First International Car Sale by Telephone Reported
Garber Buick Company closed a sale in which A F Penoyer sold a Buick Country Club coupe by telephone from Saginaw to R C Morley in London. Morley Brothers Wholesale Hardware chief was in England to discuss a trip. Morley approved terms and ordered the car before boarding his ship. Morley spoke with Buick distributor Guy Garber after the agreement.
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Hat
International Telephone
Garber Buick Company
A.F. Penoyer
London
Saginaw
Michigan
R. C. Morley
Morley Brothers Wholesale Hardware Company
England
Penoyer
Morley Concern
Morley
Mocley
Guy Garber
Buick
Angels So Soon Flying Filovers and Wings Debate
A Washington Post opinion notes that if aerial filovers become as common and loud as landbased ones, permanent wings may be the only refuge for ordinary humans. The piece uses speculative tone to discuss future air traffic and human adaptation.
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Washington Post
Treaty at Fond du Lac Shaped Minnesota Mines
The account recalls the 100 year old treaty at Fond du Lac now western Duluth where Chippewa leaders granted whites rights to minerals. Copper visions faded while iron ore deposits proved vast, with iron first found about half a century later by intrepid prospectors. Historian W. E. Culkin notes the iron grant came before widespread knowledge of the metal.
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Wee
Lueh
W. E. Culkin
Duluth
Spelling Shifts From Napron to Orange Over Time
A historical note explains how the phrase Always wear an napron when eating an orange reflects older spellings napron and nerange. A misplacement by a reader unfamiliar with the terms led to napron becoming napron and orange deriving from the Spanish marihuana word.
Incomplete Inscription On Statue Of Liberty Book Of Laws
OCR fragment notes The Book held in the Statue of Liberty’s left hand symbolizes a Book of Laws. The inscription reads July IV MDCCCLAXVI and references a centennial French gift. It mentions delay in official presentation and dates tied to July 4, 1884 in Paris.
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Surt
Inc
Lelay
Paris
Rock of Ages Hymn Emerges From Late Night Debate
Wesley the great leader and Skymn writer and Toplady the Angecan churchman debated theology until after midnight. Toplady could not sleep and, in an exalted mood, began composing the hymn Rock of Ages. By dawn he had written a test hymn.
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Wesley
Toplady
Hivinn
Desert Explorer’s Eye View of Sahara Echoes in Book
Captain Angus Buchanan’s Sahara accounts describe vast untraveled sands that meet hills and barren plains. He notes a salt wall town, nine skylark varieties, Tuaregs as nomadic powers, and desert poverty renewing civilization’s gratitude, alongside a bank paradox about a nervous banker fearing a run.
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Vant
Phlas
Sind
Angus Buchanan
African Desert
Sahara
Captain Buchanan
Oases
British Museum
Great Desert
Wells Peculiar Tidal Freshwater Source Near Dengport
A freshwater well near the seashore south of Atlantic City shows tidal rise and fall. The well remains sweet and supplies town water, with levels shifting about sixteen feet due to incoming tides bending underlying clay strata and pushing fresh water upward or downward during ebb tides.
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Dengport
N. J
Atlantic City
Paul Schareman
Geographical Review
Ultraviolet in Pills Proposed by Medical Association
Reports from the British Medical Association discuss ultraviolet rays as a future medicine. Sun rays may cure rickets and cholesterol problems. a tasteless odorless alcohol carries activated radiated cholesterol to boost mineral absorption for bone growth.
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British Medical Association
Latin Alphabet Gains Ground Across Caucasus Printing
Reports from the Caucrnsus show rapid progress in substituting Latin letters for Oriental characters in native languages. In Baku the Entrol has doubled its circulation after switching to the Latin alphabet, while Armenia Azerbaijan and Georgia have introduced Latin in schools. Foreign residents favor the change as it eases learning local tongues.
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Caucrnsus
Baku
Olelty
Entrol
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Caucasus
Frock in Letter Mail Dresses Sent in Ordinary Envelopes
A London girl mailed a chiffon frock by ordinary white envelopes after folding it, testing a new post method. The sender paid the postage and the recipient was not charged any extra fee. The maximum permitted weight for a letter is two ounces.
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London
Eng
Estes
Water powered calliope echoes ancient engineering
Italian archaeologists describe a water powered calliope linked to Nero and the Golden House. The device used Egyptian invention brought to Rome before Christ to create air pressure for tones. Multiple keyboards controlled air valves in metal pipes through a string mechanism.
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Aericus
Nero
Rome
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