Airships and a Mixed Batch of News Across 1900s
Prophesied airship warfare parallels a 17s note on English hydrogen sounds while a New York court absolves a street ball offender. Other items include massive Chicago saws, locust-control methods in Panama, rubber asphalt pavement trials in France, Morgan and Astor on a London exhibition committee, and early suffrage billboard plans in New Orleans with the New Era club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Pierpont Morgan
Waldorf Anser
Earlscourt
London
Burke's Peerage
Alfred Austin
Lafayette Square
New Orleans
New Era Club
Junius Garrick
Suffrage Club
Howe and Ward suffrage debate printed as leaflet
The reply by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe to Mrs. Humphrey Ward’s suffrage paper has been issued as a leaflet, with thousands of copies circulating, reflecting active suffrage clubs in the United States and England. The text also notes electric heated steering wheels, growing sheep shearing in Australia, and diverse scientific and cultural items from universities to natural history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Ward Howe
Humphrey Ward
America
England
Australia
Tn Taamania
Island
Alfalfa: A Century Farm Revelation and Deep Root Power
Alfalfa is a long standing yet newly appreciated crop in the United States and Canada. It thrives in warm climates with deep alluvial soils and lime rich minerals, sending roots five to six feet in six months and sometimes much deeper, enabling subsoil feeding and soil improvement. Its nitrogen gathering and soil effects make it a valuable subsoiler and fertilizer, with Colorado studies showing abundant mineral reserves in the top layers for many crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
South America
California
IBM
Union
Canada
Pacific Coast
America
Germany
Europe
New York
Rivera
Ita
Headden
Colorado Experiment Station
Colorado
Coburn
Corn Feeding Value for Stock in Chicago Feeding Insights
The article reports experimental feeding studies on dent and flint corn varieties showing similar feedlot returns, with white and yellow varieties showing no clear value difference. Sweet corn offers higher feeding value due to more protein and fat, and storage moisture loss affects perceived quality and taste affecting stock response. It notes preserved corn tastes and textures influence feeding, while ground corn and cornmeal vary in value with processing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cannibal Question Puzzles Early Speech Fragment
A cryptic fragment presents a quoted line by Jitte Harry Dinu asking about cannibalism in a stylized dialect. The readable text hints at a dialogue but lacks clear factual context or events.
Moments of Gladness and The College President Sketch
A fragmented stage dialogue with characters named Miss Antique Mr Kutting and The Nurse. Pieces reference a gift of 3200 dollars, a Santa Clara comparison, twins, and a joke about imagining an overcoat. The tone resembles a light theatrical scene with banter among townsfolk and performers.
Ferrero Debunks Classic Image of Antony and Cleopatra
At Columbia University Signor Gugliemo Ferrero challenged accepted views of Antony and Cleopatra. He argued Antony acted as a diplomat for Roman aims and that Egyptian luxury and Cleopatra’s culture helped shape history. He dismissed standard portraits as political myth and called the legends moralizing inventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Antony
Cleopatra
Columbia University
Signor Guglielmo Ferrero
Signor Ferrero
Alexandria
Latroue
Antioch
Persia
Nile
The
Miscellaneous World Notes and Local Observations
A collage of obscure facts covers tobacco usage, Chinese education in farming, Clemenceau's health, Japanese army pay for language study, and European linguistic allocations. It mentions Japan's whaling postwar, funeral customs in Japan, Southern Pacific tunnel surveys, and the death of San Francisco Chinatown figure Chang Chung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprites
Bhanghal
M. Clemenceau
Japan
Southern Pacific
Chang Chung
Littlete
San Francisco
The Prophetic Vision of a Unified World
The passage envisions a future where commerce fills the heavens and nations unite under a peaceful federation. It contrasts wartime tumult with a parliament of man and universal law, forecasting a tranquil earth.
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Idipt
Parliament of Man
Discovery Proves Antiquity of Man
Paris museum director Perrier and two priests report the oldest human remains found at Chappele aux Saints in southwestern France. The skull and bones are dated to the pliocene or glacial period about 170000 years ago, with a thick skull and limited facial mobility described.
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Parle Cablegram
Perrier
Paris Museum of Natural History
Chappele Aux Saints
France
Detalla
Perrieras
Intermediary Ape Skull Hints at Human Ancestry
Director Perrier and Prof. Marcelin Boulle report a skull fragment from a pleistocene layer showing a mix of gorilla and chimp features with a retruding chin and ape-like limb proportions. Boulle argues enough brain size to place it in the human lineage, while the skull resembles Neanderthal finds in Germany.
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Perrier
Academy of Sciences
Marcelin Boulle
Bhoulle
Boulle
Academy of Belericns
Neanderthal
Germany
Oh Fair Young Mother Bryant Poem Of Moral Grace
A Bryant poem extols a young mother as a noble figure amid scornful elders. It envisions her strength rising with age, her virtues shining through and inspiring truth, faith, and generosity in woodland homes and coastal shores. The piece lauds her enduring grace and the mercy she bestows on the downtrodden.
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Mlory
Marjorie Pickthall Poem from the Metropole Italn Magazine
The text presents a poetic monologue addressed to a higher power by a speaker named Marjorie Pickthall seeking absolution. It mentions war, women, revenue cheats, and a longing for divine pardon. The speaker asks to be allowed to pass beyond earthly flaws to be cleansed and called home.
Children of fashion and the calling of purpose
Poem fragment by Kate Thomas in The Independent laments fashion’s hollow hunger and social despair. The speaker rages at urban gaiety masking hunger while urging a fixed will against drifting fate, calling each reader to resist decay and heed a higher aim.
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Kate Thomas
Independent
Fragmented grieving voice of a lost lover across seasons
The text shifts through a bleak monologue of heartbreak and longing. A speaker laments separation, memory, and fading warmth as winter nears, recalling past affection and yearning for reconciliation. Dialect and fragmented lines hint at a rural, intimate setting with lingering attachments.
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Inter Mountair Globe
H. H. Gunderson
Pub
Hulett
Crook County
Wyoming
Hirim
Horace
Andreas Pellisarti
Mulberry Street
Wis
Panama
Paris
Lyons
Waltham, Mass
Eloise Sears
Sears
Waltham
Isaac L. Rice
Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Company
Riverside Drive
Speclal
Clerksiwell
University of Michigan
University Atccds
Harvard
Corenghle
Cuba
Jitte Harry Dinu
Santa Clara
Kutting
Colonel Bullets
Tentiyeon
Thor
Daya
Arthur Paon
Gems of
Aairies
Howerhe
Aoort
William Cullen Bryant
Pieter Marinus
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Metropoleitan
Nanten
Monty
Pieter’ Nout
Etrudy
Pletor Marinus
Charleen Buxton
Harper's
Bar
Hummer
Biowin
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