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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1910
Page
8
Engineers worldwide work to overcome telephony distortion from long lines. Loading with small coils along lines aims to restore sound quality, potentially expanding usable ranges like London to Madrid and Boston to Omaha. A quirky Puck quote about bachelors closes the piece.
Baltimore, Md. August C Schmidt paid 750 per inch for two inches of ground on Baltimore street. Widening of Lightstreet after the 1904 fire left a two inch strip that benefits none but could burden the Justis estate. Schmidt led a bidder auction to 750 per inch but the other side quit. Deed bars signs and building laws bar a wall.
The article argues that past and present attempts like Volapuk Esperanto Ro and Ido fail to gain real use for international commerce. It warns that artificial languages rely on Latin roots and complex endings and that only a living language can become universal, predicting that no such constructed tongue will succeed.
Philadelphia hunters Benjamin Chew and G. Harrison return from over six months chasing ibex in the Thian Shan highlands. Chew recalls hunting at 24 000 feet amid snow and crevasses while bagging six ibex from a herd and claiming a 54 inch head as his largest trophy.
Twenty women students chosen by Misa Eva Johnson to draft rules of etiquette for the University of Missouri. Topics include propriety of trysts in the library, after supper card playing or dancing at boarding houses, and strolling after dark.
Poignant fragment notes rainbows symbolize resilience as women’s tears mark personal struggle and hope. The line suggests beauty arising from sorrow and a collective spirit amid hardship.
Albert Smith of Long Island City was found in a grave at Calvary cemetery while digging. Police used a warrant to arrest him for threatening to kill his wife and family and he was taken to the Long Island City police court for examination.
In New York, Canarsie neighbors Gemar and Penninger faced assault charges after a dispute over ownership of a single egg. Gemar claimed the egg was his hen Matilda’s and offered to store it if Penninger won ownership. Magistrate Nash set bail at $300 for each, citing a string of past confrontations.
James White a long distance sleeper at Vestibule lodging house 99 Van Buren street is carried out as a corpse then awakens on the way to the morgue. He declares he is alive as police notice the odd scene and the patient moves away while a clerk blurts he was tickled by the feeling stick.
Milwaukee drug stores reportedly require clerks to lick stamps, a practice now causing complaints as busy clerks fear speech impairment. Reports cite customers who hand over many stamps and demand personal licking, forcing clerks to comply to complete sales.
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