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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
3
In a lean period of the By Force of Arms tour, Johnson endures ridicule from co stars and a tense romance with Helen Marvelle. After a graveyard interlude and a touching plea from a grieving mother, Johnson reads a hopeful letter from his father and vows to quit the show to marry Marvelle.
Dr. Oliver P. Hay of the American Museum of Natural History reports discovering a humerus of the extinct great auk in a Florida mound at Ormond. The bone’s shape confirms it belongs to the auk family, expanding evidence for the species formerly across Greenland, Iceland, and North America.
The Dowager Duchess of Argyll stirs concern in English court and political circles by declining to submit the manuscript of her forthcoming biography of the late duke for the official revision normally required.
In Philadelphia prose the exchange shows Towne defending a man’s conduct on a recent occasion while Browne condemns him as a cad. Browne argues the man should never act like a gentleman, warning it misleads others about his true character.
Rev Antoinette Brown Blackwell wrote to the dean of the woman lecturers of the United States. She made her first war appearance on the platform in 1846.
MALCOLM J. GRAHAM argues that world markets drive great powers toward conflict in the East. He cites Britain Japan Russia and France alliances and warns the United States must act to protect its expanding Far East trade and position. The piece contends Germany’s stance remains unclear amid shifting East Asian interests.
Four gentlemen played poker near the office using a joker as any card. Mr Long held four hearts including an ace high draw but Mr Short, acting coronner, drew five top discards revealing a deuce to six of hearts and a possible straight flush. A $450 bet ensued over the better hand. Chicago police demand 36 day vacations for all officers within the period. Irish in United States outnumber Ireland per statistics.
A report by Hans W. Schmidt, physics and electrical engineering instructor at the Centr school, notes a shift in West Bret Hine science with the Slaby-Deutsch system challenging Marconi's method. The article describes plasma discs, molecular rearrangement in filings, and a telegraphic relay instrument that clicks as current passes, signaling a second signal.
A Cleveland classroom project describes a homegrown wireless system using a modified Marconi coherer and an oscillator made of three platinum knobs. The setup claims to transmit ether waves through brick walls and vacuum, with a highly sensitive coherer and a local sending station powered by an induction coil.
Extensive remains of pile dwelling houses lie on the river Save near Dolina in Northern Bosnia. Excavations reveal two periods of bronzes and iron ages, with well preserved structures, a buried dwelling, and rich finds including bronzes, urns, pottery, ornaments, seeds, and bones. A hollowed oak trunk five meters long, dated to about two millennia ago, was recovered from beneath a pile platform and transported to the Sarajevo museum. The sites likely fell to a flood in the third century BCE.
In a railway carriage the old lady objects to smoking while a navy figure gently cautions it as a bad habit for ladies of London Tit-Blits era, reflecting social etiquette and gender norms in transit.
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