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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1906
Page
17
In London Zoo a famed four hundred year old tortoise died after a long decline. The report describes the cremation complex Columbarium and the grand burial spaces, with lush lawns and native caretakers mowing the grounds. It notes a Swiss doctor taming wild fishes and a new cork from waste paper invention.
A Richmond visitor photographed on a six foot wall as a horse and buggy passed below creating a striking optical moment. The piece also tells of San Francisco’s $30,000 home for cats on Telegraph Hill spared by the quake and the late owner’s cat friendly will.
A Spanish professor reports that sunflowers produce a splen did febrifuge usable as a quinine substitute. Russian peasants believe the plant cures fever and sleep on beds of sunflower leaves. A Russian physician tests coloring matter from leaves with good results in fevers, and Moncorvo also reports success with coloring matter and alcoholic flower and leaf extracts.
Readable fragments describe native Fiji huts woven from grasses with colorful domes. Also noted is Fer nand Hecht of Roubaix showcasing a soldering method joining aluminum to copper brass or iron without acids oralts and earning a medal from a French society.
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