Scandia notes cancel Cook gold medal diploma
The Geographical Society cancels Frederick A. Cook’s diploma for the claimed north pole discovery. A Copenhagen Central station wreck injures no one despite a runaway backed train. Robert Svendsen fails in a 1600 foot aeroplane ascent after gusts. he escapes with light scratches as the machine is destroyed. Rev Ricard predicts Christ returns twice, prompting comic caution about next morning papers listing the departed.
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the Geographical Society
Frederick A. Cook
North Pole
Copenhagen Central
Robert Svendsen
Copenhagen
Ricard
Hillerod
Sweden News Roundup From Skogfeld To Malmo
The report cites two new infantile paralysis cases at Tillberga station, a forest fire insurer, and Holmsund bond sale totaling $600,000 with major banks. It notes Malmo’s 19,000 voters with 9,000 liable for taxes, prison reform talks, crop yields drought impact, a tropical heat wave, and robust French Scandinavian banking in Paris. It also covers public works, a 75th birthday tribute to Queen Dowager Sophia, naval maneuvers near Gothenburg, name changes ending in Son eased, a Karlstad Orebro crash injuring seven, vagrant-home efforts, a dog muzzle case in Malmo, and the drowning of Axel Hansson near Oresund.
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Tillberga
Skogfeld
Holmsund Stock Company
Sweden
Malmo
Board of Managers of the Prisons
Skaraborg
America
England
Iceland
Paris
Svealand
Gotaland
Norrland
Hessleholm
Gulastorp
Sophia
Ericksberg
Sophia Children’s Home
Gothenburg
Marstrand
Lysekil
Uddevalla
Fjalivacka
Stromstad
Nobellus
Wossner
Benholtz
Reimar
Olen
Karlstad
Orebro
Deaconess Institute
Bjorknas
Jarsala
Uppland
Sweat
H. Machnow
Machnow
Malmobus
Axel Hansson
Stockholm
Hornbak
Oresund
Grent
Hansson
Norway News Mixed With Labor Flare And Travel Tales
A Norwegian update notes an American family visiting Mosjoen to meet a servant girl’s parents amid a larger lockout. Hungary seeks 1,000 Norwegian miners while cadets go missing after an excursion. Real estate, fisheries, a new soldiers home dedication, and a milk price spike also appear with political labor clashes in Tromsø and Bergen, plus critique of schooling toward broader manual skills.
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Scandinavia
Mosjoen
Hungary
Osergen
Jarlsberg
Norway
Gordermoen
Kristiania
Holmestrand
Apeerra
Kaiser Wilhelm
Framnas
Sogn
Fridtjof
Feidtiof
Bergen
Socialista
Korow
M. Halvorson
Alfred Erickson
Storting
Sanitary substitute cups urged as public drinking cup banned
Chicago health department issues bulletin on substituting for public drinking vessels. Includes paper cup diagram and advice to carry collapsible metal cups in a case. Reports decline in contagious diseases in first week of July but typhoid and scarlet fever rise, with Englewood milk as typhoid source.
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Illinois
Chicago Eclty Health Department
Englewood
Near-Surface Ore Deposits Question Wealth Depths
Experts argue that most ore deposits are shallow and that deep mining yields poorer returns. Water-driven processes create near-surface mineral shells, while profitable veins rarely extend beyond about 3,000 feet, with nine of ten mines declining in richness as depth increases.
Latest combination silencer and bayonet for rifles
A disk type silencer blends with a bayonet by extending the silencer into a pointed extension. The disk cone retards gas and gives the exit a circling motion. The bayonet blade aligns with the silencer and the bullet exits just above it.
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Maxim
Colorless artificial diamonds on the horizon
Scientists have produced tarborundum crystals in a colorless transparent form surpassing the diamond in appearance. The crystals are still brittle and cannot be cut yet, but researchers hope to overcome this flaw, potentially making gems equal to diamonds and as cheap as glass.
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Inter
Black opal, sapphires lead Australian gem ranks
The Daily Consular and Trade Reports notes the black opal as Australia’s most sought after gem, found in Ironstone sandstone near Lightning Ridge NSW, with NSW opal values over 5.5 million since 1890 and Queensland output near 1 million. Sapphire ranks second, mainly in Queensland with yearly production about 75 thousand and total about 700 thousand. Other gems include emeralds, turquoises, topazes, garnets, rubies, amethysts, tourmalines and beryls with limited diamond output in NSW and SA. Pearls from northern Australian pearl shell fisheries are small but valuable in aggregate.
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Australia
Consular and Trade Reports
Lightning Ridge
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Arizona Residents Tout Cactus Needles as Graphophone Points
Arizona residents have discovered cactus needles or thorns can be used as reproducing points for graphophones, and officials forecast a large export trade as demand grows for this unconventional material.
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Arizona
Hammock Support Invented By Tennessee Man
A Tennessee inventor offers a detachable hammock support using two telescoping bars with A shaped uprights and pedestals. The ends distance adjusts, uprights tilt via brace rods, and the frame folds flat for storage or indoor use. A canopy shields the user from sun.
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Tennessee
Odd Inventions and Facts Across the World
A collage of curious statements notes maps in Paris, maple seeds germinating in ice, boxing gloves by a Philadelphian, sandpaper from port wine and stout, hair graying timelines, acetylene torches for fogs, butterfly color tied to air temperature, a collapsible boat by a French inventor, goldfish farming in China, and radium mining mentioned in South Australia, plus ancient mosquito netting origins and a Danish night radiation instrument.
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Paris
Parla Police
China
Germany
Russia
Austria
United States
Mt. Painter
South Australia
Caught in His Own Trap
Luke Edgerley, a meticulous farmer, discovers melons meant for a minister, a deacon, and a doctor stolen. He set traps and kept watch, but a deferential ghostly leapor, Sally the sleepwalking wife, and the hired men lead to a comic reveal as the missing cantaloupes are found in the haymow.
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Luke Edgerley
Luke
Deacon Smallhead
Bangs
Jack
George
Mr. Edgerley
Sally
Mr. Badgerley
Styles
After Dinner Speaker Quip Feeds Local Toast
A garbled exchange recalls a humorous after dinner moment as Hungry Higgins praises a meal and a bright house teeper jokes about being an after dinner speaker. The fragment hints at lively town banter and local figures.
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Higgins
Bright House
Practical Fashions apron design with dress protection
An apron pattern description explains a single piece cut with side darts under the arms, a deep yoke cut, and a large armhole. Fastening is a single button and buttonhole at the center back shoulders. Pattern 4830 comes in bust sizes 32 36 40 and 44 inches, requires 3 yards of 36 inch material for medium. To obtain, send 10 cents with name address size and pattern number to Pattern Department of this paper.
Infant cap pattern and paper pattern transfer tip
Instructions describe transferring a wet pattern to fabric for an infant's cap in medium size using a hot iron. Materials include linen, batiste, nainsook, lawn, or cross-bar muslin with fine white floss embroidery. Pattern purchase via Pattern Department with name, address, size, and pattern number. Also a brief town quote about brides and a note on proper handshaking from London World.
Leftover Food Sparks Creative Household Cooking
A young bride remarks on many delightful dishes from leftover food. She notes abundance after beginning to cook and explores using remaining provisions for new meals.
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Elnice
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Sanitary Drinking Cup
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