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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1910
Page
7
A fragment of a periodical page blends sketches, poems, and humorous vignettes. It riffs on misfortune, modern plays, inventions, and social gloss, with quips about weather forecasts and a column of unrelated captions. Notable bits include a parable about choice among three women and a playful mock dialogue on clocks and affection.
The London Stone in Cannon Street near the Bank of England is a historic relic linked to Brutus and Trojan legends. Once an ancient milestone or public marker, it has been carefully guarded since medieval times and was rebuilt under St Paul’s influence.
In Montana the American Museum of Natural History led by Barnum Brown discovered two prehistoric monsters. Two summer expeditions yielded a ceratopsian dinosaur with horned face and a predental lizardlike reptile, both to be prepared for study over the next year.
Taft unveils finished executive offices recalling the Philippines with green and white decor and carabao leather chair coverings. The plan adds a congressional waiting room and a renovated cabinet room while the press room gains improved facilities for staff and messengers.
Electric devices aid branding of cigar boxes and railways test battery cars in Germany. American gear aids Peking telephone rebuilds. Japanese barrier charges drive Formosa natives uphill. Philadelphia built electric trams reach Salonika. A new electric furnace lifts U S and Europe total to 35. Tilleres in France to 23 000 hp with nine turbines. U S messages exceed 7.6 billion. 7 million instruments in service. Major car maker shifts to electric plant. Philadelphia city hall tower eyed as municipal wireless telegraph station.
A Massachusetts inventor introduces a new grip device for electric light cords that can be attached at any time. The spindle carries two spring gripping members and allows easy Slack adjustment by clipping on at the desired length. Useful for pendant lights over tables, it enables even a child to regulate height.
The Tokyo electric railway carried 83,655,000 passengers in the first half of 1909, with receipts of 1,490,000 dollars and a declared dividend of 54 percent, compared to 4 percent for the second half of 1908. Regular fare remains 2 cents plus a half-cent transit tax, though return, season, transfer, workmen, and military concessions reduce receipts.
A new method proposes using an electric trap where rats enter for food and light, then die within a minute. The device can signal its fate to a guard by bell or lamp. It mentions an electric locomotive built by Stephen DPD Field of Stockbridge and a preserved motor. Also suggests an inexpensive electric massage setup with battery cells and insulated gloves.
A gadget called the electric drier dries hair by heated air driven through a nozzle. It uses a small enclosed handle with a switch, a fan draws air in and blasts it out warmed by a heating element. The aluminum casing is light and deep, with a motor suitable for alternating or direct current.
A unique electric clock exhibited in Chicago uses 6485 colored bulbs and about a mile of wire. The dial shows minutes with 60 light series and seconds with 60 lights around the edge. Hour figures are three feet high and outlined in colored lights.
An electrician inventor showcases a so called perpetual motion device in store windows. Glass balls rotate beneath a bell and glass plate, all protected from external influence to prove insulation. Thousands watch as the mechanism whirs day and night, yet no one has explained the hidden principle.
Consul Lester Maynard reports that Russia will send an official from the telegraph department to the United States to arrange a cross Atlantic wireless link. The aim is to establish communication between the United States and a wire sea station to be built at Kamchatka in the Siberian peninsula reaching the Bering Sea opposite Alaska.
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