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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
9
A photograph shows a group of Indian students in classes where time reading is emphasized as a foundation of English education. The article notes numerals as a foreign language to natives and mentions diver deaths after the Cumberland wreck incident in the Mediterranean.
A Hungarian anti Austrian sentiment is shown with a tulip emblem. Members wear a red white and green tulip badge. The article notes that animal photography is difficult and praises Nerotas photography for a unique image featuring a cat and chickens.
Reports on smokeless gunpowder used in shells describing a method to confuse cloth and cord remain with no smouldering debris after firing. Census of Nice shows 149,448 inhabitants in town with 7,987 houses and one centenarian. Studies on money carrying disease reveal copper nickel silver metals affect germs, with pennies and nickels yielding various bacteria. tuberculosis shows no living bacilli after 24 to 48 hours. Founders dinner at Christ Hospital reveals Bluecoat boys wear hats as a costume cue, though they discard period headgear, aided by a can-like device from Reformation era.
The Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 highlights American stained glass as a modern mosaic art. It traces a shift from uniform glass to nuanced hues, notes gendered roles in design, and describes the intricate process of translating cartoons into glass. Most glass comes from Long Island and is created by pouring color into molten glass, yielding a spectrum of shades. Weather remark notes rain occurs most between 3 and 8 AM.
The article notes most Crown jewels in the Tower are paste and counterfeits with only a few real stones. It describes the Koh-i-noor rarely shown, the imperial crown lacking genuine gems, and Mecca’s caaba cover cost. It also mentions Masai levies and a San Francisco harbor scene with the Oregon pennant and needed repairs.
A night snapshot demonstrates an experiment in low light photography. The outline image captures scenes unattainable by long exposure, illustrating the limits and possibilities of nocturnal imaging.
Mersey Docks and Harbor Board seeks Parliament grant to fund vast upgrades at Liverpool north docks costing over 20 million dollars. Birkenhead foreign animals wharf to gain six slaughterhouses and six meat stores plus new chill rooms, refrigerator plant, and a covered meat market. Rail carriage agreement aims to reduce transit costs and keep trade in Liverpool. Cotton loading into wagons saves 243 dollars versus old cart method. Also notes a mastodon find near Dawson with gold in eye socket gravel and a humorous claim about women marrying many titled men.
A fragmented washday note hints at general appeal from a group survey. The text mentions tub, grassn eadt the clothes, and ey with 38. Further readable items suggest wide attention to daily chores and household routines in a community study.
Hess by cable drew public attention as telegraphic billiards linked two players three hundred miles apart. The table was divided into precise squares, enabling exact ball placement on both tables. Four days elapsed for the match with standard wires, suggesting faster completion if direct communication existed.
The belief in adder stones as cures persists in many countries since Roman times. These charms are actually ancient green or blue glass bands with perforations in various designs. Their virtues are echoed in poems of the Druids and noted by Pliny and other classical writers.
The report notes cement has limited abroad applications familiar to American builders though Europe uses it more in certain work. In southern France, stone and cement veneered walls are common, with armed cement construction rising in demand for pipes and paving blocks. Cement blocks, inexpensive and durable, come in many shapes and colors for interiors.
At a recent London Practitioners Society meeting Dr Roberta Abbe demonstrated a photograph showing a revolver loaded with a single grain of radium. The image illustrated the potential prerogative power of radium in a provocative display.
A New Yorker’s winter fire screen crafted entirely from human hair, sourced from head hunters in Dutch Borneo, is described as a striking, odd art piece. The hair artist, once a hunter, now sells these screens and showcases them in advertisements with a posed photo.
A historical note describes a time lock device for tobacco that opens at set intervals to curb quitting pain. The user stores all tobacco in a box and the mechanism releases after minutes or hours, gradually extending the delay until the smoker is no longer dependent. Boxes are sold in England and expected in the United States. Mattie M. Marshall, grandniece of Chief Justice Marshall, is among three women rural mail carriers in America with the Granite City Post Office.
A century old marvel linked to Tippoo Sultan features a tiger with a bellows pipe within a chest driven by a crank. The toy uses a wire and lever system to make an English soldier cry out as the tiger roars, thrilling Tippoo in the Mysore palace after 1799.
The piece explains that thirteen arose from Edward II era purveyors laws, with extra bread per shilling leading to the baker's dozen and the advantage loaf. It notes Henry Hudson’s 1610 naming of The Baker's Dozen islands and mentions Canada having 303 Indian schools serving 107,637 students.
A fragmented observation notes a curious crowd perspective on Broadway and London's transit scene where many motor buses break down. It mentions a service of towing tugs used to move street cars home, hinting at disrupted urban transit conditions.
A 35 foot deep deposit yielded three large eggs and an intact basket, dated to the early twelfth century. One egg fractured, contents eroded the basket base. the eggs show honeycombed indentations likely colored blotches, with the whole mass fused into gray flint like glass through conchoidal fracture.
The piece notes that heavy fog is rare in America, so no special precautions are used, while England experiences frequent fog with a formal system. It describes signalmen with flags and detonators, and the use of torpedoes on the track to indicate signals, guarded by hand and by explosive devices to ensure safety.
Austrian consuls report growing opportunities for iron bedsteads in Salonika and Beirut markets. Demand favors two metre long beds with 2% metre high mosquito net columns, 90 to 105 centimetres wide, with rich brass ornamentation. Bulgaria shows notable demand via Rustchuk, while Varna warns buyers to inspect for damaged ornamentation or cast iron parts to reduce prices.
The Saxon government funds lace training, paying advanced students 18 to 36 cents daily to revive hand made lace as factory competition grows. Officials aim to raise interest by focusing on rarer Kloeppel varieties the factories cannot easily replicate. The text also notes UC Berkeley will spend about $10,000 to adapt to rugby style football, requiring field expansion and bleacher relocation.
A historical note explains that much of the price of food covers water content. It cites examples like a turkey being three pounds solids and seven pounds water, pork six pounds water in ten, and high water percentages in eggs, butter, vegetables, and fish. The piece argues that about fifty five percent of food expenditures cover water, with no escape from this cost.
Before leaving for his Indian tour, the Prince of Wales received the Star of India, the most coveted colonial honor, established in 1861 by Queen Victoria for distinguished service in the Indian Empire. The Star of India ranks above others and is typically awarded to Viceroys. In Natal, South Africa, official returns show 97,19 whites, 14,918 Asiatics, 6,688 mixed races, and 904,041 natives, including 56,758 European males.
A reminiscence on Queen Mary of Scots through a silver reliquary once hers now owned by Lord Newton, followed by a note that San Marino faces voter loss from emigration as its Assembly moves to abolish the lifelong Executive Council, electing members for three years.
Partial OCR reads that a school for women farmers has existed for some time, though text is fragmented and details are unclear.
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