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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1909
Page
7
Not content with wireless messages Knudsen has perfected an electrical device that transmits photographs through the air and reproduces them at a distant receiving station with high fidelity. A sample photo of King Edward VII was sent 100 miles away, with the process taking 12 minutes from start to finish.
The text notes that discoveries made at the university may yield extra profits for adopting manufacturers and that many researchers will transition directly from university into highly responsible, well paid positions.
The piece describes a house on wheels with four sleeping spaces and a kitchen, Charles Fletcher touring Europe in it, and a rugged United States vehicle with linked tracks for rough ground. It also notes Kansas University postgrad research funded by bakers, enamel studies, and willow basket crops expanding in western New York Indiana and near Baltimore.
A 1909 Bowles report notes two million workers face varied injuries yearly in the United States and that 30 000 to 35 000 male workers over 15 are killed or injured. It contrasts European safety gains with U S conditions and describes an air strainer and eye glasses used in German industry, plus a rootless California desert cactus that propagates via wind-spread seeds forming many new plants.
The spineless cactus, a Wizard Burbank production, holds promise for future usefulness as forage for cattle and horses. It can be grown in arid deserts, and spines are being eliminated. Further experiments are under way.
A man recounts two years roaming cities to study the homeless, posing as out of work, visiting kilns and lodging houses, and exposing harsh conditions in New York and Chicago. He details shelter routines, the use of municipal lodging houses, and the social stigma faced by the unemployed, urging humane treatment.
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