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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
2
In a 1912 column, J A Mitchell argues that granting women the vote will shift political power, claiming foreign voters and ignorance could tip outcomes. He warns against civic reform delays and domestic tension as the conquest of suffrage progresses through voting rights for women.
Sarah A Burstall contrasts American and English schooling noting freer discipline in the United States and the central role of public opinion as sanction. She suggests Americans’ education belief sustains order without prizes or punishments while English youth may need stronger control and penalties. She also remarks on patient yet decisive American adults when services fail.
The article notes that American designs used open car hoists that rotate with turrets allowing loading in any position. It describes foreign adoption by 1904 and outlines design aims including straight-away hoists, central handling rooms, water-tight bulkheads, flood controls, and secure charge doors for rapid firing and fire safety.
Paul Thieman argues that woman suffrage is fundamentally unsound because it relies on male protection and would fail if a large female vote clashed with male majorities. He warns such a system invites hypocrisy or rebellion, citing prohibition and black enfranchisement as examples of flawed enforcement and political conflict.
Frank H. Blackman promotes S.M.D. Ho Rad X as a safe, non irritant radiative substitute. He claims it covers any area, sterilizes easily, resists absorption, and mirrors radium’s therapeutic virtues with slower action. He asserts its value in cancer tuberculosis of the skin ulcers birthmarks and nervous disorders and states it will be sold through a Chicago central agency.
The piece recalls a child named Dorothy in a motherly role who injures a doll while playing. The incident leaves an impression and foreshadows later discipline as the child remarks on not being spanked too hard. A second line comments on the view that a married woman is a slave and that her husband cannot dispute it.
An extended poem recounts a printer editor praised by town leaders and readers, then misused by debt and deceit. It moralizes that the country press must seek independence, serve public good, and remain free to guard liberty amid commercial pressures.
Wilbur and Orville Wright welcomed home hailed as Kings of the Air at New York ceremonies. Katharine Wright joined their tour as a pioneering aviatrix. They discuss aircraft use, costs at 7500 dollars, and plans to build two to sixteen passenger planes while steering clear of ocean crossings. They plan to return to Germany for demonstrations, with further tests in Washington and August plans to sail to Germany for months.
Due to Congress failing to fund a gas plant and balloon house at Fort Myer, James Allen head of the signal corps shifts aeronautical trials to Fort Omaha. The motor balloon is sent to Omaha where a hydrogen gas plant and balloon house are already built.
Charles J. Glidden, noted Boston aeronaut, projects a Boston to New York aerial line this summer. He will secure land options for stations and build a factory to produce airships and establish a mail service by airplane as part of the venture.
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