Seagoing Academy Planned Aboard Young American
A new seagoing academy to launch in summer plans a four year world cruise for boys aged 14 to 19. The program on the Young American includes college prep, physical discipline, naval style training, and studies of foreign commerce. Up to 250 pupils and 25 faculty, cost $1280 yearly, first cruise September 1908 with extensive global ports.
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United States Naval
Timypantes
Hand
Census Fixes New Zealand Population At 15820
A recent census fixes New Zealand population at 15820. London Bridge widening plans include lighting from the center rather than from the rides.
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New Zealand
London Bridge
Royalty’s Ballooning Aims Across Continents and Eras
A sweeping survey recalls monarchs and nobles who ballooned, from Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria to King Leopold of Belgium. It notes Arctic and polar trials, high society ascents in Paris 1878, and royal figures such as the Empress, Kaiser Wilhelm, and Queen Isabella taking to air travel despite risks and court restrictions.
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Siantos-Doumont
Archilnke
Eopolis Salvator
Austris-Hungary
Alps
Italy
Turin
Abruzzi
Duke of
Aosta
Genoa
Humbert
Germany
Charlotte
Saxe-Meiningen
Paris
Plave Des Tuileries
Kaiser
Patreetel
Lord Juyons
Queen Victoria
Cvession
Prince William
Princess Charlotte of
Saxe-Meainingyn
Prince Bernhardt
Count Seckendorff
Empire
Frederick
King Edward
Alexandria
Duke of Albany
Denmark
Greece
Leopold
Belgium
Prince Frederick Leopold
Prussia
Temple Hof
Leopold Salvator of
Austria
Bishop Burgess Opposes Female Singers in Vested Choirs
Rt Rev Frederick Burgess new Episcopal bishop of Long Island declares opposition to female singers in vested choirs and has prohibited their appearance in nine churches under the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City. He states he is strongly opposed and intends to end the practice as much as possible.
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Chetra
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
Cathedral of the Incarnation
Garden City
Burgess
Rice Kitchens Open To Promote Rice Use In Cities
An association for expanding rice cultivation and markets has opened rice kitchens in Washington and several big cities. Free cooking lessons are offered at set hours and meals feature rice dishes such as rice cream, salad, cakes, gravy, pudding, and pie.
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Washington
Eyottos Acrobats Bring Balance Mastery to London
Out of the Ordinary 4a Sensations presents Eyottos, a trio of acrobats and hand balancers in London. Their act shows three resting in a line with synchronized neck twists, lifting the middle while arches form and all three pivot on their axes without balancing support. A chef d oeuvre in balance art.
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Eyottos
London
Fragmented Old English Letter Route From Keeper to Neighbor
A puzzled note describes a pad dwelling gamekeeper and a complex postal path to a nearby neighbor. The imagined route traverses ten miles to a farm, then by post, rail, and coach across dozens of miles, finally delivering within five miles of the original house. It mentions Ardgay Garvethes and various travel legs.
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Eigny
Postotice
Ardgay
Garvethes
Giant fossil of extinct marine reptile found in Wyoming
The American Museum spearheaded a major fossil expedition in Anverlon Wyoming uncovering one of the largest nearly complete skeletons of a prehistoric marine reptile. The creature stood about twenty feet tall with six foot footprints and lived five to ten million years ago in an inland sea spanning western North America. Extraction took over three months from shale rock twelve feet underground.
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Sepenty-Wooter
American Museum
Io Anverlon
Madicine Row
Wyoming
Underground Photograph of Deep Well Explosion Captured
Photographer records a dramatic image at Warren Pennsylvania showing a 1700 foot well after a glycerin torpedo blast. The camera reached the bottom revealing a 14 by 7 foot cavity below oil sand with oil accumulating near the chamber.
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Curios
Warren
Penn
Pope Leo's Sedan Chair Infirmities Reported
The aged Pope Leo XIII is described as frail and burdened with weakness. His state apartments are vast, and when he receives, tours the Vatican gardens, or moves between rooms, he is carried in a sedan chair through the palace corridors.
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Sig III
Vatican
So Near and Yet So Far In Kincard Pe Ross-shire
A fragment from a Scottish report notes a remote part of the parish of Kincard in Ross-shire where something is described as nearly reachable but not quite attained, hinting at a territorial or travel obstacle in the area.
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Ross-shire
Scotland
Bullet in Heart Survives After Self-Injury Case
At a Berlin surgical congress Professor Trendelenburg of Leipzig described a young man who attempted death by shooting. The bullet lodged in the heart chamber yet the wound healed, Roentgen rays later showing the bullet moving with each heartbeat. He cited nineteen known cases of survival in similar men.
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Berlin
Germany
Trendelenburg
Leipzig
Halle
Oles Ii
New Patented Chair Provides Continuous Air Breeze
A Trevity Tennessee citizen unveils a new chair design named Reeking Chair and Beeexe Producer. The chair offers four continuous breaths via a pneumatic back pump that activates automatically. An optional attachment allows use with a child's cradle.
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Trevity
Tenn
Peregao
Russian Beggar Caique Record Anion Dies in Belgorod at 140
The long lived beggar Record Anion dies in Belgorod aged 140. He spent life as a beggar with a father who was a professional beggar. He posed as cripple and as a Divid and dumb man, tried to work thrice, and married nine times before each departure to a new town. He lived in St Petersburg for a long period and was not burdened by want worry or family.
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Anion
Belgorod
Russia
St. Petersburg
Bearded Lizard Among Australia’s Agamids
A note on the bearded lizard as the best known member of a small Australian group within the broad Agamidae family. The family is widespread across Asia, Africa, and Australia, with the bearded lizard highlighting the region’s diversity.
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Asia
Africa
Austral
Ping-Pong Rivalry Reaches Washington Senators
Mark Hanna installs a ping-pong set at his Washington home inviting visitors for amusement while the senator Jerry Simpson of Kansas claims the title of Montana’s champion. Simpson says he beat three millionaires at their own game in a notable match.
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Washington
Mark Hanna
Jerry Simpson
Seckless
Kansas
Montana
Jerry
Platinum mining venture in Seattle area declared
A new company formed at Seattle to mine platinum in the Tula meen river and Granite creek deposits. Chinese workers have earned wages for fifteen years extracting platinum from the placer deposits.
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Haseen
Seattle
Tulameen River
Granite Creek
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