English Roads and Bridges Reflect Enduring European Practice
An American visitor contrasts English country roads and bridges with American ones, noting narrow lanes, durable stone arches, and centuries of patient work. The gardener’s lawn tale illustrates long-term cultivation, while Roman and pilgrim roads underpin today’s highways, suggesting patience and steady investment yield lasting infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
Surrey
Wales
Canterbury
King of Counterfeiters Active as Secret Service Tracks Frauds
Police Chiefs Association report details 532 arrests for crimes including 41 counterfeiters and 52 for altering currency, with busts in Pennsylvania New York Ohio California and other states. It notes rising note denomination fraud and three Austro Hungarian fraud groups. Brockway, a longtime counterfeiter, remains at large but under surveillance in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police Chiefs Association
New York State
International Association of Police Chiefs
United States
Secret Service Division
the Treasury
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
California
Missouri
Alaska
Indiana
Illinois
Middle West
Secret Service
Hawaii
Wilkie
Honolulu
Richard Sylvester
Police Department of
Washington, D. C
Interna
Tional Association of Police Chiefs
Brockway
N. Y
Krakatoa eruption reveals global air current patterns
The article describes Krakatoa’s dust and atmospheric effects, noting winds from ten to twenty miles high, a vast dust plume circumnavigating the globe, and a new equatorial wind circling Earth in about thirteen days. It highlights lessons about upper atmosphere dynamics and planetary circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krakatoa
Central America
Earth
Straits of
Sunda
Equator
Instrumental Influence on Animals in Violin Experiments
In four menageries the instrument elicited varied reactions among animals. The puma grew excited with lively music but calmed with slow tunes. Wolves showed interest, lions and hyenas were frightened, leopards looked on indifferently, and monkeys stared in wonder at the performer.
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America
British Isles
Around the
Yellowstome Park
San Franciscos Cathedral
Rotterdam
Park
Mexico City
Chickamauga Park
Havana
Cube
Pekin
China
Lookout Mountain
Mississippi
Garden of Gethsemane
Palestine
National Capitol
Washington
Rome
Lana Island
Niagara Falls
David's Judgment Seat
Jerusalem
Interior
Presiden Diars Palace
Mexico
Oerich Farm
Hepp
Royal Gardens
Dresden
Prankfort
Morre Caeetle
Gen. Torant
Caro
Egypt
Ital Spencer
McHken In & Siemens
Opportunity W
Dearborn St
Chicago
Herriofors
Exprom
Mali
Hwaawpy
Pleave
Bo Money Rc, Allien
Superior
Fred
Walsh
Ot Howe
Ieland
Ontario
Canada
M. Mediey
Duluth
Minn
QRTH
NY Times
The
Baxon
Hebela
Land Observatona
Patend
Kirtland Bros. & Co. Grn
Bastern
Hastrian Tyrol
Kirtland Bros & Co. Dent A. Mena Baceaie
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