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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
7
E. A. Payne describes a large, attractive home with a modern kitchen dining area, bath, and pantry layout. The article emphasizes the importance of thoughtful connections between kitchen dining rooms and baths, furnace heat, and labor-saving features. The 35 by 55 foot house sits on a stone foundation option and lists costs for completion.
A historical piece explains that the tails of comets arise from a repulsive force caused by light. Maxwell’s theory shows radiation repels bodies. Earth’s solar repulsion is tiny, but for tiny particles it dominates gravity, swiftly accelerating them away.
Herz and colleagues establish the truth of Maxwell’s theory by measuring light’s repulsive force, with Lebedev in Moscow and Nichols and Hull at Dartmouth confirming results. Progress In Flying Machines notes Wright brothers’ double decked airplane with 308 foot wingspan, 22 foot length, pigeon's wing curvature, gliding at 11 to 24 mph, 400 foot longest flight, no motor, good steering.
A 48 inch electric fan displacing 20 000 cubic inches of air in four minutes has been placed in a tupenny tube in London to improve ventilation.
A digest of varied notes cites the Aurora Borealis in August 1859, cancer stats in Germany, seven salmon species in the Taku river, Dr Gatling’s gasoline plow, a Bengal hailstorm, and a German pamphlet on steering airships with eagles. It also lists 1900 button production by material and Javal on the sixth sense linked to obstacles, with the seat thought to be in the forehead.
A Washington Post report recalls Senator Plumb of Kansas pushing for main corridor water coolers after a long effort. He fought a stalled bill, won an amendment to an appropriation measure, and ensured accessible drinks for visitors, with storage ice in the basement.
The Nebraska State Journal notes twenty five thousand American farmers have moved to Manitoba this spring. Canadians worry about annexation but admit similar farming rights. Immigrants seek arable land and cattle country, with Manitoba’s spring wheat potential making it a rapid settlement area.
Prof R H Thurston of Cornell reports Wright brothers experiments in Dayton show a single pilot craft with 208 foot wingspan and 22 foot length. The curved planes imitate a pigeons wing allowing gliding in 11 to 27 mph winds. The longest unpowered flight reached 400 feet with stable steering and balance.
An audience gathers as a steam shovel digs a half ton of dirt. Two Irishmen discuss the impact on labor, one noting the machine takes bread from workers. A spectator quips about using teaspoons, and all laugh, accepting the machine as the solution.
An old Boston tale about Dr. Ellis and his white Panama hat highlights the quip easy as being “Calvinized” by brimstone. The piece also notes a Supreme Court injunction against Dr. Clark's Foot Powder and similar trademark actions by Allen Olmsted, plus Senator Proctor’s four word retort from Vermont about voting with Massachusetts.
A jumble of old clippings mentions a claim that Japanese lack cuss words, homeseekers tickets to the West from Great Northern Railway, and humorous exchanges about married life in a flat. The text also advertises Foot-Ease powder, Piso’s Cure, Laxative Quinine, and motivational quotes from various papers, with dated citations like 1900.
Medical Examiner notes Peruna as a proven remedy for catarrh and nervous exhaustion. Letters from Miss Blanch Grey of Memphis and Mrs X Schneider of Chicago extol its strength-restoring effects. Dr Hartman offers free educational material and guarantees systemic treatment to cure catarrh through Peruna.
President Alderman of Tulane joined the audience as Nicholas Murray Butler was installed as Columbia president after receiving the Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania. Alderman interjected jokes including a Louisiana negro anecdote, while rail excursion tickets were offered for western homeseekers via the Great Northern Railway on select July through October dates.
A collage of items includes a Baltimore American note on professional degrees, a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern line summer tours guide, a humorous exchange about an ambassador at court, a New Orleans Times-Democrat marriage anecdote, Great Northern Railway home seekers tickets to western destinations, and quips from Wheaton and Philadelphia Record about a man who played the Riana and went insane and neighbors’ reaction.
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