Mexican Troops Surprise Critics in Chihuahua Campaign
Reports praise federal soldiers in Chihuahua as loyal and well trained while marching on limited rations. Soldiers travel with wives and children who forage ahead to supply meals.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1911
Page
6
Reports praise federal soldiers in Chihuahua as loyal and well trained while marching on limited rations. Soldiers travel with wives and children who forage ahead to supply meals.
The Hopi, about 2,000 people in eight villages of Arizona, are full U.S. citizens under the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty. Despite rights to vote for president and Congress, they remain indifferent to American politics and show little interest in federal affairs.
The Deutschland, the ship chosen to carry the German Antarctic expedition under Lieutenant Wilhelm Filchner, is praised as ideally suited for polar exploration. Built in 1905 in Norway, the bark-rigged vessel combines sails and engines, displacing just over 600 tons with 65 yard length, and offers ample space for crew, scientific equipment, coal, and a three-year voyage.
A Welsh friend offers a mountain to the Church Army of England to provide stone for quarrying work. The donor believes the site can generate employment for men under the society. The description notes the mountain holds a large quantity of stone for potential use.
Vegetarians facing clothing taboos have solved a footwear and fur dilemma by using humane furs labeled as such. They reject animal products and now wear convincing moleskin like wrappings that mimic fur without animal use. The exact composition remains a trade secret.
In Gary Indiana a fish school clogged water scoops near East Gary halting the Michigan Central between Chicago and Buffalo. A sixty mile per hour engine drew water from a scoop, and after a search the engineer removed the condenser piston head finding about twenty pounds of amalgamated fish two to six inches long.
The article notes a rising granite output in Georgia North Carolina Maryland and Virginia valued at about 3 500 000 annually. It contrasts Southern production with New England and mentions the South gaining market share in stone.
Riley Andrew of Indiana, lifelong blacksmith, arranged a granite monument with two large anvils to mark his final resting place in Lancaster Cemetery.
Dublin reports the Hill of Tara, famed as the former royal seat of Ireland’s Ard Righs, is to be sold. Legends tie Patrick’s conversion to its stones, a feud with King Guare, a clerical curse, and later ruin, with recent excavations yielding coins and weapons but no ark.
April 80 set aside as tuberculosis day to be observed in 200,000 churches nationwide. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis aims to have church meetings discussing tuberculosis and prevention on April 20 or nearby dates, expanding beyond the 1910 tuberculosis Sunday sermons. Dr Livingstone Ferrand notes the goal to engage all 33 million church members this year.
Actress Maude Adams devised a walllike sounding board system to improve acoustics. Installed at the Knickerbocker in New York for her production Chantecler, the device builds sound by holding it in the auditorium rather than projecting from the stage. The invention is patented and planned for wider theater use.
A three room portable school is being built on a concrete base in Minneapolis to alleviate crowded conditions. The project allows mobility to adapt to future space needs. In New York the total number of mines underground is forty with twelve iron, thirteen gypsum, eight talc, two salt, two printes, and three graphite mines in operation.
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