Signaling Mars by Mirrors Won't Be Quick or Simple
Paris cor respondent reports Professor Pickering proposes signaling Mars with gigantic mirrors and electric light reflectors at night. Camille Flammarion supports the plan, deeming it feasible with $10,000,000 and July timing when Earth and Mars form favorable geometry.
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W. H. Pickering
Mars
M. Camille Flammarion
Pickering
Earth
M. Charles Gros
Paris
Cor
New York Herald
Cobless Corn Experiment Promises Seed From Illinois
EB P House of Greeley Colorado received one seed of cobless corn from H J Sconce of Sidell Illinois. The seed will be planted and tended. The corn resembles primitive husk corn with each kernel on its own stem and enclosed in its own husk within a larger husk. The Illinois man eliminates the stem and aims to evolve a perfect cobless corn. Illinois Agricultural College supports the experiment and believes in its success.
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EB. P. House
Greeley
Colo
H. J. Sconce
Sidell
Ill
House
Illinois
Illinois Agricultural College
New Method Tests Lake Michigan Water For Weather Forecast
Major H B Hersey a Milwaukee weather bureau inspector proposes a three year experiment to forecast weather from Lake Michigan water temperatures. He seeks surface and 25 and 50 foot readings over three seasons to determine if lake water controls Milwaukee’s temperatures and enable long range forecasts.
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Lake Michigan
H. B. Hersey
Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Miwaukee
Monument to Adam Erected by Baltimore Builder at Gardenville
John P Brady of Baltimore, contractor and builder, has erected at his country house Hickory Grounds near Gardenville Maryland a Monument to the memory of Adam the first man. The design is a plain square shaft of concrete surmounted by a sundial with two opposite panels bearing inscriptions.
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First Man
John P. Brady
Baltimore
Hickory Grounds
Gardenville
Adam
Brady
Adam Pioneer Memorial Shaft Dedicates First Man in America
A commemorative shaft honoring Adam as America’s first man is unveiled, with a circular Latin inscription and remarks by Mr. Brady. He argues Adam deserves memorials as a pioneer and notes the idea of naming monuments for those who “never did anything” prompts this tribute.
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Adam
Brady
Eve
Famous British statesman Joseph Chamberlain career highlights
A compact profile of Joseph E. Chamberlain, a leading Unionist in Britain. It traces his rise from Birmingham councilman and mayor to president of the Board of Trade, his 1886 cabinet role, his reform agendas, and his later posts as commissioner in the United States fisheries disputes and colonial secretary. It notes his marriage in 1888 and resignation in 1908 over political disagreements.
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Joseph E. Chamberlain
Birmingham
Board of Trade
Government Board
Gladstone
Ireland
Lord Salisbury
United States
England
Mary Endicott
William G. Endicott
Cleveland
Garage for aerial craft at Philadelphia hotel
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia plans an aerial garage after additions are finished. The roof will host a roof garden promenade where air ships may alight and occupants enjoy refreshments. Roof facilities will supply power and maintenance for aircraft with on site mechanics available.
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Philadelphia
Bellevue-Stratford
Leipzig University to mark five hundredth anniversary
The University of Leipzig in Germany will celebrate its five hundredth anniversary toward the end of July. A thousandth session will be observed with a service at Pauline Paulinerkirche and a gathering in the new theater. Prince Frederick August of Saxony will deliver an address, with a fete champetre at Palmengarten and a historic procession. Gala performances and a large commers for 10,000 are planned, under the direction of the rector and professors.
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University of Leipzig
Germany
Pauline Paulinerkirche
Frederick August of
Saxony
Palmengarten
High Price For Church Pew At St Johns Washington
Mrs. Frank B. Vrooman daughter of General John Black of the civil service commission paid $3,000 for a church pew at St. Johns Episcopal in Washington. Officials say this is the highest price ever paid for a pew in the edifice.
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Frank B. Vrooman
John ©. Black
Civil Service Commission
William H. Taft
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Washington
Amateur Skippers Race to Find Offshore Carola
Commodore Leon ard Richards of the Atlantic Yacht Club plans a July offshore challenge. The yacht Carola will steam 125 miles from Sandy Hook and anchor, with amateurs tasked to locate her by standard navigational methods, sail around, and return to a finish near the Ambrose lightship outside New York harbor.
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Lees
Leonard Richards
Atlantic Yacht Club
Carola
Sandy Hook
Regatta Committee
Ambrose Lightship
New York Harbor
Diverse Notables and Landmarks Highlight 19th Century Profiles
A gallery of brief notes recounts Montenegro purchase of six German cars, a Bologna chair appointee barber turned linguist, MIT student Booker Washington Jr seeking army paymaster post, and Capt John Cummings exporting Kennebec ice by barge in 1876.
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Prince
Montenegro
Germany
Trombetti
Bologna
South
North America
Booker Washington, Jr
Booker T. Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John 8. Cummings
Bath
Kennebec River
Poets Colony Planned Near Fruitvale California
Henry Meade Bland a San Jose normal school teacher and Herbert Bashford have received an acre each from Joaquin Miller. They plan to build cottages near Miller's home at Fruitvale. Miller intends to establish a colony of poets and run a school of poetry.
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Henry Meade Bland
State Normal School of
San Jose
Cal
Herbert Bashford
Joaquin Miller
Fruitvale
Miller
Cannibal diet urged by Paul West in World piece
In a vivid satirical poem, Paul West cites Dr. Gowland Hopkins on nourishing food and turns it into a biting mock diet. He imagines consuming public figures from actors to bankers, urging readers toward a morbid meal where everyone ends up eating everyone else as a grim moral echo.
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Gowland Hopkins
Bonaparte
Hannibal
Dr. Hopkins
Drew
Substitutes For Tobacco Used By Sailors
Sailors on long voyages exhaust tobacco and seek substitutes. Tea and coffee are the best options, smoked in pipes or cigarettes though they irritate the mouth and nerves. When pressed, sailors burn rope yarn and bark from hoops of galley beef and pork barrels as a last resort, producing harsh smoke and oaths.
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Saillors
British Briefs Highlight Postwar World Oddities
Briefs report 154 London street deaths and 10 202 injuries last year. Complaints about bread cleanliness rise as bakers ship to consumers. North Melbourne votes to close 37 superfluous hotels with arbitration compensation. A war office note cites Tommy Atkins missteps like wearing caps crooked and cigarette behind ear. Bill Lang, famed long distance runner, now in Salford workhouse with a 9 minute 1144 second two mile record from 1863.
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London
North
Melbourne
Australia
War Office
Tommy Atkins
Lang
Salford
Lancashire
Taft Youths Turn White House Roof Into Playground
Charlie Taft and about fifteen classmates used the White House lawn for tag and scrub baseball then appeared on the roof via the scuttle. They slid down slopes behind chimneys while observers from the War and Navy Building watched. The Tafts were away that afternoon.
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Charlie Taft
White House
War and Navy
Executive Avenue
Taft
Optimists Club Call and Medical Mishap Tale
Chicago Rabbi urges a national optimists club to unite all citizens of every city while noting improving labor capital relations and global harmony. A May Success Magazine vignette recalls three doctors missing surgical items during appendicitis operations and ends with a weary patient joking about buttons.
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Chicago
United States
Tobias Schanfarber
R. A. M Temple
Success Magazine
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