Singing flowers by voice and science in 1900s era
The article details Margaret Watts Hughes of London inventing a voice driven device to shape colored pastes into flower figures on a vibration disk. It describes daisies primroses and other shapes formed by singing notes, the science behind vibration and resonance, and parallels to music and occult ideas.
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Chicago Tribune
Chiadni
Sediey Taylor
Margaret Watts Hughes
London
Cemetes
Watts Hughes
Watts Tughes
Sher Tanigle
Pythagoras
Mayor
Trappers Close Season With Record Musk Rat And Mink Skins
The open fur bearing season ends tonight after a year in which trappers in the state earned well over 1 million dollars from muskrat and mink skins. Favorable high waters and abundant rain boosted muskrat numbers, while mink numbers also rose. Prices ranged from 10 to 65 cents for muskrat and 5 to 6 dollars for mink, delivering large incomes, with farmer boys among the earners. Reported by Carlos Avery and the State Game and Fish Commission.
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Carlos Avery
State Game and Fish Commission
St. Paul
Preparation of Quinine from Cinchona Bark
The article outlines chemical extraction of quinine from cinchona bark using lime or caustic soda, warm paraffin oil, and sulfuric acid. It details purification steps including recrystallization, charcoal treatment, and separation of alkaloids, noting global bark sources and quinine yields.
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Peru
Bolivia
Ould High Hat Remembers a Life With the Hat
The poem recalls an aged hat that served its wearer through marriage and battles. The speaker scorns sly mockery from peers while celebrating shared joys, losses, and the hat’s long companionship with the wearer and his bride. The nostalgic voice contrasts humor with hardship across years.
Jasmine Oil Price Noted At $530 Per Pound
The report lists oil of jasmine as a valuable perfume second only to attar of roses with a price of 530 dollars per pound.
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Attar
London docks show bold port life and vast shipping
The London Daily Mail writer guides readers along the riverfront from St James Park to Tilbury, detailing Lascar sailors, massive grain mills, automatic coaling, and a busy port economy. He notes unemployment worries, stowaways, and calls for funding to keep London at the forefront of world shipping.
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London Daily Mail
St. James’ Park
London
Liverpool
New York
Hamburg
Antwerp
Rotterdam
Marseilles
Docks
Fenchurch Street
India Office
W. W. Jacobs
Custom House
St. Katharine
London Docks
Rve
Surrey Commercial
West
Southwest India Docks
Millwall
Isle of Dogs
East India Dock
Union-Castle
Cape
Port Trust
Tilbury Docks
Lonidon
H. Hamilton Fyfe
Sea Lion and Dog Tale Captured by Ship Crew
Townsend of the New York Aquarium recounts an Albatross voyage incident in Puget Sound where a young sea lion boarded a dingy, watched a setter dog aboard, jumped between boats, and finally settled on the dingy stern before waking to be driven overboard at dawn.
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Townsend
New York Aquarium
Zoological Society Bulletin
United States Fisheries
Albatross
Puget Sound
A Wily Extortionist at Paris Cafes Described
The excerpt from Aubrey Lanston in the Bohemian May issue recalls cafe life in Paris. It contrasts carte with prices at Paillard's and Cafe de la Paix now led by Ledoyer with the common tactic of charging indeterminate prices to unknown patrons. It highlights the maître d'hôtel as an intimidating figure who enforces a full bill if a guest objects.
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Paillard’s
Cafe de la Paix
Ledoyer
Cafe de la Paii
Cafe de Paris
Saul of
Tarsus
Monsieur
Monsieur Ark
Aubrey Lanston
Then Pass Him By
The Philadelphia Record notes that severe financial loss can alter a man’s character and strain his friendships, as once close companions fail to recognize him.
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Philadelphia Record
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Prof. Mayor
Germany
J. J. Thomson
Greece
Myster
Minnesota
High Hat
Manny
Avi
London’s Shipping
Victoria and
Abert
Silvertown
Woolwich
India
China
Japan
Nippon Yusen Naisha
Rule
Britannia
Australia
New Zealand
England
Sasee
Melbourne
Albert Basin
Gravesend
Tilbury
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