Raid by Natives on Salt Pans Shocks Bombay
United Press reports a massive mob of 30 000 to 40 000 Indians raided the Wadala salt pans near Bombay injuring five British sergeants and leading to nearly 700 arrests in a week Officials debate drastic action including martial law as police struggle to defend the long salt pan area Native police and volunteers faced heavy resistance with barbed wire fences breached and salt carried away amid fierce heat and chaos.
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United Press
India
Bombay
Wadala
Sinal
Salt Pan
Salt Panl
Groep
Gowari
Congress
Dadar
Tir
Worll
Water Filtration and Chlorination in Public Water Supply
The piece traces 1887 sand filtration reducing bacteria and contrasts cholera outcomes in Hamburg and Altona. It notes chlorine’s early use by Houston and McGovern, then George A Johns advancing widespread public water disinfection with bleaching powder in Jersey City in 1908.
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Percy Frankland
Hamburg
Altona
Elbe
Tainburg
Houston
George A. Johns
Jersey City
New York Times
Deviser Wealthy Ideas From Babson’s Forum List
Economists Roger W. Babson outlines twenty ideas to create wealth including condensed plant fertilizers, a gearless rotary engine auto, a helicopter for city use, safe children's gliders, fog piercing air navigation, talking books, bulletproof glass, low loss electricity, and mahogany lumber dyed and treated for durability.
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Deviser
Roger W. Babson
Lions diet and carnivorous behavior in the wild
The text notes that lions largely prey on antelopes zebras buffalos and giraffes and that they will also eat flesh from recently killed animals and even attack humans at times. It cites Dr W Reid Blair in In the Zoo about two man eating lions in Africa that carried off 18 workers on the Uganda railway.
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Lons
Cap vi
W. Reid Blair
Africa
Uganda
Pathfinder Magazine
Small Potatoes and a Scotch Barber Anecdote
Haley Fiske of Insurance fame cites a Brooklyn YMCA talk on liberal spending. He warns that small economies cost vast goodwill and recalls a Scotchman asking barber prices for a haircut and shave, highlighting how stinginess harms business.
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Haley Fiske
Insurance
Brooklyn
Purifying Public Water First Municipal Plant in America
The New York Health Department records note P. Kirkwood's 1806 efforts to purify Dubie water. His Europe study informed a 1877 report deemed classic by water engineers. About 1872 a Poughkeepsie plant, built per his plans, marked the first practical municipal water purification in the United States.
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Dubie
New York Health Department
P. Kirkwood
Europe
Kirkwood
Poughkeepsie
America
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