Alaska Silent City Mirage Photographed in Sky
A New York Sun summary recounts the Alaska mirage known as the silent city. Willoughby, a California miner-turned-guide, claimed to have seen and photographed a floating city near Muir Glacier as atmospheric conditions produced distant mountains and tall office buildings, churches, and spires, though no humans were visible.
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Alaska
Willoughby
Caliornia
Muir Glacier
Professor Muir
Ength
Allves
Tie
Bristol
England
New York
True Story of Jack Horner Revels in Grim Past
The tale recounts a grim version of Jack Horner who pulls a parchment roll from a pie sent to Henry VII. An abbot hides deeds inside a crust, but Horner scavenges them mid journey, discards the pie, and the king suspects the abbot, leading to a royal punishment.
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Jack Horner
England
Henry VII
Whitehall
London
Old Maine Ensign Recovered For Naval History
The navy department received a flag used on the old battleship Maine when she was destroyed in Havana harbor in 1898. Recovered after the disaster, the bunting had been lost at Key West and will be sent to the Naval Academy at Annapolis for Memorial hall, the chief repository of U S naval history. The flag is nearly unrecognizable as a flag.
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Navy Department
Maine
Havana Harbor
Naval Station
Key West
Fla
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Memorial Hall
United States
Park Gift for Tree Study in Catskills
John R. Strong of New York City donates 100 acres of forest land and a summer home near Tannersville to New York State College of Forestry Syracuse University. The property adjoins Elks Park and features hard woods with hemlock and spruce. Development will begin at once and part of each year will be used for educational purposes. Sophomore classes will camp there for eight weeks each summer, conducting practical forestry work.
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John R. Strong
New York City
Catskills
New York State College of Forestry
Syracuse University
Elks Park
Tannersville
Scientist Creates Artificial Coal Through High Heat
Dr. F. K. Geguin reports a process that converts cellulose to peat in a few hours using high temperature and pressure, claiming nature would take about 7,000,000 years for the same transformation.
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F. KR. Geguin
Nature
Mother Wood Duck Delivers Eleven Ducklings To Water
A reader recounts watching a mother wood duck bring eleven ducklings from a high tree hole to a creek. She climbs to a sixty foot opening, retrieves each chick in turn, then leads them in a single file to the water where they swim and follow.
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Burroughs
Mother Wood
Lunas Mighty Peaks Describe Moon Mountains in Detail
A 19th century write up argues the moon is a great planet of mountains, noting 30 000 peaks on the visible face with heights from 2000 feet to four miles and ring shaped summits whose central depressions vary in depth and diameter. It explains how telescope grade reveals these ring mountains as conical forms with central depressions and diverse shadows.
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Moon
Lived With Bullet in Brain During Indian Mutiny
An account describes a loyal native struck by a bullet above the left frontal sinus. The bullet lodged in the skull and healed, allowing the man to resume duties. A year later he died after convulsions, post mortem revealing two thirds of the bullet embedded in brain.
Egyptian Justice in Ancient Courts
In ancient Egypt all court business was written to prevent influence by oratory. Accusers and defendants presented written statements of injury and defense, followed by rejoinders. Judges deliberated, then the president sealed the case with an image of Thmei, the Goddess of Truth, marking the penalty.
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Ancient
Egypt
Thmei
Lost Diamond Recalled From Childhood Tale
Olive Schreiner, author of An African Farm, recalled a family plaything they called the candle stone a bright walnut sized stone that flashed when held to light. Years after it vanished the siblings realized it was likely a very large diamond.
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Olive Schreiner
Africa
Safe-Blower's Bold Berlin Heist Foiled by Firepower
A Berlin thief drilled through a hotel ceiling into a money banker's office above, lowered a scaffold with an umbrella, and used oxygen and acetylene gear to melt a safe door. The bold method, aimed at accessing secured contents, demonstrated the danger to safes from advanced flame technology.
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Berlin
Servian Women in Society of Servia and Balkans
London Tit-Bits notes that Servian women are highly regarded at home and in public life. Women are companions to men, speak multiple languages, and study embroidery, music, painting, sculpture, and politics. men are responsible for unmarried sisters and etiquette favors elder siblings before marriage.
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Servia
Ian
Balkan
London
Legends Tied to Plants Through Blood and Battle
The article surveys plant legends linking flora to human blood and tears. It cites the anemone from Venus’s tears over Adonis, Mexico’s marigolds from victims of gold and cruelty, red clover and red poppies from battles, and Danish invasion myths naming Daneweed and Daneword, with the clustered bellflower connected to the same event.
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Adonis
Mexico
Waterloo
England
The President as national executive not lawmaker
The President has no role in making state or national laws. He carries out laws created by Congress, acting as the head servant of the people. To make laws he would need absolute monarchy. instead he executes the legislature’s decisions as defined by the constitution.
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United States
Congress
Russia
Turkey
St Sophia Name Truth Behind Great Church
The article explains Agia Sophia, not a saint named St Sophia, meaning House of Divine Wisdom. It recounts an angelic instruction to Justinian shaping the church’s designation and a boy messenger relaying the command. It notes the airship Schwaben flew 364 times before disaster and mentions lifeboats costing up to $5000 each.
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St. Sophia
Constantinople
Agia Sophia
House of Divine Wisdom
Justinian
Fatigue Toxicity and the Call for Shorter Work Hours
Medical authorities describe fatigue as a toxin affecting health and industrial output, fueling labor union demands for shorter hours. While women in industry gain emphasis for maternity safety, the note highlights household fatigue among housekeepers and mothers, urging simplifying living conditions and labor-saving devices. A worn-out mother is deemed irreplacable, and age is tied to a wife’s influence on her husband.
Fata Morgana and the Mirage Explained by Science
A celebrated Pata Morgana seen in the Straits of Messina is described as a mirage by a scientific writer. He notes mirage phenomena occur worldwide and compares it to vision through hot air layers above a stove or near heated walls. Young scientists are urged to verify the explanation.
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Straits of
Messina
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