Jasper Park rises as wild Northwest resort frontier
The piece lauds Jasper Park in Canada as an alluring yet rugged resort zone following States actions to protect wild tracts. It highlights virgin forests glaciers trout streams and green valleys planned by developers and government, noting limited access inviting pioneer exploration and roving fur traders who opened the West long before explorers.
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Rocky Mountain
Jasper Park
Wild Northwest
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canada
Saskatchewan
Virginia
John Smith
Hudson's
Great Western
States
West
Verdun Visit and Pigeon Missive Under Fire
An American general tours Verdun as bombardment rages. Telephone links fail yet the colonel relies on a carrier pigeon while dust swirls and planes dive. The colonel jokes about the bird as the pigeon's flight steadies communications in the chaos.
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Verdun
War tanks use pigeons as messengers in battle
A wartime museum display shows French innovation with a balloon carrying 40 carrier pigeons. As troops move over occupied land a parachute drops a basket holding a pigeon and a metal message case with paper and ink. The finder writes a note, places it on the bird, and it flies back to the French lines.
Burglarproof Cage Installed for Cashier Access
The Vashon Water Power company installs a burglarproof cashier’s cage in a car house at an isolated district. The cage is iron clad with steel counterweighted doors and inner curtains. A hinged box in the curtain swings outward to trap cash, while a pebble with sliding cover sits above the trapdoor.
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Vashon Water Power Company
Electric Railway Journal
Indian Trails and Mounds Highlight Shawano Region
Wisconsin Archeologist editors Fox and Younger recount Native history around Lake Shawano and Wolf River. They detail ancient trails from Wolf to Wisconsin rivers, settlements along Mud Lake to Oconto, and mound sites near Pickerel Creek and Shawano City, noting Menominee legends and large mound groups.
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Lake Shawano
Wolf River
Wisconsin Archeologist
George R. Fox
H. C. Younger
Wisconsin River
Wiusau
Mudlake
Oconto River
Pulcifer
Bonduel
Cecil
Fox River
Shawano Lake
Pickerel Creek
Shawano
Wilder
Mud Lake
Wescott
Green Bay Street
New Kind of Bomb Found in New York Raid
Gotham correspondent reports police uncovered a cedar two compartment box bomb during an enemy aliens raid in New York. One side held explosive and the other a fulminating cap mechanism with a spring release. A steel pin could safe the device, but removing it would mean death to the next person who lifted it.
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New York City
Gotham
Tunney
Evaporation Cools Food In California Refrigerator
A Mecca California inventor J G Hill builds an evaporation cooled refrigerator that needs no ice. The wooden frame shelves burlap layers and a tin can with a hose sprinkles water over the surface to cool the interior.
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Imperial Valley of California
Rockefeller
Popular Science Monthly
J. G. Hill
Mecca
Salton Sea
Defying a Rattlesnake in Alabama Mountains
An old Alabama mountain man guards his jug of moonshine in a log hole and faces a rattlesnake at sundown. He defies the serpent with a glare and a retort as the tale notes the scene from a Washington Post item.
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North
Alabama
Washington Post
Champ Clark Delivers Epigram on Two Wrong Clocks
During the war session the House of Representatives demanded a speech from Champ Clark. He held up his watch and quipped that there were two clocks in the house and both were wrong, adding a famous epigram to his list.
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Champ Clark
Champ
Breeding Dogs with Wolves and Hybrid Fertility
The piece notes Darwin’s view that dogs descend from wolves and that various wolf populations produced distinct dog races. It cites historical wolf dog crosses in Russia and England for hunting and sport, and explains repeated backcrossing to dogs. It then references Dr. Alaric Behm of Stockholm who tested fertility of wolf dog hybrids bred together.
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Darwin
Globe
R. B. Townshend
Westminster Gazette
Buffon
Russia
England
Alaric Behm
Stockholm Zoological Gardens
Cruel Joke on a Squirrel
Reverend J G Wood recounts a naturalist tale of a squirrel with winter stores and a friend who played a cruel joke by replacing nuts with stones. The squirrel discovered the empty cache after snow was brushed away, leaving the joker remorseful for the cold hearted trick.
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J. G. Wood
Nursery Rhymes and Ballads Through the Ages
A survey traces nursery rhymes and child songs to early modern sources from 1580 to the 17th century. It lists tunes such as Sing a Song of Sixpence and London Bridge Is Falling Down with dates and notes on their antiquity and royal associations.
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London Bridge
Charles the Second
Tulse
Lucy Locket
Pussy Cat
Bess
Jack Horner
James the Second
Dentist Publishes Washington Tooth Health Claim
A Philadelphia dentist printed a Washington portrait with the caption that the first president owed his health to sound teeth. A Ledger correspondent notes Washington’s teeth were a noted physical defect and that he seldom smiled to hide decay.
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Philadelphia
Washington
Philadelphia Ledger
Potato polarity indicator for simple circuits
A potato can show positive and negative terminals by a green copper stain on the surface when inserting the current-carrying wires. If both wires are stained dark, the current is alternating. Substituting water for the potato also reveals polarity with bubbles forming at the negative terminal. avoid touching metal to prevent a short.
Time Is Money The Value Of Promptness In Business
A Kentucky youth loses a fortune by twenty minutes late to a business engagement, illustrated by the Christian Herald. The piece argues that time is valuable to all, and lateness harms both parties. It urges developing a habit of punctuality, citing great business leaders who keep time to protect their affairs.
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Christan Herald
Monkey's Love for Young Describes Maternal Care in Monkeys
The article outlines early monkey development from birth to six weeks. Mothers nurse, guard, and guide their infants, fleeing danger with babies in arms. It notes the mother's grief at a loss, sometimes to the point of death, and the shift to self-sustaining feeding as the infant matures.
Ancient Oak in Derbyshire Dowager Grounds Noted for Aged Stature
An old oak in the Derbyshire countryside is claimed to be England’s oldest with its trunk showing age baked into history. A stone seat beside it bears a Wilberforce diary note from 1788 recalling Pitt’s talk and plan to move abolition in the House of Commons.
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Derby
England
Wilberforce
Pitt
Vale of
Keston
House of Commons
French Drapery and French Taste in Fashion
A Parisienne asserts French taste is distinctly feminine and clear like the Gallic language. French art, industries, and creations embody curves, grace, and harmony, with France producing the most skilled hands, jewelry, clothes, and hats. Foreigners view French women as models of refined style.
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Parisienne
France
Being One's Self
A reflection by Philip Burroughs Strong urges each person to express their own highest self for the good of humanity. He argues that individual effort, even if modest, outweighs imitating another and that giving one’s utmost serves others more than partial acts.
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Earth
Philip Burroughs Strong
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