes in the New York Evening Post evaluating the design of the Gold Piece of Saint Gaudens. He argues the eagle should reflect natural ferocity within a classical restraint, praising the reverse and criticizing the public’s attachment to the old coin. He calls for progress in American sculpture and coin design.
The article surveys laws restricting child and female labor in Ohio Massachusetts and Utah and discusses court rulings. It contrasts eight hour limits for women and children with U S Supreme Court decisions upholding or limiting such regulations noting Justice Brewer's controversial stance on paternalistic protections and gender differences in work capacity. It highlights evolving state authority to regulate labor based on health and welfare considerations.
The Rochester Herald quotes psychologist Williave Jsasenes of Waryard discussing dinner memory prompts. He notes how ordinary scenes trigger vivid, buried associations and recollections of past traumas, illustrated by a Thanksgiving toast that reveals a troubling link to a bad life experience.
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