Torpedo Tube Alignment Tested Aboard Maine
Series of experiments at the Brooklyn navy yard verified the Maine second class battleship torpedo tubes alignment and scale accuracy using a Whitehead dummy torpedo. Results showed exact aiming lines, with remaining tubes slated for testing soon. Plandering Old Egypt W. M. Flinders-Petrie laments monument destruction in Egypt and urges careful excavation and funding through the Egyptian Research Account to preserve provenance and context of artifacts.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Maine
Old
Egypt
W. M. Flinders-Petrie
Cairo
Counterfeit Note Recovered After Mice Damage
A $20 counterfeit note sent to the States treasury with a story of being kept in a cigar box where mice chewed it. The note was examined and found legitimate, while prior attempts and altered text suggested fraud. An aging German sailor owned the funds, later discovering the loss after waking.
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Che — States Treasury
Treasury
Ash
Washington
An Improved Clothes Drier Invented for Ceiling Use
A ceiling mounted clothes drier features a metal spindle with a lower catch, a movable tube and a horizontal carrying table with metal keepers. Wet clothes are placed on the drier, the arms swing into position and are secured, allowing the device to raise to the top. It can also be floor mounted, using vertical movement to save space.
Smallest living colt foaled in Hartford City 1889
The smallest living colt ever foaled in the United States appeared at Hartford City Indiana in 1889. Two days old at nine inches from mane to tail root and only twenty one inches high it weighed twenty seven and a half pounds. It was of the Shetland breed.
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Cuba
New York City
Philadelphia
City Hall
William Penn
M. D. Cartright
Ripley, Miss
B. S. Sanders
Indian Bay
Ark
México
France
United States
England
Germany
China
Central America
Adamsville
Mich
Hartford City
Ind
Mules Open a Gate at Pensacola
Prof Wilder recounts a quartermaster mules incident at Pensacola where a mule freed a shut gate by lifting the ball and chain with its head. After five mules entered, another inside backed away and kept the gate open for the first mule to lead its companions through.
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Prof. Wilder
Pensacola
Curious frog barometer predicts rain in Europe
A jar of water with a frog and a small ladder acts as a weather indicator in Germany and Switzerland. When the frog climbs onto the steps, a rainstorm is forecast, signaling a simple home experiment showing moisture changes.
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Germany
Switzerland
Imperishable Wood From Tonkin Forest Used For Coffins
A long ago Tonkin earthquake hardened vast pine timber into imperishable wood. Over time the material has become highly durable and is sold to Chinese buyers for coffin making.
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Tonkin
Anam
Man Adopts Glasses For Dog In City
A local gentleman notes his dog Dandy shows failing sight and visits an oculist who fits spectacles. The dog wears the glasses daily from morning until night without help.
The Phonograph in Newspaper Editing
In Pall Pall Magazine writers dictate to a phonograph. The cylinder goes to the compositor and the phonograph narrates the article for typesetting. It also reads the piece to the proof reader who marks errors.
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Phonograph
Pall Pall
Kant’s Simple Diet Exemplar of Frugal Eating
Kant the German philosopher favored the simplest meals in small portions. His modest fare consisted of a bit of fish or an egg with rye bread, reflecting austere daily nourishment.
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Kant
Choctaw Chief Burt Wilson Dies by Self Inflicted Shot
Lehigh Oklahoma territory reports Burt Wilson a Choctaw chief near Lehigh shot himself after expressing fatigue with life saying there was too much white man and the Indian had no charity. His death follows days of hardship and racial tension in the region.
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Burt Wilson
Lehigh
I. T
Fresh young stenographer charms hurried reporter scene
A new girl at a Chicago Times typewriting office decks the room with charm as a reporter dictates a police court tale. She interjects questions and gossip while typing rapid dictation and slips away to chew gum, promising to return to finish the story.
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Chicago Times
Miss Brown
Clarissa
Newspaper man Seizes Sheets and Finishes Story
A reporter, after collecting a few sheets, takes them and completes the tale with a pen, ending his day with measured resolve.
Patriotic quilt by Mrs McDonald wins first prize at Easton fair
A Centerville Patchwork by Mrs. McDonald is hailed as one of the country’s premier quilts. The two and three fourths yard map of the United States features detailed rivers, mountain ranges, and a silk stitched eagle, Liberty Bell, and Old Glory. The intricate design earned first prize at the Easton fair.
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Centerville
James McDonald
Starr
Queen Anne’s
McDonald
United States
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Easton
President Cleveland Urges Bond Plan to Restore Gold Reserve
The president submits a message to Congress withdrawing support for the Carlisle bill and urging immediate action to restore the gold reserve. He cites rampant gold outflows, repeated redemption of currency notes, and growing lack of confidence, proposing bonds payable in gold and limited to specific denominations to fund a sound national credit.
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Wasuixgtton
Congress
Carlisle
Legislative Branch
Treasury
Friends of
Aniver
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
State Banke
Simple hand over stomach aids sleep say physician
A Chicago Record account notes a doctor's sleep remedy. After a long day of activity, placing the right hand over the stomach helps calm nerves and brings sleep within minutes. He asserts this method has helped many patients and works better than several common tricks.
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Chicago
Leather from old hides finds new life in French method
Old leather is boiled and treated with hydraulic pressure to yield a greasy liquid. After sulphuric acid treatment and purification the product becomes a usable low grade oil suitable for various applications.
Rare and Readable News Snippets From Global Trade
Two caravans reach St. Petersburg carrying gold from Tomsk and silver from Kronsberg for the mint. A cooling device on the English steamer Norman pipes refrigerant air from roof vents to cabins. Tin production concentrates at Malay straits, with 36,061 tons in 1891. Portland civic leader Frank Dekum dies, having imported and released songbirds to enhance Oregon habitats.
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St. Petersburg
Siberia
Tomsk
Kronsberg
Straits Settlement
Malay Peninsula
Dutch East Indies
Banka
Frank Dekum
Portland
Ore
Germany
Oregon
Presbyterians Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary in East Liverroot
East Liverroot Ohio January twenty eight. A three day celebration marks the fifty year anniversary of the First Presbyterian church of the city. One charter signer remains living. Clergy from Iowa Pennsylvania Maryland and other states attend the event.
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East Liverroot
Ohio
First Presbyterian Church
Marshall
Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Talmage
Pittsburg
McGowan
Maryland
Mr. Milligan
Freeport
Curiosities and Social Notes From Early 20th Century Press
A miscellany covers Napoleon teas in New York fashionable youth clubs in Oakland a new guard for ladies purses a growing number of women preachers in the United States and a shift in Siamese wives hair practices. It notes a bath house in Orange New Jersey a joke about romance in library catalogs and local tidbits on hair color and social status in Greenland. A London tattooist and aBrooklyn burglary wave with a nervous guard clock are also mentioned.
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New York
Oakland
Cal
United States
Council of
Orange
N. J
Greenland
London
Brooklyn
Heights
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Cience
New Industries
Spair
Uncle Sam
Groves Cleveland
Executive Mansion
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