Osmium and Walnuts Highlight Global Trivia
The article notes osmium as the heaviest practical metal with extreme infusibility and calls radium a potential compound. It discusses seed germination affected by radiation, Australia’s sheep industry ranking, and Grenoble walnuts known as the best English walnuts. It also covers French walnut cultivation, grafting practices, and tree care guidelines.
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Geological Survey
Washington
Australia
Argentina
Russia
Grenoble
How is your brother Harker in a curious trade
The dialogue jokes about alarm clocks and onion markets while noting a New York man who wrote a book titled How to Succeed yet failed to sell it. The exchanges reveal light sarcasm on business and hypocrisy among men.
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Harker
New York
Multiplication of Fish Describes Harsh Odds of Maturity
The Mobile Register notes that fish reproduction is immense yet few eggs become adults. Buffon calculated massive potential growth for herrings, cod, eels, and other species, but natural enemies and predation reduce survivors. Humans are not sole predators, yet fish remain vital for food.
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Buffon
An Awkward Record at Harrow With Royal Visitor
The Earl of Spencer recalled a mortifying Harrow moment during a reunion. As Viscount Althorp he sat in the Vaughan Library when the Prince of Wales visited. The minutes book opened to a debate resolution proposing regicide against the king, and the royal guest merely smiled.
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Earl of Spencer
Viscount Althorp
Harrow
Great Public School
Vaughan Library
Prince of Wales
Justinable
Althorp
French mariner seeks wind edge for cyclone navigation
A French mariner believes favorable winds at a cyclone edge can aid navigation. By using barometer readings and instruments he aims to determine the storm's direction and steer the ship to ride the atmospheric sweep without entering the storm’s dangerous center. A clipping about married life contrasts with poems readers should know.
Automatic Gas Controller for Street Lamps in Birmingham
Conmal Albert Halstead reports a patented automatic gas controller now on sale in England for street lights. It uses a clock to light and extinguish each night with calendar-based adjustments, promising lower municipal lighting costs. In Birmingham city and surrounding districts there are 13,860 and 7,108 lights respectively, costing $102,488 yearly. installing the controller would cost $153,061 with claimed operating costs halved.
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Birmingham
Conmal Albert Halstead
England
United States
Bath
Municipal Gas Department
Municipal Gas Department of
Rockefeller's New Pastor Aked Accepts Fifth Avenue Call
Rev. Charles F. Aked of Liverpool has accepted the call to Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York. The 42 year old Nottingham born preacher is known as a fighting Christian and is noted for democratic views and frequent sermons on civic, political, and economic issues.
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R. J. Campbell
London
Christ
Campbell
City Temple
Charles F. Aked
Liverpool
England
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of
New
York
Aked
Nottingham
Grasse Flower Industry Powers Perfume Market
In Grasse Southern France nearly the entire population farms flowers and distills essences. The town soaks in roses orange blossoms jasmine and violets producing millions of pounds of blooms yearly and using steam distillation in large alembics to extract oils. Water reused and aromatic waters sold jasmine water and rose water accompany the fragrant industry.
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Grasse
France
Harper’s Magazine
Parting at the Station in a Private Farewell
A couple parts at a station sharing intimate reminders about Brid, dinner chops, feeding the canary, locking silver, and home chores. The gas man, burners, kindling, and a forgotten list surface as hints of a discreet marriage.
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Bridget
Lst
San Francisco
Auntie's Visit: A Week with a Mercenary Aunt
A small boy frets over his aunt's arrival from Kansas City. An older gentleman counsels politeness and self-control for a week, warning against mercenary motives as the aunt travels to stay. The exchange blends gentle humor with social expectations of manners and respect.
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Kansas City
Chicago Daily News
Marjorie Jeans Dolls Party and Susanna's Queen of May
Grace May North recalls a doll party led by Marjorie Jean with Susanna Ang and Rosella. The youngsters make a daisy robe and crown for Susanna as Rover bear and Flo cake interruption add playful chaos by the lake. A charming account of a child's meadow celebration.
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Marjorie Jean
Susanna Ang
Mother
Rosella
Susanna
Rosy
Rover
Flo
Fires Around the World Warm a Cold Winter
A mother and son discuss how people in Iceland Holland France Russia and America heat their homes in winter. They describe dib bones fuel peat seaweed and porcelain stoves and compare climates and comforts while imagining a perpetual summer.
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Iceland
Holland
France
Russia
America
Westminster statues and frescoes reveal comic misprints
A historic note highlights odd misprints and misplaced symbols in Westminster landmarks. Cromwell’s statue boots show upside down spurs in a painted window. An inscription reads Prince of Whales on a sword. A Pilgrim Fathers fresco oddly depicts the Mayflower hoisting the Union Jack long after its era.
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Cromwell
Westminster Abbey
London
Westminster Palace
St. Stephen's
House of Lords
Old Favorites and the Fool’s Lesson in Love
A fragmented verse sketch juxtaposes a fool, a lament on wasted toil, and a woman who never knew why. It cites Kipling and Kipll Pack Clouds Away from Heywood, weaving themes of desire, regret, and misunderstood intent, with scattered archaic and literary echoes.
Old-Time School Committees Revel In Rural Folly
Fifty years back rural Maine school committees showed limited scholarship yet provided humor through quirky teachers. A sleepy, cheerful committee member slept undisturbed until a stick of wood woke him. A German reader fooled a student who claimed Greek mastery. One pupil miscalculated the term’s fraction, finally corrected to eight twelfths by the superintendent.
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Maine
W. Knowlton
Knowlton
Julius Cesar
Ceylon Sharks Provoking Fear Among Local Divers
The water around Ceylon is threatened by sharks described as wolves of the deep. Divers, mainly Tamils and Moormen, display remarkable endurance and use charms from shark binders who collect a government fee and a dozen oysters daily per boat. Noise and splashing keep sharks at bay, resulting in rare accidents.
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Ceylon
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