Race of Giants Scheme Aims to Breed Taller French
Two million dollars is to be spent to regenerate the French by selective propagation of giants at Rouen. Count de Saint Owen funds the project to pay one percent yearly, with a yearly nest egg of twenty thousand dollars to one couple chosen for bearing tall offspring. The plan echoes Frederick William of Prussia's Potsdam Guard attempt and Japan's long practice of height selection, though experts doubt the wisdom of such a scheme.
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Rouen
Normandy
Count de Saint Owen
William the Conqueror
Count de Saint Quen
Frederick William
Prussia
Frederick the Great
Potsdam
Frederick
Japan
Influence of Rainfall on Commerce and Politics Paper Cited
Mr. Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory discusses a paper in Popular Science Monthly on how rainfall affects commerce and political events. He notes panics in U S history often accompany droughts and droughts influenced major historical outcomes and military campaigns. He cites the Boxer War outbreak tied to drought, a severe winter affecting the French revolution, and Moscow campaign hardships in 1812 as examples. Caesar’s legions in Gaul suffered from scattered stations due to poor harvests, illustrating climate impact on strategy.
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Clayton
Blue Hill Observatory
Popular Science Monthly
United States
China
Moscow
Caesar
Gaul
Old-Time Coaching Ends on December 21 1843
The Prince of Wales coach, last on the London to Bristol route, was withdrawn marking the end of an era as railways eclipsed coaching. The Bristol mail coach began in 1784 under Mr Palmer, with early journeys from London to Bath and Bristol, steady pace rising from six to ten miles per hour before railways terminated the era.
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Prince of Wales
London
Bristol
Palmer
MFP
Bath
Mondey
Monte Carlo gambit questioned in Schwab visits
It is now more than indicated that recent stories of heavy gambling at Monte Carlo by Schwab the steel magnate were spread by resort officials for advertising. Monte Carlo faces fading favor due to hotelkeepers rapacity, making Schwab's visit seem a calculated stunt.
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Monte Carlo
Schwab
The Langtry Frontiersman and a Theatre Ring Mystery
Bass McPheeters recalls a Cuban campaign theft of brandy and a frontier frontier tale of Edith and Herbert Humphreys in Cincinnati. Corinne Forgeron’s intrigue with the ring and the vanished marquise ring sparks jealousy, deception, and a broken engagement among a circle of defenders and socialites.
Yankee French furniture tale from Paris to Grand Rapids
A Ban gor News account recounts Michigan buyers discovering Parisian furniture to be manufactured in Grand Rapids. A traveler notes a couple’s effort to furnish their home abroad ended with the goods revealed as Michigan craft rather than genuine Parisian handicraft, highlighting the middleman’s role.
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Paris
Michigan
Bangor News
Grand Rapids
France
Wedding Echoes From the Past at Fort Bliss and New Orleans
John H. Raft ery recalls Corinne Forgeron and Herbert Humphreys wedding plans, Edith’s ruined engagement, and a tainted ring seen at the Forgeron mansion in New Orleans. He notes his absence due to a Washington assignment and reflects on lost happiness and bitter motives.
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Humphreys
Corinne Forgeron
Edith
Fannie Ziegler
New Orleans
West Point
Fort Bliss
Herbert Humphreys
Washington
Forgeron Mansion
John H. Raftery
Chicago Record-Herald
Porcelain Violins from China Clay and Aluminum
A Chambers's Journal note reports Max Freyer in Germany developing porcelain violins cast in molds as exact copies, claiming porcelain bodies resonate better than wood for a pure full tone. He also makes china clay mandolins valued in southern countries. The drawbacks of brittleness and weight are noted, with rumors of aluminium violins mentioned as a promising future, given its lightness.
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Germany
Max Freyer
Britain
Chambers
They Do Drop Them About A Curious Old Faddist
A Birmingham street character murmurs They do drop them about as he collects hairpins from five ways to Broad Street Corner. The man, quoted by the Liverpool Post, has gathered about 355¢ hairpins of various kinds and sizes. Meanwhile in New England 101 of 1557 towns run schools under the district system, eighty one in Connecticut.
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Birmingham
Liverpool
New England
Connecticut
End of Long Legal Contest Over Portland Dukedom
British tribunal confirms William John Cavendish-Bentinck as Duke of Portland and head of Welbeck Abbey, rejecting Mrs. Druce’s claim that Sidney Druce in Australia is the rightful heir. The fifth Duke’s eccentric life included vast subterranean tunnels and estates. the case exposed a tangled double life and forged lineage theories.
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Claria
Australia
William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck
Duke of Portland
Anna Maria Druce
Sidney George Druce
William John
Welbeck Abbey
Marquis of
Tichfield
Earl of Portland
Woodstock
Cirencester
Great Britain
Druce
Thomas C. Druce
New Windsor
Berkshire
Thomas Charles Cruce
Annie May
Marquis of Titchfield
Earl of Berkeley
Lord George Bentinck
George
Thomas Charles Druce
Baker Street
Cruce
Harmer
Forbes Winslow
Fifth Duke of Portland
London
England
Bess of
Hardwick
Welbeck
Sir Charles Cavendish
Robin Hood
Sherwood Forest
Robin
Welbeck Park
William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck
Kensal Green
Winifred
Thomas Dulles-Yorke
Louth
Bentinck
Philadelphia
Time by a Belt Becomes Odd Timekeeping Tale
A New York buyer recalls meeting a man in blanket clothes at a Newburg ice plant who uses a belt as a clock. After breakfast at six, the belt sits on the last hole. each hour the wearer moves to the next hole and the belt slackens, indicating time with surprising accuracy.
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New York
Ier
Newburg
New York Tribune
Signaling in Fog off Eggs Rock England by underwater bell
An experiment off Eggs Rock Lynn England installs a large bell fifty feet under water below a buoy. Powered by electricity from Egg Rock Light Station it will be rung to signal mariners. Underwater ringing is believed to carry farther than air a loud bell reduces disturbance to nearby residents.
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Eggs Rock
Lynn
England
Egg Rock
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Freeland
Tribune H’rinting Company, Limited
Edith Wharton
Scribner’s Magazine
Ty J
Bass McPheeters
Heathcote
Harvard
Texas
Harris
Langtry
Collins
Academy
Cincinnati
Freddie Gebhard
Zieglers
Fannie
Corinne
Winnerville
Corinnne Worgeron
Yankee French Furniture
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