French Astronomer backs light signaling to Mars
Paris correspondent reports Professor Pickering's plan to use gigantic mirrors or electric light reflectors to signal Mars. Camille Flammarion backs the idea as feasible, preferring July timing for a triangle with the sun, Mars, and Earth for visible signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Pickering
Mars
M. Camille Flammarion
Pickering
Charles Gros
Earth
Mara
Paria Cor
New York Herald
Eric Doolittle
Flower Merronomical Observatory
University of Pensylvania
Siberia
Doolittle
Cobless Corn Experiment Reveals Seed From Illinois Pioneers
Greeley Colorado farmer P House received one seed of cobless corn grown by Illinois expert H J Sconce. The single seed will be carefully tended while the Illinois plant skips the stem and embeds each kernel in its own husk inside a larger husk. Illinois Agricultural College backs the project and foresees a successful cobless corn future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobless
RE. P. House
Greeley
Colo
H. J. Sconce
Sidell
Illinois
Illinois Agricultural College
Weather Forecasting Trials Using Lake Michigan Data
Major H B Hersey of the Milwaukee Weather Bureau proposes a three year program to study Lake Michigan water temperatures at the surface and at depths of 25 and 50 feet to improve long distance weather forecasts. He contends lake water drives Milwaukee temperatures and the research could yield reliable forecasts after substantial experimentation.
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Lake Michigan
H. B. Hersey
Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Miwaukee
Portola Festival Train To Feature Hotels On Rails
Promoters plan a hotel men on wheels train for the Portola festival in San Francisco during the week of Oct 19. James Woods of the Hotel St Frances aids the plan, with Taft invited to open the event and nations invited to send battleships for the Pacific Ocean celebration.
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Portela
Peetivalat
jBan
America
Europe
California
Congress
Chicago
New York
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
MIKADO'S BOWL FOR VASSAR AT COMMENCEMENT
Baroness Uriu and Vice Admiral Uriu of the Japanese navy starred at Vassar College exercises in Poughkeepsie New York. The baroness presented to the college a silver bowl gifted by the emperor of Japan. The bowl, twelve inches across ten inches high, features enamel and hammered relief artworks of wistaria chrysanthemum and the heron. Valued at 1000 dollars the bowl is a fine example of Japanese handiwork.
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Baroness Uriu
Uriu
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Japan
United States
Royal House
Doane Warns Against Loud Suffrage Call to Women
Bishop William Croswell Doane told St. Agnes school graduates in Albany that the loud suffrage movement is useless and harmful. He urged addressing legislators, warning that womanhood gains nothing from voting and loses dignity amid hysterical clamors.
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Doane
William Croswell Doane
St. Agnes’ School
Albany
N. Y
New Anesthetic Promises Comfort for Timid Patients
A telegram from Bucharest reports a new anaesthetic that calms timid patients without losing consciousness. The substance, a strychnine mix, is injected in the spine for lower body operations and in the neck for higher ones. Dr Bannyryall has taken some of the anaesthetic to London.
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State Department
Washington
Bucharest
Roumania
Bannyryall
London
What Every German Knows as English Drama
Washington officials grin at a London gossip tale about Anglo German tensions. A German embassy attache reportedly watched a play about England’s unpreparedness titled An Englishman’s Home and quipped the title should be What Every German Knows.
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England
Washington
London
Channel
Maine whale revival spurs swift yacht to hunt off Mount Desert
In Southwest Harbor Maine a new summer whale hunting industry emerges as John Stanley and sons buy the steam yacht Princess from Castine. The 72 foot, 215 horsepower vessel will be outfitted with bomb guns and used to pursue whales off Mount Desert rock. Whales are plentiful but the season looks uncertain with each captured whale valued around 500 dollars. The craft will tow the dead to Southwest Harbor.
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Maine
Southwest Harbor
Mount Desert Rock
John Stanley and Sons
Castine
Lewiston Journal
Notable Figurations Across Nations and Institutions
A miscellaneous aggregation notes overseas patrons and scholars, including a Montenegrin prince purchasing German autos, professors appointed to Baltic and Bologna chairs, Booker T. Washington Jr. seeking army paymaster appointment, historic Kennebec river ice shipments, Swedish honors to Dr Gustaf Andreen, Alger's New Year suits for Detroit newsboys, Henry Prevost’s Peru death, Burnham honored by the French Academy, and a Richmond couple nearing seventy-one years of marriage with active, daily routines.
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Prince of
Montenegro
Germany
Ines
Trombetti
Bologne
Barbér
South
North America
Booker Washington, Jr
Booker T. Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John 8. Cummings
Bath
Kennebec River
Oscar II
Gustaf. Andreen
Augustana College
Rock Island
Order of the North Star
Alger
Detroit
Henry 8. Prevost
Tima
Peru
Prevost
Sherburn Wesley Burnham
Yerkes Observatory
Lalande
French Academy of Sciences
Burnham
Walter T. Carpenter
Richmond
Ind
Mr. Carpenter
Friends’ Meeting
Carpenter
British Briefs and Oddities From Across the Empire
London records 154 killed and 10 202 injured in street accidents. North Melbourne voters close 37 superfluous hotels with compensation after arbitration. British Army notes Tommy Atkins risks and a cat solution to rats. A Salford runner, Lang, long past his prime, is housed in a workhouse. A humor piece recalls doctors misplacing surgical items and ends with a quip about buttons on a patient.
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London
North
Melbourne
Australia
War Office
Tommy Atkins
Bill
Lang
Salford
Lancashire
Amherst Professor Plans Balloon Signal to Mars
Professor David Todd of Amherst College plans a high altitude balloon ascent to seek signals from Mars using a wireless receiver. Accompanied by Leo Stevens the experiment aims to reach extreme altitudes before attempting any transmission while considering ground and atmospheric challenges.
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David Todd
Amherst College
Mars
Boston Dispatch
Leo Stevens
Earth
Todd
Mfe
Venus
Golden Age Fruitarian Club Formed in London
A new society, the Golden Age, forms in London to promote a fruitarian lifestyle for humane and hygienic reasons. It welcomes men and women interested in suffrage, aiming for social activities like bridge while advocating extended lifespans, with a medical reader claiming 128 as a possible age.
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London
Chance For Aeronauts Prize Attracts Belgium King
King Leopold of Belgium offers a five thousand dollar prize for the best treatise on aeronautics to be issued within the year. The award aims to stimulate research and publication in aviation science.
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Leopold
Belgium
The Umpire Forever Holding Firm on Calls
Poem excerpt praising the umpire who remains unshaken by praise or boos. It describes the umpire’s steady calls as balls or strikes, undeterred by crowds or players who vie for favorable outcomes. The piece, credited to W. J. Lampton via the New York Times, extols authority on the diamond.
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W. J. Lampton
New York Times
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Flammarion
Vassar
Gladden
Sciencexr
Dr. Buchanan
Indian Medical Service
der. Buchanan
India
Success Magazine
Amherst
Professor Doolittle
Aed
Sone
Fieyey
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