How Cyclones Form in The Oracle Of Cyclones
Lieut John M Ellicott explains cyclone formation using a waterscale analogy. Air replaces water to create a rotating column that forms from a hot rising layer, drawing in surrounding air until a center hollow appears and the cyclone moves from tropics toward coasts, wrecking ships and forests.
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John M. Ellicott
St. Nicholas
Ellicott Sys
Efurt
Ile
Jule
Tropics
Jole Syd
Ucklees
Europe
Automatic powder weighing and delivery machine by Shanker Bhise
A Bombay scientist develops an automatic weighing and registering device for powdered materials. The instrument uses a four hopper system with elastic bottom receivers on a horizontal shaft to balance and measure weight per unit, adjusting all bottoms simultaneously via a central sleeve mechanism to yield accurate measurements.
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Shanker Bhise
Bombay
India
Scientille Mericam
Hermit of East Lebanon Unveils Perpetual Motion Device
Samuel P. Fall of East Lebanon Maine has pursued perpetual motion for over 23 years. His latest mechanism uses a large pulley with tubes of quicksilver acting as floating weights. As the pulley turns the tubes extend and retract, automatically hanging pendant to reduce resistance. He seeks to balance weight to conquer dead center and describes a double cross using weights to transfer motion via the arms, all controlled from the central section.
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Samuel P. Fall
East
Lebanon
Mos Jtlow
Mr. Fall
Fall
Breath and smoke reveal how microbes travel between people
A Hospital London column explains how expelled air carries microbes, using cigarette smoke as a visible tracer. Sunbeams show saliva and dust particles shed by coughing, sneezing, or talking, illustrating rebreathing dangers in crowded towns and tenements and the potential disease pathways from mouth to mouth.
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London
Riches for Traders in the Philippines a Great Field for Enterprise
J B Gaylord surveys the Philippines as a vast trade field for Americans, detailing exports and imports dominated by foreign firms, with Manila as a hub. He notes sugar, tobacco and Manila hemp as staples, primitive farming methods, Chinese middlemen, and Spanish repression. He highlights virgin hardwoods, the fiber and sugar industries with growth potential, and the low cost, cosmopolitan markets under a hard climate and Chinese enterprise.
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Philippines
Maolin
Mfolo
Manila
Great Britain
United States
France
Japan
Germany
Spulu
Islands
China
Que
Barry Cone
Hancock's Grave in Ruins in Philadelphia Cemetery
Neglected condition of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock's vault in Montgomery cemetery, Philadelphia, with mortared stones failing and no inscriptions. A guiding vase marks the spot. across the river Gen. John F. Hartranft's monument contrasts with the neglected grave and a local movement aims to clean and erect a proper monument, possibly appealing to Hancock supporters.
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Winfield Scott Hancock
Montgomery Cemetery
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Hancock
John F. Uartranft
Garfield
A Married Suitor Calls On The Old Man
A young man arrives to press his suit with an old man who controls his daughter's marriage, claiming she loves him and wants the match, while the old man weighs the unusual request as a serious negotiation. The piece notes the daughter’s consent, the young man acting as her agent, and the old man’s cautious reply.
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Eich
Aaid
Uca
Chicago Post
Get There Tactic Confusion In Army Wartime Speech
A core phrase "get there" confounds a speaker describing military movement and tactics amid forward drive. The transcript notes repeated attempts to convey progress despite hunger and supply gaps, with soldiers and officers laughing at unclear planning while wounded return and morale remains strained.
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Lery
Woman's Heroism Amid War Fervor and Health Remedies
A montage of Civil War era valor and homefront spirit highlights Mrs James Houseweart’s recovery aided by Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People note the pills sold at 50 cents a box or six for 2.59, with medical endorsements from Chicago papers. The piece blends patriotic tribute with ads and brief quips from various publications.
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Megister-Gazette
Rockford
Ax Tech
Irps
Byron
Mra
James House
Bchenectady
N.Y
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