Wireless telephony hailed as American triumph in Paris talk
Captain Bullard leads Naval Radio Service and John J. Carty of AT and T announce wireless telephony breakthrough from Arlington to the Paris Eiffel Tower. Carty credits American science and a large staff, noting 500 scientists and ten years of work. He explains the system uses a base telephone, high tension transmission, and air waves to reach worldwide, with direct two way voice links for naval use already feasible.
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John J. Carty
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Arlington
Eiffel Tower
Paris
University Club
Telephone Company
Mr. Carty
America
F. B. Jewett
H. D. Arnold
W. H. Bullard
Naval Wireless System
Navy Department
Medals Have Their Duty In Hiawatha Prize Corn Story
Hiawatha Kansas resident G Trent, named Kansas champion corn grower at the Panama Pacific Exposition, uses his many prize medals as paperweights. He raised 117 bushels per acre on an eighteen acre field, planting Boone County white corn with no special methods. The crop was grown five miles southwest of town on his father's farm.
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Hiawatha
Kan
Trent
Kansas
Boone County
Preacher Paid in Eggs at M E Conference
Missouri ministers at the St Louis Methodist Episcopal conference heard circuit riders recount hardships. A preacher said in two months he received half a hog and many eggs but no money, sending twelve dozen eggs to the district superintendent. Another rider reported $19 in two months, a third had no money yet parishioners pledged to buy a horse and hosted him generously.
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St. Louis
Methodist Episcopal Church
Dog saves woman by delivering note for help near Cisco
A Cisco Texas report tells how a dog carried a note from an aged victim dying after ptomaine poisoning to relatives seven miles away. Miss Bettie Alexander 22 died and Mrs Eliza Powers 72 was dying when the dog carried the warning to Cisco where help arrived. In Oregon a 3000 pound steer 6 years old and range fed is headed to San Francisco for a state exposition.
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Cisco
Bettie Alexander
Eliza Powers
Klamath Falls
Ore
George Watt
Klamath Packing Company
San Francisco
Oregon
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