A Remarkable Dash Toward the South Pole
E H Shackleton recounts the Discovery expedition's aim to push Antarctic limits and reach as far south as possible. Capt Scott Dr Wilson and Shackleton describe depot voyages, crevasse dangers, dog deaths, scurvy, and a final return after reaching 82 17 south, 163 east, 420 miles from the pole.
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Royal Society
Royal Geographical Society
Engxland
South Pole
Scott
Wilson
Capt. Scott
E. H. Shackleton
Discovery
Army Tries Wireless Telegraphy on Connecticut Shore
Capt Leonard D Wildman of the U S Army Signal Corps and a detail establish wireless telegraph stations along the Connecticut shore. tests span Ocean Beach New London Fenwick Point Seabrook Guilford and Milford with Braun Siemens Halske gear claiming originator status for wireless telegraphy. Also reports a hunting accident in Curry county Oregon where Dr Cooper dies and buck fever is cited as mental aberration.
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United States Army
Electrical Division
Signal Corps
Connecticut
Milford
Fisher’s Island
Fort Wright
Fisher's Island
Ocean Beach
New London
Fenwick Point
Seabrook
Guilford
Braun-Siemens- Halske
Germany
Oregon
Dr. Cooper
Curry County
Portland Oregonian
Pull Down Famous Albany Ends an Era of London Talent
American tourists will soon search in vain for the Albany off Piccadilly as the historic residence of unmarried men of talent or title is to be pulled down. From Byron to Macaulay, Gladstone, Canning, and Napier, the Albany housed many great figures. Today actors and politicians like Arthur Bourchier, Beerbohm Tree, Claude Lowther, and Beau Brummell inhabit it, continuing a tradition begun when Lord Holland sold the house in 1770 to Lord Melbourne and the duke of York enlarged it into gentlemen's quarters.
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Albany
Piccadilly
London
Lord Macaulay
Byron
Lord Bulwer Lytton
Gladstone
Oxford
George Canning
Lord Brougham
Sir Charles Napier
Henry Arthur Jones
Beerbohm Tree
Arthur Bourchier
Claude Lowther
Beau Brummel
Lord Holland
Lord Melbourne
Duke of York
Yellow peony marks first blue rose dreamer bloom
A new yellow peony arrives in England after florists sought a blue rose. The compact plant bears a golden yellow blossom and was grown at Cranbrook in Kent, stirring excitement in the horticultural world.
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England
Cranbrook
Kent
Unconventional Black Hills Wedding Ended By Justice Of The Peace
An early Black Hills mining camp justice of the peace marries Amos Peabody to Mandy Thomas after a humorous misfit of statutes. The ceremony proceeds with jokey formalities, the couple vows to stay together, and they depart to their cabin to start life as a legally joined couple.
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Black Hills
Justice of the Peace
St. Paul
Amos Peabody
Amanda Thomas
United States
Mandy Thomas
Empress Eugenie and the Sedan surrender legend
A London Society piece recalls Empress Eugenie facing a failed plan after the Sedan news. Trusty Emile de Girardin urged a horseback abdication and regent title, but no fitting riding habit could be found in the Tuileries. The impractical costume doomed the scheme and the empire fell.
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Count d’Herrison
Eugenie
Sedan
London
Napoleon
Paris
Emile de Girardin
the Tuileries
Girardin
Thiers
Tuileries
Louis Quinze
Prince Imperial
Found They Had Lost It at the Bank
Yonkers Statesman reports a humorous exchange over a bank defalcation. The cashier left funds behind, prompting talk of a discovered loss and a mistaken belief about who needed the money more, ending in a playful jab about the scarecrow.
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Maria
Hiram
Yonkers Statesman
Hard to Forgive Cassidy Belvideres and Fred Mary Clash
The Boston Transcript notes Cassidy and the Belvideres harbor lingering resentment toward each other. Horton believes they get along but lack respect between them. Mary cannot forgive Fred for elevating her as more than she was while Fred resents her marrying a fool.
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Belvideres
Horton
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The
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Boston Transcript
Chaplain of the Tuileries Vanishes From Paris Society
Paris gossip notes ex Mgr Bauer once chaplain of the Tuileries who drew large congregations and preached at Notre Dame. He accompanied Empress Eugenie to Egypt and spoke at the Suez canal ceremony. After 1872 he left the priesthood yet remained a patron of art and literature and a popular figure among former imperialists.
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Mgr
Bauer
Tuileries
London Chronicle
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M. Bauer
Notre Dame
Eugenie
Egypt
Suez Canal
Guibert
Gen. de Galliffet
Green Turtles of Florida Feed in Deep Water Fields
Green turtles in southern Florida inhabit deep waters and feed on turtle grass. They cut roots to eat the lower blades, leaving the tops to drift, creating floating mats that mark feeding grounds across the seagrass beds.
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Florida
American ideas echo in French swindler methods
The New York Sun notes that French swindlers imitate American crooks. A common ploy involved a supposed indignant husband guiding a purchase to steal a woman’s money, then escaping as she recovers. An older trick used a boy swinging a pitcher to lure bets, with a man nearby signaling and profiting when the pitcher breaks.
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New York Sun
West
Bethlehem builds thirty two wheel car for heavy steel casting transport
Bethlehem Steel company completes a perfect 32 wheel car for internal use to move large iron and steel castings for a 12 000 ton forging press by Carnegie Steel. The vehicle uses 16 wheel trucks connected by bridge trusses and spans 66 feet 10 inches. It explains one casting requires about 325 000 pounds of steel and the process uses 40 ton open hearth furnaces.
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Bethlehem Steel Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Florida Fishermen Track Green Turtles by Ball Migrations
Florida fishermen describe green turtles leaving ocean pastures to river mouths for freshwater baths then rolling into grass and clay balls. They say the balls drift out with the tide and are followed by turtles, allowing nets to catch them at creek mouths.
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Florida
Sun's Chemical Rays in Disease Cure Debate
The actinic or chemical rays from the sun are the blue violet and ultraviolet rays with physiological action. Filson of Denmark first showed their value in treating lupus and tuberculosis of the skin. They have not proven effective in cancer due to shallow penetration.
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Filson
Denmark
Opal Found in Australia Worth $250,000
An enormous opal discovered on the White Cliff fields in Australia is estimated to weigh nearly a pound and measure eight by five inches. With skilled cutting it could rival the largest crown jewels of Belgium in size and value about $250,000.
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Australia
White Cliff
Belgium
Sardines and People Prompt Nebraska Poisoning
A Nebraska family fell ill after eating sardines, a Chicago Record-Herald remark likens sardines to people and warns that some sardines are bad. The report frames the incident as a caution about tainted preserved fish and public health concerns.
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Nebraska
The
Chicago Record-Herald
Record car description with immense size and weight
A new railcar measures six feet deep at center with 64 feet bolt span and lengths of 103 feet 10 and a half inches over couplers. It stands 10 feet 2 and a14 inches high and 9 feet 9 inches wide, weighing 196,420 pounds with a 300,000 pound rated capacity. Comparisons note a Krupp gun wagon at the Columbian exposition as a larger prior example, though with a lower capacity.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Leipzig City Regulation Forcing Residency Enacted
Leipzig city council passed an ordinance requiring city employees to reside within the city limits. Municipal services including water works lighting plants storage facilities markets pawnshops hospitals will be affected as the regulation aims to spur growth increase city income and concentrate conservative votes.
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Leipzig
Germany
Poison Action Mixed With External and Internal Effects
Nature seems to have provided that no poison acting externally shall affect internally and vice versa. The most deadly snake venom can be swallowed with impunity as stomach juice decomposes it, rendering it harmless.
Russia backs Manchuria railways with huge funding
Russia has invested hundreds of millions in Manchuria for railways a standing army to guard them and twenty million for the city of Dalny. The massive spending covers rail infrastructure military protection and urban development in the region.
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Russia
Manchuria
Dalny
Lou Dillon Aims To Break Her Own Trotting Record
Lou Dillon the five year old trotter who set a Cleveland time of 2.02% will campaign in the east this fall to lower her mark. Owner C. K. G. Billings and trainer Millard Sanders express strong confidence as Crescens holds the current 2:02.14 record and Alix has a 2:03% best, with Nancy Hanks and others noted in the field.
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Lou Dillon
Cleveland
East
C. K. G. Billings
Millard Sanders
Crescens
Alix
Nancy Hanks
Do Their Own Cooking With New Amateurs Appliances
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes bronze copper and silver plate cooking appliances for amateur cooks. Enthusiasm for Epicureanism grows as people seek better food and smarter cooking. Health culture and cooking schools push Delicate cookery and better food grades, with appliances aiding efficient supervision.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Dutch Drainage of Zuyder Zee Aims to Dry 600 Square Miles
A New York Tribune writer notes the Netherlands already dried Haarlem Lake by building a dike and pumping out the water. Now they plan to reclaim about 600 square miles of the Zuyder Zee at an estimated cost of 41 million dollars. The project expects 450 000 acres of land and rental income of 4.5 million dollars yearly. The plan proceeds gradually to shorten the marshy stage and health concerns are minimal as the land is coastal and accustomed to low elevations.
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Chicago
Haarlem
Holland
New York Tribune
Zuyder Zee
New York
Light and Heavy Brains in a European Brain Memoir
Dr Matiagta of Prague notes the heaviest brain found is 1820 grams in a 22 year old male 1.80 meters tall. Female brains rarely exceed 1500 grams with a 25 year old woman 1.50 meters high at 1500 grams. An 89 year old woman had a 1000 gram brain. Average male brain weighs 1400 grams and female 1200 grams for ages 20 to 59. Konstantinoff the Bulgarian novelist had 1595 grams and Smetana the composer 1250 grams. The average weight by occupation is discussed.
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Matiagta
Prague
Europe
Konstantinoff
Smetana
Heads of the Catholic Church Proscribing the Weed
The article notes popes who opposed tobacco use, from Urban VIII and Innocent V to Leo XIII, detailing snuff taking by Leo and excommunication threats near the Vatican. It mentions Innocent X issuing a brief on February 1.
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Urban Viiii
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Beginning of a Nebraska cyclone
A photographed scene from Scribner Nebraska shows a cyclone forming near a hot May afternoon. A heavy cloud rose suddenly, then a funnel descended and swept across the land destroying what lay in its path. Three other cyclones appeared as the photographer sought safety in a cyclone cellar.
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Scribner
Neb
Tobacco ban abrogated by Benedict XIII in 1750
The text asserts that the tobacco ban by Benedict XIII in January 1750 was abrogated for reasons of personal habit. It claims Benedict XIII and Leo XIII used snuff in large quantities and that popes since have remained silent on tobacco while personal use continued. It also notes Pius IX smoked in private spaces within the Vatican gardens.
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Benedict XIII
Leo XIII
Pius IX
Vatican Gardens
Wage Scales Noted for Professions and Trades
The document lists pay ranges with men at 1,410 to 1,440 for workmen, 1,468 for business men, professional musicians and photographers, and 1,500 for medical men and those whose calling implies university education.
Oregon Exhibit at Osaka Nabs Japanese Syndicate Purchase
Only American exhibit at the Osaka exposition is Oregon. The Oregon legislature appropriated 4000 for the purpose while Canada, Austria, and Germany contribute sizable aid to exhibitors. A syndicate of Japanese incorporation with 150000 cash capital has bought the Oregon exhibit.
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Oregon
Canada
Austria
Germany
Policy Pass Through Life Paper At Russian Border
An American traveler in Russia, lacking a passport, used a life insurance policy as identification at the czarist border. The border official examined the policy’s seal and signatures, then allowed him to pass, deeming the document sufficient to identify him.
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State Department
Washington
Russia
Scarecrow Roofs Replace Beach Clam Theft in Victoria
Scarecrows are placed on slate roofs in Victoria B C to deter beach dwelling crows that swarm the area. The birds drop clams onto roofs breaking shells and freeing meat, with roof slate often breaking in the process.
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Victoria
B. C
Hydroscope to Seek Sunken Treasures of Xerxes and Pompey
The hydroscope will soon be used to locate the lost fleet of Xerxes buried about 2300 years ago and the Pompey chartered ship carrying Roman art treasures wrecked in the archipelago 1950 years past.
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Xerxes
Pompey
Athens
Archipelago
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