Belgium's New Industrial Navy Aims for Global Trade
Belgium plans a peace navy of seven to eight state ships carrying Belgian goods rather than weapons. Ships will tour ports in Africa and the Americas to promote exports such as coal, iron, linen, lace, carpets, and machinery, hoping to open new markets and boost prosperity ahead of Liege 1903 exposition.
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Belgium
Porte
Liege
Europe
Antwerp
Congo Free State
Africa
China
Hainaut
Namur
Flanders
Brabant
Germany
Onentey
Mexico
Novel's naval fleets spark global interest and peace
The passage argues that the novel's concept is unique and doubt is cast about its effect, yet its progress will draw international interest. If successful, it could lead other nations more eager to expand trade than wage war to establish peaceful naval fleets.
Cruel work-at-home fraud warned by New Orleans lawyer
A prominent New Orleans lawyer denounces the work-at-home swindle as the cruelest fraud, noting post office efforts and repeated exposures. He recalls two local young women lured by a northern ad offering earnings of 1 to 26 dollars weekly by making artificial flowers for a small starter cost. The outfit and instructions were pitched as essential, promising rapid expertise and lucrative sales.
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Bunko
New Orleans Times-Democrat
New Orleans
Post Office
Fim
End of the Sun Coming Shortly Warns of Global Chill
A Norwegian prof and mathematician claim the sun is a burned out candescent globe nearing extinction within generations, forecasting a drastic cold. They argue heat must come from internal solar activity and solar fires, while observers weigh the reliability of such calculations against the sun’s long history.
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Barkendal
Mohn
Norway
Ocean
Outer Space
Earth
Pyramids
East Hiver
Abraham
Messrs. Barkendal
Atlantic
Beefstha k as a Civilizer by Henry Clowes
An essay arguing American beefsteak and wheat bread can civilize the world and steer future power. It posits Western meat and grain will influence Chinese and other nations, claiming diet shapes culture, morality, and military potential, with Beijing and global markets tied to a feast of prosperity.
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Henry Clowes
Nan
The Col one ls Cafe Dispute Over Actress Miss Biddard
A violent quarrel flared in the Hotel Rivers cafe over uncovering a famed feigned actress and playwright Miss Lilian Biddard who drifted to America by accident while reading a friend’s deck cabin tale. She was bound for New York and already plan ning other plays from manuscripts left at the Cecil. A troubling question arose about duties on gems before Sandy Hook.
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Rivers
Lillian Biddard
America
Vis
Paul
Beddard
New York
the Cecil
Sandy Hook
Thas Gems
Strange Sun Facts and a Melodramatic Shipboard Tale
An essay explains the sun wastes heat and a grand celestial scale, noting the sun as a boiling mass with no solid surface and long future sunshine. The piece shifts to a theatrical anecdote aboard a liner where colonels argue over a fiction about the London Melbourne star and a duel over honor.
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Colonel Bolger
Aurora Borealis
Colonel Boger
London-Meilbourne
Mosby
Ford
Bolger
Colonel Deering
Colonel Ford
Salt In Different Waters Yields Saline Totals
A report details evaporation yields of ocean waters from several seas. From Atlantic waters a ton yields 81 pounds of salt while Pacific, Arctic and Antarctic waters yield 1, 0.5, and 885 pounds respectively, with Dead Sea at 187 pounds.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
Antarctic
Dead Sea
Bonaparte's Home Site Described as Barn and Stable
Reading notes describe Longwood Bonaparte's home in Helena as a barn with the room where he died serving as a stable and the burial site marked by a grave machine for corn binding.
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Longwood
Bonaparte
B. ‘Helena
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