International Maritime Conference to Meet in London
The international maritime conference will assemble in December to finalize a permanent prize court and naval procedure reforms from The Hague peace congress. Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton leads U S representation with Prof George G Wilson of Brown University, promising broad expertise and global respect.
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London
Hague
Troy
N. Y
Charles H. Stockton
George G. Wilson
Brown University
Saving the Game Amid Laws and Moral Reform
The piece notes rising protective legislation for game, urges education, and warns of undisciplined hunters aided by cheaper guns. It cites New Orleans Times-Democrat on violations and quotes John L. Sullivan urging temperance. It ends with time and place watchers on pirates and a bungled balloon race remark.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Vienna Bread Recipe Outline Steps and Method
Four pounds flour with three pints milk and water, half ounce salt, 1% ounces fresh compressed yeast. Mix to a thin batter, fermentation times, then rest and knead with remaining flour. Shape into small rolls, prove, bake quickly forty five minutes, brushing with milk halfway. Delicious result.
Practical Household Tips From The Home Page
Practical advice covers fried cold cereals with gravy, keeping nickel bright with wool and ammonia, preserving kid shoes with glycerin or castor oil, brushing a room sweep to direct dust away from the fireplace, preventing egg stain setting by cold water, and buttering pitcher noses to stop syrup or cream leaks.
Pickled Red Cabbage and Almond Delight Pastry
A home preserving guide covers pickling red cabbage with vinegar ginger pepper and optional cayenne to crisp with frost touched leaves. Also describes almond delight pastry with browned almond sugar mix baked under meringue and a chestnut apple celery salad with mayonnaise dressed nuts and apples.
French Soup Recipe from Irish Potatoes and Milk
To one quart of milk add five boiled Irish potatoes rubbed through a sieve to make a paste. When the milk and potatoes have boiled once add three well beaten eggs and a piece of butter the size of an egg. If it boils after the eggs are added it may curdle. Slit it round till well mixed and serve.
Apples and Onions Luncheon Dish Peppered with Bacon
A new luncheon dish combines fried apples and onions with bacon. Apples are sliced round with skin, onions peeled and thinly sliced then fried together. Bacon is fried to crisp brown and served alongside. Smooth Jelly method adds soda to hot fruit preserves to remove grit. Tripe a la Lyons grills sliced boiled tripe in butter with onions pepper salt parsley, then adds vinegar and serves with Lyonnaise potatoes.
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Lyons
China to establish engraving bureau with American help
China plans a full engraving and printing bureau as part of its fiscal system and has contracted $200,000 in machinery and materials from the United States. American artisans will teach Chinese staff and Lorenzo J. Hatch will head the bureau with D. J. Guilfoyle and William A. Grant joining as experts.
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Washington
China
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Lorenzo J. Hatch
Hatch
D. J. Guilfoyle
William A. Grant
New York
United States
Peking
Japan
Oyama
Yokohama
Bureau
Ralph
Wireless Telephone Aims For Longer Range in Signal Work
Washington reports Gen. Allen, head of the signal corps, will urge a small congressional appropriation to buy any improved wireless telephone device offered in the coming year. The signal service currently uses De Forest equipment from Fortress Monroe to harbor craft, about five to six miles, with Telefunken and Fessenden systems under development. A 50 to 60 mile range is targeted to advance signal office operations and spur inventor progress.
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Washington
Congress
Allen
Signal Corps
de Forest
Fortress Monroe
Telefunken
Fessenden
Bath Tub Displayed for Teddy Roosevelt Jr
Theodore Roosevelt Jr has bought a bath tub in Springfield Massachusetts. A local plumbing firm sold it and proudly displays the tub in a show window with a placard announcing it will go into Teddy Roosevelt Jr’s apartments.
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Teddy
Springfield
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Teddy Roosevelt Jr
Paris to Introduce Simplified Spelling in Schools
Paris plans a phonetic spelling reform in public schools following Roosevelt lines. M. Doumergue, minister of public instruction, will implement it this year in non obligatory form with approval from the French Academy, which guided spelling since 1893.
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Paris
Roosevelt
M. Doumergue
French Academy
Young Corre joins the United States Navy
Glenn Corre aged 24 son of the late A G Corre millionaire hotel proprietor leaves Cincinnati to enlist as a sailor in the U S Navy. He drives his own fine automobile to the station and departs for New York to begin seaman duties with a monthly pay of 17 50. Corre owns part of his father’s estate including the Grand hotel and Gibson house with his three sisters. He previously attempted suicide in a Gibson house lobby after a period of heavy drinking but survived and passed the Navy physical.
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Cincinnati
Glenn Corre
A. G. Corre
United States Navy
New York
Young Corre
Gibson
Gibson House
Navy
Verona musician Mcs Rice faces roof building challenge
Mrs Charles Rice of Verona New Jersey built a four story concrete house and reached the roof with no means to raise rafters and timber frames. She cannot afford carpenters, fears delay, yet remains undaunted. Her home rivals a $15,000 house and inspired local mechanics to build their own houses cheaply with concrete. Her crippled husband and three children perform as the Rice family on the Keith Proctor circuit.
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Montclair
N. J
Charles Rice
Verona
Rich casket quest linked to Chicago family treasure
John F. Goodrich, a traveling salesman living at 168 Forty-fifth street, is dispatched to search New Orleans graveyards for a rare mahogany casket with gold plates and handles. The artifact, brought from France by the Carsten family ancestor, was once sold, then reassembled in modern Chicago by C. R. Carsten, who now aims to recover it.
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Chicago
John F. Goodrich
Forty-fifth Street
New Orleans
Goodrich
C. R. Carsten
Carstens
America
France
Chicago Carsten
Carsten
Fortune
Ished
Mr. Goodrich
Five practitioners use electricity to wake asleep Luciana Piette
In Lowell Massachusetts doctors treat the French Canadian girl Luciana Piette who has been asleep for 13 days. They diagnose hysteria not catalepsy and obtain the mother's consent to apply electric currents to her hands and feet. The patient resists and withdraws under the bedclothes as a stronger current is prepared.
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Lowell
Mass
Luciana Piette
Man Refuses One Cent Check From Federal Pay Office
Samuel Armstrong of New Jersey treasury unit received orders from Washington to cash a one cent check correcting a government overpayment. Arm strong planned to keep the penny as a souvenir, but must obey federal orders, illustrating strict scrutiny of pennies as well as dollars.
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Trenton
N. J
Samuel Armstrong
New Jersey
Quartermaster General's Department
Washington
Maj. Armstrong
Uncle Sam
African Fever as Deadlier to Hunters Than Lions
The article argues African fever, not wildlife threats, is the primary danger to explorers in East Africa. It cites Roosevelt and explorers like Drummond, Lemaire, Alexander, Lampugh, Fitzgerald, noting fever ruins campaigns with weeks of irritability, weakness, delirium, and eventual death. Fever distributes across east and west coasts, river courses, and marshy zones, sparing mainly higher plateaus.
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East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
Henry Drummond
Central
Charles Lemaire
James Edward Alexander
Henry Rowley
C. D. Lamphugh
William Walter Fitzgerald
East
America Faces Steel Famine warns iron ore will run out
Andrew Carnegie and others warned at a Washington conference that iron ore reserves could be exhausted by 1940. The piece discusses the implications for steel demand, construction, and infrastructure, noting huge ore stocks but finite supply and suggesting water transport to cut iron use.
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Andrew Carnegie
James J. Hill
John Hays Hammond
Washington
Brooklyn Bridge
Lord Macaulay
London Bridge
St. Paul’s
New York
Carnegie
Lake Superior
Southern
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Virginia
United States
Lake Superior District
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