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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1899
Page
4
The report covers inspector duties for cars and rails amid timber shortages, plus railroad age limits. It lists the Delaware Lackawanna and Western board makeup and the day’s schedule with multiple locomotives, engineers, and milepost notes, reflecting busy rail activity and staffing.
A trained car inspector examines a freight train for defects along each car. He checks wheels brakes and doors, noting cracks and loose fastenings, and shifts cars for repairs to prevent wrecks and protect costly property. His role hinges on experience and careful training.
Officials of the Big Four raid plan an experiment to plant catalpa trees on a large tract between Brightwood and Ingalls Indiana to produce heat resistant wood for rose ties. Six hundred trees will be planted per acre and thinned as needed. trees are expected to reach sixty feet and twenty inches diameter in sixteen years, yielding five to six ties each. The saplings were grown by the Kansas City Port Sea and Gulf road.
An OCR fragment notes railroads setting retirement ages to 35 for some train staff and 27 for engineers, with Pennsylvanian and other lines enforcing early retirements after January 1, 1990. The move alarms workers who fear future job loss and crowding out older men from service.
A Philadelphia Times survey recounts numerous echoes of fatal events predicted by dreams. Examples span Birmingham canal drownings, Paris jockey deaths, English mine disasters, and house fires, with consigned witnesses attributing real outcomes to nocturnal visions.
In Behramberg Germany a new museum of timepieces displays centuries of clock making. Featured curios include a 1840 traveler alarm clock shaped like a lantern and candle powered, with a wick advancing mechanism. The lantern has movable sides to protect a sleeping traveler.
The article explains alarm clocks set by inserting a peg in a dial plate. When the hour arrives the alarm sounds and a movable eliden descends, filling the room with meat diagrams from curiosities. A Japanese clock uses a saw formed metal strip to drive the wheel, while another attaches a hand to a weight that sinks daily, showing time on a perpendicular scale.
A humorous exchange from the Indianapolis Journal notes Mrs Wickwire claims her washerwoman talks of wrenching clothes rather than rinsing them. Mr Wickwire counters that she would mean what she says since she has wrenched all the button holes out of half his shirt.
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