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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1900
Page
8
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A report to Secretary Root proposes carrier pigeons to improve army intercommunication alongside couriers, signals, telegraph, balloons, and dogs. It notes Key West efforts 12 years ago failed, while the Navy has had success with pigeons, and argues readiness is needed for future conflicts.
Miss Belle McCoy, en route from Devil’s Lake to near Silver City, draws attention at the Mission station in St. Louis in a brown corduroy suit with dainty shoes. A white sombrero with a lead feather rests atop her curls. an ivory handled pistol peeks from her belt. She grew up on a ranch and commands riders and cowhands with bold, expert shooting. Her cousin Miss Nellie Andrews, from a Dakota ranch, supports her as they perform equestrian feats and marksmanship alike.
Knoxville tests of the Renewal process for coke production show promise in solving sulfur-rich coke problems. Tennessee Coal and Coke Co leads tests using Tennessee coal with planned use of another oil oil soon. The method resembles the Salva y process but claims simplicity and lower cost while generating gas ammonia and tar as by products. Floodbound dogs used by Canton Ohio police to track criminals prove effective after mayor James H Robertson funded and oversaw their purchase in Chattanooga. The unit cost about 200 dollars and helps address ongoing petty burglaries.
Representatives from Barnard Bryn Mawr Columbia Cornell NYU Princeton Rutgers Union UPenn Vassar and Woman's College of Baltimore met at Columbia New York to form a unified college entrance examination board. President Low presided and the plan was approved unanimously. The board will include one rep from each eligible college and five from secondary schools, appoint examiners annually, and hold exams at multiple points in the middle states Maryland. Certificates will replace independent entrance exams at participating colleges.
Private Samuel Wheeler of Fort Wingate New Mexico marries Lizzie Hammons of Winchester Kentucky in a wire bound ceremony. Rev S P Young of Lexington sent the first telegram and Chaplain Foster of the Ninth cavalry officiated at the far end. The bride later consulted a lawyer who confirmed the marriage. Wheeler enlisted from Kentucky into the Ninth cavalry.
William I Baker of the Postal Telegraph company warns that a sustained copper price at 1044 will drive major users to switch to aluminium wire. He notes telegraph, telephone, and electric light firms consume copper and argues aluminium, though larger, is lighter and already cheaper, likely to become standard if copper stays costly.
Boys in a swampy district between Canal Dover and Canton discover petrified fragments of a woman's body. James A. Blair investigates after being informed, noting a well developed figure and several bone and flesh portions weighing heavy. Pieces resemble reddish granite and are very hard. An effort to locate missing parts is planned.
Paris report from the Pasteur Institute details Prof Metchnikoff’s plan to use a series of organ specific serums to rejuvenate bodily tissues. Experiments show small doses of treated rabbit blood improve red cell count and target organs such as liver brain and kidney. If successful it could markedly extend human lifespan as Wu studies human serums.
Mrs. McKinley enjoys grapes and oranges from the White House conservatories each morning, bred by Gardener Pfister who has led executive horticulture since the Garfield era. Orange trees gifted during Mrs. Cleveland’s first term prosper under careful watch. The south conservatory near the japonica house houses the fruit and the fountain Dolly Madison once admired.
George Henderson, 47, lost his tongue to cancer after heavy smoking and underwent a groundbreaking operation at Bellevue Hospital last February. Doctors fitted a rubber tongue on a pivot between his teeth, an invention praised as a novel feat in modern surgery and enabling him to live with a remarkably functional prosthesis.
A Chicago man says he was fined one dollar and costs for protesting a street robbery. The Times-Herald urged that the safest path is to whip the highwayman and rely on luck to avoid police detection.
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