Stone Mountain's Hidden Size and Future Decline
Stone Mountain extends beneath Georgia and parts of surrounding states, with granite bedrock reaching 400 feet at Macon. Geologists warn erosion will shrink the massif, estimating the mountain could vanish in about 50 million years while noting its 686 foot rise, 563 acres of exposed granite, and vast tonnage used in construction since 1865.
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Athitita
Ston Mountain
Stone Mountain
Appalachian Mountains
DeKalb County
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Macon
S. W. McCalle
China
Rome Beggars Hide Wealth Behind City Walls
Police found among Rome’s beggars a mix of opulent citizens. One aged beggar carried about $80 in receipts. others owned houses, a livery stable, or lent at usurious rates. Cesare Sanest died of heart disease on the street. his body was buried at the public cemetery for the destitute. He was said to belong to a noble Florentine family with the title of count.
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Rome
Usiny
Cesare Sanest
Sanesi
Plorentine
Coconut Milk Advised for Babies of Samoa
The United States government advises using young coconuts as nourishment for babies in American Samoa where milk is scarce. An experiment shows promise as a child drinks coconut milk and eats meat from four very young coconuts daily. Welfare visits occur in all villages biweekly, with women committees and public weight praise or correction for mothers.
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United States
Samoa
American Samoa
Old Maids Hailed as Asset at Church Meet in Eastbourne
London reports at the Eastbourne church congress praised single women, calling them a community asset. Milas Rosalind Shields, educator, urged that mature single women deserve opportunity and urged a motto Forward to broaden their freedoms beyond domestic confines.
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London
Church
Eastbourne
Milas Rosamond Shields
Ellis
Famous saloon erected on mine near Cripple Creek
In Colorado Springs two prospectors, Edward Annette and son, found a high grade ore cache beneath the former Cow Call saloon on the Burns property. They uncovered free gold in ore samples, with values from $8 per ton to 45.48 ounces per ton, and bedrock reached at the old gormand parlor site as two veins intersect. Preparations begin to sink a shaft and continue mining adventures from the old stand.
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Colorado
Springs
Colo
Burns
Nuesta Ventura Company
Cripple Creek
Edward Annette
Wall
Taft Elected President of International Y M C A
Charles P Taft aged twenty eight and son of Chief Justice William Howard Taft has been elected president of the International Young Men's Christian Association embracing the United States Canada and Mexico He resides in Cincinnati.
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Charles P. Taft
William Howard Taft
International Young Men's Christian Association
United States
Canada
Mexico
Cincinnati
American Pays Well to Learn Emphatic French
An American business traveler in Paris tests quick language schools by asking to learn phrases for safe, legal mischief. He offers 100 francs to learn a strong jail safe insult and finally adopts “Pas ai vite” after a tutor guides a proper pronunciation.
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Paris
Sentement
Parisienne Sugmested
Dublin lecture proposes Eskimo Irish Ancestry claim
Berlin professor of philology Doctor Parkery argued at University College Dublin that the Irish may descend from Eskimos. He cited Gaelic regions in Ireland and Scotland showing Mongoloid features such as oblique eyes and straight black hair as possible links to Arctic peoples. The presentation triggered debate on ancient origins and ethnicity.
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Dublin
Parkery
Berlin
University College
Ireland
Scotland
Wakmos
Rapallayen
King Tut Married as a Child, New Egypt Findings Say
New York reports Egyptologists confirm Tutankhamen died at about fifteen, challenging Howard Carter and Sir Flinders Petrie estimates. The mummy's crown, gold swords, and heart and lung markers reveal a royal tomb untouched by prior looting, with marriage ages in royal lineages discussed for context.
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New York
Tutanthimen
Egypt
India
Valley of the Kings
Egyptologista
Luxor
Howard Carter
Earl of Carnarvon
Colin
Tutankhamen
Khan-Aten
Ankh-nespa-Aten
Ankh-nes-amen
Saa-Nekht
Saa-Nekhtta
Flinders Petrie
Tflinders
Rainfall Decline on Tacoma Northern Pacific Coast
Old residents claim less rain since timber clearing and a drier climate. Weather observer L C Cover shows rainfall trends from 1895–1900 at 45 inches to 1920–1925 at 88.96 inches yearly, with current averages around 40.72 inches.
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Tacoma
Wash
Washington
Oregon
Cascade Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Tong
L. ©. Cover
Cut Ireland's Drink Shops Under New Recommendations
The government commission proposes drastic reductions in Ireland's 15,000 liquor outlets, leaving about one shop for every 400 people and forcing a levy on those remaining to compensate the displaced. Sunday sales would persist but travelers must ride ten miles to buy liquor, and St Patrick's Day would be treated like a Sunday rather than made dry.
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London
St. Patrick's
Exhibition of Forty Rare Bibles in New Haven
Forty rare Bibles on display in New Haven Connecticut mark the 400 year anniversary of the English Bible translation. The exhibit includes a first edition King James Bible page and other historically significant works by William Tyndale and early English scripture printers.
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New Haven
Conn
James Varsion
Tale
Wiliam Tyndale
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