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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1908
Page
4
A Washington banker’s daughter narrates a childhood scheme to obtain a Swiss watch, spurring a townbank run in Minnesota during Cleveland’s second term. The plan backfires when customers withdraw funds, but the bank is saved by swift aid and publicity, and the watcher is never worn.
From New York America comes a claim of a noiseless gun by William Patten 27 a New York resident and Riverpool native. He says the device requires no gunpowder uses centrifugal force and can fire 60000 shots per minute with a 300 yard range. The 6 foot diameter steel gun would be portable on ships or cars cost about 800 dollars and produce 1750 feet per minute muzzle velocity for steel balls.
The New York World reports Dr Sardou of Paris claims a person’s character and health hinge on preference for sun or shade. Heliophiles thrive in sun, while heliophobes retreat. Tests in East Flanders prisons show open-air toil degrades incorrigibles but helps those drawn to crime by influence rather than instinct, with work improving some characters.
A humorous, fragmented column imagines a world disrupted by clocks stopping in Waterbury and across towns. Citizens fear chaos in transport, theater, bars, and daily routines, while a naval Observatory sun dial could restore order and prompt timely reopening of city services and businesses.
A Baltimore Amerivar item reports plans by George T. Smith of McKnight Realty to build a residence with electric, retractable floor partitions and movable floors allowing spaces to become a ballroom, skating rink, gym, or open hall. Future homes may feature vanishing partitions on all floors and even moving ceilings, enabling trials of novel room configurations for social events and activities.
Damask 29c large towels are heavy and absorbent with deep fringe and neat red borders. Fure boiled Turkey Red Table Cloths warranted fast color are mished with deep fringe and valued at $1.25.
The fragment lists brands like Fruit of the Loom and Pride of the West with yardage prices such as 12 1-2 cents for ties and fabric. It mentions Best & Apron Gaghat heavy weave checks in all sizes at 43 cents per yard, plus wide anada Cloth at 70 cents per yard and dress ginghams in various colors and patterns from Everett brands.
Brigadier General Wardwell retired and his leprosy patient wife Isabela Cole Wardwell secretly left the Los Angeles contagious ward at the county hospital and boarded a late night train to Mexico with plans to die together there. Authorities search for the pair while noting the husband faked illness to gain permission.
Mr Henry H Houpt of New York chased relief in London for his daughter's toothache. After an unhelpful early-morning search he faced an unskilled dentist who pulled the tooth leaving a root and overcharged. In anger he struck the man, then secured proper care and returned to the hotel whistling Yankee Doodle.
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