Gold From The Sea Treasure Hunt Across Deep Waters
The article notes hundreds of millions in gold silver copper and gems lie at sea bottoms awaiting recovery. It discusses diver limits, extreme water pressures, and the challenge of submerged air and equipment as inventors worldwide push to surface sunken riches from depths up to 466 feet and beyond.
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New York
Cubabio
Puget Sound
Santo Domringo
Santa Luere
America
Peru
Mexico
Spain
mét-Atlantic
Women congress delegates honor William T. Stead memorial
International Women’s Congress delegates receive praise from M. Pichon at the foreign office. They are hosted by President and Mme. Poltcare and attend senate sessions. Discussions cover education, social and hygienic issues with a focus on housing for workers. A resolution supports hotels for working women worldwide in Stead’s memory. Divorce follows Ho: New Neymoon.
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Paii
International Women's Congress
M. Pichon
Foreign Office
Mme. Poltcare
Senate
William T. Stead
Woman as Man's Natural Boss in Society Debate
Mrs. G Vere Tyler of New York argues that men are the natural slaves of women and were fashioned to be strong and intelligent for that purpose. She contends civilization enslaves women through sexuality and vanity, while women inspire men to action and should lead in domestic and public life. She cites Nietzsche and Napoleon to underscore her view that women produce and empower the workforce and family.
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New York
Napoleon
Queen Rejects Suffrage Plea From Royal Lady
London atmosphere surrounds an appeal by Honorable Mabel Gye and eight royal ladies to Queen Victoria requesting rescission of the rule barring household members from joining the militant Women's Social and Political Union. The queen gave no reply. Gye offered to resign, but the resignation was not accepted.
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London
Mabel Gye
Women's Social and Political Union
Miss Gye
Jealousy in Monkey Cage and Self Married Pair
New York Bronx zoo tale says Mistress Jealousy slips through iron bars causing Betty the five year old chimpanzee to break a leg after Susie shifts from a trapeze. In Beaver Pa a seventy five year old man and a sixty five year old woman held their own wedding ceremony with witnesses.
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New York
Jealousy
Bronx Soo
Betty
Baldy
Susie
Miss Betty
Blair
Beaver
Askelon Mercer
Sarah L. Calgrove
New Telescope Promises Wider View for Indiana University
Indiana University astronomy head W A Cogshall is constructing a novel telescope with dual reflectors. The instrument, two feet in diameter and six feet focal length, will offer a three degree field, larger than typical refractors, using a hyperbolic and a fourth degree curved surface for improved central definition.
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Ind
W. A Cogshall
Indiana University Department of Astronomy
Picture Taken Of Speaker Cannon In Washington
The veteran congressman known as Uncle Joe Cannon had his photograph taken again in Washington. The familiar cigar, once angled at 60 degrees, is missing, making him less recognizable to some observers.
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Washington
Joe” Cannon
Taft and Uncle Joe Exchange Poker Banter
In a playful exchange, former President Taft remarks you haven’t any cigar in your mouth, and Uncle Joe replies no deck of cards in my hand either, noting that he remains renowned as a poker player.
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Esther
Uncle Joe
Taft
Joe
Perpetual Motion Schemes Across Britain
London notes a nationwide rush to create a self moving engine with a year long wave of experiments. Inventors shelve models on shelves while many spend prime years chasing an unattainable dream. Wasted effort could have solved many mechanical problems otherwise.
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London
Great Britain
Patent Office
Alma Tadema Auction Draws Global Art Interest
London auction of Sir Laurence Alma Tadema works draws dealers and collectors from many countries. The sale includes 45 panels from the artist’s home, each panel by a renowned painter, and the notable autographed grand piano encased in ivory and tortoise shell with parchment signatures of great musicians of Tadema's era. Newsboys Arrested In Milwaukee Noise Protest.
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London
Laurence Abu Tadema
Alma-Tadema
Roosevelt Plans Arizona Hunt To Lose Belt Buckle
New Yorks Roosevelt plans a summer outing to Arizona to slim down, amid talk of hunting a lost tribe of Indians. Doctors note Navajo and Hopi communities, with some living as in earlier times, while others sell crafts or peddle blankets to tourists.
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New York
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Arizona
Doctor Goddard
Department of Anthropology
Museum of Natural History
Ariszona
Wallapais
Massachusetts
Boston
Cortez
Peaceful tribes of western Arizona intrigue visitors
The speaker notes that in western Arizona tribes, many men twenty five years old have never seen a white man. A visit by the colonel would be entertaining and instructive for them, suggesting curiosity about outsiders and potential lessons from such a visit.
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Arizona
Columbia Denies Diploma Over Swim Test Claim
New York Columbia University refused to issue Felix Metzger Rosenstock a degree at commencement unless he swam the pool length. Rosenstock claimed a skin disease named carpanserinus abmety. officials doubted the illness and kept the diploma withheld. The case drew humorless response despite the Latin explanation of gooseflesh from fear.
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New York
Columbia University
Felix Metzger Rosenstock
Columbia
Rosenstock
William Tell Outdone Aboard Oru ba Near Cartagena
On the steam vessel Oru ba nearing Cartagena Colombia John George Cunningham of Southampton a first cabin passenger forced a Jamaican man to stand ten yards away and tried to shoot a cigarette from his mouth He fired six shots before Chief Officer Green intervened and four sailors restrained him and carried him to hospital where Dr Morton judged him insane from alcohol He was put ashore at Colon in a strait jacket
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New York
Cartagena
Colombia
John George Cunningham
Southampton
Bam
Green
Cumingham
Morton
Cunningham
Colon
Girls Quit School Study Finds Not Abandonment of Education
A U S bulletin on Worcester Massachusetts girls shows most who leave school do so by choice or family pressure rather than parental money needs. Many had only grammar school levels, with figures noting 14 to 16 year olds leaving for factory work despite potential schooling.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Education
Worcester
Mass
Bulletin
Bride Is Saved By Walking In Atlantic City
Dr Sulman and nurses at Atlantic City Hospital saved 18 year old bride Mrs Freda Herman who attempted suicide by swallowing poison. A team of medical staff kept her moving for hours up and down the stairs before she was brought to a cot and stabilized. Her husband, separated from her, visited and a reconciliation was believed to follow.
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Atlantic City
Sulman
the City Hospital
Freda Herman
Landanum Fm
Pacific and
Arkansas Avenues
Dolson
Artist Thief William Dunn Dies While Caught by Crime
William Dunn, a New York artist turned burglar and highwayman, dies in Dannemora prison from tuberculosis. Once aided by the Salvation Army and Governor Dix for a release, Dunn’s art sold in the street but his impulse toward crime kept pulling him back.
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William Dunn
New York Salvation Army
New York
Dannemora
Ransom
Paul Ha Masz
SS Sylay
Cat and hippo near miss at New York zoo cage
In Central Park menagerie, keeper George Sichert calmed a hippo Caliph I as Louise the cat clung to the beast’s back. Louise escaped unharmed after the cat’s claws held firm while Caliph struggled. Days earlier Louise survived a near-eaten-by-hippo scare. Separately, brakeman C R McCauley was killed by lightning while atop a moving freight car in Landers New York, challenging old beliefs about lightning and trains.
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New York
George Sichert
Central Park
Louise
Lippo
Caliph I
Caliph
Bronshe
Richert
Sichert
Landers
N. Y
C. R. McCauley
President Wilson Faces Mumps To Greet Tumulty Kin
Washington report notes President Wilson bravely risked exposure to mumps to greet Joseph Tumulty Jr., son of Secretary Tumulty, who had contracted the illness at school.
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Washington
Wilson
Joseph, Jr
Tumulty
Woman Senator Defends Suffrage in New York
Senator Helen R. Robinson of Denver spoke to the Equal Suffrage League at the Astor hotel. The Denver senator, the only woman in Congress, rebutted stereotypes about women voters and officeholders and warned of strong actions if men tried to revoke Colorado women’s right to vote.
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New York
Colorado
Helen R. Robinson
Denver
Equal Suffrage League
Astor Hotel
United States
Senator Robinson
Man Victim of Bad Dream in Kansas City Fire
The alarm rang at 4 am as a fire spread in a packing house. Captain J F Pelletier of the insurance patrol led his squad, subdued the blaze, and watched the ruins. He woke with a wounded foot, realizing in his dream he had kicked the wall, injuring three toes.
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Kansas City
J. F. Pelletier
Central Avenue
Charlotte Street
Eleventh
Terrapins Greet Governor at Crisfield Farm
In Crisfield Maryland Tawes and Company terrapin farm hosted a demonstration for Governor and party. Four thousand terrapin heads appeared above mud as a dinner bell was rung by the watchman's wife, revealing a staged alarm.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Tawes and Company
Crisfield
Submerged Island Identified Near Lemnos as Obryasis
Athens officials identify a submerged sea bed island near Lemnos as the ancient city of Obryasis, submerged at the start of the 2nd century BCE, per government archaeologists. The find enriches knowledge of the Greek archipelago and its submerged settlements.
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Greece
Lemnos
Archaeologista
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