Aberdeen Herald promotes tariff talk and logging costs
The Aberdeen Herald argues about tariff effects on logs and shingles and notes logging costs in British Columbia versus Grays Harbor. It cites butter tariffs, dairy prices, and a broader reflection on national policy with a Tacoma Tribune editorial quote.
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Hoquiam Washingtonian
British Columbia
Puget Sound
Herald
A. J. Anderson
Aberdeen
Grays Harbor
Washington State Dairymen’s Association
Chehalis
Australia
War’s Multiplication Table and the Call for Armies
The Saturday Evening Post essay argues against expanding the U S standing army and navy to match imagined European powers. It suggests endless growth of armed forces offers no real security and endorses disarmament in Europe as the path to lasting peace and U S moral influence.
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Germany
Russia
Europe
Austria
United States
Saturday Evening Post
Treaty anniversary stirs interest amid war memories
The essay notes the Ghent treaty ending the War of 1812 is more than a century of peace and reflects on its significance. It contrasts waning enthusiasm with the milestone's enduring symbol of reconciliation and global peace.
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Ghent
Secord
Great Britain
City Manager and Commission Forms Move Local Government Forward
Seattle Post-Intelligencer analyzes how cities like Buffalo shift to manager and commission systems to cut waste, concentrate responsibility, and reduce elective offices. The piece predicts broader adoption, urging Seattle to reform for better service at lower cost amid rising municipal debt.
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Buffalo
Department of Public Instruction
Seattle
Seattle Post- Intelligencer
The British Aim and Motive in the German Conflict
The piece argues a unified German belief in their righteous cause across classes and roles. It notes that Germans from social democrats to aristocrats and business leaders share conviction, while it laments that the English also view their own war as righteous.
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Germany
Belief in the War Motives Across Nations
The excerpt notes German belief that England aims to cripple Germany as a commercial rival, while British masses see their fight as defending rights and justice for global security. The piece contrasts perceived war aims without quoting official statements.
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England
Germany
Great Britain
American Review of Reviews
Floating Islands of Japan Move Across Lake
In Yamagata Japan the Lake of Floating Islands hosts a shifting group of up to sixty islets. A study by S Kusakabe for Tohoku Imperial University shows currents drive movement, with a lake model reproducing behavior. Islands form from vegetable debris rising via gas bubbles, then reed growth stabilizes them.
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Yamagata
Japan
S. Kusakabe
Science Reports
Tohoku Imperial University
Test of a Toastmaster
The article notes that being asked to act as toastmaster is a mix of pride and fear for many. It argues the toastmaster should be brief to avoid upstaging speakers and wasting the audience’s time. A good toastmaster guides the crowd and reveals the next speaker without bias.
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Boston Globe
Do Foxes Eat Fruit and Fables Prove It
Walter Prichard Eaton argues that foxes are not strictly carnivorous and may eat wild grapes berries apples persimmons and other fruit. He cites observations of fox tracks under fruit trees and notes that even Aesop’s sour grapes fable foreshadows such behavior, challenging strict vegetarian assumptions.
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Aesope
Aesop
Virginia
Walter Prichard Eaton
Harper’s Magazine
A Famous Warhorse Copenhagen Buried at Strathfieldsage
An inscription marks the grave of Copenhagen at Strathfieldsage Wellington's famed charger died in 1835 at twenty seven buried with military honors. He was grandson of Eclipse and Wellington paid 400 pounds for him. Wellington rode him from dawn to midnight at Waterloo.
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Strathfieldsage
Wellington
Copenhagen
Eclipse
Waterloo
London Globe
Specious Plea Aims for New Trial in Jury Errors
A defense attorney asks the court to grant a new trial alleging serious errors in jury selection. The defense contends twelve errors may have affected the verdict and asks the judge to overturn. The Louisville Courier-Journal reports the convoluted plea and potential impact on the case.
His Mistake
A brief Detroit Free Press quote contrasts a past vow with a remark about understanding a spouse better after marriage. The exchange highlights a tension between expectation and realization in a domestic moment.
Brock en specter at Omi Mountain sighted in Tibetan border region
Popular Mechanics reports Sir Thomas Holdich describing a Brocken specter like phenomenon seen near Omi on the China Tibet frontier. A sun shadow on fog appears as a colossal image of Buddha in atmospheric conditions.
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Thomas Holdich
Royal Geographical Society
Scientific American
Omi
China
Tibet
Buddha
Brocken
Varying Counterbalance for Heavy Lifts in Mechanical Design
A mechanical sketch explains a counterbalance system that uses four sectional weights. As the lifting top approaches vertical, staged weights rest on housing projections to maintain balance. The setup allows adjustable rest positions to stop at nearly any height. Additional notes mention metal ties replacing wooden ties in Swiss railways since 1881, with Swiss usage around 70 percent and current weights and prices for metal versus oak ties.
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Switzerland
Water flows two ways in flat northern Minnesota
In northern Minnesota a vast flat region causes watershed duality with some lakes discharging toward Hudson Bay via Red River and Rainy River to Lake Winnipeg and Judson Bay, while others drain south toward the Mississippi through a southern outlet.
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Minnesota
Hudson Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Red River
Rainy River
Lake Winnipeg
Judson Bay
Mississippi
To Make Paper Transparent Chemical Process Details
The Scientific American describes a transparent paper method using white wax two ounces absolute alcohol fifteen ounces and one ounce of other. The solution appears muddy at first but clears after a few minutes and the clear liquid is used. It also notes a Panama derived silk substitute from wild fiber plant blooms crossed with a cossipium species yielding finer texture with tensile strength about five times greater.
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Scientific American
Panama
Belling Rats Plan From Wireside Farm
A reader describes a scheme to trap rats using bells and live-catch gear, baiting a trap with a wire, capturing multiple rodents, and releasing them after fastening bells. The note urges repeating the process until no rats remain.
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Wiloin
Fish at Hand Substitutes for Meat in Menus
An article promotes using fish as a cheaper protein option with recipes such as potato omelet and boiled black bass. It includes a pepper and grapefruit salad and stuffed cucumbers with chutney and nuts, plus a humorous hospital joke about a patient asking to stand a loan.
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England
The Physician’s Life as a Moral Guide
A historical note on medicine’s duties and virtues. It urges physicians to meet violence with gentleness and slander with silence, embodying the Golden Rule in daily practice. It links empathy with pain to effective healing while warning resentment has no place in a physician’s mind.
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A. Stuart M. Chisholm
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