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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1914
Page
33
A New York Sun diagram lists sail components labeled A to N with parts like mainsail topsail bowsprit and gaff. The notes mention spars topsail spars and related rigging terms including leach foot and peak of mainsail.
A March 11 1886 report details Kellogg’s murder aboard the Chicago to Rock Island express. Pinkerton detective Miles Watt Schwartz and guard Schwartz uncover a staged robbery with a torn jacket, clawed nails, and a hidden poker behind the stove. Watt lies about the roof entry. Schwartz’s scarred hands reveal involvement as Pinkerton shadows all passengers and staff to solve the case.
Pinkerton detectives shadowed Watt and Schwartz in a railway murder case. Schwartz sought early holidays prompting an arrest after tracing fifty and one hundred dollar notes matched stolen numbers. Mrs Schwartz's testimony and a found jacket with a matching black mask sealed the case, revealing Schwartz attacked with a poker and Watt fired the fatal shot. Both men received penal servitude.
The article discusses light exerting pressure, citing Poynting’s calculation of solar radiation pressure at about 70,000 tons on Earth. It notes Langevin’s critique of Newtonian action reaction in radiative cases, explains how absorbing obstacles experience force while the source gains no reaction, and mentions the negligible mass loss when hydrogen and oxygen explode to form water, underscoring limits of mass change in radiative processes.
A West Indian narrator describes warm devil spots on rural roads believed to be sleeping devils. He recounts noticing footprints and cautious sleep patterns of locals as natives pass by, noting dangers for outsiders and bush dwellers alike in nightly travel across the islands.
A case describes Miss Beauchamp as normally present but dominated by a person calling herself Sally. Sally emerges during nervous shocks, taking control and altering Beauchamp’s nature toward liveliness, risk taking, and aversion to insects. Beauchamp endures Sally’s exploits and awkward escapes as the original conceals itself once Sally recedes.
A column recalls celebrated detective work from Scotland Yard and others, focusing on Inspector Whicher and later officers who solved cases like the Road House Hill murder and Miss Farmer's killing. It highlights conclusive arrests, confessions, and the humbling exposure of famed investigators.
Popular Mechanics reports a patented hydroplane design that combines a motorized hull with submerged water planes for buoyancy at rest. At high speed the hull lifts from the water, supported by winglike water planes, while at low speed the craft remains buoyant by the hull.
A column praises American Yankee ingenuity, noting 19th century imports from Elias Howe’s sewing machine to typewriters and telephones. It credits U.S. innovations for household labor saving devices, dress aids, office equipment, machinery for farming, and even toys and transportation, tracing a broad cultural influence.
Explorer Mr Landor defends his 18 month Brazil journey covering 14 000 miles on mule canoe and foot. He recounts harsh trials including unreliable maps, six men including criminals, starvation for 18 days, near death from anemia and knee injury, and a 50 pound weight loss before meeting a rubber collector.
The New York Times notes Missouri’s corncob pipe industry turning farm waste into a $500,000 output via six factories producing 28,171,872 pipes in 1912. Factories in Washington, Boonville, Union, and Owensville shipped worldwide. 380 workers earned $135,406, with $268,361 raw material cost and $280,344 invested.
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