From Near and Far Concerning Cocoa And Monster Teeth
A fragmented OCR story recounts how cocoa spread from the Americas to Europe via explorers and courts, noting early English and continental interest. It also describes WWI era aircraft and lifeboat tests, plus sensational reports on giant fossil teeth found in Sonora and a University of California inquiry into the discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Mexico
France
Germany
Ann
Austria
Louis Nev
Flueen
Maria Theresa
Chocolis Nee
England
Tegan
Sonora
Meaxien
Aus
Andni
Sete
Calewuhi- von
den Migls
University of California
Weelf
Heht
Cheese Contaminates Plating Bath Boosting Record Hardness
An Italian laborer accidentally dropped cheese into the phonograph record plating tank. The organic compound in the cheese hardened the copper in the emulsion wax discs, prompting manufacturers to add the material to solutions. This raises stamping efficiency and cuts production costs.
Egyptologists puzzled by buried tomb near Sakkara's step pyramid
Egyptologists perplexed by a newly found tomb near the Sakkara step pyramid in Memphis. The structure, attributed to King Zoner of the third dynasty around M00 TC, appears the third tomb of King Zower and shows rifling damage. Hieroglyphs promise evidence of an unknown period and reveal advanced writing for an era predating Cheppe’s Olga pyramid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheppe
Pyramid
Olga
Doctors' Strange Language in Injury Case
Judge Sir Alfred Tobin questioned a Westmingter County Court medical certificate filled with hard terms. A pocket medical dictionary failed to clarify Rombergism and related injuries, as the judge sought definitions for phrases suggesting progressive ataxia and drunkenness in the case of a worker seeking compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Tobin
Westmingter County Court
Medion Terme
Ron
Alfred
Bert
Mighty Waterloo Bridge story and a note on Trajan's span
The article discusses Waterloo Bridge’s age and contrast it with Trajan’s Bridge in Spain, highlighting stonework, granite blocks, and massive weights. It also mentions a lecture by Sir Ernest Rutherford at the Royal Institution on radium and alpha particles, noting their immense speed and scientific impact.
Ex-Convict's Relapee and Rise in Essex Land
The career of ex convict Alfred Weeber is outlined as he rose from a marine store dealer in Bermondsey to owning land in Essex and a stall in South London. He faced multiple counterfeit and theft sentences, retired in 1924, then fell on hard times and faced renewed risk of penal servitude after a Camberwell temptation. The Recorder warned Weeber that any further lapse would return him to prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Charles
London
Alfred Weeher
Weeber
Bermondsey
Keen
Essex
Reces
Camberwell
Ernest Wild
Hound
Prolific Young Writer Miss Ruby Ayres Sees Photo
Miss Ruby Ayres, who left school at 14 to write stories for friends, has travelled to South Africa to gather local color for a new novel. Her photograph now hangs in her old classroom with a note praising her early encouragement of story writing. she is famed as an extraordinarily rapid writer, sometimes composing 20 000 to 30 000 words daily on the typewriter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Ayres
South Africa
Miss Ayres
British Expedition Finds Ancient Byzantine Treasure
A British archaeological expedition near the Hippodrome in Blamboul Constantinople uncovers a weighty chamber of gold jewels a small pyramid and a statue of Venus within a tomb attributed to Justinian the chariot conductor. The site, led by Professor Casson of Oxford, is undergoing ongoing excavations amid intense excitement among scholars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Byzantium
Hippodrome
Blamboul
Constantine the Great
Egypl
Icca
Btambou
Sultan Aline
Casson
University of Oxford
Byzantum
Constantine
Delphi
Greece
Justinian
Bhaelk
Justus
Secoruncee
Venus
Halil Bey
Horace Walpole the Fashionable Bachelor of Strawberry Hill
A portrait of Horace Walpole, aged about 70, as a witty cultured recluse who shaped eighteenth century taste. The piece traces his birth in 1717, lineage, schooling at Eton and Cambridge, friendships with Gray and Pitt, and his life at Houghton and Strawberry Hill. It notes his vast private art collection, literary fame, and final years, ending with thought on his influence.
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Ponvers
Wiles
George IV
Horace Walpole
Walpole
Beachetors
London
Sir Thobert Walpole
George Ils
Homer Walpole
Lord Hervey
Sir Robert Walpole
Horace
Arlington Street
Pulteney
Earl of Bath
Countess of Walsingham
St. Jamies's Palace
George
George I
Eton
Walkux
Gray
Selwyn
Wea
Ireland
Cole
William Pitt
Lord Chatham
King’s College
Cambridge
Select
Christocret
Nobert Walpole Wos
House of Lorda
Earl of
Oxford
Amusne
Houghton
George Vortue
Titian
Guido
Vandyck
Kneller
Rubens
Snyders
Mainain
Empress of Mussina
Hermitage Palace
St. Petesurge
Morave
Twickenham
Strawberry Hill
Sunihat
Horace Munn
Pomfret
Ranelagh
Carteret
Wos
Japan
Eoon
Aminhjo Bachelor
Daniel O'Connell
Lord John Russell
Barry
Ninon de 'Endios
Duchess de la Val-lere
A'L
Berkeley-equire
Paterngeter Row
Superman
Gemip
Esmys
Celestial Empire Shipwreckes Love in Hong Kong Tale
In a Windjammer serial set on the Celestial Empire, Captain Roberta perishes in a typhoon while Jack Grenville, Dorothy Roberts and sailor Tommy are rescued by the Shanghai. Jack meets Dorothy in Hong Kong and begs to sail with her on the Amoy, but Dorothy’s friends ferry her away to stay with a Hong Kong contact. Jack later reunites with Dorothy briefly, then loses her again as she plans to sail to Sydney.
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Celestial Empire
Bandkok
Hong Kong
Roberta
Jack Grenville
Dorothy Roberts
Tommy
Shanghai
Victoria Bay
Grenville
Jack
Misa Roberts
Tome
Dorothy
Atewardens
Sallora
Jenar
Sanlora
Hong-Kong
Sydney
Amoy
Dorotity Hoberts
Sharp
Ross
Dorothy Febris
Jock
Eady
Compradore
C.garettes
Hhia Ahay
Mracor
Campradore
Aml
Hia Mecy
Conrad
The Strange Woman and the Peak Town Adventure
Jack Grenville and Tommy flee a dangerous lure as typhoon memories linger. A rooftop plan, a tram to Victoria Peak, and a tense quarrel lead to a street fight halted by a Chinese policeman. Friendship tests, moral debates, and a vow to stop arguing mark their uneasy truce aboard the tram to the peak.
Rights of Many Husbands' Defence League Emerges in Chicago
A secretive group calling itself the Husbands Defence League appears in Chicago with a motto Equal Rights for Men. It claims to oppose women taking jobs and house duties while proposing a weekly no-explanation night, a dollar daily allowance, male authority, and a push to restore play in marriage ceremonies.
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Twushand
Gecrecy
League
Iit
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Chocolatiers
Haus Theme
Mying
Thriee
Wireham Newton
Norfolk
Manston
Kent
Worthy Down
Hampshire
Cowes
Spain
Waterloo
Trajan's Bridge
Calas Julius Laver
Wilter
Windjammer
Battleship
S. G. Fielding
Hong-Kong Hotel
Chaster Iv
von Enrane
Victoria Peak
Queen's Road
Jirem
Tomy
Tow Street
Atepee
Guardian of Law
Tammy
Kher
Beck
Aaid
Devon
Moo le Fort
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