Lucas Gusher Capping Showed Engineering At Beaumont
The Lucas gusher at Beaumont was capped after a lengthy effort. Workers used a valve and anchors to halt the upward oil jet, diverting flow and matching 105 pounds per square inch pressure. Six men persisted under oil spray, and within 10 days the well was secured, with Lucas celebrating as oil was confined in the subsurface reservoirs.
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Beaumont
Lucas
Mr. Lucas
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gap making industry cited by Harpers Weekly
Harpers Weekly notes the scale of war material production in Europe, citing Krupp with about 25 000 workers, Armstrongs and Vickers with roughly 35 000, and Creuset in France around 19 000, while omitting Loewe Berlin and many other firms.
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Europe
Krupp
Germany
Creuset
France
Armstrongs
Vickers Sons & Maxim
England
Creusot
Loewe Works
Berlin
Harper’s Weekly
Well-Bred Siamese Princesses Attend Bangkok School
A London Globe note reports a private Bangkok school run by an English lady. It educates 15 Siamese royal princesses in household chores from cooking to cleaning, table setting, and flower arrangement. The pupils marry at 15, and the paper claims the princesses become admirable wives.
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Bangkok
Siam
London Globe
Gray hair turned youthful with Ayer's Hair Vigor
An advertisement claims hair color can be restored quickly using Ayer's Hair Vigor. It asserts aged appearance can be reversed and promises rich color in less than a month at one dollar per bottle, available at all druggists.
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E. Z. Benomme
Cohoes, N. Y
Ayer
Treasures of a Countess Stir Paris Sale Plans
The inventory of Countess De Castiglione s effects reveals five Parisian apartments packed with treasures. Items include 50 plus chased silver and gold mounted fins, lace and furs, a $36,000 pawn ticket, a $50,000 pearl necklace, silver plate, a massive tea service, dresses, cambric, lace, Dresden china, and hundreds of Louis XV sunshades with precious handles. Maria Tribone of Genoa is heir and Paris sale will be held at the Hotel Drouot.
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Europe
Countess de Castiglone
Paris
Rue Cambon
Batignolles
Rue Castiglione
Chantilly
Dresden
Hotel Drouot
The World’s Most Expensive Clock and Its Puzzling Tricks
A Rothschild owned timepiece from Louis XVI’s era cost 165000 dollars and stands as the era’s priciest clock. Other rare clocks feature clever misdirections, such as a basin with a floating iron swan whose hour is shown by magnetic attraction and a ball-and-wheel mechanism driving the hands with gravity.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Ile of
Louis XVI
Fragmented Health Ads and Miscellany from Old Paper
A collage of patent medicines and misc notices spans products from Allen's Foot-Fase to Dr Kline's nerve restorer. Mentions include Yokohama English population, Australian church counts, Garfield powders, and cotton acreage figures. Notable names: Monroe Drug Co Unionville Mo E B Walthall Druggists Horses Cave Ky Druggists Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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Allen
Allen 5
Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Yokohama
Japan
E. B. Walthall & Co
Horses Cave
Hall
Australia
Giants Pothole Field Found Near Taylors Falls Minnesota
In the Inter State Park near Taylors Falls Minnesota a unique group of giant kettles or potholes covers two to three acres. Diameters range from under a foot to 25 feet, bored into very hard rock, often well shaped with width to depth ratios from one to five up to seven. Warren Upham links their origin to torrents flowing through glacial moulins during the late glacial period. Rounded boulders sometimes lie at cavity bottoms.
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Minnesota
Taylors Falls
Warren Upham
Northern Territory
United States
Cassava and Sugar Cane Trials Expand in Deep South
Farmers in Florida South Carolina and southern Georgia experiment with cassava and sugar cane. Interest grows after Deland Florida cassava starch factory markets 240 tons in three years. Experts report high quality sugar from Florida and Georgia cane.
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Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Deland
Fla
Country Cousins Do Not Figure in Turkish Names
A historical note contrasts Turkish naming, where family ties fade across generations as Mohammed’s son Ahmed and daughter Sophia are identified by given names alone. It notes lack of aristocracy, Viziers rising without lineage, and cites census data on literacy in Italy, Garfield Headache Powders, and London water reservoir plans near Staines.
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Mohammed
Ahmed
Sophia
Turkey
Farmers' irrigation network boosts rice profits and acreage
Louisiana and Texas farmers note a $5,000,000 investment in 4,500 canal tiles expanding to about 580,080 acres and $1,700,000 spent on 80 modern rice miles. Under the new system rice yields net profits of $15 per acre. The text also mentions the German army employing over ten thousand musicians.
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Louisana
Texas
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California
St. James River
Goust
Tavolara
Pyrenees
Spain
Carchemish
South Dakota
Iwan Bureau
Princesses of
Gray
Monroe Drug Co
Unionville
Frey’s
Kline
R. H. Kurstd
Italy
London
Staines
Hyde Park
Tochrdes
Fen
Gaben
Atharts
West Point
Cilhenny
Tabasco
Pp. N. U
Ires
YO Lion Coffee
LION
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
Cascarets
Sterlun
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