John J. Carty Wins John Fritz Medal Honors
John J. Carty, vice president of AT T, is added to the distinguished list of John Fritz Medal recipients. The medal, awarded by four major engineering societies with 55 000 members, honors notable scientific or industrial achievement since 1902. Past honorees include Bell, Edison, Goethals, Wright, Marconi, Westinghouse, and Kelvin.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
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Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas A. Edison
George W. Goethals
Orville Wright
G. Marconi
George Westinghouse
Lord Kelvin
Telephones speed up New York Stock Exchange quotes
A new telephone flash system speeds quotation services at the New York Stock Exchange. Telegraph stations at every trading post assign two quotation clerks to monitor bids and asks, connected to a central quotation room with operators and switchboards.
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New York Stock Exchange
Water firm deal moved by long distance talks
A roughly 33.5 million dollar transaction was concluded by telephone linking Lexington Kentucky Chicago and New York. The Lexington Water Company assets were transferred from Central Public Service Company of Chicago to Community Service Water Company of New York as stockholders met in Frankfort.
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Community Service Water Company of
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Telephone Facts Span Global and Local Networks
A wired world is described with plans for a Egypt to Syria telephone line and 1 150 000 miles of local wires in Connecticut. St Louis hosts 10 300 Bell phones twenty five years ago and now exceeds 212 000. Japan’s longest long distance call reaches about 1000 miles, akin to New York to Chicago. Bell System operating taxes for year ending June 30 1927 totaled 72 058 000.
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Bell System
Chinese Telegraphy and Chinese telex code system
The article explains how telegraphy in China uses a character based system without an alphabet. A 9,800 cipher code distributes signs to numbers transmitted by Morse. The 49 page pamphlet holds 10 series of 20 characters each with a number, allowing operators to convert received numbers back into legible Chinese text.
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China
Transatlantic telephone service links US and Europe
Rapidly expanding transatlantic telephony connects United States and Cuba with Belgium Holland Germany Sweden and Britain as 1927 audiences in New York and London join via live audio. Bancroft Gherardi of AT and T presided both meetings while Archibald Page of the British engineers praised cross Atlantic progress and the impact of electrical communication on civilization.
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Belgium
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Germany
Sweden
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Atlantic
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
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British Institution of Electrical Engineers
London
Bancroft Gherardi
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Institution of Electrical Engineers
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Blacksmith of Gretna Green Myth Debunked
A study by the Institute of France discloses Gretna Green’s famed blacksmith is a myth. The New York Times notes the legend arose from symbolic art in a tollhouse sign and wedding picture, not historical fact, though locals recall the motif.
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New York Times
It Is Always Daytime Somewhere in U S Territory
The text proclaims the United States holds a perpetual daylight as territories extend after the Spanish-American War. It notes Attu’s sunset pairs with Maine sunrise, asserting sun-up across North American possessions under the Stars and Stripes.
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Kaiser Wilhel
United States
North America
Attu
Maine
Eastport
Grand Manan
SAWS By Viola Brothers Shore
A fragmented humor piece notes that tears are a woman's defense and offensive tactic, while silence can be a woman’s boss. It satirically argues about speaking versus saying nothing in social life and relationships.
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Viola Brothers
Barbizon School and Its Rustic French Origins
Artistic Colony Barbizon near Fantohie Olean formed around a village school of artists. It emerged from clashes between clagsted and oromiantie schools in early nineteenth century. Jean Francois Millet and Théodore Rousseau were notable members who spent the latter life in Barbizon.
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Fantohie Olean
Barbizon
Jean Frovcois AlHet
Merre Btienne
Theodore Rousseau
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Mottier Cook Book Quote Improves Life Attitude
A fragment notes a quotation about thoughts shaping happiness and benevolence. It cites Marcus Aurelius and a verse attributed to Gortha, praising joy in others and the merit of their pleasures. The line hints at a moral reflection rather than a narrative event.
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Gortha
Fresh shrimp salad and desserts from a home cook book
A set of simple recipes includes a shrimp salad using chilled prawns served on lettuce with oil vinegar Worcestershire and green onion. crisp cookies with butter flour sugar and spices. apple snow with lemon and egg whites. and chicken chartreuse with gelatin stock cream egg yolk and mold setting.
Sun to Grow Cold After 12 Million Years
Des Moines Register notes scientists warn the sun will become cold in about 12 million years. The item frames worry as a distant, cosmic concern for readers with little else to fret about.
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Salt of the Earth evaporated oceans leave 225 foot salt layer
A claim that complete ocean evaporation would leave a 225 foot thick layer of salt is presented as a curious fact about Earth's geology and chemical history, highlighting how climate and water cycles shape mineral deposits across time.
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