Ancient Rome's Wines and Medicinal Salts Across Varieties
Ancient Rome offered nearly 50 wine varieties, many made with salt water and deemed medicinal rather than intoxicating. Falernian aged ten to twenty years. Myndian, Hall carnassian, Rhodian, Coan used salt water to aid digestion and were non intoxicating. Several terms describe mustum and derivatives, while Myrrhina links to perfumed wine used to dull torture.
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China
Adrian
Assum Creticum
Duke of Clarence
Edward IV
Malmsey
Aviation insurance in Germany faces tightening conditions
German life and accident insurers accept aviation risks but results are weak. Rates for lighter than air craft have risen, while heavier than air death coverage is largely refused. A Swiss insurer withdrew airman policies after losses, despite higher rates. One insurer paid nearly $12,000 on a death claim plus aircraft coverage after a crash.
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Germany
Aviation Assurance Against
Strange Carriage on Sixteenth Street Mystifies Residents
For five years residents of Sixteenth Street have watched a peculiar black-horse brougham with oak paneled doors and crescent air holes. The driver checks each side and peers through a front glass window, while the interior remains empty. Crowds speculate it might hide an invalid or odd creature, but repeated peeks yield only emptiness as the mystery persists.
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Shington
Sixteenth Street
Uncle Sam Burns Books Amid Printing Waste
A historical piece notes Congress appointed a commission to curb costly government printing. It finds tens of millions wasted and a practice of destroying books and storing vast volumes of public documents in basements and vaults, with daily millions of dollars of material mailed from Capitol offices.
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Vater
Congress
Sam
Capitol
House
Senate
Stray Yellow Dog Competes With Ambassador in Playful Chase
A yellow stray dog endears itself to Ambassador Jusserand of France after slipping through a crowd at a formal reception. The diplomat forgets etiquette, chases the dog, and with the footman’s help secures the animal, ending with the dog tucked under his arm as he reenters the carriage.
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Washington
Jusserand
France
Ani
Mal
Penguin Oil Industry at Macquarie Island Opens Remote Trade
Consul Henry D Baker reports a promising penguin oil enterprise on Macquarie Island between Tasmania and Antarctica. The plant uses 800 bird digesters to extract oil sold to Australia and New Zealand markets while noting shipping losses, lack of harbor, and weather warnings aiding regional shipping.
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Macquarie Island
Tasmania
Antarctic
Joseph Hatch
Hatch
Australia
New Zealand
Hobart
Mawson Antarctic Expedition
Henry D Baker
Drunken Monkeys in Congo Beer Trick
A Congo region letter reports monkeys crave local beer and are lured by it. Natives place beer to intoxicate apes and use the confusion to lead off captive monkeys dragged away by a chain of clinging primates.
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Congo
Africa
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Ancient Rome’s Wines
Aviation and Insurance
Ivy
Penguin Oil Industry
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