Danish guest performs on Iceland stage in Puck role
A Copenhagen merchant entertained Swedish friends at Ulvedalene park then staged a surprise appearance as Puck in a closed theatre. The episode amused the visitors who laughed at the portly performer in a skirt and fairy tail.
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Gopenhagen
Attenn & Performance
Ulvedalene Park
Plnying
Klan Penling
Alyedalene
Puck
Denmark
Iceland
Jon Sigurdsson
Vort Land
Scandinavian
Alaska
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Sweden
Norway
Guggenheims
United States
Twin Cities
Hydraulic Power and Smelting Corporation, Limited
Knut Tillberg
Ragnald Blakstad
Sweden in Review: Fires, Fertile Harvests and Rescues
News from Sweden reports Queen Victoria’s 49th birthday on August 7, baroness Adelina Cederstrom visiting, and P. M. Wickstrom donating 100000 to benevolent causes. A Brusafors pulp mill fire caused losses, while infantile paralysis cases rise in Nassjo Eksjo Helsingborg Hvetlanda and Alsheda. Emigration totals decline from 125? in 1910. Iron ore exports from Lu lea rise in July. forest fires threaten Jampland. Lund medical faculty backs confining habitual drinkers with expert review but opposes full reports. Fisherman John Pettersson, 49, recovers drowned bodies near Stockholm. he’s earned 56 from rescues. Crop yields improve west, with good hay and orebro grain quality despite need for rain. Soldiers fight fires along coast and endure heat.
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Victoria
Sweden
Adelina Cederstrom
Patti
P. M. Wickstrom
Stockholm
Brusafors
Marianneland
Nassjo
Eksjo
Helsingborg
Hvetlanda
Alsheda
Lulea
Bjorksund
University of Lund
John Pettersson
Iskar- John
Gottland
Smaland
Jamtland
Orebro
JamUand
Danish festival flower fines overturned in court
In Sonneberg on the German side, a Danish festival led to fines for wearing small red and white paper flowers. The superior court ruled the ordinance applies only to Danish flags and banners. Flowers were considered imitations of emblems, not Danish colors.
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Peder Mundson
Sjalland
Charles Gandrup
Copenhagen
Sondeberg
Daves
Norwegian trade hopes with new steamship line
In Trondhjem and Bergen businessmen back a Norwegian-American steamship line as key trade centers. Tarje Bjaaland died in a fatal runaway on a logging haul. Norway eyes military needs, a reserved fund, and naval tensions amid European clashes. Sugar prices rise steadily.
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Trondhbjem
Bergen
Tarje Bjaaland
Nils Heggtveit
Saaland
Tarje
Sognefjord
Norway
Spain
Taft
Europe
Constitutional Committee of the Startling
Storting
Hans Dysthe
West Toten
They Catholic | Be
Portable electric lamp on a reel like a tape measure
A Massachusetts inventor creates a portable electric lamp with a drop cord wound in a circular case. The globe can be dragged to any spot in a room up to about 15 feet, then plugged into the wall bracket for light. It suits homes, offices, stores, and travelers for reading or writing.
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Massachusetts
Novel climbing irons ease telegraph work in Kansas
A Kansas inventor designs a new climbing device for linemen that replaces strapped foot irons with pivoting semicircular iron sections and a stirrup. The rings grip the pole when the body weight is lowered, allowing the climber to lift the other foot for ascent. The system requires keeping the same foot uppermost to secure each grip.
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Kansas
Niagara Falls Energy Use Estimate Reveals 6 Percent Utilized
A recent estimate places Niagara Falls energy at 723,140 horsepower across electro chemical industries 126,000 railway service 68,200 lighting 36,400 and other industrial uses 64,100. The falls total energy is about 5,000,000 horsepower leaving only around six percent presently tapped.
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Niagara
Niagara Falls
Electro-Chemical Industries
Falls
Electricity in Chicago power use split for light and work
Chicago consumes vast electricity yearly with about 80 percent used for lighting and the remainder powering various operations. The note highlights the dominant role of lighting in the city’s electrical consumption.
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Chicago
Lights In Paris Lighting Costs Compared In Journal
Figures from Journal de l Kelalrage au Gaz show electric lighting in Paris costing more than twice as much as lighting by high pressure gas arcs. The comparison highlights higher operating expenses for electric systems in the period reported.
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Paris
Journal de l'Kelalrage Au Gaz
Wind powered electricity arrives in England farm windmill
English inventor J G Childs builds a 100 foot tower wind motor at Willesden Green near London. The device uses an automatic governor to face the wind and rotate, producing electricity with a low speed dynamo. It aims to power farm tasks and 300 lights at about one cent per unit.
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J. G. Childs
Willesden Green
London
Childs
Curious electric tricycle marks first American auto test
An 1889 electric tricycle, powered by a two pole motor and a six cell battery, reached about six miles per hour on level ground. Weighing roughly 300 pounds, it sparked a mild sensation on Boston street tests as an early American electric automobile record noted by Popular Mechanics.
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Boston
America
Boster
Electric railways and innovations noted worldwide
Japan reports 381 electric railways spanning 567 miles while Amsterdam trials a semi automatic telephone system. Innovations include a coal mine safety lamp, a timer timer device, new lamp sockets for fuse protection and a mine roof movement warning device. A New York inventor patents a portable miner’s lamp and a pocket tool for insulation removal from wires. A Scotch device cleans mine dust and a wireless telegraphy system avoids spark gaps.
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Japan
Amsterdam
New York Telephone Company
New York
Brooklyn Electric Company
Building a Home: Advice From Willony A. Radford
Readers may send questions to Willony A. Radford at 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill., for free guidance on building related topics. The article praises moving to suburban living and owning a home as a path to security, urging readers to invest wisely for long term resources.
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Wiliam A. Radford
Willony A. Radford
Weat Jackson Boulevard
Chinsgo
Wilose
Modern Suburban Cottage Shown With Plans and Price
An illustrated half tone shows a six room two story cottage suitable for a small family. It includes a porch across the front, a parlor and dining room connected to a vestibule, and a bath with a linen closet. The home measures 88 by 19 feet 10 inches and can be built for about 2700 dollars under favorable labor and material conditions.
Invention of the Sandwich Traced to 71 and 1758
The piece recounts a tale of the Earl of Sandwich from 1758 who ordered meat between bread to continue gambling hours, claiming he birthed the sandwich. It notes prior Roman origins as offula and questions the Earl’s primacy, suggesting the dish later popularized among gamblers in coffee houses.
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Earl of Sandwich
Jeremy Twitcher
Cook
Walter
Britain
Dreaming Office Boy Hears Roar of the Beachers
An office boy is described with a faraway look in his eye while someone warns not to wake him as he hears the roar of the bieachers. The fragment suggests a poetic mood or crowd noise echoing through a workplace scene.
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Nils Janssen
Neptune
Maine
Waldenstrom
Sweden
America
Lou Ynung
Ife
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