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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
4
A New York man designs an adjustable name tag for an umbrella to prove ownership. The device sits below the handle with a slip that can carry the owner’s name and address and rolls back into a cylinder when released, near the umbrella’s catch.
A description of an old coronation custom where the champion in armor would throw down his glove during the banquet to issue a challenge. The king’s glove, richly embroidered in gold and silk, symbolized a cherished family possession and the ceremonial role.
Tim Peter Stanish refuses to testify at an inquest into Andrew Stein's death. Stein died of blood poisoning from a gunshot wound. Stanish, believed to hold knowledge of the shooting, is described as frightened after being kept in a room with Stein's body. He claims a saloon keeper already under arrest shot Stein.
Following a recent storm on the New Brunswick coast thousands of lobsters of all sizes washed ashore along the North beach at Rexton forming a long reef. Fishermen say the catch could exceed what traps yield in a season as rock eels and other fish lay among the heaps while seabirds converge to pick at the soft portions.
Beachgoers watched gulls and other birds feed on a spread of prey scattered across the shore. Spectators recalled no prior event like this, and many visitors observed the unusual scene with interest.
A will by Thomas Billingsby allocates 3500 dollars for the support and maintenance of his pet parrot. The parrot, now 20, was once a profanity expert in Polynesia before reform. Three trustees are named to manage the fund for the bird’s lifetime and restrict the funds to this purpose.
A monkey named Moritz leaped from the stage in a Copenhagen vaudeville show and threw himself into the arms of a man in the audience. The man was Moritzs former master, with whom he had been close friends four years earlier.
The accompanying picture shows Billy Hodges, a famed old time stage driver, in 1884 when he led the Mount Hamilton California route. Hodges and his stage were held up by bandits at least 14 times.
Harvard Observatory installed the world’s largest reflecting telescope in a water filled tank. A five foot diameter mirror rests on a buoyant steel cylinder acting as the polar axis with electric motor driven motions. The setup aims to observe stars of seventeenth or eighteenth magnitude unseen by other instruments.
A dummy airesship with a folding parachute was launched from the Eiffel Tower to test emergency safety devices for aeronauts. When deployed during a plunge, the parachute lifts the aviator from his seat and gently lowers him to the ground, allowing the airship to descend on its own.
Glass eyes are produced mainly in Lauscha Germany a town about twenty miles from Coburg. The craft is a thriving trade drawing interest from regional markets and indicating skilled handwork and traditional techniques.
A physics sketch describes three cylinders on each side of a tube with plungers moving up and down. Air and water displacements create balance, with open cylinders displacing nine pounds and closed five pounds, yielding a net buoyancy of twelve pounds favoring the upward side. The piece questions whether motion will sustain and why.
A cheap alternative to radium, claimed to be equally effective for medical purposes, has been discovered. It is named mesothorium and is produced from thorium, a heavy iron-gray powder derived from thorite, a mineral mainly found in Norway.
A condensed survey covers kinship with apes proven by blood tests and claims about gout and rheumatism yielding to radium treatment. It notes men reach peak weight around age forty and mentions road maintenance costs in England and France birth death trends, plus schooling in Japan and a French economist's view of America.
The speaker recalls Flyland a non existent isle where crusaders of speech parade against men. Inhabitants urge swatting and health zeal while criticizing excess wealth and unhealthy living. A dream-like vision ends with the chant Swat the Men echoing in wakefulness.
A Sunday school teacher asks for an example of the saying about dying young. After a pause, Johnny Skinnem, son of a market man, volunteers that the example is turkeys with tough meat nobody will buy.
Questioning why disease causes seem powerless against flies, the verse ponders if deadly germs would kill the fly yet fail to do so, and asks why flies persist despite threats. The passage uses fearful language to describe the paradox.
A wife watches her husband grope under the bureau for a collar button that rolled away. She quips that he should own two buttons. He retorts that it takes a woman to double a man's troubles as he raps along the floor seeking the missing item.
The patient voices confusion as Dr Kaifem claims liver trouble while another cites appendicitis. The surgeons acknowledge the interest and discuss a postmortem to determine the true ailment.
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