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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1906
Page
14
A heavy wrench dropped into the Whiting shaft of Calumet and Hecla Mining Co. never reached the bottom. It clung about 500 feet down on the shaft wall, with tests suggesting magnetism as the cause, a phenomenon studied by the Michigan School of Mines.
Ancient Persia’s Persepolis displays relics of the past including the porch of Xerxes and the Hall of a Hundred Columns. Winged bulls flank the grand porch while sand buries the hall and its lifelike sculpted figures. Bas-reliefs remain of extraordinary interest though none of the columns stand.
A giant shark weighing about 14 000 pounds spans 32 feet with a 15 foot girth near the dorsal fin. It became entangled in roughly 1500 feet of Net belonging to two Italian fishermen in San Pedro Bay.
Washington Hydrographic Bureau reports Atlantic waves average about 30 feet high and 40 to 48 feet in rough weather. They reach lengths of 500 to 600 feet in storms and travel about 10 to 11 seconds. the longest measured was about half a mile, with incomplete trailing data.
The article outlines tiny states armed forces with Monaco listing 75 carabineers 75 guards and 20 firemen. Luxemburg shows 185 gendarmes 170 volunteers and 39 musicians with war-time volunteer expansion to 20. San Marino enforces compulsory service yielding 950 men and 88 officers, with one 60-man company forming the army.
Newport Rhode Island September 22 Master Pembroke Jones Jr develops humor with his own funds and a check book. All his checks are numbered 23 though he says 28 is appropriate because it means it goes just as money usually does.
The Swiss Alpine Club cites 172 climbers dead in the Alps last year among 150000 tourists. Most victims were Swiss, with Germans next, few English. Also noted are Brittany wedding customs, flounder eggs, India’s prison rate and pupil growth, Belgium’s pubs, and global patents costs. Other facts cover potatoes, Vienna fountain power, Japan population data, and China coffin timbers.
Reports note eagles at 6000 feet while storks and kestrels reach 2000 feet. A lark and crows rise to similar heights. Generally birds do not fly higher than 1000 feet in these observations.
A Borneo native plant, nicknamed the clock plant, shows leaves moving in sunlit oscillation. One large leaf swings up and down every 45 minutes while two smaller leaves at the base pivot similarly, resemble clock hands as they shift in rhythm.
A clergyman sharing a cabin with a fellow passenger worries about valuables. He compliments his companion, then reveals his own valuables to the purser, fearing a slight. The purser reveals the other man has done the same, ensuring no offense is taken.
A history of eye strain and binocular vision notes that many people have stronger left eye vision due to daily writing posture. An optician explains right-hand writers often have the left eye more focused while working. He warns against national trends toward short sight as English sports discipline grows.
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