Portable steam powered fan finds favor in India
Consul General Michael in Calcutta describes a compact portable fan usable where power is unavailable. The device, about the size of a small coal oil stove, runs a vertical engine powered by steam from a kerosene lamp. Operating cost is 1 anna per day, with a retail price of 61 dollars and 6 cents or 185 rupees.
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German Surgeon Reports Cancer Experiments With Swine Blood
Professor August Bier in Berlin reports experimental cancer work using fresh swine blood injected near tumors. He notes two cases with promising results including a cheek cancer near the eye and a neck tumor, though he says no cure is claimed and pain remains in many patients.
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Soda Water Geyser at Wendling California
A Wendling artesian well near the Mendocino Sonoma border erupted into a vast natural soda fountain. Drilling 200 feet through granite, dynamite released pressure and sent soda water twenty feet above ground, with ongoing flow sufficient to fill a song flume powering logs to mills.
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Tellurium Sparsely Used Yet Crucial in Copper Refinery Output
The Engineering and Mining Journal notes tellurium is largely unused in the arts, with small medicinal uses. It claims a single day’s copper refinery output could supply a major chemical house with enough tellurium to last a year.
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Australia’s Waste Places Revealed in Northern Regions
A historical note describes vast Australian tracts as virtually empty with a white population ratio of about one in seventy square miles in northern areas, highlighting sparse settlement patterns and colonial demographics.
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Matrimonial Ruse Reveals a Husband's Double Life
Mrs Mosely's friend and Mildred Clarke uncover a husband’s ad seeking a marriage partner. In disguise they meet the executor of the scheme at Guilford Chambers. The planned marriage turns to comedy when the truth about the husband’s identity and the advertiser Carlo is exposed.
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Jury System in Mexico Narrows to Nine Peers
The text explains that Mexican juries consist of nine peers and verdicts require a majority. If all nine agree, there is no appeal. Eligibility for jurors includes qualifications such as a legal or medical diploma or an income threshold or belonging to a family with a certain annual income.
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Mexico
Champs Elysees Lights and Confetti in Paris Festivities
Aubrey Lansten in Bohemian captures Paris on the Champs Elysees during Mi Careme. The scene blends noise perfume confetti and street life from morning shops to night promenade. Confetti fills hats pockets shoes purses and socks as revelers flood the boulevards.
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Boulevard Des Capuchins
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Aubrey Lansten
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Brave act on a Sidon bridge during Syrian War
During the Sidon assault in the war with Syria British troops faced a long unprotected bridge under a six-gun battery. Arthur Cumming, in full uniform, stepped to the bridge, was immediately swept by fire but remained unharmed. He fixed a glass in his eye and inspired the men, who then captured the bridge and battery with a shout.
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Syria
Arthur Cumming
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