Practical Joke Backfires on City Quiter
Richard Benton, in town for one night, meets Miss Dilton after a prank by his college friend Tom Hartley. Hartley’s card promises introduction to a witty girl, and the evening unfolds with playful deception. Miss Dilton reveals the joke was on Benton, leading to a lighthearted reconciliation and mutual amusement.
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Benton
Hoe
Tom Hartley
Hartley
Colege
Tommie
Richard Benton
O. K
New York
Berton
Miss Dilton
John
Hartley learns Benton’s wedding plans in Philadelphia
In a hotel lobby Benton reveals he is to marry the woman Hartley has pursued for two years. Hartley eagerly wants an introduction, but Benton says the bride is busy and about to marry him tomorrow, making Hartley’s chance now unlikely.
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Benton
Hartley
New York
Philadelphia
Jove
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Chimpanzee Beats Humans in Cotton Picking
A Georgia chimpanzee independently learns to pick cotton with high speed, prompting speculation that monkey labor could replace human workers in other tasks. The report notes rapid adoption could drive wage and class tensions, with critics warning of dehumanizing labor replaceability.
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Georgia
Bhylock
Pistol Lighter Sparks Fire but Sparking Not Harmful to Wood
A New Jersey inventor unveils a small pistol lighter that emits sparks from its muzzle to ignite gas from wall jets or ranges. The mechanism uses a flint rod and steel cap, reloaded by a plunger, eliminating the need for matches inside the home.
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New Jersey
Delivery cart hybrid draws attention with mounted horse
A unique Paris street vehicle mixes car parts with a horse for motive power, creating a horse driven cart. Popular Mechanics notes the contraption serves as an advertising gimmick to showcase the wares delivered on the street.
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Paris
Aerolith: Liquid air miners’ back knapsack device
Austrian engineer Dr Otto Suess unveils aerolith a liquid air mine apparatus carried as a knapsack by miners. It provides three to four quarts of liquid air for about two hours via a mouth mask and includes an alarm to signal end of supply. Laboratories for squid air production are noted at some mines.
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Otto Suess
Suess
Radium on Market to Sell at High Price
Radium chloride will soon be available in limited quantities. A total eight months output from Joachimstal mines equals about one gramme of pure radium in ten grammes of radium chloride. After institutions are supplied the remainder will be sold at 75 000 dollars per gramme.
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Joachimstal
Aeroplanes Rise in England Amid War Effort
A clipped wartime note estimates that over 100,000 aeroplanes are being built in England at the present moment, underscoring the booming aviation industry supporting the war.
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England
Alarm clocks that speak and wake the sleeper
A talking clock announces hours and minutes by phonograph film and belt drive. It can be silenced by a night lever and folded to a small, durable unit. A second model uses a voice to urge wakefulness at set times with a boisterous call to breakfast and travel.
Aluminum Air Cooled Pipe Illustration
The image shows an aluminum pipe that is air cooled, depicted in a cross section with fins or ribs suggesting enhanced surface area for cooling. The caption notes the pipe’s material and cooling method.
Seesa Patent Air Cooled Pipe Engine Series
Seesa patents air cooled pipe engines for motorcycles and airplanes. A ringed bowl design radiates heat by the same principle described for the gasoline line engine in the report.
Flame and explosion proof motor built for powder factory
A special motor for a British powder factory is designed to be flame and explosion proof. The robust case resists dust gas explosions, joints are hemp rope tar packed, bearings sealed to prevent hot gas escape, no interior ventilation, and corrugated casing provides a large cooling surface.
Photographs of Lightning Explain Black Lightning Branches
Scientific American explains that the dark branches seen in lightning photographs arise from over exposure of the photographic plate and the reversal of the negative into a positive.
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Scientific American
Evening Clothes Prompt Gardener Sparks Arow
A woman recounts how a man in evening clothes reacted angrily when she suggested planting dandelions in the lawn. The man borrowed a dress suit three months earlier and fled with his tools after the remark.
Notes on Science Invention and Daily Facts
A digest of scientific curiosities and inventions noting steady pulse rate 72 per minute for adults and a Danish instrument for measuring nocturnal terrestrial heat radiation. Reports mention 497 balloon ascents in France last year and a new hydroplane capable of 45 nautical miles per hour.
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France
Russia
United States
Cape Colony
Bishop Thoburn on India's lack of inventiveness
Bishop Thoburn, after fifty years as a missionary in India, asserts at the Washington patent office that India has made no improvements in the toothpick in 2,000 years while others show 600 plow innovations. He labels nations without God as lacking inventive faculty.
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Thoburn
India
Washington
Prosperity message from BAKATOON Board of Trade
An invitation to farmers and agricultural workers to visit Saskatoon’s BAKATOON and join the prosperity drive. The notice urges tangible action for future gains for children and suggests writing the Commissioner, Board of Trade, Saskatoon, Western Canada, for information.
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Bakatoon
Board of Trade
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Western Canada
Bribery and Voter Exchange Mentioned in Streetcar Tale
Fragmentary remarks recount bribery in a streetcar scene as a woman recalls a man offering his seat. The note features Ruskin quotation on money and a New Era Trade ad touting Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething pain.
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Winslow
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