Dr Cook Plans Motor Pole Trip Against Antarctic Odds
Dr Frederick A Cook of New York prepares a motor car expedition toward the South Pole. He credits 1904 ideas from Captain B Qibon, notes no ship nears the pole, and describes new motor caravans able to traverse sea, land or ice at about ten miles per hour. He aims to start in two months.
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Frederick A. Cook
New York
South Pole
B. &. Qibon
North Pole
Oshon
Cook
Antarctic
Atlantic
Penitent Bathurst Publican Opposes Liquor Trade
A Bathurst licensee and Grand Hotel proprietor, Richard Kenna, denounces liquor, saying the trade corrupts society. He argues for ending licensed venders and cites crime, ruin, and poverty as effects while urging support for no license reforms. He notes personal hotel investments and hopes to endow libraries and aid licensed victuallers under no license Acts.
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Sydney
Bathurst
Sydney Morning Herald
Richard Kenna
Grand Hotel
Liquor Defence Association
Lessons to Farmers at Kawkesbury College
A winter class at Kawkesbury College hosts 71 students including two retired Indian civil servants with sons. lectures cover dairy separation, pig breeding, soil formation, and sheep breeding. Mr Hawksworth extols merino value, discusses climate suitability, and argues good environment yields better stock for profitable farming.
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Kawkesbury College
Sydney Morning Herald
India
Australia
H. BR. Alexander
J. Shelton
Marks
A. Hawksworth
Flemington
Homney
Ireland
Hawksworth
Pasteur the Chemist and the Birth of Modern Molecular Theory
A concise portrait of Louis Pasteur highlighting his early fame as a chemist rather than germ theorist. It recounts his work on tartaric and racemic acids, crystal differences, and the discovery that racemic acid is a mixture of enantiomeric acids. It notes his 1854 professorship at Lille and his enduring tension between chemistry and broader scientific discovery.
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Pasteur
Dumas
Scheuie
Chance
Gay-Lussac
Mitscherlich
Lille
Louis Pasteur
Preserving Milk by Carbonic Acid Gas Method
London inventor perfects storing milk in closed vessels by replacing air with carbonic acid gas. Macfayden notes excluding micro organisms keeps milk from souring. gas has antiseptic qualities and is harmless when eaten. Open pouring removes aeration if taste is preferred.
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London
Macfayden
Inventor Giara Demonstrates High Capacity Telegraph Instrument
Italian inventor ullia Giara unveils a telegraph device using an eight inch disc with eight symbol groups. A clock like needle selects letters numbers or signs, enabling multiple messages per wire and claiming near unlimited capacity and cheaper operation than postage.
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Ullia Giara
Giara
New Kaiapoi Dress and Jacket Styles Shown by Craighead and Berryman
Ladies' tailor made costumes draw crowds as Craighead and Berryman showcase the New Kaiapoi Dress and jacket weeds in vibrant colourings and patterns that won the field Medal at the Exhibition. Elegant dresses and coats, neatly fitted, attract discerning women seeking up to date fashion.
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Craighead
Berryman
Nine occupations still barred to women in New York census
The latest New York census shows nine jobs where women do not compete with men. The army navy fire brigade are barred by law and no woman has yet applied to be tramway driver telegraph or telephone line repairer teeper slater steam boiler maker or brass worker. The ad for ROWUSO claims relief for rheumatism gut sciatica or lumbago with a price of 2s 6d and ds 6d in stores and chemists.
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New York
Army
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Ryhe
New Zealand
Royal Mail
Monte Video
Teneriffe
Plymouth
Songariro
Papanui
Torakine
Paparoa
Ruapehu
Sal
Friedlander Bros
Lonsh Don
Cates
Monte’ Video
Tenotiffe
Anning iWell
Alaxwell Welln
Carter Welln
Kempsy Well
David “Well
t-Rio de Janiera
Gothia
Nicoll Bros
Insurance Company
Nigoll Bros
Islington
Sone
Kayé & Carter
Grain and Seed Merchants
Ashpurton
Vassa Ro
Christchurch
BES
Key
Ballantyne
H. C. Barrett
HALL
Yaouns Paper
Hereford Street
Ioen Moore
East Street
Ashburton
Ashburton, Waimate and
Oamaru
Ghermlate
Drazaara
Johnston & Barnes
Featherston Strout
Wellington
Keen
Rwrre Mange
Crobinson
Cargains
Coalbrook Dale
Westport
Coalbrookdale
Taos
Penitent Publican
Yan
Ayer
Dr. J.C. Ayer &Co
Lowell
Mace
U. B.A
Robinson
The
People’s From
Meddins. Onger
Burnett Street
Arcade
Asney
MOBEL
Betta
PBATW & O@., Ltd
Cashel Street
Arbitration Court Award
Cooper
Royal Foglish Stow
Cooper's
Sospér
Yedlander Bros., Ltd
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