Edison lamp powered by bicycle wheel and Burma rock sight
A pedal dynamos system on a pew bicycle lamp generates light from wheel motion at 9.32 miles per hour with a small wheel driving the larger wheel. Burma’s Kelan Heights features a balancing rock with a pagoda atop, attracting locals who revere it as a divine balance held by Buddha’s hair.
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Hume Missouri Declares Itself Spotless Town
Hume is celebrated as a spotless town where 800 residents joined a full day cleanup. A city attorney was miscast as a business leader, and the town united to paint houses white, remove trash, and enforce municipal authority with a humorous twist.
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Prayer of the Humorist in Lippincott’s Magazine
Kate Masterson frames a moral plea on humor, urging restraint from cruelty, bad taste, or mockery. The piece rails against pedantry and vulgarity, asking for sane intervals and a humane, beauty minded approach to jokes and satire.
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Who May Vote in China Says Chinese Reform Plan
Mr Ne Poon Chew, editor in California, writes in May World’s Work that the revolutionary leaders’ plan for Chinese government limits suffrage during reconstruction and education. Only educated property holders vote, electing district council members who choose district officials and laws, with provincial and national assemblies selecting higher officials and approving treaties and appointments.
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A Cameragraph Aids Copyists At Public Libraries
A new device called the camerapgraph photos pages from any book. In operation at Crerar Library Chicago, it produces continuous pages within twenty minutes of request. Borrowers pay six cents per page and receive reproduced pages for study, possibly changing library copying rooms.
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Have you Mireles cooker No but I ve got a Cookie
A Baltimore American item shows a playful exchange about a Mireles cooker and a Cookie as fre with humorous wordplay. The brief note hints at kitchen gadgets and witty banter. No further context is provided.
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Mike Donlin the Handy Champion of Baseball Giants Years
A portrait of Mike Donlin tracing his rise from Erie Pennsylvania to star outfielder with the Giants in 1906. It notes his batting title at .356 and noted fielding, plus his legendary running and on-field intensity that made him a club icon and public idol.
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Record Breakers May Join Olympic Team
Abel Kiviat and Louis Scott are sprinters likely to join the American Olympic squad for Stockholm. James Duncan could outdistance Martin Sheridan in discus. Kiviat cut three fifths of a second from the 1500 metre mark, lowering Wilson’s 1908 English record to 3m 5m 1 Be.
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Bishop Roots of Hankow Viewed Through Chinese Revolution
A New York clergyman discusses Bishop Logan Herbert Roots in Hankow, noting his high standing with the Hankow Chinese and a humorous memory snag about faces. The exchange includes a Mandarin remark about being told faces looked alike and a quip about two queues.
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Concord Fight and Ship Losses Highlight Past and Present
The article recalls the Concord Fight with references to ancestors and heroism while noting Lloyd's Reports for the quarter ending December show 266 ships over 100 tons lost or condemned. Of these 74 were abandoned at sea and 21 lost to collision. It also notes a decade of booming U S industry and leading global manufacturing.
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Ungrateful placeholder sparks witticisms among travelers
Passengers aboard a France bound voyage recall a playful exchange about loyalty and dogs, and ponder wedlock as they consider settling near distant harbors. Names and places hint at a lighter, domestic sentiment amid a long journey.
National conventions and their evolving rules in U S politics
The article surveys how national party conventions arose to replace congressional caucuses and the shift to unit and two thirds voting rules. It traces Jacksonian history from 1824 through 1890s changes, noting differences between Democratic and Republican practices and the impact of state delegation instructions on convention outcomes.
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Gardening Tips From The Woman's National Weekly
Floriculture guidance covers gladiolus bulbs planting soon and sweet alyssum as a satisfactory plant. It advises watering and sunshine needs for blooming plants, notes rootling using fuchsia slips and petunias, and discusses pansy seed shallow coverage. It mentions edging with double daisy and midsummer to frost bloom of dahlias. It also covers rose transplant timing, warma in stalks, peppers for hedges, mildew control, and varied garden shapes. It praises larkspurs, forget me nots, and songbird benefits, plus porch vines, verbenas, African Mignonette, and seed catalogs.
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A Prayer to the Spirit of Humor in Lippincott's
A humorous verse prayer by Kate Masterson in Lippincott's appeals to humorists to avoid bad taste cruel missteps and dull mockery. It warns against dry imitations pedantry and cheap parodies and aims to preserve a playful dignified spirit.
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No Need. Sea voyage tales and bohemian tales mixed
Fragmentary reminiscence recalls a voyage aboard the George Washington with sea sickness and a captain's quip. It notes a studio resident who befriended a cleaner in a layered, bohemian social snapshot with brief mentions of wives, children, and odd conversations.
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June Wishes Haunt a Wanderer In Poetic Fragments
Fragmentary verse reflects longing for June with images of paths care and distant summers. The speaker laments the waiting season and the weight of memories as emotional landscapes shift from winter thoughts to hopeful promises of renewed joy and distant journeys.
Wiley defends pure food enforcement in resigning remarks
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, on his resignation, urged enforcing pure food laws with people first. He cautioned against prioritizing manufacturers and cited a fanciful anecdote about Hilary McMasters and a striped lozenge to illustrate public perception of food safety.
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Fragmented Tale and Poems From a Distant Hotel Veranda
The fragment describes a Philadelphia woman at a Atlantic Coast resort hurling lavender salts toward an elderly man after a glue factory’s odor drifts by. It weaves verse references by Whittier and Eleanor Keeler, noting a cat saving Mrs Harber, and ends with a note on emigration to the United States and publishers seeking attention.
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Doan's Kidney Pills Proven To Help Mrs Robinson
A Modesto California woman describes severe back pain ankle swelling and dizziness that subsided after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She credits the remedy with restoring health and advises readers to remember the name when back pain appears.
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Plain lecture traveler sparks banter in Florida town
A famous woman lecturing on woman's frame spoke to local children in a Florida town. She described herself as a Baltimore native famed for oysters and beautiful women. A boy whispered that she must be an oyster eater if true.
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Don't you think the bites of life come with the honey moon
A compact remark contrasts life's rough bites with sweet moments and the harvest moon. The quip notes that true reward follows hard effort rather than dwelling on sorrows.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helps Hooper woman
Mia Susie Pleton of Hooper Nebraska credits the medicine with restoring her health after five years of female troubles. She describes severe pain weakness and loss of sleep and says seven bottles brought relief enabling her to work again for boarders and resume normal life. The record extols the medicine as a proven remedy for many women.
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