Colonel’s High Speed Vocation Meets Romance in Valley
Col Leith pursues swift driving through a prairie valley and encounters Grace Dewey and Lieut Roberts. A marriage plan shakes the colonel’s authority but ends with his blessing as the couple seeks a minister in Rockwell City. Roberts is warned about leave and the colonel resumes duty with a quick, quiet exit.
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Col. Leith
Rockwell City
Grace Dewey
Lieut
Roberts
Grace
Miss Dewey
Papa
Dewey
Leutenant
Miss Grace
Miss
Rex
Missionary Pulls Plug on Crow Horse Deal
Senator Carter recalls a Montana tale in which two agents buy a horse for a missionary. The beast proves dangerous and the rider would have to forgo riding by removing his shirt to mount. Indians lose patience, and the $100 horse trade ends quietly when the preacher refuses the risk and shame.
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Senator Carter
Montana
Crow Country
Man of God
Recipe for Oratory from Yorkshire Conjurer
The scene records Representative Hobson praised after a brilliant naval arms speech. Asked for a recipe for good oratory, Hobson says true oratory comes naturally. A comic digression cites Job Walmsley who offers a rustic method: prepare, take a drink, widen the mouth, and if nothing comes, step aside and let him speak.
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Hobson
Job Walmsley
Job
Yorkshire
Mount Etna Relives Glory With World Attention Again
After 16 years of rest from activity Mount Etna draws global notice as travelers recount its drama. English visitors of a century ago thrilled by climbs to its summit left vivid notes describing the mountain as lifting man above the world and connecting Sicily’s rivers from source to mouth.
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Mount Etna
Earth
Ought to Be a Winner in a Daily Paper Idea
A humorous dialogue imagines a daily paper without advertisements achieving enormous circulation. A man with a bargain-hunting wife believes every man would subscribe for the ads free publication.
New York Jewish Community Size Compared Globally
The New York Jewish community is described as the largest in history, representing about ten percent of the world’s Jewish population. It surpasses other major centers combined and dwarfs the Jewish populations of France, Italy, Jerusalem, Syria, and Palestine.
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New York
Vienna
Budapest
Berlin
Vilna
Amsterdam
Lemberg
London
France
Italy
Jerusalem
Syria
Palestine
Sharp retort in tipping debate echoes German court remark
Otto KE Schaar of Walter's club of New York mocks an opponent by recalling a German court case. A woman accused of poisoning her husband allegedly replies that her husband “was a big eater” when asked what she has to say about the arsenic finding.
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Otto KE. Schaar
Walter's Club of
New York
High Frequency Therapy Opposes Old Age Progress
Dr Samuel Tracy of New York discusses retarding senility with high frequency electric currents. He links arteriosclerosis to aging, cites autointoxication from excessive eating and drinking, and asserts that high frequency treatment lowers blood pressure and stimulates elimination when paired with diet and hygiene.
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Medical Times
Samuel Tracy
New York
Tracy
Amateur Electrician Uses Telephones Bells Magnets
For amateur electricians, secure two magnets from a telephone bell or a set wound for 2000 ohms. Mount them on a bar. Use the magnets to experiment with magnetic effects and basic coil setups.
Improvised Electroplating Magnet Setup Described
A homemade device uses an empty cocoa can with five holes in the cap and rubber tubing over wire terminals. Crude oil fills the can as magnets are immersed, allowing 110 volt operation for electroplating or small battery lamps with magnet windings no larger than No 40.
Short Circuited Condenser Repair Method
An illustrated method explains applying DC to a condenser with a tinfoil short due to paper insulation defect. Connects contact A to X with a fuse wire to burn out the short while using 20 40 volt or 110 volt sources. observe clearance before continuing.
Philadelphia adopts simultaneous telephony for 85 stations
The Philadelphia Department of Public Safety installed a system allowing one transmitter to reach 85 points at once. Operators wear headgear with transmitter and receiver to record messages while typing. The central switch can broadcast to all stations or converse with a single outlet, and a single station can send to all others. A Philadelphia inventor perfected the tech after ten years of work. A Vienna paper reportedly uses a similar setup for about 100 subscribers.
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Philadelphia
Technical World Magazine
Vienna
Nickel plating by chemical deposition on brass and copper
A chemical nickel coating method deposits nickel on brass or copper without electricity. Heat a water solution of double nickel salts to near boil, immerse the metal with aluminum pieces in contact, gas evolves, and a white nickel layer forms within a minute, growing to a fairly heavy coat though not as white as electroplating.
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Brass World
Violin Tone Promised From Electricity Breakthrough
A noted violinist and maker claims a machine can mimic age by imparting bowing vibration to a violin. The device supposedly gives in 30 days the tonal maturity of 60 years of use. Machine details remain secret.
Fort Crook Tornado Test of Valor by Six Hundred
At Fort Crook Nebraska a tornado struck the post sending 600 soldiers of the Sixth regiment to battalion formation. They moved en masse to sturdy buildings and took shelter in cellars as the fort suffered about 100000 dollars in damage. The event illustrates steadfast discipline and resolve amid nature's fury.
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Annals of American Arms
Fort Crook
Neb
Sixth Regiment
Hell
Heaven
Kansas City Journal
Balaklava
New Metallic Mirrors Improve Searchlight Beams
Europe sees rising demand for metallic mirrors used in searchlights as glass mirrors prove fragile under gunfire and blistering. The new electro-deposited mirrors feature gold and white bands for a stronger beam, better visibility in fog, reduced distortion, and resistance to concussion and bullet impact.
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Europe
German Public Schools and Attendance in 1906
The official reports show 61,198 public schools in Germany with 9,779,356 pupils, 94 percent of school age. Attendance rose 9.1 percent since 1901 while male and female teachers increased by 10.6 percent and 30.5 percent respectively. The annual cost per pupil rose from 11.20 to 12.86 dollars, and pupil per teacher averaged 58 in 1906.
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Germany
Making Electrical Engineers at a Major Company Shops
In its large shops about 300 young men in work clothes assemble small apparatus and test dynamos transformers railway motors and lighting devices. They come from universities colleges and technical schools worldwide to supplement their studies with hands on practice in well equipped shops and diverse manufactured apparatus.
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Scientific American
Foot proportions across nations amid ancient tastes
A discussion of national foot shapes contrasts periods and peoples. The French foot is narrow, the Spanish small and curved, the Arab high arched, the Scotch high and thick, the Irish flat and square, and the English short and fleshy. In Athens at its zenith the Grecian foot is cited as most proportioned. Swedes Norwegians and Germans are said to have the largest feet while Americans have the smallest.
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Athens
Anxious for Microbes in a Silent Parlor Exchange
In a flirtatious dialogue a man pleads for a kiss while a maid cites scientists claiming kissing spreads disease. The man dismisses the concern and asks for help to become "an invalid" for his beloved.
Tombstone From Pioneer Cemetery On Display
A letter from Lyman Cornwall of South Wales offered to fetch an old tombstone for the Buffalo Historical Society. Frank H. Severance secured the piece, now exhibited in the Historical building basement. The plain stone bears a weathered inscription and a weeping willow motif above a solemn urn, linking to frontier history.
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Frank H. Severance
Buffalo Historical Society
Lyman Cornwall
South Wales
The
Historical Society
Mr. Severance
Untimely grave remembered in sorrowful verse
A solemn fragment laments a life cut short by fate. The speaker recalls loss and lingering affection as tears flow during memory of a departed kin.
Israel Reed and the Battle of Buffalo Alleged Heroism
The Buffalo Express recalls Israel Reed and Josiah Emery facing the December 30 1813 battle. Israel Reed, who stood in for his drafted son, fought despite illness and later disappeared with only a farewell knitting gift remembered. a body was found days later near Col Ries’s retreat site.
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Buffalo
Israel Reed
Buffalo Express
Josiah Emery
Benjamin Reed
Israel
Tyler
Willink
Scajaquada Creek
Black Rock
Scajaquada
Wales
Emery
Col. Hime
Reed
Ries
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West Point
James
Ectrica
Up Weill
Lai
Tombstone
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