Big six day bicycle race opens at Madison Square Garden
Thirty two riders from teams in 14 countries start the week long Madison Square Garden event. Prizes total 2000 more than last year with focus on team records. Foreign entrants show strength as track is geared for speed and rapid laps.
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Verbo
Madison Square Garden
Adil
New York Sun
Co. W. Miller
Chicago
Bob Walthour
Atlanta
Alexander McLean
Scotland
Cough McLean
Oscar Babcock
New York
Oscar Almonson
Sweden
Frank Waller
W. 8. Stinson
Boston
John R. Dubois
Brockton
Floyd Krebs
Newark
Harry D. Elkes
Glens Falls
F. A. McFarland
San Jose
Cal
J. T. Colgan
Trenton
W. E. Dickerson
Beaver Meadows
Frank Albert
H. RK. Bleecker
Brooklyn
Cassar Simar
France
Jean Gougoltz
Karl Kaser
Germany
Fritz Ryser
Michael Frederick
Switzerland
Jean Fisher
Rudolph Muller
Italy
Hippolyte Ancoutrier
Charles Turville
Philadelphia
Louis Gimm
Pittsburg
Burns Pierce
Canada
Archie McEachern
Miller
Waller
Maya
McVachern
Tim Sullivan
Harry Elkes
Gougoltz
Forests and watersheds key to irrigation supply
The Minneapolis Times argues that preserving forests on watersheds is essential to keep springs and streams flowing, ensuring reservoirs for irrigation canals. A scientific start to conserving forests and water courses cannot be delayed.
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Minneapolis Times
Terrestrial magnetism and the energy of Earth and space
The article explores terrestrial magnetism and the vast, untapped energy of Earth and the solar system. It ponders tapping planetary and orbital energy via electromagnetic means, citing Professor John Terry and the Earth’s motion as a power source and imagining future advances to “hitch our wagon to a star.”
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Garrett P. Serviss
New York Journal
Jupiter
Earth
John Terry
Institute of Electrical Engineers
London
Ochiltree Quips Stir Historic Twist on Croker Sloane
Colonel Thomas I. Ochiltree complains about blamed stories as he jokes in the Waldorf with a friend reading about Croker and Sloane. The friend notes both refuse interviews, while Ochiltree says the difference is that one is denounced by the prints and the other renounced by the prince.
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Ochiltree
Thomas I’. Ochiltree
New York World
Waldorf
Croker
England
Ted Sloane
Sloane
Expedition to dig Ur of the Chaldees planned for next year
Funds totaling 12 500 including a 3 000 gift from John D Rockefeller insure an expedition to excavate Ur of the Chaldees under Dr James Edgar Banks. The team of three Americans will establish a base at Nasariyeh near Ur with 100 native workers and will issue quarterly progress reports. The project, approved by the State Department, aims to place artifacts at the Smithsonian.
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John D. Rockefeller
Orient
Mitcheir
Chaldees
Abraham
Sarah
New York Post
James Edgar Banks
Harvard
United States
Bagdad
State Department
Washington
Banks
Babylonia
Assyria
University of Pennsylvania
Hilprecht
Nippur
Smithsonian Institution
Sin
Dr. Banks
Nasarieh
Making of Christmas Toys Expands in European Markets
American toy makers claim annual U S sales of 15 to 20 million dollars with about one third exported. Iron toys from the United States flood England and tin toys grow abroad as exports rise. Domestic firms produce 5 to 6 million games yearly, many variants of checkers. Dr George T Monks of Boston has earned over 25 thousand dollars in royalties in 12 years.
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Starper’s Weekly
England
United States
George T. Monks
Boston
Winnebago Board Proposes Ban on Wisconsin Football
The Winnebago county board, per an Oshkosh dispatch to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, adopts a memorial asking the legislature to ban playing football in Wisconsin. The motion cites health and life dangers from current play, and was introduced by Menasha Supervisor Nash, who broke his leg in a game.
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Winnebago
Wis
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Nash
Menasha
Unpleasant Predicament If Battleship Kentucky Blown Up
The Washington Post ponders a hypothetical crisis for the sultan if the battleship Kentucky were to be mysteriously destroyed during a friendly port call in a Turkish harbor, highlighting a dangerous contingency.
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Washington Post
Kentucky
New Railroad in Cuba Planned by Sir William Van Horne
Sir William Van Horne arrived in Havana to announce a Cuban rail line from San Luis to Santa Clara spanning 335 miles. The syndicate will buy land by separate purchases, require about 5 000 workers, and import ties from the ends while Cuban timber supplies the rest. The project aims to develop sugar country with branch lines and local industries, with no subsidy expected and no hostile concessions anticipated. He denied meetings with Philadelphia capitalists.
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Sir William van Horne
Havana
Santiagoe
Santa Clara
New York Sun
Cuba
San Luiis
Santiago
San William
Galicia
Spain
Sir William
New York
Philadelphia
Aseptic pillows promise hospitalgrade beds in homes
The New York Post reports a double pillow with a longitudinal split and a central sponge pocket filled with drugs or antiseptics. Each germ has an antidote and each sore tissue its remedy, with camphor oil and listerine among favorites. Aromatic oils conceal odors, and sleeping may spread antiseptic vapors. Beneficial for coughs colds and coryzas in some cases.
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New York Post
America s Oldest Wall Unearthed in Mississippi
Antiquarians will study a vast stone wall unearthed in Claiborne county near Jackson Mississippi. Governor Longino and W F Swann of Biloxi each gave 100 dollars for a scientific inquiry. The four mile long wall is ten feet wide with symmetrical stones held by a peculiar cement. A fragment was sent to the Smithsonian. Theories place its origin in a civilization predating the Aztecs.
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Longino
W. F. Swann
Biloxi
Jackson
Miss
Claiborne County
New York World
Smithsonian Institution
Christmas Greens and Tradition From a Historic Note
The text lists Christmas greens such as holly mistletoe laurel ivy and pine. It notes yew and cypress as unlucky except in churches. Wreaths may stay until Ash Wednesday if they do not wither, and mentions the turkey as native to America but popular in England for five centuries.
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America
England
Poison factory near New York city guarded like vaults
A New York Sun editorial describes a factory making deadly poisons near Manhattan. It notes the facility is highly guarded, permits required for entry, and workers handle dangerous substances such as pure anhydrous acid and nitric acid with extreme caution to prevent disasters.
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New York City
New York
New York Sun
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Scranton
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