Strange Sea Impressions and Psychic Experiments
A fragment from a New York Press piece blends nautical imagery with a discussion of telepathic influence. It cites Hiram M. Stanley and experiments testing mind reading, noting mixed results and practical value in studying claimed powers. The text shifts to brief agricultural notes on Rhodesian fruit and new vegetables, including an ornamental orange fruit and the edible mongri radish from Java.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram M. Stanley
Bolence
Rhodesia
South Africa
Java
Parsons
New York Press
Electric fish battery may spark new engine design
Biologists study the malapterurus freshwater electric eel of Northern Africa whose eight inch body can deliver shocks up to 200 volts. Researchers hope to uncover a biological engine model to guide engineers toward highly efficient electro magnets and engines that could approach 98 percent energy recovery, potentially transforming future power systems.
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Africa
Golden Road
Vastackdown
New York Press
New Zealand Vegetable Novelties Aid Drought gardeners
Lowlands Vegetable Noveltien New Zealand offers gardeners several novelties in vegetables valuable to drought affected areas. Yates aphid-proof cabbage proves hardy despite last summer’s heat. Other cabbage varieties suffer from pests. The aphid resistant variety bears hearts and loose leaves after harvest, with rapid self-reproduction, promising a bed of vegetables through simmer and fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Boston banker famed for hotel money showers at Waldorf
R Blodgett, a Boston banker visiting New York, entertained Waldorf patrons by tossing coins to bellboys for two weeks. About 200 dollars were distributed, sparking nightly scramble as doors to reading rooms were closed and coins clattered against walls. The spectacle made him a famed figure among staff and guests.
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Boye
Coln
Bell Boys
Waldorf-Astoria
Mr. Blodgett
Blodgett
Thirty-fourth Street
Mr. Madgett
Colt
Remarkable German thermo electric motor turns heat to motion
A German design describes a thermo electric motor that uses heat to generate electricity and drive motion. Crafted from iron and nickel, its two junctions heat and cool to produce current, with gas jets exposing heated junctions and air cooling the opposite side. The device, while impractical, demonstrates energy transformation through heat electricity and motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Wetlon
Artistic horse or home scene salutes art in mid Atlantic state
After two years of searching critics declare the most artistic home in America is in a Middle Atlantic state. The modest house excels in interior decoration and furnishings. Its owner will reveal the artful interiors to the public through The Ladies' Home Journal with two magazine pages devoted to the case.
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Smarien
America
Middle Atlantic States
Ladies’ Home Journal
Fish Beales for Jewelry In India and China
The text notes small bright fish are valued around $1 per pound in France and used to make pearls buttons and various jewelry for markets in India and China. It also reflects on an old bachelor and a rich but pretty widow, suggesting social notions of marriage and wealth.
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France
Plans for Reaching the Pole and Arctic Feats
The piece notes two recent Arctic events Duke of Abruzzi’s return from polars and Lieut Peary’s windward reaching Godhaven Greenland en route Cape York. It discusses uncertainty over Peary’s success and cites historic attempts by Nansen. It claims Americans have outpaced Britain but Norway and Italy may have surpassed them if Peary fails. It ends with a remark about a teacher who spent her oration.
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Polan
Duke of Abruzzi
Lieut
Peary
Steater
Godhaven
Greenland
Cape York
Pole
Nelfe
St. John's
Newfoundland
Arctic
Duke of Abrusal
Norway
Kah
Aire
Robert Stein
Hixemere Land
Andre
Adountaga
Lieutenanat Peary
Chi
Sic
General Greely
Ils
Nansen
Birled Encay
Tim
Tia
Pola
Duke of
Abruzil
Christiania
Archangel
Moranz
Josef Lani
Peary and Arctic Explorers Show American Spirit
The article surveys multiple polar ventures and figures. It notes Peary's long Arctic experience and plans to push north, references the Duke of Abruzzi, Greely, Lockwood, Brainard, Kane, Hall, and others, and reports on Dr Evelyn Baldwin and William Ziegler backing a new pole expedition for 1901. It ends with a boy aboard praising America as home.
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Johanson
Leeflelda
Norway
Nanuen
Leutenant
Greeley
Lockwood
Brainard
Bngland
Greely
America
Cape
Washington
Kane
Hall
Wellman
Peary
Brain
Evelyn 1 Baldwin
Polewand
Berhind Tt
William Ziegler
New Farle
Wits
Baldwin King Witently
Wollman
Baldwin
Atulree
Greenians
Florda
Changed by Surgery in Missing Child Case
Little Cora Vandergrift, missing from Omaha, has been found in Coffeyville with her father’s relatives. Mother tells a tale of a kidnapping plot and believes Pred Miller, once a boarder with the girl, is her husband altered by a surgical operation.
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Cora Vandergrift
Omaha
Neb
Coffeyville
Kan
Pred Miller
Vandergrift
Vandererifts
Tooth Care Guide From Old Manuscript Fragment
An ancient recipe recommends mixing charcoal quinine magnesia and attar of flowers for toothpaste. Brush upper teeth from top down and lower from bottom up, then rinse with soap bound to teeth three or four times weekly. Soap acts as an antiseptic and helps remove tartar.
Bone Hardening Mystery Baffles Doctors
The cane of Mr. E. W. Green of Forrestan Tl is baffing physicians as his body slowly hardens into bone. Only his face and fingertips remain unfixed while he walks slowly, with health otherwise intact, and science cannot explain or treat the condition.
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E.W. Green
Forrestan
Kansas Notes From Many Counties and People
A sprawling Kansas column reports varied items across counties. Mentions include Senator Harris fundraising for schools, Marion women raising funds, weight figures for a Highland couple, Peabody galvanizing tanks, and windmill bragging near Dushton. Also notes George Howes acquitted, Rush County election tie, Harton County gossip, and Prohibition gains in Hamilton.
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Highland
Peabody
United Stats
Dushton
Lord Scully
Motor County
Kansas Geological Survey
Flmmbenu Oleh
Topeka
McKinley
Gorge Howes
Robert Bomar
Wichita
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Tromsee
Fridt- Jot Nansen
Lapland
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Rere Turles
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New York
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Minn
Columbus
Europe
Sweden
Nan
Lieut Peary
Doke
Baldwi
Kansas
Americas
Kateme Otcr
Harris
Frankfoet Haw
Iys
Marion
Wantland
Harton County
Muriel Ingalls
Tohn J. Ingalls
Sunshine Society of
Atchison
Rush County
McCormicke
Anderson
Lat
McCormick
Atchison County
Or & Weel
Hamilton County
Pote
Joseph Hutler
Cooper
Kansas City
Joseph Landey
C. A. Luling
Wiohitay
D. W. Tapp
Butchor
John Halliday
Pittsburg
Tom Wilkerson
Grant Hume
Kanexas
Canveas
Consex
Kansex
Acanains
Canzis
Okanis
Kansdis
Catrsex
Canzan
Knoxon
Kans
Kannes
Konza
Kanen
Kazan
Knozans
Kanesaws
Kaws
Kaw
J. G. Rowland
Tamvenworth
Sydney Cook
Lansing
Vederth
Klondike
Hiawatha World
Max Phillips
J. W. Farwell
John Seaton
Atehisin
Hows
Frank Montgomery
Tom McNeal
RB. W. Weight
Dodge City
The
State Historical Society
Saddlestone
Cloverdale
Hudlilliee Stone
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