Mrs Gallup Sees Death Foretold In Tiny Rural Scene
In a rural domestic vignette, Mrs. Gallup narrates a comic deathbed plan detailing funeral outfits and debts owed, while Mr. Gallup, unfazed, reads a poultry book beside her as she bids farewell. The tale blends humor with a mock omen of summons and domestic economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Lewis
Mary Ann Davis
Mrs. Gallup
Samuel
Tie
Gallup
Agip
Mr. Gallup
Lone
Joe White
Lie Tod
Jt Cums
Sarah Ann Johnson
Melissa
Brave Irish Lads in the Transvaal Brave Tales
An excerpt recounts Irish youths in the Transvaal, praising pluck and reporting a 16 year old trooper nicknamed Bobby. He treks terrain, shoots, and captures an officer’s horse after his horse fails. English forces pursue with rifles and Maxim guns as Bobby returns to the laager grinning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transvaal
South Africa
Sone
Tie
Tle
Bobby
Collier's Weekly
Handy With an Ax in Siberian Mining Operations
A historical note discusses Russian workers’ skill with the ax in Siberian mining. It highlights abundant wood, low fuel costs under $1 per cord, and timbering efficiency in bad ground. It also mentions Russia’s prohibition on child labor under 12 in industrial workplaces and New Zealand and Iceland sharing freedom from cattle disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
New Zealand
Iceland
Home Piazza Furnishings For a Modern Summer Living
An article on creating a comfortable home piazza with screens for privacy and varied furniture. It outlines rug and matting options, cane couches, rattan alternatives, pillows, a shortened kitchen table for magazines, Japanese screens, and hammock chair hybrids. It notes dessert on the piazza after dinner and the rise of piazza parties as summer entertainments.
Stewed Lettuce A Gentle Old Time Recipe
Stewed lettuce from a quaint kitchen note describes blanching leaves, cooling, then simmering with milk cream and butter. The dish is finished with pepper sugar and thick cream, served hot with croutons as a delicate, novel potage.
Machine predicts tides with new government calculator
A Washington project builds a government funded tide calculating machine that surpasses the British device by Lord Kelvin. The American model, costing $3,500, handles 19 fold calculations to forecast sea level tides at Karachi in 1903, aiding ship pilots with printed tables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Bill
Washington
Bureau of the Coast Survey
England
Lord Kelvin
Terrel
United States Coast Survey
Karachi
India
Arabian Sea
United States
Improved Double Share Plow a Complex Illinois Invention
An Illinois inventor patentes an improved double share plow with two moldboards on opposite sides of the beam and a sliding, latch controlled flex beam. The device uses friction rollers for guided movement, enabling right or left operation and selective engaging of moldboard and share. Also noted is Professor George W. Hough’s tabulating machine under development at Northwestern University, claimed to contain over 5,000 parts and capable of rapid high power computations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
George W. Hough
Northwestern University
Professor Dewar Reports Near Absolute Zero Discovery
In a Royal Society lecture Professor Dewar described cooling matter to a solid state and claimed a temperature eight to ten degrees below the sample, close to absolute zero. He expressed optimism about achieving helium liquefaction and noted the need for an even more volatile gas to reach within a few degrees of the absolute zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewar
Royal Society
New Bird Photography Device Captures Instant Portraits
Inventor unveils a novel apparatus using a fat shaft on an electrified wire linked to a camera. When a bird alights, the mechanism triggers the shutter, yielding an instantaneous portrait of the song thrush in a simple, inverted setup.
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Russia
EASPY
New Idea Woman's Magazine
Wheeling
Rome
Little & Glasgow Amusement Enterprise
Valvina
Midway
A. Reyman
Geo. Hook
Ohio Farmers Insurance Company
C. V. Hammersmith
Massillon, O
S. F. Wefler
Cleveland
Buffalo
City OF
Erie
Geveland
Orchestra Accompanie
Detroit
Niagara Falls
W. F. Herman
Massillon
Pharmacists
East Main St
California
Torough
Oregon
Chicago
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago, Chicago & North-Western Railway
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