Zambesi Falls Inferior to Niagara in Scale and Form
The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi river in Rhodesia are taller and wider than Niagara but their water volume is less than that from the great lakes. Discovered by David Livingstone on November 17, 1855, they lie on the Cape to Cairo railway route and are bridged by a 650 foot span across a canyon.
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Victoria Falls
Zambesi River
Rhodesia
Niagara Falls
Zambesi
Africa
Niagara
Boaruka
Livingstone Island
Grand Canyon
David Livingstone
Cape To Cairo
Invention Lights Up Screen With Clavi Lux Display
A large audience in Queen's Hall Langham Place watched Thomas Wilfred demonstrate his clavi lux invention. A four section keyboard colored light on screen, merging blue green and red into shades and scenes. The display created pictures by building up colors and revealed separate hues when the performer interrupted the scheme.
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London Daily Mail
Queen's Hall
Langhame Place
Thomas Wilfred
Laurel Tree Linked to Louis XIV Sent to Turenne Dies in Paris Garden
A historic laurel from Fontainbleau, once part of Louis XIV’s gift to Marshal Turenne, dies in Paris. Turenne’s estate stood on today’s boulevard de Montparnasse near Mansard’s Facade. The wood will be carved into a statuette for the army museum at Invalides.
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France
Paris
Louis XIV
Marshal Turenne
Fribourg
Nordlingen
Fontainbleau
Turenne
Boulevard de Montparnasse
Mansard
Place de la Concorde
Leonold Flameng
the Invalides
Bromine Shortage Triggers Atlantic Sea Water Extraction
A global bromine shortage spurs an expedition to extract bromine from Atlantic waters as industry and medicine feel the impact. Ethyl gasoline development partly drives the demand, with chemical experts estimating 1700 gallons of seawater yield one pound of bromine.
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Atlantic Ocean
Cow Rescued From Eleven Foot Well Near Bridgeport
A 1100 pound cow that fell into an eleven foot shaft in Bridgeport Vermont hours earlier and left the rescue party resting at home managed to climb out by morning. The animal stood near the well mouth calmly chewing cud as the rescuers returned to continue efforts.
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Bridgeport
Sleep Years of a Transvaal Woman
A Transvaal woman named Miss Swanepoel is described as having slept for fifteen years after a lover’s death triggered hysterical catalepsy. She has remained unconscious most of the time, supported by food, and appears as a living skeleton.
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Miss Swanepoel
Transvaal
World's Brightest Light Lights Airway Beacon
The most powerful lighthouse ever built was lit for the first time to guide the Algieré Paris airway. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level on Mont Afrique near Dijon and flashes a 874,000,000 candle power beam every five seconds, visible up to 125 miles in fog.
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Algieré
Paris
Mont Afrique
Dijon
Sheriff's Sale Notice From Bristol Rhode Island 1925
A Bristol Rhode Island sheriff sale notice outlines an execution in favor of Marsan against Perry of Bristol. The document lists several parcels in Bristol including Coggeshall Street lots and a Chilton Street lot, with boundaries described and a sale date set at Bristol County Court House.
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Antone Rego Mello
Bristol
Rhode Island
Bristol Terrace
W W Perry
C E
Bristol R
Cald
Joseph A
Hammilil
State St
Alfred I. Morgan Tate
Mary Peters Solomon
Ward
John
Solomon
Warren
Rlg
Ute Cawte
Margaret Feely
John A Flynn
Fox Hill Cottage
Nehemiah Cole
J .A. Latham
Richmond ‘Street
Samuel McCaw
Bristol Phenix
John W. Church
Sheriff's Office
Superior Court
Holden
Providence
Comgeshal Arrest
Ae Tol
Coggeshall
Franklin
Wood Street
Beidtol R. L
Wilson
Coggeshall Street
B. R. Wilson
R. L
B Wilson
B. &. Wilson
Chilton Street
Palmesone
Wileon Homestead
R. E
Frank E. Waterman
Eet
Istol
Howine
Cael
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Zambesi Falls
Laurel
BE. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo, Ohio
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John W Church
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Morgan Fixecutrix
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Frank Lanzire
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State Street
Kathleen Marksby
Hope St
Martha Grahan
Felippo Teixeira
Court St
R. I
Archie H. Rounds
Tel
Union Street
Warren and Bristol
Railroad Ave
R. I. M. J. Cahoon
William A. Doran
Bay View Ave
E. W. Weaver
High Street
William W. Franklin & Co
Wood St
G. M. Wilbur
Constitution ST
Charles M. “Connery
Berton St
Snewring
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
BE. L.watson & CO
Weybosset Street
Robert J. McKay
G.W. Simmons
William Street
Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
Sheriff's Sale
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