Ghosts and a rocking cradle haunt a country house
In Hall se Hollow Ash, Mr. Cowley and his nephew discuss haunting rumors as four apparitions have appeared since the uncle’s arrival. They plan to probe the house while the ladies suffer dull days, awaiting Christmas in a stormy, haunted setting. The chapter continues with plans to sound walls and uncover the cradle’s mystery.
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Mr. Cowley
Maries
George
Charles
Mrs. Cowley
Mamma
The Dissecting Room Haunting at Dr Lee's Lecture
A medical student narrator recalls Dr Lee a shy uneasy physician haunted by a private murder tale. After a poison fatality during a private dissection the specter of a murdered man haunts Lee nightly. A headless body in the hall echoes the tale and foreshadows doom as the narrator flees with a cure for fear.
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Stalpel
Lee
Max
Lisa
Alllet
Dr. Lee
Air ship promise from English test sails to inventors
In London at the Crystal Palace Auguste Gaudron and Cecil Barth test a cigar shaped balloon craft with a detachable motorized platform for navigation. The craft rises and falls with ease and, on windless days, may reach 30 mph. future designs envision a 100 ft long balloon, four ten HP motors, and space for five people.
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England
Crystal Palace
London
Auguste Gaudron
Cecil Barth
Chicago Chronicle
Keep Your Children Busy For Happiness And Growth
A parenting piece urges steady, purposeful supervision of children's work and play to foster ongoing effort and personal improvement. It cites Emerson on discontent as a holy spur toward perfection, and ends with a reference to a bygone custom of matchmaking through a maiden’s Knight cap.
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Emerson
Prevention of Typhoid and Its Transmission Through Food
An article discusses preventing typhoid fever focusing on contamination routes water milk oysters and the stomach’s role in infection. It notes ice from rivers can carry bacillus HIV and emphasizes pure water, clean milk bottles sterilization, and cooking to destroy germs. It also mentions ancient scripts and Egyptian signs related to writing systems.
Curious Case of Telegraph Signals at Race Course
Electricity played a curious part in a lawsuit as a telegraph firm could not run wires to the race course. Operators in a hotel cupola read signals from the track via electric lights in hats of a carriage party. The scheme led to arrests and finally a $5,000 verdict against the detectives after years.
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Scientific American
Ancient alphabet revealed by Petrie in early Egypt find
Professor Flinders Petrie claims new excavation evidence pushes back the alphabet by about two millennia. He locates signs around 6000 B C showing early trade and a dim signary that spread from land to land, reshaping literary history.
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Tre Ancient Alpitaret
Flinders Petrie
Mediterranean
Egypt
Kindergartners to Learn With Randergareen Typewriter
A new Randergareen typewriter aids kindergartners by spelling objects to teach the alphabet. Designed by Newman R. Marshman of New York City, the device showcases a circular band with detachable Diecks forming type faces. The left hand rotates the band to align the letter with the striking hammer.
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Randergareen
Newman R. Marshman
New York City
Writing Machine For The Children With The Key By The Rod
A device described for teaching children to write by a horizontal rod key. Circular projections hold inking rollers that ink type faces as they rotate to align with a striker. A sliding carriage feeds paper and a hammer. Pictures linked to letters aid recognition. The disk can be replaced to vary pictures. Also suitable for writing business letters. praised for cheapness and simplicity.
Liquid air for blasting tested in Simpson tunnel
A British paper reported tests by A Larsen on liquid air blasting cartridges in the Simpson tunnel. Cartridges saturated in liquid air had rapid evaporation, giving a short useful life of about fifteen minutes after removal. Despite this, disruptive effects were comparable to dynamite.
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British Institution of Mining and Engineers
A. Larsen
Simpson Tunnel
Senses, Smell, and Electric Music in Antiquated Notes
A writer notes the growing artificial perfume industry may cultivate the sense of smell like color perception, while a London electrician demonstrates a novel musical instrument using electric arc lights to produce a two octave keyboard sound through arc lights in a shunt circuit. The saying that men make many enemies in society and women in actions closes the excerpt.
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Electric
London
W. Duddell
Duddett
Misa Margaret Horton Potter Publishes Third Novel
Current Topics notes that Misa Margaret Horton Potter, daughter of O. W. Potter, Chicago millionaire, has earned distinct literary success with her third novel The House of DeMailly. Born in 1881, she was educated by travel and reading. Her Sicily sojourn fed material for scenes in Louis XV era. Her earlier works include A Social Lion and Uncanonized.
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Harperst
Misa Margaret Horton Potter
House of DeMailly
Miss Potter
O. W. Potter
Chicago
Gertrude Potter Daniels
Sicily
Louis XV
Missa Potter
Cape Town Consul General Sees Boer War Trade Revival
Consul General Stowe predicts a postwar business revival in South Africa and urges American exporters to pursue new trade as Boer losses must be replaced. He cites $3,000,000 in mining machinery orders as evidence, but cautions that while demand will rise for many goods, cash to buy may be scarce. Boers remain impoverished and may be unable to purchase extensively for years unless British authority is toppled.
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South Africa
Stowe
Cape Town
Mascagni to Tour United States
Italian composer Pietro Mascagni announced a US concert season of eight weeks. Though he wrote many works, only Cavalleria Rusticana stands beside the century’s great operas. Born in Leghorn December 7, 1863, he rose from baker’s son to Milan conservatory student and prizewinning opera creator.
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Mascagni
United States
Pietro Mascagni
America
Cavalleria Rusticana
Verdi
Leghorn
Conservatory
Milan
Pesaro
Settled All Accounts at Kansas City Stag Party
A Kansas City stag party with forty guests each taking a satin wood casket of sweets home to their wives. The casket, costing eight dollars, served as a memento of the late night gathering.
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Kansas City
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