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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
3
An Arkansas inventor attaches a lamp to a lunch pail to heat its nested compartments. The device uses oil and a slow wick to warm all food sections, improving meals for laborers who previously endured tepid sandwiches and coffee.
A Philadelphia inventor presents a wind driven chime with a vane and multiple plates suspended at angles to the vane. The plates vary in size and angle to yield different tones as the wind shifts, creating a rotating, wind responsive sound mechanism.
The description specifies an octave arrangement with the platen flat and tapping sequentially in two groups. A bar spans between the dual plate series, suggesting a suspended linkage to regulate movement and spacing. The image-like wording implies mechanical alignment for synchronized tapping.
A study of Bristol shooting star records from 1206 to 1911 shows meteor frequency peaks late July to early August. On clear moonless nights about six meteors per hour are seen most of the year, rising to a maximum of 69 per hour on August 10. The annual average is roughly 24 meteors per hour.
A French scientist introduces an invar tuning fork allegedly unaffected by temperature changes. The fork uses Guillaume steel, marketed as invar for its near zero thermal variation, promising stable tuning across conditions.
Paris scientist Gaston Bonnier exposes bees to get, transport and return from over a mile with eyes covered, finding bees navigate without sight or smell. Green marked bees locate syrup at 600 feet while red marked bees follow a different path, suggesting a special directive sense guiding their movements.
An Ohio inventor has created a cash register that records each sale and dispenses a slip for every purchase. Slips are wound on reels and advance to a new slip automatically as each one is issued.
The exhibit shows advanced cash registers that record sales, issue receipts to each customer, and can provide duplicate records for the store. Drawers hold slips, with money and duplicates kept separately. Proponents claim the device simplifies corrections when complaints arise.
Summary of assorted science notes including sea deaths per birth, Japan’s agrarian share, horseradish temple relief, Venezuela’s bureau, parsnip uses, dual-seat seroplane control, vast ozonized ventilation for London tunnels, human heart efficiency, Jerusalem sanitation, US wealth estimate, rapid manuscript photography, and pure sodium nitrate crystals exhibited in Paris.
The piece contrasts salesmen and ordertakers, asserting the former persuades buyers and drives profits while the latter, limited by effort, may fail. It advocates periodic sales-force meetings, clear goals, and shared plans to boost morale and revenue, stressing recognition of clerks and avoiding excuses for failures.
The text argues that not all are endowed equally but effort can overcome. Some must channel energy through willpower to conquer obstacles, like a steep hill transformed into a gentler slope once begun. Many miss the view by avoiding the climb, though knowledge rewards perseverance.
A veteran argues that career success hinges on focused, continuous improvement and ethical conduct. He contrasts a diversified clerk’s fate with a steady, early commitment to one path, urging diligent work, daily betterment, courtesy, and honesty as essential to health and advancement.
London faces a multiplicity of governing bodies totaling 144. After vestry abolition and borough councils, the metropolis seeks royal commissions to inquire into reform. There is broad support to include the outer suburbs in the metropolia to restore London’s world leading population and prestige.
Article notes how European business culture differs from America with managers rarely elevating employees into leadership roles. It contrasts U současné practice of sharing honors with family and relatives against the American tendency to promote from within.
A midwestern manufacturing firm, chasing large volume, extended notes for raw materials as a trust centralized buying. A brash sales push, heavy on personal service, won verbal contract assent. An office boy’s naive mistake plus lax staffing caused the final loss when the trust contract was signed with rivals.
Cuba imports most of its stone from Canada. Official figures show New Zealand has about 25 million sheep. Soda can brighten china darkened by long use. Pulverized mica lets concrete imitate granite. Rubbish and coal tar make good fuel briquettes in Amsterdam. German tests show tantalum pens out wear steel and gold. English engineers create a paper machine capable of 650 feet of newspaper per minute at 175 inches wide.
English chemist P M Short reportedly extracted attar of roses and violet perfume from kerosene oil during liquid air experiments. He observed a rose scent residue after freezing kerosene, claims a five cent per drop value wholesale, and spent four years refining the process though violet perfume lacks commercial success due to dyeing.
A London dealer offered to collectors a rare Master Humphreys Clock. It originally stood at William Humphreys shop entrance in Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, and helped Dickens resist collecting information for Nicholas Nickleby.
A fragmented verse hints at a person described with many probabilities about birth family, education, career, relationships, and public service. It suggests a life of study, work in weather-related probation, and uncertain personal history conveyed through repetitive hedged phrasing.
The ambitious author begs for royalties from a dramatization of his novel while arguing his work supplied ideas and dialogue. The purse-proud playwright concedes but says the author’s name won t be on the program in large type. A moral about fame and gatekeeping ends the tale.
Miss Dovey asks how to write poetry and Mr. Rhymer suggests a simple method. He proposes placing two rhyming words with a bridging element and gives this as an example using this and bliss, noting kiss as a possible rhyme.
In a boarding house conversation the new boarder notes he is a heavy sleeper yet wakes upon falling asleep and reveals a vaudeville habit as the group discusses sleep in the shared living space.
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