Skeletons on the Marlborough Found in Magellan Strait Cave
A British sailing ship Marlborough, missing since 1890 with 33 aboard, was reportedly found near Punta Arenas in the Magellan Strait. Twenty skeletons were located on board along with scattered artifacts, confirming a grim mystery at sea and reviving tales of the ship’s fate.
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Magellan Strait
London
New Zealand
Marlborough
Messrs. Leslie & Co
Lyttelton
Hird
Cape Horn
Midocean
Southern Pacific
Horn
Patagonia
Punta Arenas
Sandy Point
Ponta Arenas
Glasgow
Huneda
Cape Virgus
Cape Pillar
Society lights in costume at Nassau County hospital benefit
New York Count G von Bernstorff, son of Germany's ambassador to the United States, appeared in Harlequin attire with Miss Elsie Park in Garden City at the Nassau County hospital masque hall. Park wore an oriental princess costume.
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New York
G. von Bernstorff
Germany
United States
Elsie Park
Long Island
Garden City Hotel
Garden City
Nassau County Hospital
EUGENICS AID TO LOBSTERS
Washington reports a surge in lobster supply due to artificial propagation by the bureau of fisheries. Fishermen and dealers credit the program, especially along Maine’s coast, with higher catch rates. From Rockland, Me., daily lobster shipments averaged twenty tons from April to September.
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Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Fisheries Bureau
Bureau
Maine
Rockland
Wind Jammers of Army London Slang Dispatch
A Household Brigade Magazine note catalogs army slang terms used by British soldiers. Entries include Tom Clarke meaning kissing a bride, a Lawrence for laziness, rimer for bread and cheese, dirty ot for tea, saddle flap for meat, and wind jammers for bandsmen, among others.
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London
England
P. L. King
Second Life Guards
Household Brigade
Tom Clarke
Tom
Woman Legally Dead Then Proved Alive Wins Inheritance
Miss Mabel F. Allen of Brooklyn was declared dead by Suffolk probate court and higher courts under the absentee statute after 14 years of disappearance. She later proved her identity and received 32600 as her share from grandfather Jonathan Merry's estate, despite prior legal declarations.
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Boston
Mass
Mabel F. Allen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Suffolk County
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Jonathan Merry
Merry
Grant
Miss Allen
DUBS WIFE STREET CAR FLIRT
Charles Marmie of St. Clairsville files for divorce alleging his wife Wilma Marmie is prone to flirting with street car conductors including Harry Albough. Marmie says her habit of riding street cars and attention to railway uniforms harmed his business and reputation. Mrs Marmie acknowledges flirtations but says she rebuked them.
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St. Clairsville
Charles FP. Marmie
Harry Albough
Draw Up Domestic Plan
A detailed domestic relations plan signed by newly married couple Mr and Mrs Earle Maddock ages sixteen and fourteen. The husband agrees to help with household duties in the evening and she promises not to talk back, in case of a dispute.
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Los Angeles
Mra
Earle Maddock
Poe
Imperial Porphyry and the Quarrying Odyssey of Rome
The imperial porphyry, famed violet stone used in Roman sculpture and architecture, came from Gebel Dukhan in eastern Egypt. Quarried in scattered pits, blocks were dragged across the desert to Kench on the Nile, shipped to Rome by river barge, and finally loaded onto Mediterranean galleys for arrival at the Roman port. The desert quarrying ceased before the 7th century, ending the supply of this unique stone.
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Weigall
Egyptian
Gebel Dukhan
Red Sea
Peninsula
Sinai
Nile
Rome
Kench
Food Taken In Lifetime As A Seventy Five Year Span
If you live to seventy five you would consume about 54 tons of solid food and 53 tons of liquids. You would eat around 76 tons of bread, a ton and a quarter of butter, four miles of bacon, five tons of fish and 12 000 eggs, and 400 pounds of cheese. Vegetables would form a three and a half mile long train, with 10 000 pounds of sugar and 1 500 pounds of galt. Smokers would use half a ton of tobacco in pipes, a quarter million cigarettes, or about 60 000 cigars.
Birds leased by the acre on South African islands
Cape Province farms lease sea bird nesting grounds to private collectors who harvest millions of eggs from islands near Saint Helena and Saldanha. The key islands include Birds and Dyers, hosting the largest farms, while the government gathers over six thousand tons of guano annually for fertilizer.
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Acre
Cape of Good Hope
South Africa
Agricultural Department of
Cape Province
Baya
Saint Helena
Saldanha
Bird and
Top Hats Through the Ages in Whitehaven
A historical note traces the top hat from Elizabethan gallants cocking brim sides with jewels to the three sided cockade used by courtiers. It notes the silk hat born in France replacing the beaver and shaping the present design.
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France
Dummy editor and a goose in Cumberland town
A feature notes a jailed dummy editor in Japan who serves as a stand in for censored papers, while the real editor renames the publication. It also tells of Barney the gray and white goose, aged twenty or more, roaming Whitehaven’s streets and docks like a local lord of the town.
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Barney
Whitehaven
Cumberland
England
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Old Barney
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