Greenwich Time Center Reveals Transit Observation Method
A detailed description from Green witch England explains how astron omers measure star transits to determine precise time. Observers use a telescope and spider threads to record electric signals on a chronometer, with ten wire passes and a sideral clock check to ensure accuracy. Time signals are sent at 10 and 1 oclock to provincial centers and ships in sight.
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Gresnwich
Eny
Greenwith
Amily Casis
Greenwich
Deal
Alust
Great Observatory
Wet Rope Lightning Fatal Accident on Staten Island Shipyard
A stoker on a South American steamer died at the Staten Island shipyards when a rope he held near an electric light became wet. Officials believe the rope, damp with water and sand, acted as a conductor and discharged electricity, leading to the fatal shock.
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Staten Ie Aland
Bees Foundry Honey in Hollow Tree Discovery
Wloomfield N. Boman discovered sixty pounds of honey in a bee tree while cutting wood. The nest was located in a hollow trunk, revealing a substantial harvest for the logger.
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N. Boman
The Fugitive Shadow of Old Age
Poem fragment from Macary A. Kirkup in New York Thoes depicts old age as a creeping threat ahead on the road. The speaker senses a fearsome shade looming in hedges and glades, muttering warnings that age is wasting all. The verse contrasts youth and vitality with approaching eternity.
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Macary A. Kirkup
New York
Exciting Uganda Rail Line Installs Protective Huts Against Tigers
Railway workers on the Mnodms rail way in India prepare stone huts with iron gates called Uger boxes to shelter polorsmen from tigers in nearby jungles. East Africa crews use trained monkeys to alert staff to lions and beasts, with a telegraph operator prompting a locomotive to chase off the animals after staff hid in a hut.
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Atrendy
India
East Africa
Mons
Uganda
Tokyo farm life contrasts in a sheep rich field
In Tokyo a war worker feeds pigs prompting questions about sheep as a rare breed. A trip to Hokkaido reveals a government stock farm with cows pigs and rare sheep. The piece contrasts Western livestock based agriculture with Japan's inner farming shift toward mixed farming.
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Tokyo
West
Japan
Sapporo
Hokkaido
T. W
Robertson Scott
London Dairy Telegraph
Counting by tens on fingers and ancient tally
A Mereland News-Leader note explains how primitive counting emerged from ten fingers. It cites Cantor on a South American tribe using three men to signal units tens and hundreds to count up to 999. The piece closes with a joke about staying on a cake of soap to wash upshore during a storm.
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Cantor
Mereland News-Leader
Lightning Strike Hits Couple in Ontario Home
During a thunderstorm a farmer and his wife were closing windows when lightning entered the upper window and struck them. The man, at the top of the stairs, and the woman at the foot were knocked down. He revived his wife after a difficult effort.
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Ontario
Requested Paupers Burial in Potters Field
Baron Dagoimar de Linden once chamberlain to the Ruslan imperial court under Czar Nicholas ended his life in Marseilles. He left less than $400 of his former fortune and asked to be buried among beggars in the potter's field.
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Dagoimar de Linden
Camherlain
Czar Nicholas
Marseilles
Coal Dust Bricks Pave Russian Streets Using Molasses
In Russia, coal dust bricks are used for paving streets. The bricks are made from coal dust combined with molasses and other binders to form a sturdy paving material.
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Russia
Arrab Mort and Pour la Patrim
Poetry review from London reflects on shattered streets and wartime wounds across England and Alsace, describing ruined homes, a grieving martyr, and imagery of invasion and loss with somber intensity.
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Arrab, Mort& Pour LA Patrim
Boxing Through the Ages A Deadly Early Sport
The article notes boxing as one of the oldest sports with roots in antiquity. It recalls ancient fighters like Enceladus who killed oxen with a single blow and describes early gloves as crude leather bands reinforced with metal. It contrasts past fatal bouts with today’s padded gloves and laurel wreath prizes.
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Enceladus
Village That Floats on Mekong Shifts with Tides
In the interior of French Indochina the floating village Snok-Trou sits among 40 to 56 huts tied with rattan along the Mekong. About 200 residents fish for a living, with homes lashed to partially submerged trees. The town drifts, so captains never know its exact location on a given voyage.
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Snok-Trou
Ita
Mekong River
Fis
Successful Operations on Hens by a British Columbia Woman
A British Columbia woman recalls assisting her mother to remove poisons from crops of about a dozen hens. She describes a method to extract large kernels through a small skin incision without stitching, keeping the bird confined briefly on soft foods, and notes no deaths from this procedure.
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British Columbia
Iave
Foxes outwit Welsh farmer's tomcat in field play
A Welsh farmer recounts seeing his large white tomcat playing with two fox cubs in the adjoining field. They chased and dodged like children for about half an hour while the vixen watched nearby before slipping into the wood.
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Lg Gardeo
Wen
Hovse
Odd Cash Register for Soda Tax in Portland
A Portland Maine draggist uses an old trolley car register as a tax tally. Each soda sale is rung like a fare, and at day’s end the operator reads the card to determine the amount owed to Uncle Sam.
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Portland
Uncle Sam
Pills Tinting Traced From 1859 Brighton Discovery
The note traces the origin of tasteless pills made in 1859 by a Brighton chemist and notes that medicines imported into India were colored to reveal their “woes,” mentioning tinted red tablets as an example.
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Brighton
Eng
India
Stuffy Room Leads to Window Break in Inn
Two late night motorists at a village inn find a stuffy room and try to open a window. After a broken pane, they discover in the morning the window remains intact but a glass door of a bookcase is shattered, the result of their midnight effort.
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Cuthbert
Clarence
Inflat able globe for geography study by Ellen Hendry
Ellen Hendry of Fresno California patents an inflatable globe for geography instruction. A small rubber balloon sits inside an outer fabric envelope resembling a baseball cover. The balloon is inflated through a slit and sealed by a twist valve formed by two buttons. The inflated sphere can be used to study world geography.
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Ellen Hendry
Fresno
Cal
Philadelphia Ledger
Marriage by Swapped Brides Shocks Small Town
Dan Merrill of Chelsea Maine, aged ninety two, was to wed for the third time to a sixty four year old bride in Newfoundland. Two brothers who came to town married two sisters. an hour before the ceremony they swapped wives and the weddings proceeded with the exchanged brides.
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Dan Merrill
Chelsea
Mags
Hlabride
Newfoundland
Alphabetical Rotation Cites Three Local Children
In Lunenburg Nova Scotia a letter notes three children with initials or names BR Co. D. and £ Bert Clinton and Eileen. Bert born June ninth, Hileen born June tent, Clinton born June eleventh, each on relatives birthdays.
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BR Co. D
Bert
Clinton
Eileen
Saya
Lunenburg
N. S
Hileen
Exchine
Remarkable Kitten Born in Nova Scotia With Anomaly
A Nova Scotia kitten born with three eyes and two mouths shocked locals as both mouths opened when it meowed. The creature died after only two weeks and was preserved in alcohol.
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Nova Scotia
Weybridge Cow’s Peculiar Accident
A valuable cow owned by a Weybridge man met a fatal end when a foot became entangled with its horns, breaking the animal’s neck in a singular mishap.
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Weybridge
Uncle George’s Cairo Adventure Sparks Sprint Records
A boy recounts Uncle George’s travels abroad and a Cairo road encounter where a camel chased a native. The tale ends with a witty line about sprint speed, suggesting Uncle George’s quick thinking and presence of mind.
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Cairo
Seagulls Honored At Salt Lake Temple Grounds Monument
A 100 foot pillar with a bronze Benagall tops Utah’s Salt Lake temple grounds to honor seagulls that saved settlers from cricket plagues in 1848. Mahouri Young sculpted illustrations. Brigham Young urged crops, seagulls presumed from heaven aided by warding off crickets. Utah designates seagulls as sacred and protected.
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Salt Lake City
Mahouri Young
Utah
Plains
Salt Lake Valley
Brigham Young
Saltah
Great Salt Lakes
Shaft
Peculiar Poultry Hatched Without Hen In Nova Scotia
A Nova Scotia reader in Pictou county reports four chicks hatched without a hen or incubator. Eggs laid in a haymow under natural heat hatched as hay was dumped atop them. The reader also notes a turkey hen with a second brood of 12 chicks, first brood hatched in June.
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Nova Scotia
Llying
Pictou County
Growth of Human Hair and Barber Miles Cut
An article notes hair grows about one inch per month in healthy people. A man who gets a haircut twelve times annually results in about nineteen miles of hair removed from his head by the barber over the year.
Will to Jewish Synagogue in Calcutta Burdened by Memorial Bequest
A Mayfair widow asks that a lamp be placed in Calcutta's synagogue in memory of her husband, with $1,500 bequeathed to the Jewish community there. She directs the lamp to burn forever and for the lamp to be placed above the family pew in the synagogue.
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Wental
Calcutta
Wandering back to Thoughtland poem excerpt
A nostalgic poem from the Toronto Mall and Empire recalls youthful days, sea journeys, and carefree summers. It reflects on memories of Thoughtland, blue skies, blossoming gardens, and a later shift to daily life and faith as life’s path unfolds toward God.
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Thoughtland
Thoughtiead
Toronto Mall
Empire
Early Postal Service Practices Then and Now
The article notes that postal service predates modern systems by over two thousand years with early Perala mail from before Christ. Messages were written on sticks using palata or burned with a primitive poker-work and delivered by regular postmen across vast distances. Even ancient telegraphs used shout relay systems to send messages quickly.
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Perala
Georges Wears by He Cercet Corset Fashion
Georges Carpentier adopts the new men’s corset style called he corset, noted by a Paria dispatch in the New York Star. Frenchmen previously wore tight belts during the war, with American influence expanding belt width and materials to stamped leather and embroidered canvas. Maurice Chevalier also reportedly uses the fashion as a “great aid to the manly figure.”
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Georges
Georges Carpentier
M Paria Dispatch
New York Sur
Maurice Chevalier
Chimneyless Housing Plan Aims For Electric Kitchens
In a northern English town a housing scheme plans to build many one roomed rentals at 2 50 a week and eliminate chimneys. Savings fund electric equipment including fires, kitchen ranges with elevated ovens. A chimneyless colony already exists on Glasgow’s outskirts with artisan residents.
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Glasgow
Hen Paid for Her Passage in Brockville Tale
A Brockville Ontario minister hosted overnight at a farmhouse. He found a hen in his buggy next morning and later in Green Bay found Afra hen with an egg under it. The piece closes with fragmented quotes about braking and car handling.
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Brockville
Ont
Green Bay
Afra
Remarkable Leghorn Crowing Mystery Ends in Euthanasia
A White Leghorn once owned by a Vancouver man produced two eggs daily: a normal morning egg and an afternoon shell-less egg. The bird proved so erratic that it frightened the flock and was killed after repeated odd crowing and disruptive behavior.
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Ika Ag
Vancouver
Four Statues of Women Stand in England
Only four statues of women, besides royal effigies, exist in England. They are Sister Doran of Walsall, Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place London, Sarah Siddons on Paddington Green, and Nurse Carell in St Martins Place Londes.
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England
Sister Doran Walsall
Florence Night Ingale
Waterloo Place
London
Sarah Siddons
Paddington Green
Carell
St. Martin's Place
Londes
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