Life Aboard a 19th Century Navy Ship and Sailor Routines
An article by Mrs. Charles D. Sigsbee offers a vivid view of modern sailors life at sea. It contrasts flogging and punishments of earlier decades with current discipline, notes improved libraries, daily routines from reveille to taps, shipboard work, bathing, drills, and mending days. It highlights sailors leisure, pets as mascots, liberty rituals, and the social life aboard with visits from families and the enduring pride of a predominantly American-born crew.
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Jack
Gira
Charles D. Sigsbee
Sigsbee
United States Navy
Lock= Wood
Ozoicer
Geraus
Navy
Johnny Jones
Fother
Mollie Jones
P. S
Billy Brown
Uberty
Bunnie
Brer Rabbit
Jocko
Johnny
Billy
Empress Displeases Yuan Shih kai in Chinese notes
A native Chinese paper accuses Yuan Shih kai of disrespect toward the empress dowager and claims he spoke of her as an equal defying ceremonial norms in official mentions. The piece reflects court tension amid upheaval within the empire. The rest of the column revisits aphorisms and a note on the Senate Chamber’s history.
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China
Yuan Shih-kai
Mauna Loa Lava Flow Ravages Southern Slopes
Scientists report Mauna Loa eruption continues and a vast lava flow races toward the sea. The rapid, unpredictable lava destroys everything in its path as residents flee. Over 300 people are affected by the advancing stream and looming danger.
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Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Outburst of Mauna Loa Lava Flows Seen From Honolulu
Honolulu visitors report night scenes of multiple lava streams pouring from Mauna Loa, with fronts up to 150 feet high and speeds near 20 mph. The lava alternates between pahoehoe and a a types, as bright reflections light the sea and smoke obscures the mountain during day.
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Ple
Honolulu
Mauna Loa
Califor nia to House World Wide Animal Menagerie
A Pasadena promoter backed by Roosevelt support proposes a $500000 project to import animals from Africa and Asia for a vast Southern California park. A 700 acre fenced center would host acclimated antelope deer zebra quagga gnus and possibly elephants under strict laws and heavy fines to protect the collection for future hunting only in a planned remote reserve.
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California
Maj. F. R. Burnham
Pasadena
Roosevelt
Africa
Asia
California to house proposed center of huge game preserve
Indian pledge endures as Cherokee Charles Boling pleads guilty at Vinita. Judge Parker commutes jail time to allow Boling to tend a crop and provide for his family, with a December 1 appearance date to start the sentence at Vinita. The Kansas City Journal notes the camel influence on site selection.
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Panhandle
Texas
Oklahoma
California
Vinita
Charles Boling
Parker
Sallisaw
Boling
Court House
Kansas City Journal
Reformers and Old Lettering Talk Sparkling Digressions
A collection of quips on spelling reform and typography from several papers. The St Louis Globe-Democrat ponders cutting letters to save space, the Chicago Daily News quips about pin money and diamond pins, while the Baltimore American references Mrs Gadfly's intrusiveness during a library visit. The items humorously mix language, economy, and social observation.
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John
Chicago Daily News
Cowboy Bishop Tale and Nature Study Reflections
The article recounts Bishop Talbot, called the Cowboy Bishop, describing a mining town fundraising scene where Col. Burns organizes a hat collection using wheels and dollars. It also notes nature students debating animal behavior, including eagles shading young, nuts judged by smell, ostriches’ egg laying, and an elephant’s shy dance practice.
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Bishop Talbot
Wyontuz
Idaho
Congression
Col. Burns
Bishop
Aerial Butterfly Battle Authenticated in August 1889 Tale
The account describes a mythic butterfly duel dated August 20 1889 between Nojima and Kawasaki Mura amid a blue sky. Spectators watched a thousand people as wings clashed above them with casualties on the ground and the scene recounted as sensational fiction in a period voice.
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Nojima
Kawasaki-Mura
Prodigy of Wireless: Yale Boy Invents Carborundum Receiver
Malcolm Doolittle, 13, famed for wireless tests from his New Haven home, says he co invented a carborundum receiver used under private patents. He describes building a mast in his yard, linking to a local station five miles away, and communicating with steamers, while continuing to pursue science with notable intensity.
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Yale
Malcolm Doolittle
Doolittle
New Haven
Wireless Telegraph
Remarkable feat turns street paving into trolley line
In Cleveland a street railway company laid an electric line 2000 feet long atop pavement without ties. Poles were improvised from four by six inch planks built into gallows frames, each resting in a barrel of cinders and secured to a wagon with stone or sand. An injunction arrived before any car ran, despite four other tracks on the street.
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Cleveland
How to Open a Book by Gentle Handling
A guide from Modern Book binding explains holding a book with the back on a smooth surface and opening alternately at the back and front to center. It warns against violent opening which can break the back and damage the leaves, citing a connoisseur who damaged a volume by forcing the center open.
Lighted aviaries aid tropical birds in zoos
Keepers of tropical birds in zoos find that bright daytime electric lighting from six in the morning to six in the evening closely mimics natural daylight. This extended photoperiod helps birds feed normally, live longer, and stay in better condition despite northern winters.
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Zoological Gardens
Tropics
Rugs That Heat Apartments Innovative thermo pile fabrics proposed by C Herrgott
French inventor C Herrgott develops rugs carpets curtains and other thermo pile fabrics woven with a fine metallic filament skeleton. When connected to electric current these fabrics purportedly heat an apartment to a chosen temperature without traditional heating systems while remaining resistant to overheating.
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C. Herrgott
Waldole
Belfort
France
M. Herrgott
The
Technical World Magazine
Wireless telephony spans Berlin to Nauen twenty four miles
A report notes wireless telephone talks between Berlin and Nauen were perfectly intelligible with a 24 mile range and a microphone added to wireless telegraphy gear. It discusses electricity conduction by flames and hot air, coal types in India, Roc Springs Wyoming coal at 2.08 to 2.24 a ton with mining cost 55 cents, and claims a perfect vacuum as a true insulator while partial vacuums conduct better than air.
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Berlin
Nauen
Germany
India
Michael
Calcatta
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St Louis Globe-Democrat
Colonel
Bill
Nature
Saharan
Cathey
Poorley
Chicago
S Soap
Mushroom
Zoo
Lair
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