Trees That Talk in Wireless Telegraphy
A fragment from a 19thcentury periodical describes trees as wireless antennae. Officers tested treebased signaling for army field communications, claiming bark pierced with a nail could trigger Hertzian waves, letting trees relay messages over miles. Also included is a humorous elevator anecdote and a brief sugar history note.
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Ile
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Fouth
Fragmented snippets hint at mid story misreads and a dinner scene
A garbled passage references a clock, a witness, and an appeal for help amid a dinner at a hill station in India. It mentions a young officer, a widow, and a neighbor scene, with dialogue about reading and forgiveness. The text includes stray names and phrases from Cleveland Plain Dealer and London Answers.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fuse
India
London Answers
Fever as a symptom and its management in illness
The piece explains fever is not a disease but a symptom indicating disease. It discusses historical views, diagnosis reliance on fever, and current guidance: bed rest in ventilated, cool rooms, light diet, while treating underlying cause by a physician. It includes a quoted anecdote about urban confusion in London.
Soundless Zones and Hidden Silence in Nature
The article discusses long known silent zones like the Alps and mentions experiments in the English Channel using loud sirens to prove sound disappearance on clear days. It suggests a link to unexplained ocean incidents and questions the mechanisms behind inaudible sound signals and related phenomena.
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Alps
English Channel
Your State of Mind and a Jenny Lind Moment
A curbed personal mindset piece explains that wealth and success follow if one believes and acts with abundance. It cites Origen Swett Marden from Nautilus and urges persistent positive thinking to attract prosperity. A Jenny Lind anecdote recounts a Edinburgh music shop encounter where a clerk, unaware of the singer, yet plays graciously, and Lind reveals herself.
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Jin
Jong
Origen Swett Marden
Nautilus
Jenny Lind
Edinburgh
Princess Street
Humor of the Classroom adds to list of classroom howlers
A London Mail roundup presents humorous misquotes from students and teachers. It cites lines such as a greenhouse moon metaphor and a misdated parliament, plus bemused definitions and a Napoleon Trafalgar joke, highlighting classroom slips and age of satire.
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India
Nelson
Napoleon
Trafalgar
London Mail
Mixed Metaphors In the Commons Report
The London Strand quotes members of the house of commons using vivid mixed metaphors. Balfour speaks of an empty theater of unsympathetic auditors while Corgan notes the whip is strong though the weed remains. Wart Decker recalls Lowther catching a high fish in his net and rising to the top of the green for it. A financial minister warns against government interference.
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House of Commons
Mgr
Balfour
Lord Corgan
William Wart Decker
Lowther
London Strand
Deig toorgy Leye Matter At Local Meeting
Mrs Chancel-Obaflenry and Dr Dives Tenabgdne discussed a matter at a morning gathering. The report notes tense comments and a squirming reaction from Mrs Gabhors as doctors assert their expertise in the dispute.
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Dives
Gabhors
Macaroni and Spaghetti How One Is Made
In modern macaroni factories dough is extruded through bronze dies to form macaroni and spaghetti tubes. Holes and central pins shape the dough, then the pieces are cut for drying on trays or rods. Fresh durum wheat semolina and water yield a golden translucent macaroni. imitations fail this test. Pliny's remedies for colds include wolf liver in hot wine and three kisses from a mule, along with dog skin and tree frog tonics.
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Harper's
Pliny
Man in Hettinger County Forges Suicide Plan Over Love
Walter South, 20, of near Burt, after being spurned by a schoolteacher, attempted suicide with a loaded revolver in a deserted school two miles from his home. A note left for his uncle explained heartbreak and intent to die. He survived after a failed trigger pull. his parents in South Dakota have been notified and his return home is anticipated.
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Leroy Smith
South
Seth
Rsin
Toiall
Wallen
Besoming
Hettinger
Neda Prehtakeft Guhart
Bonila
S. Dak
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