Crisis talks clash with social orders and emigration tides
A collage of excerpts notes rising personal crises among the wealthy, debates about the House of Lords as a barrier to socialism, reflections on bright women, and praise for Roosevelt's anti‑trust actions. It cites New York World on baseball, Taft on enforcing laws, railroad profits, and a Canadian emigration peak impacting the United States. It also reports a Sitka school case on civilization and outlines Latin union coinage efforts and nickelization plans in Europe.
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Winnipeg
Canada
United States
France
Italy
Belgium
Switzerland
Europe
Great Britain
Love and the fib in a tender courtship
A maiden and a youth walk and speak of love as a fib untruth, then share a shy kiss and rising emotion. The poem notes the lovers belie their claims of innocence while passion overrules doubt, with Cupid’s wiles guiding their entangled feelings.
Prairie Chickens Shielded by Doukhobor Fence
In Paravgrad Saskatchewan in February 1907 Doukhobor villagers faced a wolf threat to their beloved prairie chickens. Two Vianovitch brothers drove barbed wire to protect the village, using straw torches and a woven top to trap and deter wolves. After a tense night, elders reinforce a seven foot fence as with prayers and shared courage the community kept the chickens safe.
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Saskatchewan
Paravgrad
Great Plains
Paraverad
Paravegrad
Vianovitch
Simeon
Alexis
Podarsko
Michael Kelly
Podaysko
Vianovitches
Russia
Brother
Contentment Philosophy Promotes Simple Living
A passage advocates quiet homes with personal gardens, beloved friends, and small, harmless pleasures. It promotes a devotion to right, a religion without bigotry, and trust, hope, and love as the path to genuine joy. The text opposes grandiose estimates and worldly vanity.
Science News and Inventions From Berlin to Wetterhorn
An English minister warns Londoners are becoming dwarfed by smoking and trains. Berlin exposition hints liquid air may rival steam and electricity. A new Wetterhorn railway trip climbs 450 m in 600 m length, a 75 percent grade. Advances include seamless copper vessels and welds by blowpipe. Plans envision using Afghanistan’s waters to generate electricity for fort lighting across a wide area.
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Wetterhorn
Electro magnets lift large glass panes with iron sheet
The Engineer reports a system using sheet iron under glass and one or more electro magnets on the top. The magnets attract the iron to hold the glass suspended for movement.
Safeguard for coal mines from radiu m danger via foil electroscope
Profs Elster and Geitel show firedamp in coal mines contains six to seven times more radium emanation than ordinary air. An aluminum foil electroscope detects the emanation quickly, offering a simple effective method to warn of danger. Eddington suggests Mars canals are wrinkles from shrinkage and Mars may have once housed an intelligent population.
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Profs. Elster and
Geitel
Mr. Eddington
Greenwich
Epicure Seeks Genuine Buckwheat Cake in New York
The Epicure, a NYC restaurant hunter, says after a long winter he cannot find a genuine buckwheat cake in any restaurant and doubts such a treat exists in the metropolis.
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Lord Rosebery
Liberal League
House of Lords
New York
New York World
Roosevelt
Taft
Concord
N. H
Post. Intelligencer
Juneau
Alaska
Dora Davis
W. P. Mills
Gunnison
Davis
J. W. Foley
The
New York Times
E. W. Thompson
Simon
Siméon
David Swing
Science and
Berlin
Khyber Pass
Afghanistan
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