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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
2
Navy experts urge skeleton masts to elevate range finders for long range sea fights. Officials note observers in raised stations are crucial to determine range and relay corrected fire to guns. A recent British admiralty test highlighted the need for such elevated, enduring observing posts.
The Florida, a new single turret monitor, with a 96 foot steel spiral mast, survived shelling at Thimble Light Shoal while an Arkansas stood off 350 yards away. Observers aloft measured splash and adjusted range to hit targets, proving a method akin to long range battle sighting for gunners and describing the differences from target practice.
Miss Mary Getzandanner of New York, born in Uniontown Pa, recalls greeting General Lafayette on his two visits. Disabled by a hip dislocation, she uses a wheelchair but fondly remembers the flower scatterers and parade decorations. Surviving sisterhood in Bloomington Ind and New York.
A state holiday was declared to honor the Mackay school of mines and the Borgium statue of John W. Mackay in Reno Nevada. Clarence H. Mackay and his mother donated both to the state and university. Gov. Dickerson extended to Mr Mackay and guests freedom of the state. Col George Harvey of New York received the degree of doctor of laws after a dedicatory address.
The Hero, an obsolete battleship, tested with Hibernia and Dominion gunnery, failed to withstand modern fire control systems mounted in a cylindrical steel mast. A shell burst damaged the range finding station and severed fire control wires, revealing the mast’s structural and observational fragility under high velocity, straight shooting.
A Yale Divinity School closet cleanup revealed a cardboard box containing sermons and related papers from Presidents Daggett and Clapp dating 1741 to 1760. The brown, faded manuscripts remain legible and will be preserved by the university.
Through the Change of Life the letter writer praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from headaches nerves and other symptoms. The ad touts the product as a standard remedy for female ailments and urges sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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