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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
3
A Canadian ship brake using steel wings to extend from the hull could let a battleship stop within its own length and turn with a smaller radius. Tested on the Indiana, the device absorbs shock with water cylinders and may revolutionize naval warfare and merchant shipping if successful.
The article notes Halley’s Comet approaching Earth after 76 years, traveling 96,000 miles per hour. Paris Observatory Director Benjamin Patliard offers optimism, predicting meteor showers without endangering life, while warning of extremely rarefied cyanogen gas from the comet.
In Mineral Point Wisconsin Allen a church elder faced a ten year sentence for bank fraud totaling about 600000. He used religious facade and cited scripture while altering ledgers to cover 16000 becoming 116000, with church address prior to bank closure.
An article outlines the nebula hypothesis that the Sun and planets formed from a vast diffuse gas cloud. It traces gradual center contraction, ring formation, and the creation of planets and moons, noting observational limits and mentioning Saturn’s rings as an example.
A Kingston Jamaica eyewitness recalls the 1904 hurricane. He describes the sky leaping to dark, a 200 foot watch tower toppled, streets flooded four feet deep, and boats and casks adrift. Widespread property damage and nearly 200 deaths marked the island, with railroads halted for days and villages wiped out.
A humor item from the Buffalo Express features a dialogue where Jinks questions why a woman is called manly and Minks defends her, remarking she always exits a car properly in a light comment on gender notions.
A succinct aphorism notes tomorrow is not elastic enough to press today’s duties and that eating angel cake makes a man feel like the devil.
A Constantinople dispatch reports Berlin warned Crete against taking an oath of allegiance to King George and Cretan assembly actions. The Porte has 12,700 troops ready for dispatch, while Britain and Russia express regret and hint at measures to curb such moves.
The American Smelting and Refining Company has bought the Potosi Mining Company and the Chihuahua Mining Company in the Souta Susalla district for eight million dollars or more in gold. The interests were led by Grant H. B. Schley of New York and Dennis Sullivan of Denver.
Fever sores and chronic sores should not be healed entirely but kept healthy with Chani nerhiin's Salve. It has no superior for chapped hands sore nipples burma and skin diseases. For sale by dealers. Unfurnished housekeeping rooms for rent in the Fast Oregonian building steam heat electric lights hot and cold water bath inquire at Beat Oregonian office. War is good for one thing it demonstrates that 0 percent of the garotte smokers are not physically capable of the rigorous life of a solder.
A vintage ad text touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for sore feet and shoe break in. It claims instant relief after rubbing into shoes, with a sales pitch urging readers to buy from Allen S. Olmat Le and to avoid substitutes.
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