Universe’s light cannot be restored over time says Newcomb
Simon Newcomb argues in the International Monthly that cosmic light loss and energy expenditure prevent any true restoration of emitted light. The sun’s supply would last only tens of millions more years, while earth and oceans reveal hundreds of millions to thousands of millions of years of causal change.
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Simon Newcomb
The
International Monthly
Earth
Ocean
Tinw
Becquerel
Gravity air cooling machine could slice heat with low cost
Professor Willis L. Moore, head of the weather bureau, filed for a patent on a gravity based air cooling, drying and purifying device. After years of study, he asserts the invention will greatly reduce summer discomfort by maintaining rooms at 70 to 72 degrees, with costs affordable for nearly all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
Moore
Monster blast at Bonawe granite quarries in Argyleshire
The London Fingineer reports a massive blast at Bonawe granite quarries Scotland. A driven center charge with two fifty foot arms and end chambers held 20 000 pounds of gunpowder. Executed in ten weeks using high grade powder displaced over 250 000 tons of rock.
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London Fingineer
Bonawe
Argyleshire
Scotland
Automobiles Linked to Bronchial Ills and Puerto Rico uptake
Closing papers at the twenty fourth annual congress of the American Laryngological Association discuss foreign bodies in bronchial cavities. Dr Emil Mayer warns high speed driving may raise cases. Porto Rico shows strong interest in automobiles with sales around $20000, while the Philippines is predicted to play a key role in future vehicle use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Laryngological Association
Emil Mayer
Porto Rico
Automobile Magazine
Philippines
Two Family Dwelling Plan by Dennis and Gastmeier
Plans and designs by Dennis and Gastmeier New York outline a low priced two family model home. Features include brick foundation with cemented floor, full basement with coal bins and storerooms, hemlock and spruce frame, two ply siding, narrow pine floors, Cypress interior trim, yellow pine stair treads, oak rails, natural wood finish, dark bronze hardware, and four attic rooms. Estimated construction cost as low as 2800 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis & Gastmeier
Broadway
New York
North Carolina
Illuminated Indian club lights up optical illusion
A Suffern man, John Crecman, invents a lighted Indian club that uses an incandescent lamp inside a hollow perforated body. Electricity runs through the handle to illuminate the perforations, creating a whirling fire-like effect in the eye as the lantern spins. Colored lamps enhance the effect for spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Crecman
Suffern
Scientific American
Automatic cane loader touted by J A Martini in Louisiana
J A Martini, longtime manager of the Alhambra Olvitation in Iberville parish, explains in New Orleans a new automatic cane loader patent. The device, mule-drawn, uses a ground rake, a screen incline and forks to lift cane to a table, then into carts. He notes time and labor savings and says General Beban is interested in building the plant.
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J. A. Martini
Iberville Parish
W. J. Belin
New Orleans
Louisiana
Beban
Wood as Food Feeding Sawdust Diet Patented in Berlin
Heinrich Reh, a Berlin chemistry professor, has patented a form of animal fodder built around sawdust as the main ingredient. He notes animals prefer young shoots bark and shrub roots and argues that nutriment remains in the sawdust even when it becomes wood, suggesting a nourishing diet with a little salt and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heinrich Reh
Berlin
Tie
Mrs Peary’s final polar voyage to Cape Sabine
Abs. Robert Peary’s wife Mrs. Peary plans to join the Windward for Sydney and then Etah, aiming to meet Peary at Cape Sabine. She recalls poverty during the prior wait, notes the absence of a physician, and says the journey will be her husband’s last polar expedition.
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Cape Sabine
Robert Ibleary
Pleasantdale
Danger
Sydney
C. B
Mr. Peary
Marie
Diedrich
Peary
Summer Vacations In Modern Society
Les He's Weekly notes that time distribution changes will not erase the summer vacation. This leisure interval, once a wealthy privilege, has become a necessity, provided as systematically as other life needs. Used wisely, its utility is undeniable for weary workers seeking relief from endless detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sare
Les He
Tegel
Government Food Tests Preservatives to Be Studied on Volunteers
Scientists plan a government study to test how foreign preservatives affect human health. Dr. W. H. L. Wiley will lead trials using volunteer healthy young men and potentially college students on a training table diet. The program, funded at 10,000 dollars by Congress, will introduce borax and other additives to measure effects before broader army rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H L. Wiley
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
Europe
Congress
Bureau
United States Army
Army Unforms Introduce Olive Drab and New Dress Attire
Secretary Root at Oyster Bay approves army uniform board report with Jan 1 effective date. Changes include spreading buttons on full dress coat with sleeve rank, olive drab stick coat and matching trousers for cold weather, double breasted olive drab overcoat, gold lace trousers for general officers, retained chapeau, new full dress cap design, new saber, swallowtail evening coat for officers, and abandonment of the old enlisted dress coat for a dress blouse.
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Root
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Army Uniform Board
Washington Dispatch
Hay's costly ton of coal fuels a strange order
Secretary Hay paid 18 dollars for one ton of coal with 10 dollars labeled as express charges. The Hay family at Lake Sunapee New Hampshire sought steam heat and arranged express delivery from Windsor Vermont and Claremont Junction, with the Lake Sunapee agent weighing and charging 10 dollars. A second ton was ordered and the reply: not by express, but freight.
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Hay
The
Fells
Lake Sunapee
N. H
New York Evening Journal
Washington
Windsor
Express
Claremont Junction
Training Horses to Like Autos in Lenox
Albert R. Shattuck and Courtlandt Field Bishop train Lenox horses to behave when meeting automobiles. Daily outdoor equine etiquette classes are held each morning, teaching horses to calmly encounter autos under expert guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert R. Shattuck
Courtlandt Field Bishop
Lenox
New York Press
Mr. Shattuck
Mr. Bishop
Noah's pride on the sea as Morgan of the sua
In a humorous verse, W. J. Lampton imitates Noah surveying a vast sea, crowing over his imagined mastery of maritime matters. He declares himself the supreme captain, invoking grandiose self-praise amid a vast watery realm.
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Noah
Morgan
W. J. Lampton
New York Herald
Diary of Aguinaldo Chronicle Reveals Harsh Flight Tactics
The recently surfaced Aguinaldo diary details his flight from Bayambang beginning November 1899 with his wife and staff. It describes marches through mud and rain toward Santa Barbara and Manaoag, constant American proximity, and scarce food. It also notes native ceremonies including a grisly Igorrote feast called the Nanao, with body parts displayed and bones later used as house ornaments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aguinalde
St. Louis
Aguinaldo
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Santa Barbara
Manaoag
Alava
Tinio
Rosario
Fanny
Folmy
Largest Dock of All in Rotterdam Will Be World’s Biggest
The new Maas dock at Rotterdam will be the largest in the world covering 150 acres and reaching a depth of twenty eight feet. It represents a major expansion for the port, signaling substantial capacity growth and a boost to regional trade.
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Maas
Rotterdam
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