World's largest locomotive built for Northern Pacific
The 125 foot four cylinder Mallet locomotive built by American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, N Y, is en route to St Paul to serve between Glendive Montana and Mandan North Dakota. It weighs 1 116 000 pounds and burns semi bituminous coal from the Rosebud field. It features a 16 foot 4 inch height, 140 000 pounds normal and 153 400 pounds total tractive power, five thermic syphons, a mechanical stoker, a 22 000 gallon water tender and 27 tons of coal. It will join freight service between Glendive and Mandan, with no helper districts due to varying grades.
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St. Paul
Minn
Northern Pacific Railway
Eastern
American Locomotive Company
Schenectady
N. Y
H. E. Stevens
Rosebud
Montana
Northern Pacific
Glendive
Mont
Mandan
N. D
Canada Becomes Celebrity Magnet for Royalty and Film Ties
The Dominion draws famous visitors from Britain and the Prince of Wales delegation. Ramsay MacDonald toured Canada piloting a CP locomotive and unveiled a Stanley Park statue. Prince George represented the Prince of Wales in Vancouver as filming explores the Rockies, including The King of the Mountains with John Barrymore and Camilla Horn near Lake Louise.
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RT Hon
Ransay MacDonald
Canada
Britain
Commonwealth
Isle
Atlantic
Dominion
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Canadian Pacific
Robert Burner
Stanley Park
Vancouver
Prince of Wales
High River
Alberta
Prince George
HM. S
Durban
Godfrey Thomas
Rockies
John Barrymore
Camilla Horn
Lake Louise
Canadian Rockies
Silver Screen
Invisible Metal Film Measured by Polarized Light
In New York Bell Labs researchers produced metal films so thin they are invisible and measured them using polarized light. The best rubidium film thickness was about one atom, determined by light twisting through the film, aiding photo electric cell design for television. Also notes Greek site Butrinto near Albania yields five Greek statues and various ancient remains from Stone to Byzantine times.
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Bell Laboratories
Albania
Butrinto
Italy
Tellenus
Priam
Andromache
Troy
Luigio Ugolini
Praxiteles
Ancient Ruins Revealed At Butrinto Sites
Archaeologists uncover remnants at Butrinto showing layers of past civilizations. Excavations reveal artifacts and scenes echoing Virgil’s Aeneid, highlighting historical encounters with ruins and cultural memory.
Euclid's Early Arithmetic Mastery Found in Papyrus Recall
A Leningrad report says the Mathematical Papyrus in the Hermitage collection has been deciphered dating to the eighteenth century before Christ. The text, showing Egyptian mathematical methods predating Euclid, offers insight into early geometry and computation long studied by scholars and college students alike.
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Egypt
Euclid
Hermitage
Papyrus Methods Claim Advanced Over Euclid
A dispatch asserts that the methods applied in the papyris are nearly 1,500 years ahead of Euclid and correspond entirely to the present time.
Murder gimmick foiled by old arsenic plot in candy
A critic notes that a modern mystery writer seeks novel murder methods yet repeats a classic ploy. The arsenic in candy scheme, once used in the Spanish Inquisition and by Conrad in fiction, remains an old trick amid new crime tales.
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Conrad
Training Camp Recruit Fumbles Rifle Recall
A recruit rushes to drill without his rifle and asks a sergeant to bring one. In a humorous exchange he spells gun as G U N with city and regional placeholders, noting he forgot his weapon. The snippet captures training camp tension and light banter.
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Jerusalem
Europe
World Levied On for Materials for Candy
The modern candy maker relies on almonds and filberts from Spain and Italy, walnuts from France, coconuts from the British West Indies and Brazil nuts from Brazil. Text lists diverse global ingredients including figs, dates, cherries, pineapples, honey, vanilla, cacao, cane and beet sugars, fruits, milk, cream, butter, corn sirup, molasses and gelatin used by American manufacturers.
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Spain
Italy
France
British West Indies
Brazil
Turkey
Persia
Arabia
Tunis
Algiers
Morocco
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Singapore
Mexico
Africa
Trinidad
Towig
Offinidas
Republic
English Beauty Spot in Heart of Sussex
A concise portrait of Streat, a single street village in Sussex. It notes absence of shops and post offices, very limited services, a small church with a rector list dating to 1337, a smithy, a manor house, and a village school amid hedgerows and orchards. The tone cherishes an unspoiled rural scene.
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Sussex
Streat
Philip Bemond
New York Man Known As The Man Who Grows Stretches Themselves
Clarence Willard of New York nicknamed The Man Who Grows can extend his body by more than seven inches at will. Reports note a four inch neck elongation as part of his demonstrations.
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Clarence Willard
New York
Origin of the phrase skin of my teeth from Job
The phrase skin of my teeth originates in Job 19 20. It reflects a Biblical expression used to describe a narrow escape from disaster and endurance amid hardship.
Reward offered for arrest of bounty fund violators
A Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Association advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward to any person not a regular law officer who helps arrest and convict anyone illegally collecting bounty funds.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Assn
Reward Offered For Sheep Thieves And Camp Robbers
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers association offers a reward of 250 dollars for convicting a sheep thief and 100 dollars for convicting a camp robber.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers’ Association
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Land Office
Pearl I. Smith
Dillon
Ufoca
Jack Yancey
Central Methodist Church
Picher,'Mo
Delbert Chestner
Missionary Baptist Church
Leggat Hotel
Butte
Alex. Leggat
Mer
Lewis & Walker
North
Wyoming
Bette, Mont
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Atkeson Dairy
M. Paumie
Galena St
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