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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1903
Page
14
Popular Science notes a hands on typewriter by William H Young of Athene Ga that uses spring fingers and a touch sense to select letters printing by downward motion onto ribbon. The article also covers water curtain fire protections stove hoods kitchen odor removal and a meat preservative claimed to extend shelf life in tropical travel.
A patent description explains a revolving toothbrush designed to move bristles in one direction to prevent root exposure, with a V shaped spring and a rack bar to rotate the shaft. Homer Poling of Curtain WV is named as inventor. Separately Nichols and Hull demonstrate light pressure using an hourglass vacuum tube and carbon sponge dust, observing vertical and angled dust movement under arclight, aligning with radi ant push ideas.
A German inventor tested a fire apparatus in Pittaborg Pennsylvania featuring a telescope ladder 85 feet long operated by a compressor mounted on a heavy truck with an air tank. The ladder can reach windows in a burning building and support a firefighter suspended at its end. Another German, Louis Kauffeld, created a new unbreakable glass that resists cracking in ice water and can be used to replace tools in emergencies.
A Boston Mothers and Fat club member laments crowded tenement life and urges a future where children grow in the open air to distinguish nature from danger. Edward Everett Hale and Dr. Edward Everett offer social commentary on moral reform and child welfare. A New York nurse promotes Mother Gray's Powders for children, claiming cures for constipation and teething disorders. The piece also notes Senate composition, Delaware’s lone absence, and the shift to electric power powering ribbon looms in Etienne, France.
A verbose Youngstown Ohio man famed for dialect humor and a wife who speaks little is noted in dialogue with two late night Ohio youths. Nearby Cracow reports announce Jacob Belcher, a Cracow plumber aged 116, buried after a long career. He fell from a roof at 112, ending his trade after three years of injuries.
Tokyo reports that Japanese postal authorities are weighing buying motor cars to carry mail. The move would modernize mail service and improve delivery in the capital.
A collection of testimonial letters from patients in 1903 praising Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain urinary troubles and improved health. Accounts describe relief from severe backache frequent night awakenings swelling and high colored urine with several signatories including A C Gree and J A Beesum sharing positive outcomes.
The advertisement touts Cure for skin and scalp issues including scrofula and hereditary humours with Cuticura Resolvent Ointment and Soap. It claims instant, speedy relief for itching, rashes, and inflammation and urges mothers and sufferers to try the local and constitutional treatment for lasting health.
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