Head Hunters of Luzon and Sturdy Texan Origin Tales
Major March pursues Aguinaldo in the Cordillera as Igorrote trackers race by in eight hours a feat unknown to whites. The article also recounts Sam Houston’s Texas independence and early U S saga with Mexican foes, plus a note on Nishani Shefakat, a women’s Turkish order tied to philanthropy and a related insignia.
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Luzon
Interior
March
Aguinaldo
Europe
Burdett-Coutts
Biam
Two Octogenarian Wage Earners From Buckinghamshire Lace Work
The article profiles two elderly Buckinghamshire lace makers with sixty years in lacemaking who strut the 16 dot torchen lace. It notes Sir William Thompson’s Boer War volunteer service as a field surgeon and describes Africa’s giant elephant tusks auctioned in New York, weighing 239 and 224 pounds with an explanation for size difference.
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Buckinghamshire
William Thompson
Great Britain
College of Surgeons
Ireland
England
William
Africa
Zanzibar
New York
Ingenious clock houses British soldier model in Illinois jewelers
An Illinois jeweler devised a clock powered by a five foot wheel with 120 cups holding steel balls. As the wheel turns, a ball drops every 90 seconds, rolls down a 20 inch incline, and is lifted back to its cup by a car on a steeper incline. The design runs a year on a single battery recharge.
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Illinois
One Day's Work at De Beers Mines
The illustration shows a photograph of a profitable day's diamond wash at De Beers mines in South Africa. A cluster of rough stones holds gems worth thousands of dollars with a notably large stone in the center expected to fund a small fortune once cut.
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de Beers
South Africa
Oddities From The World The Point Of View Summary
Travelers in Siberia notice a damp heat effect reducing drive and ambition. Four boys forced to carry back stolen horseshoes 77 miles apiece receive public spankings. Chatham island off Ecuador hosts all black cats living in lava crevices and foraging fish. Hohenzollern princes cradle is carved with a biblical verse and treated as a mascot. An electric foghorn with three electromagnets yields 36 000 strokes a minute plus megaphone directing sound. Benjamin White of San Francisco claims Lincoln rewrote the Gettysburg address with a pencil he says he lent his father. Belgium considers an electoral plan rewarding thrift and marriage with voting power based on age, tax, and assets.
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Chatham Island
Ecuador
Benjamin White
San Francisco
Lincoln
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Thirty-third Infantry
Cordillera Mountains
Cervantes
Tilad Pass
Gregorio del Pilar
Pilar
Mountain Peak
Major March
Bontoc
Texas
Samuel Houston
United States
Virginia
New Republic
van Buren
Houston
France
Spain
Trude
Uncle Sam
Lone Star State
Ladysmith
de Aar
Cecil Rhodes
Lioness
Kimberley
Groote Schuur
Napoleon
Cape
Rhodes
London Zoological Gardens
Tommy Atkins
London
William III
Enfield Lock
Atbara
Siberia
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