Inventions and opinions from early 20th century pieces
An American tourist in Scotland mocks military tradition by noting the Black Watch uses West Point tactics and modern gear from New York Chicago and Springfield. The piece also discusses boosting coal energy efficiency, mushroom nutrition myths, and a Royal Society study finding no link between large heads and intelligence.
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Scotland
Black Watch
West Point
New York City
Chicago
Tree tomato and sea grape reach US gardens
The Agri Cultural Department introduces tree tomato from Peru in California and sea-grape from the West Indies into Florida noting the fruit grows in clusters and resembles the apricot in taste. Jujube plants from the Orient expand in Movida and California for jellies and potential staples. Franklin Fund trustees approve building a Boston library and education center funded by Benjamin Franklin’s bequest to foster applied arts, sciences, and artisan instruction.
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Agri Cultural Department
California
Peru
Florida
West Indies
Orient
Movida
Franklin Fund of
Boston
Benjamin Franklin
Energy Era Ahead as Rivers Power Factories
Lord Kelvin notes Niagara Falls waste and predicts the falls may disappear to feed electrical machinery. The Philadelphia Ledger says coal and oil fields may exhaust soon, but electricity will supply all thought heat and power as industries grow. We stand at the threshold of the electric era.
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Lord Kelvin
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia Ledger
Impudence and a cat steer Lettice toward marriage
Lettice Duvall faces two suitors as her cat Imp stirs mischief and a plan. Bluette helps reveal the poor but devoted James McDowell Reid, whose bold request wins Lettice’s hand after parental doubts fade. The father grants blessing and vows, and Lettice prepares for a quick wedding with her chosen knight.
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Bluette
Lettica
Imp
Mother
Mrs. Duvall
Lettice
Mr. Duvall
James McDowell Reid
Latone
Fragmentary dialogue from a domestic scene in old text
A partial passage depicts a tense domestic moment with a queen-mother, a man and a young wife discussing a headache and an insult called pluck, their hands touching over a cat’s fur as they speak in quoted dialogue.
Macedonian Hotel on City Island Aims to Preserve Ship Legacy
On Long Island City Island a former wreck salvage tale becomes the Macedonian Hotel a quaint tavern built from timbers of the English frigate Macedonia. The ground floor houses a bar fashioned from ship timbers with sailors’ hooks still attached a second floor music room preserves the main cabin of the vessel.
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City Island
Long Island
Macedonian Hotel
Macedonia
Hart'i Island
New York Herald
United States
Stephen Decatur
U, SN
Lon
Cape de Verde Islands
Africa
Cowbay
Easter pomp in Rome attracts world attention
Readers are invited to Rome where the festival is marked by dawn cannon at the castle of St Angelo and a papal mass at St Peter's. The pope rides from the Vatican in splendor wearing a tall cloth of gold tiara beneath a silk canopy as flabella, peacock feather fans, are carried beside him. After benediction he appears on the central balcony for the farewell blessing, in a scene described as one of the year’s greatest in Rome.
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Rome
Castle of
St. Angelo
St. Peter's
Vatican
Leslie
Funeral Biographies for Rev T De Witt Talmage Marketed
Biographies of Rev T De Witt Talmage have been completed with seven on sale in the market. Official memoirs and biographies remain to be claimed. The note hints at the bustle around memorials and writings for the noted clergyman.
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Talmage
T. de Witt Talmage
Un Effiet November 25 1900 Eastern Standard Time
An item references a date and time in 1900 noting Eastern Standard Time on November 25. The fragment lacks clear events, names, or places to establish a fuller news item.
Travel Schedule Notices for Blairsville and Pittsburg Districts
Brno Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway issues a notice to agents with stop details. It lists departures from Blairsville to Swaltsburg Panston Kiakiminetne Junction Freeper Springdale and Allegheny City with times on weekdays and Sundays. Also routing for Blairsville to Butler and stations on Butler Branch with weekday and Sunday times. Ulairsville Intersection to Mittsburg with weekday and Sunday times. Blairsville Intersection to Altoona with multiple daily times. Pittsburg to Indiana via Blairsville Intersection with weekday and Sunday times. Official notices directed to Whog. E. Watt and J. B. Hutchinson with signatures of general managers and agents.
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Swaltsburg
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Kiakiminetne
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Butler
Ulairsville
Mittsburg
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J.B. Hutchinson
J. Wood
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