Madagascar Gems Spark Global Interest and Adventure
Madagascar emerges as a promising gem source with amethysts tourmalines garnets and prized rubies and sapphires from Ankaratra. The French governor general has provided samples to the U S consulate at Tamatave highlighting pigeons blood rubies and deep blue sapphires. A sea captain recalls a tale of a chief gifting a ruby the size of a hen’s egg but the procurement tale ends with a bold voyage and a chuckle over a bawling belle.
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Madagascar
Island of Mystery
Vasco de Gama
Cape of Good Hope
United States
Tamatave
Ankaratra
Ocean
Chicago
Iceland as a depot for wheat to Europe via Hudson Bay line
Iceland could host storage elevators at Reykjavik and a shipping link to Port Nelson as the Hudson Bay railway cuts grain haul to Europe by about 1000 miles. Open port window limits year round shipments, aiding western Canadian growers if the plan proceeds.
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Iceland
Canada
Europe
Hudson Bay Railway
East Asiatic Company
Denmark
Reykjavik
Port Nelson
Hudson Bay
Liverpool
Cotolene
Western Canada
Abe
Wildcat Oil Interest Surge Near Salt Creek in Natrona County
In Casper Wyoming, Natrona County experiences a record office workload as Edith M Oebuorn reports over 30 instruments daily for four months. Interest centers on Salt Creek and West Salt Creek with major filings from Casper investors and field expansions by Ohio Curtis New York firms and Duluth Wyoming Oil among others.
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Casper
Wyo
Edith M. Oebuorn
Natrona County Keystone
Gosper
Natrona County
Salt Creek Field
Township 34
Range 79
Wear
West Salt Creek
Delmonte
Ohio and
General Petrolewn
Duluth Wyoming Oil Company
Damis-On
Salt Creek
Ohio, Curtis and
New York
Addison and Pargo
ER Inventor Perfects Upowe Down Oil Device
Lander Wyoming May 5 Cliff Gale pioneer of geoline gauges for autos has patented an oil trap for flying machine engines. The device prevents oil loss during loops by trapping oil in the breather pipe, keeping the engine dry and preventing wiring and magnetos from flooding. Tests on a Hispano Suiza Curtiss model JMGH plane showed no oil on fuselage after twenty loops.
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Lander
Wyo
Tate Journal
Cliff Gale
Clift
Mathc
Tia
Fire Destroys Rig at Golden Eagle Dome
THERMOPOLIS Wyo May 45 Fire destroyed the derrick and drilling rig of the Wyoming Yellowstone Oil company at the Golden Eagle dome about 48 miles northwest of Kirby with an estimated loss of 45000 dollars. The cause is unclear though friction or no spark from drilling tools is suspected to have ignited gas flowing at about 16000 cubic feet per day.
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Thermopolis
Wyo
Wyoming-Yellowstone Oil Company
Golden Eagle Dome
Kirby
Accounta
Foley Kidney Pills Restore Kidney and Bladder Health
A citizen urged not to delay treatment for kidney and bladder problems. The ad claims Foley Kidney Pills restore kidneys to sound, healthy condition with blood results following the first dose.
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Aleep
Second Well Started On Owl Creek Dome
Willard Nichols and associates drilling at the Brooks place on Owl Creek are about 800 feet deep in a second hole. The first hole reached 1,008 feet before going crooked and abandoned after six weeks. They expect the dome to prove productive when the sands are tapped at a deeper level.
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Thermopolas
May
Willard Nichards and Associates
Brooks
Middle Owl Creek
Uinl
Rock River Launches Weekly Paper The Rock River Review
In Hock River, the Wyoming oil field's heart, Rock Creek introduces The Rock River Review a newly weekly newspaper now in publication.
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Rock River
Hock River
Rock Creesk
Wyoming
Rock River Review
Weather Report An Erratic Local Forecast Summary
Temperature around 68 degrees with 8 mph wind from the south and 57 at 5 40 pm and 30 at 6 00 am. Humidity near 68 percent with a 25 mph gust. Precipitation data unclear. normal yearly total around 4 449 inches.
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Saan
Helles
Train Bandit Bill Carlisle Buys Bond
Bill Carlisle, known as a train bandit, leads a bond purchase at Rawlins penitentiary as inmates buy Victory Liberty Loan bonds. He and Richard Shipp address convicts, with several others expected to follow their lead, and inmates funding bonds from overtime wages. Carlisle previously orchestrated two bold West robberies of Union Pacific trains and has served time, while curiously owning Liberty bonds.
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Rawlins
Victory Liberty Loan
Carlisle
Richard Shipp
Union
Curi
State Leader Seeks AM Bring Results
State leader pushes plan to bring results in AM sessions as House paints Sherman progress.
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Want AM
House Paints
Sherman Go
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The
Leader Publishing Company
Randolph Leigh Albert Hearst
Post Office
Cheyenne
Aest
Carey Avenue
Associated Press
Associated Pree Ja
Focal News
Wldcat
Wyomingite
Yellowstone Co
Owl Creek
Weather Report
William Kebe Broner
Groad ST. Hi, V. City
Mirrete
Field OF
Western State Oil & Land CO
Buck Creek
Rock Oil Producing Company
Lance Creek
Rock Otl Producing Company
Harvey Creek
Joseph Garst
Marvey, Mawley & Garst
Attys
Douglas
Hawley, Joseph
Garst, L. A. Whippie
Virtue and
H. Co
Arket Ee
Winslow Taylor & Company OF
Widener Bldg
Philadelphia
Sens
Stock Exchange
Bill Carlisle
Bond
McMurtry
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