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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1906
Page
8
The article extols Thomas A. Edison as a towering innovator whose inventions spanning telegraphy phonograph kinetoscope and electric light transformed modern life. It notes his relentless work ethic sleeping little for days, starting as a newsboy and self taught inventor who embraced accidents as catalysts.
A historical glimpse recalls Thomas A Edison as a practical joker and relentless innovator. The piece cites his stock ticker influence, pranks in his lab, and a broader view of his role as mentor to Tesla, Kennelly, Batchelor, and others shaping electrical progress.
Twenty young women form a secret Sterling Alabama club to evaluate suitors. Each member must be approved by a majority, based on morals finances and companionship. If approved, the woman may pursue marriage. if not, the suitor is blackballed.
Recited tale follows Jean Audley, described as the beautiful maniac, who roams Kentucky and Indiana on a pony with a pack of dogs, wearing weapons and a carbine. She camps alone at night, demands food for horse and dogs, and is said to have killed a man near Cumberland Gap. She is held at Harrison county poorhouse awaiting possible insanity adjudication or transfer to Cumberland Gap asylum.
An English engineer Ryall German consul Huebner and Malian Parenti sit up to guard a sleeping carriage near Kilu when a lion enters through an open air door. The lion fatally attacks Ryall before leaping out the window with the body, as Huebner and Parenti survive.
In Lancaster Pennsylvania Gertrude and Susa Newcomer teenage girls were robbed of most clothing while bathing at a woodland pond near their father’s home. Warm weather and access to food prolonged three weeks as the girls adapted to a “savage state” until the father surprised them, ordering them to bed and ending the episode amid neighborhood chatter.
Ruth Denier, youngest divorce applicant in Cook County, testifies before Judge Kavanagh in Chicago. She explains marriage to Albert Denier began February 21 and lasted only a few days before he kicked her out of bed. she left the next day. Denier is sixteen years old.
A fragmented piece mocks shifting tastes in farming and architecture, comparing rustic old places to fashionable yet artificial designs. The narrator laments modern magazines that promote urban chic over practical, soil rooted farming artistry and sustainable work.
A Duke of Buckingham, visiting New York, sits beside a fruit seller in a Well Street car. The vendor insists the Niagara county apple is a peach, while the noble traveler jokes about pomology and accepts the fruit before alighting at Forty-second Street.
Denver banker and railroad builder David H. Moffat plans a summer estate near Steamboat Springs for Thomas Gay, longtime waiter at the Fifth Avenue hotel. The 158 acre tract will feature an artificial lake golf tennis and fencing. Also notes on porcupine spines and earthquake insurance payouts in San Francisco.
A cable to the Washington Post links Luck charms with an Egyptian Ankh emblem of life and good wishes. The symbol appears in ancient Egyptian art and figures, tied to a belief in protection and luck, with historical fascination from Napoleon era savants.
Harvard Medical School opens five marble buildings dedicated to anatomy physiology pathology and hygiene with an animal house and extensive laboratories. Built at a cost of 4 050 000 funded by Morgan Rockefeller Huntington Sears and others, the complex connects via basements and features amphitheaters libraries laboratories and an extensive museum space.
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