Wings for Humans Converts Batlike Flight to Public Fable
Julius Englehardt of Baden, living in this city for over twenty years, claims a novel winged device can lift a wearer by counterbalancing weight with two twenty foot batlike wings. The elastic, two–layer wings use a light oxygen fill to enable ascent, lateral movement, and controlled descent, promising a future where roofs replace streets and telescopes prefigure new social sightlines.
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France
Julius Englehardt
Baden
Washington Times
Englehardt
Satanus
Mohammed
Earth
Heaven
Terra Frma
Roses in Colors From Ancient Time to Mythic Blue
The author traces the rose’s pedigree from the Cretaceous era in Greenland and New Jersey through its wide temperate distribution, noting many genera and hundreds of species. While blooms span yellow to purple, a true blue rose remains mythical, as rumored attempts did not advance.
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Amboy
New Jersey
Greenland
Dingle
Duma
Danish Butter Dominates World Markets Says Chicago Record Herald
The butter of Denmark is deemed superior to all others and commands top prices in fancy markets. It is widely available in shops worldwide and fetches up to $1 per pound in tins. Danish butter outlasts Dutch and Swedish rivals, while U.S. efforts have largely failed with few exceptions.
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Denmark
South America
South Africa
East
West Indies
India
Egypt
Epicures
Holland
Sweden
United States
Chicago Record-Herald
Hat Etiquette Sparks Czech Antipathy in Austria
Pearson's Weekly notes that Czech and other non German peoples in Bohemia would oppose tall hats as a symbol of German domination. It warns that wearing a high hat could provoke removal, damage, or personal harm in certain regions. The piece ties the headgear to potential empire disruption after the king's death.
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Bohemia
Vienna
Austria
Francis Joseph
Pearson’s Weekly
Copyright Forever Claims Rights on Royal Maritime Charts
A statement asserts the king of Great Britain as publisher holds perpetual copyright to all charts issued for mariners and that no other party may publish them.
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Great Britain
Ordnance Survey Maps and Royal Bible Rights
Pearson's Weekly notes that ordnance survey maps are issued by the king alone and that the king shares the right with Oxford and Cambridge universities to publish the Bible.
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Ordnance Survey
Oxford
Cambridge
Pearson’s Weekly
Signals for climbers adopted by European Alpine clubs
European Alpine clubs adopt a unified set of danger signals drafted by the French Alpine club for climbers in peril. Distress signals are shouted, whistled, waved with a handkerchief, or fired by day, and shown by lanterns at night. A signal repeated six times means extrema peru, and three repetitions signal acknowledgment.
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Alpine Clubs
Europe
Alpine Club
Paris
Peru
Where quinine grows in Java and its global reach
The article traces quinine’s universal use and high esteem among physicians. It explains Java’s central role in quinine production, from cinchona saplings planted by Hasskari and Ledger’s seeds to bark processing, alkaloid extraction, and shipping to Amsterdam. It notes inferior quines from Ceylon and British Himalayan plantations for military use.
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South America
Java
Hasskar
Amazon
Hassakari
Ledger
Clivia
Amsterdam
Bandoeng
Ceylon
Himalaya
The Cold Rolled Process Made a Millionaire
Bernard Lauth started work at eleven in a Pittsburg rolling mill and rose to manager and part owner of a small iron plant. His experiments revealed that so called waste iron could be superior, leading to the cold rolled process and transforming his business into a mammoth establishment and turning him and his partners into millionaires.
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Bernard Lauth
Pittsburg
Lauth
Global match industry manpower tiny relative to output
The New York Tribune notes Europe produces about 500 million matches daily while the United States doubles that. The U S uses fifty million feet of lumber yearly for matches yet employs only about 15,000 people in the industry.
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Europe
United States
New York Tribune
X Ray Tricks Take Center Stage in Spiritual Seances
A French device maker uses Roentgen rays to produce luminous glass and objects in darkness for a staged spiritualist display. A nearsighted diner, zinc sulphide skeleton, and moving illuminated props create eerie effects with confederate assistants.
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Roentgen
New Zealand Landscapes and Coastal Vistas
New Zealanders live near mountains or the sea with expansive ranges and solitary giants shaping the country’s dramatic scenery. The feature notes how the terrain blends high peaks with coastal breadth, defining daily life.
Stereotypes Ranked By National Portraits In Travel Observations
An American traveler in Europe describes national character through accents and manners. He labels the Italian as languid but musical the German as deliberate the French as spasmodic and uncertain the upper class English as guarded and not always genuine the lower class English as explosive the Scotch as hearty and the Irish as rollicking.
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Europe
Women Stand By Each Other Amid Social Progress
Ainslie's Magazine remarks that women support each other through childcare nurseries, education, libraries, baths, parental schools, health facilities, and civic improvements. It notes women quietly bear duties and build institutions while men nap. The piece champions ongoing female solidarity across society.
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Ainslee
Rip van Winkie
Cr Atias
Superstitions of Kentucky Negro Folk Beliefs
A survey of rural black folklore in Kentucky reveals beliefs about luck and cultivation. Tales link peppers to anger, jaybirds to Fridays, and moon phases to planting, with cautions about groundhog days, house entrances, and tools.
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Kentucky
Oman
Chinese Trade Report Notes Cigar and Water Imports
The 1900 Chefoo trade report records aerated waters valued at £2000 and cigars and cigarettes at £10000 imported to northern China. Luxuries reached foreign troops, with natives wary of explosive water yet cigarettes common on hawker stalls. Cigarettes largely use American tobacco with girl pictures on packets, seen near a religious stand.
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Foreign Office
Chefoo
China
Shanghai
London Daily Mail
Royal line of cup defenders in American yachting
The article traces historic cup defenders from America to Columbia Pershing and Vigilant, detailing their fates, owners, and races. It notes America’s long service and later names, the shifting fortunes of Mayflower Mischief Puritan and Volunteer, and ends with Constitution’s hold on prestige and the enduring fame of these vessels.
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Queens of the Sea
Hartford Times
America
England
Isle of Wight
Paul Butler
Ben Butler
East Boston
Constitution
Sandy Hook
Memphis
Savannah
St. John’s River
Florida
Naval Cadets
Annapolis
James Ashbury
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cambria
Franklyn Osgood
Boston
Wilmington
Del
Columbia
Livonia
Philadelphia
Madeline
Countess of Dufferin
John O. Shaw, Jr
Mayflower
General Paine
E. D. Morgan
Vigilant
Lord Dunraven
Percy Chubb
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club
Henry S. Redmond
New York Yacht Club
Ailsa
Valkyrie III
William Butler Duncan
City Island
Royal Phelps Carroll
Shamrock I
New York Yacht Club Syndicate
Largest Game Preserve Across Africa Enforced by Treaty
A vast protected zone across Africa prohibits hunting of vultures owls giraffes gorillas chimpanzees mountain zebras and many others. Protected young and endangered species include elephants rhinos and gazelles while elephant tusks under twenty pounds are seized. Licenses required limits on kills and no nets or explosives. The plan aims to boost elephant zebra and ostrich domestication and curb market hunting.
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Africa
Cape Colony
Natal
England
Germany
France
Belgium
Portugal
Italy
Spain
Ice habit unsettles British visitors in London
The LondonExpress notes thousands of American visitors find UK households slow to adopt ice for cooling. Despite talks to sell ice in small quantities to rich and poor, the practice lags. Electric fans are spreading in London offices, trailing America by about fifteen years, and could be priced lower to boost usage.
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London
East End
America
London Express
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