Archie's Railway and Tray the Docks Dog Chronicle
A seven year old Archie Cowley runs a miniature electric railway in Dellwood Minnesota with a one tenth mile track built by his father, featuring a power house and stations. Tray the dock dog saves a drowning girl and doll, earning praise from onlookers. Passive anecdotes on readers’ cleverness and a toy card puzzle conclude the piece.
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Archie Cowley
Dellwood
Minn
Archie
St. Paul
Remarkable feats and inventions captivate readers at sea and shore
A British reader recalls George Pinkett the water cyclist who attempted to cross the English Channel on a self made tricycle from Cape Grisnez to Folkestone but was forced to abandon near Boulogne due to seasickness. He plans another try as a bold advertisement for his pluck. The piece also describes a cannon firing imitation using bottles and cards, a brilliant electric light for ships, Dr Prococei’s sunshine bactericidal work, a mine fire damp detector with twin spirals, and notes on the storage battery’s efficiency and future improvements for rail traction.
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Barnegat
Nat Herreshoff
Harper’s
George Pinkett
Pinkert
France
Albion
Cape Grisenz
Calais
Folkestone
England
George Pinkert
Cape Grisnet
Boulogne
Prococei
Proencci
Reconciled by the Dead and Family Breach Healed
A long feud ends after a message from a dead brother leads Mrs Franklin to reconcile with her sister Mary Kate. A visitor’s spectral warning convicts the two families, and a late talk among kin confirms the pact of forgiveness after decades.
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Hartfeldt
Michigan
Philadelphia Times
Leach
Corunna
Mr Franklin
Franklin
Mary
Kate
Brother Will Why Don’t You Accept Jack
Dialogue plays on acceptance of a Harvard record breaker in the high vault and a sister countering with a safety deposit style record breaker. The exchange highlights rivalry and preference for different record types.
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Will
Jack
Harvard
Sall
English firm launches feather shade designs with patent protection
An English electrical company introduces lamp shades using natural feathers dyed in colors and arranged in artistic flower and color patterns. Designs are registered, many created by a young woman whose innovative work yields a good income.
Incredible 250 Million Candle Power Lighthouse Light
A dynamo powered by a forty horsepower engine will feed an electric lamp with 7,000 candle power, claiming an illumination increase of over 35 000 times. The Fire Island beacon aims to light the adjacent coast and guide ships into New York harbor, a power likened to 250 million candle power compared with ordinary lamps.
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Europe
Fire Island
New York Harbor
Rochester
Infected Bullets Tested by Messner In Early Lab Trials
Messner conducted experiments with bullets deliberately carrying microbes. Discharged into gelatine filled boxes, bacteria grew despite heat and brief impact. Wrapped gear infected with bacteria also produced growths in the gelatine, showing contamination potential.
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International Compact
Messner
Little Ethel and Johnny debate Eve’s apple
In a light comic exchange two children discuss the biblical apple story. Ethel questions why Adam and Eve suffered for a single bite, while Johnny muses perhaps the fruit was green.
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Ethel
Adam and Eve
Johnny
St Elmos Light Describes a Seafaring Fire Phenomenon
The article explains St Elmo's fire as a beacon seen on ships during storms, forming a brush or star shape at mast tips or landward at gables or spires. It notes a hissing sound and electric nature, with sailors linking it to Castor and Pollux watching over mariners.
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Castor
Pollux
Sugar proves a muscle food says Dr W Harley
In proceedings of the Royal Society of Sireat Britain Dr W Harley reports self experiments showing sugar boosts work power. Fasting 17.5 oz raised efficiency from 61 to 76 percent. Seven oz with a small meal lifted from 6 to 8 percent. Eight hours 8.75 oz raised power from 22 to 30 percent.
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W. Harley
Royal Society of Sireat
Britain
Meeting at church to pray for rainmakers’ arrival
A Nebraska pastor announced a prayer meeting at the church tomorrow evening. At the same service a collection will be taken to defray the costs of bringing the rainmakers who have been successful in other parts of the state. The pastor urged a large turnout and the service will close with the doxology.
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Brethren
Nebraska
Chigage Tribune
Royal Baking Powder Wins Highest Award in World Expositions
The Royal Baking Powder is praised for greatest strength and purity, with a leavening power of 160 cubic inches per ounce, 20 percent above its nearest competitor and 44 percent above the average of others. Its superior quality, praised by women nationwide, drives sales beyond all other baking powders.
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Royal Baking Powder
Paris
Vienna
Chemical
Agricultural Department of
Washington
Spy in Their Camp Fails in Train Robbery Near Gorin
Four masked men attempted a hold up on the Utah and Colorado express near Gorin Missouri. A spy in the robbers camp alerted authorities and 15 detectives boarded the train. A robber was wounded in the engine attack, bloodhounds tracked two men who were captured, one gravely hurt.
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Fort Maprson
Iowa
Gorin
Here
Cap
Itis
Japan blocks Gulf of Tokio entrances with submarine torpedoes
Washington dispatch from Minister Dunn reports Japan has blockaded the Gulf of Tokio and Negaska harbors with submarine torpedoes. Vessels must enter or leave only with imperial navy officer pilots. navigation restricted at night. notices issued to American masters as authorities warn it is the most serious wartime disruption yet for foreign commerce.
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Japan
Gulf of Tokio
Washington, D. C
State Department
Dunn
Negaska
United States
Gulf and
Imperial Navy
Navy Department
Iowa and Midwest Patents Recap of Week
The week saw 314 U S patents issued with Iowa wielding nine and Illinois thirty two. David Lennox of Lennox Machine Co Marshalltown Iowa patents beveling edges on boiler iron plates while H Schneckroth of Holstein Iowa gains a patent for detachable neck and head covering linked to hats and coats. Printed patent drawings and specs can be mailed for 25 cents and inventors receive valuable information free. Nes Moines Sept 21 1894 Thomas G and J Ralph Orwig Solicitors of Patents.
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United States
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Missouri
Illinois
David Lennox
Lennox Machine Co
Marshalltown
H. Schneckroth
Holstein
Nes Moines
Thomas G. and
J. Ralph Orwig
Facts and Fancies From the News of the Day
Austin Corbin’s park in the New Hampshire mountains covers 25000 acres enclosed by a stout wire fence. A balloon sent up at Berlin by Arthur Bevere rose to 23000 feet, traveled 65 miles per hour for about twenty hours, then landed unharmed.
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Austin Corbin
New Hampshire Mountains
Berlin
Arthur Bevere
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Humane Society
New York
Hannah
Sambo
Robert Browning
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The
Santa Fe
OWA Patent Office Report
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