Polar explorers trace new south continent and Ona race
The Helgian expedition describes a perilous Antarctic voyage. Ninety men survive a year in ice aboard Belgica, survey Cape Horn waters, and encounter the Ona people whose culture they depict as primitive yet resilient. They name new lands Dancoaland and Brooklyn Island and outline plans for a future Arctic overland tunnel project led by Launnette with icemen and laborers to push toward the North Pole.
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South Polar
Nouth
Cape Horn
Tierra del Fuego
New York
Onas
Africa
Maiu
South Pole
Shetland Islands
Horn
Ee Bell
Dancoland
Emile Danco
Brooklyn
Ista
Alaska
Arctic
Launnette
Perpetual Ice
North Pole
New Ice Tunnel Plan Aims At North Pole Route
Captain Louis Laugnnette, ex French navy officer and Arctic explorer, proposes a transit tunnel of tightly cemented ice blocks in a polar region. The scheme would provide a constant route with supply bases at intervals, protected from plummet and usable year round.
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North Pole
Louis Laugnnette
Baquimaux
St.Petersburg
Montreal
Deronto
Lamnette
Curious Things Invented by Man in the Official Gazette
A jokeish survey of odd inventions in the United States Patent Office catalog. It highlights a perfumed fountain toothpick, a phosphorus lit cigar lighter, a dosed medicine quill, and a rail grabbing train anchor, riffing on urban 19th century invention culture and public inconvenience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Partaga
Henry Clay
Sys
Duluth
Alaska's Wealth Not Half Told By Curious Press
The article extols Alaska beyond gold, noting reindeer brought by Laplanders, early settlers and Bing cherry scale of fruit cultivation, bicycles with umbrella supports, and novelty devices. It mockingly surveys inventions, reformatories anecdotes, and future prospects while warning of deer loss, moose decline, and commercial greed.
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Alaska
Lapland
Klondike
Stokiet+ Oberla
Laat Hemeidom
Ruth 'Ierte
Alawkh- Ma
Goll
Uneke Sang
Russia
Sam
Wealthy Reformed Priest Anson Phelps Stokes Sermon Debut
Rev Anson Phelps Stokes the young millionaire preached his first sermon at St Pauls Church New Haven Conn Sept 16 He told a Yale professor he almost wished he were poor the inherited wealth being an encumbrance He fears public curiosity will follow him and seeks to prove his calling as a humble preacher while shedding his rich man image
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Anson Phelps Stokes
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Tan
Hood
Galvestan
Strikes and Lockouts By General Labor Official
Massachusetts labor commissioner Carroll Davidson Wright notes 60 percent of strikes succeed and about 6 percent of lockouts fail. He cites 1581 to 1491 counts with 316 successes and 583 faked, 154 compromised, 438 unrecorded results. From 1881 to 1890 there were 7140 strikes affecting about 3.5 million people, costing roughly $82 million in losses.
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Ol. Carroll Davidson Wright
Massachusetts
United States Commissioner of Labor
United States
Col. Wright
Kansas City Journal
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Andres
Neve Andres
Antarctic
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Asia
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Quent Antanas
Sust
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Leavin
Dunraven
Nortern
Polar
America
Prince of Momaco
Geographicalciery
Cleveland
Doubtlex
Elmira Reformatory
New York State
Brockway
Imitaova
Edmund
Ulysess A. de Moulin
Messrs. de Moulin
Eollege
Brockways
Fam
Thaye
Vanderbilt
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