Latest Ideas of Inventors Pry Open World of Tiny Zeppelins
The piece lists several novelty inventions from around the early 20th century. It notes a 256 foot long pygmy airship built in England by American engineers with a wood frame, unusual compared with aluminum. It also mentions a self trimming hair comb, a safe angled ladder with mule-foot rubber tips, a Ken urotropin based egg producer, large scale stage scenery factories to misdirect Zeppelins, a dressing room auto, a hollow walking stick for medicines, and a New Jersey tool that converts between hoe rake weeder and shovel.
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England
New Jersey
Mother Love Betrayed Her A Struggle Over Abandoned Infant
A Greek native, twenty, arr ained in New York on abandonment charges after leaving her six week old son on the stoop of the New York Foundling Hospital amid poverty. Police arrest followed suspicious observers. The mother said she hoped to find work and wanted to ensure the baby was cared for. police later assisted with milk and food before both were taken to the House of Detention.
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Menly Anastor
New York
Anastor
George
New York Foundling Hospital
Mother Love
Blake
Rockefeller Gift Expands National Mental Hygiene Drive
The Rockefeller Foundation donated 22800 to widen the work of the national committee for mental hygiene announced at the annual meeting. Mental hygiene societies operate in eleven states led by Illinois with seven more states forming groups as surveys of insane care begin in seven additional states. Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, medical director, notes experts are welcomed in care planning and predicts no insane will be kept in county alms houses, jails, or poor farms as hospitals for the mentally ill and psychopathic care grow.
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National Committee For Mental Hygiene
Rockefeller Foundation
Societies For
Salmon
Aviation death toll in 1915 worldwide tops 107
Aeronautica reports the 1915 aviation death toll at 107, excluding war deaths. Among nations the American losses were 14 with 3 passengers. Other fatalities include Argentina 3, Belgium 5, Bulgaria 2, Chile 1, Denmark 2, England 28, France 29, Germany 8, Italy 6, Sweden 3, Japan 5, and Spain.
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Aeronautica
Argentina
Belgium
Bulgaria
Chile
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Italy
Sweden
Japan
Spain
Russian Capital Well Defended at Peterhof
At Peterhof fifteen miles west of Petrograd the main road to the Russian capital has been prepared for fighting. Gun emplacements and trenches line woods and gardens along the road with ladders and spikes in trees, and platforms for machine guns extend to sweep long stretches.
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Peterhof
Petrograd
Local Births and Social Notes From Piney Village
A baby boy blessed Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Durnford on Thursday December 28. The infant’s sister Elizabeth Budd has been seriously ill but is recovering with Dr. Hallinan’s care. Piney visitors N. Z. Tygesen and Chris Burk arrived from New York and Boulder to help with cattle work.
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Geo. Durnford
Hallinan
Elizbeth
Dan Budd
N. Z. Tygesen
New York
Chris Burk
Boulder
Woodmen of the World Elects Officers for 1917
At the regular meeting last Saturday Woodmen of the World elected officers to run Camp for the first half of 1917. John C. Budd named Consul Commander with A. F. Atwood as Past Consul Commander. Walter C. Yose as Advisor Lieutenant and Henry Budd kept as banker. Grover Trittipp as clerk Nels Christensen deputy clerk. John Bolinger as escort Frank Shipley watchman Jim Smith sentry Wm. Hawes new manager. Installation set with refreshments and timber-related plans, District Organizer John Pfisterer to visit aiming for 125 new members for Big Piney Camp 851.
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Woodmen of the World
John C. Budd
A. F. Atwood
Walter C. Yose
Henry Budd
Grover Trittipp
Nels Christensen
John Bolinger
Big Piney Camp
Work for the Geologist Steamboat Springs Ore Origin
The article discusses how Nevada's Steamboat Springs show how hot water from depth can deposit metals like gold and silver in ore veins. It notes that many ore bodies form from hydrothermal processes but also acknowledges sedimentary origins and metal transport by rainwater. It highlights the link between mineral veins and eruptive rocks as evidence for hydrothermal deposits.
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Steamboat Springs
Nevada
Arctic Expedition Attempt Recalled in 1914 15
A 1914 15 attempt by Rudolph Franke and Arthur Haack to reach Bradley Land failed due to ice. They sailed from Quebec July 4, 1914 aboard the 8. Guide with Capt. J. Bernier and wintered near Lancaster Sound after Haack died in a blizzard.
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Bradley Land
Rudolph Franke
Arthur Haack
Quebec
J. Bernier
Jones Sound
Etah
Baffin Bay
Lancaster Sound
Mr. Haack
Mr. Franke
Bernier
Edwin Swift Balch
Scientific American
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James Black
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Automobile Service
Camp Yard
Zeppelin
Mrs. Hook
Mrs. Henry Budd
F. A. Block
the Pioneer
Shorty Crail
Examiner Office
Episcopal Church
Albert Kunze
Kemmerer
Big Piney
Kunze
Kemmerer Hotel
James Mickelson
Cheyenne
Mr. Mickelson
Green River Valley
Mickelson
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C.A. Walker
Jas. P. Jensen
Jensen
Piney
Stanley
H. H. Moyer
Wm. Baldwin
Missouri
Woodmen OF World
Twichel
O. M. Twichel
Viola Wyoming
A. Pohjola Photographer
Wyoming
F. E. Curtis
Kemmerer, Wyoming
C. C. Grover Trittipo
George D. Harrahewton
Iowa
L. Elias Bennett
Big Piney, Wyoming
Glen Gros
Roberts Piano CO
Ogden
Utah
Ivan S. Jones
Eugene S. Plank
U. S
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