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Newspaper
The New Vienna Reporter
Location
New Vienna, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
4
An AT T research and development team has created an artificial larynx to restore speech for throat cancer patients after laryngectomy. The device uses a neck pad and tube to vibrate air from the lungs, producing monotone speech that is intelligible but non tonal.
A Ohio Bell operator with years of experience asserts red, blond, and brunette hair colors show similar temperaments. She notes training for telephone operators lasts three weeks, focusing on voice, numbers, and clear speech. She cites vast Bell System investments and 1924 production figures for desk telephones.
In Columbus, Harry Gannett died after carbon monoxide from his car exhaust built up in a closed garage. He managed to reach the phone before collapsing, as Emma Kuhlwein attempted to answer.
A grid operator heard a groan amid a busy shift as one of hundreds of indicator lights lit up. She answered the signal but received no further response to repeated calls, leaving investigators to suspect an error or accident on the line.
An editorial recounts a near miss where operators and police coordinated after a traffic light failure. One operator alerted authorities, others checked numbers and found the address, enabling an emergency response that saved Mr. Gannett’s life. The piece defends telephone workers against a cruel quip.
Familiar sights show transposition brackets used on The Ohio Bell Telephone Company lines. Engineers solved induction from parallel wires by looping positions at intervals. The brackets allow wires to change position without interference, with transposition locations worked out after years of study and experiment.
The text notes sneleutinavian poets who sing in regited verses about living heroes or ancestors. They resemble troubadours, minnesingers, and Celtic bards. Few complete poems survive, but many fragments appear in the Younger Edda and the Sagas. Kansas City Star.
The passage notes notable New England child performers including General Tom Thumb born Charles Stratton from Connecticut, the Warren sisters linked with Barnum from Taunton Massachusetts, Commodore Nutt from Dorchester, Tom Thumb’s sister Esthetta from Connecticut, and Count Primo Magri from Boston.
A Cornish town marks a five year remembrance ritual for a deceased man who left £50 to be shared annually among ten young girls. They dance around his tomb for a quarter hour and sing the Old Hundredth, preserving the memory he wished to honor.
A fragment notes soaking tarnished silver in buttermilk overnight as a cleaning method. It also references a claim by two scientists about a by product of whale oil as a brain stimulant, questioning its effectiveness if it worked similarly in whales.
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