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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
3
Washington reports Professor Langworthy of the USDA chemistry bureau explains human horsepower using a respiration calorimeter. The device measures energy output from tests and diets, weighing heat and analyzing expelled air to guide dietary recommendations.
Seven year old Mathew Blau chased a thrown ball onto the Northwestern L tracks between Larrabee and Halsted. Confronted by a southbound express and a panicked crowd, Motive Power Superintendent H Potter grabbed the child just as trains neared. Mathew explains he climbed to retrieve a ball when a train appeared. A similar incident claimed a life a year earlier at the same spot.
Arthur Krock recalls a Chicago episode where Representative McDermott teases Sergeant-at-Arms Robert Gordon over Latin phrases. A row in the House leads to slang and cross language misunderstandings about firings and volens volens. The tale highlights clashes over classical language and humor in the press gallery.
In the Senate chamber, Secretary Rose struggles through paragraph 24 of the tariff bill, misreads items including aniline oil and related chemicals, inciting laughter from senators and observers after he repeats a long chain of chemical names. Gallinger protests the reading, while Vice-President Marshall stays firm.
Julia Gibson Aunt Julia of McAdoo's hometown visited the Treasury Department and spoke privately with Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo. She presented a brown daguerreotype of his parents preserved for decades and received autographed notes and the secretary’s thanks for the joyful encounter.
Miss Anna Roseelle a trained nurse in Atlantic City awoke from a dream to find a masked burglar pointing a pistol at her. He warned her to stay quiet, then left. she aided two sleeping nieces to safety and alerted a policeman. Jewelry valued at 2000 dollars was taken, but 40000 dollars worth of Disston jewels remained hidden. She later said the dream felt more frightening than the actual break in.
In Philadelphia a seventeen year old girl identified as Julia Morgan from Pottstown was taken to city hall after claiming to need shelter. She began a hunger strike, but a patrolman brought ice cream to the matron, ending the protest within minutes.
Charles Moorfield Storey, son of a Boston lawyer, married Miss Susan Sweetser at Chestnut Hills and made a last minute dash aboard the Carmania when a guard barred him for lacking a ticket. He seized the moment, knocked off the guard’s hat, and was carried to his bride on the ship’s deck.
The article details John D. Rockefeller spending about 1 million dollars yearly on his 6000 acre Pocantico Hills estate. He reshapes landscapes and houses, employs 700 workers with a $30,000 monthly payroll, and adjusts staffing after Black Hand tensions. He favors local youths over foreign workers and plans further modifications to his properties.
Francis B. Sayre, engaged to Miss Jessie Wilson, was named head of the abandonment bureau in the New York district attorney’s office, succeeding Joseph O. Skinner. Sayre plans sociology studies and aims to learn from others’ troubles under favorable conditions. His mother signed a lease for Oak Beach property to build a home for expectant mothers, and Sayre will take duties at Williams College after his honeymoon in November.
Robert Bacon, former secretary of state and ambassador to Paris, will tour South America as the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace special envoy. The $10,000,000 foundation aims to improve U S relations through unofficial emissaries and academic exchanges. Bacon will visit all South American countries except Colombia, delivering lectures and meeting public figures. He is currently traveling east and will sail to Rio de Janeiro next fall to begin the tour.
Representative John A. Key of Marion Ohio becomes the latest private secretary to move into a congressional seat. The piece traces a lineage of former secretaries who rose to the House and notes past examples in Texas Ohio and Georgia.
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