Morning Light Over Lake and River Tales of Love and Invention
A montage of poetic morning scenes over a misty lake and shaded forest contrasts with a domestic tale of artists and writers at a rural retreat where romance blooms after a moonlit rescue. Interleaved are stories of Letty More and Clem Darrel’s reconciliation, and a feature on early American women inventors highlighted by Mary Kies and others with patent histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Patent Office
Mary Kies
Miss Kies
Elizabeth Oram
Florida
Adelena
Goodman
Almira M. Cole
Windham
Progressive Finlanders and the rise of women in politics
The piece extols Finland as a woman’s paradise with universal adult suffrage and a record 19 women elected to the diet, nine of them social democrats. It contrasts Finland’s progress with the commonly cited liberal states and other regions.
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States
New Zealand
Australia
Finland
Wireless telegraphy sparks at Wellfleet station finale
A Leslie’s Weekly account describes Marconi’s Wellfleet wireless station of four tall towers 150 feet apart, emitting dazzling electrical displays during a Roosevelt transmission. Heat limits block longer messages, while the life-saving patrol investigates the spectacular pyrotechnics and ongoing speed challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellfleet
Marconi
Leslie
Roosevelt
Ants on horseback in Siam a curious find
A French traveler reports a new ant trait in Siam. Gray damp dwelling troops move in lines with a large fast ant carrying a smaller gray ant on its back. The mounted ant acts as a commander overseeing movements, a rare sight in each colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
M. Meissen
Hat Wearing in Church Through the Centuries
The article notes that sixteenth and seventeenth century Protestants wore hats in church on the Continent and in England. Pepys records a French Savoy clergyman preaching with his hat off in 1662, while some sang Psalms with hats removed and readers kept heads covered. The practice waned after the Restoration, revived by William III, who stayed bareheaded during prayers but wore a hat for sermons, with a late surviving example in Truro church in 1809.
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England
Pepys
Savoy
William Tit
William
Truro
Smallest Sailing Yacht Built by Beverly Farms Boys
Two boys named Connelley of Beverly Farms Massachusetts own the smallest sailing yacht in the world. The Zuleika is under five feet long, draws a few inches of water, and can be carried with mast removed. It holds one sailor who must stay in place, yet it sails two to three miles and has beaten larger craft in several races on the bay.
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DeBruyn
Gummer
Randolph
Kor Addic
Jack
Dipa
Belle
Lou Holcomb
England
Scotland
Ireland
British and Foreign Bible Society
London
Chicago
Germany
Baltic Sea
New York City
Carl Schurz
Vatican
Rome
Charles J. Taft
Ohio
Cincinnati Times-Star
Cornhill
Mauretania
Liverpool
New York
Braybrooke
Bombay
Agra
India
Zululand
Peter Nicolaivitch
Russia
Europe
Big Horn Reserve
Wyoming
Connelley
Beverly Farms
Mass
Jeneth
Beverely Farms
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Reach
Bay
the Herald
Elizabeth Ray
Harry Randolph Owering
Harry
Jack DeBruyn
Farmer Holcomb
DeBruyne
Harry Randolph
DeBriyn
Anniaias
Lou
Miss Holcomb
Bettman’s
Clem Darrel
Clem
Mrs. Miles
Lista Williams
Williams
Lista
Letty
Boston
Jan Higbee
Letty More
Tom Collins
Jan
Clem Darre
Patent Office
Sarah P. Mather
Brooklyn
N. Y
Jane Montgomery
Mary Ann Frost
Anna French
Mary E. Beasley
Philadelphia
Jane P. Clement
Noa
Progressive Finlanders
Graphy
Spain
Ethel Roosevelt
Cathedral School
Washington
Africa
France
Java
Sumatra
Durango
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