Helium Discovery Seen As Real Romance Of Science
The article recounts helium's solar discovery by Lockyer and Ramsay, its potential for airships, and how cheap extraction from natural gas could transform lifting power, engines, and safety. It notes helium’s nonflammability, low diffusion loss, and future Empire airship prospects alongside limits of supply and cost considerations.
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United States Bureau of Mines
Fort Worth
Texas
United States
Shenandoah
Norman Lockyer
William Ramsay
Atlantic
Canada
Ontario
Alberta
Chambers’ Journal
Monument Planned for Little Boy Blue in St Joseph Mo
Eugene Field’s connection to St Joseph is noted as his years there shaped his career and his son’s death inspired the well known poem. A national penny campaign by schoolchildren supports the monument honoring Field with a tribute to his nursery chair toy soldiers image.
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Eugene Field
Little Boy Blue
St. Joseph
Field
Cattle Disqualified For Defective Ears In Subsidy Rules
Live Stock Market Report notes British disqualification of Canadian cattle for subsidy due to right ear marks. Glasgow sale saw 36 steers rejected, prices about 40 shillings per head lower. Emphasizes ear tagging and 90 day feeding requirement for subsidy eligibility, with detailed subsidy rates for quality home bred, ordinary home bred, quality import, and ordinary import cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Glasgow
Britain’s Uneven Rise Seen Around World
Scientists report Britain shifts unevenly with the north rising and south sinking as continents expand and contract. No alarm, as global earth movements ease and overall change in Britain over 50 years totals about seven inches.
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Britain
Pearson's Weekly
French inventor touts radio controlled warship guns
A French inventor claims he can direct a warship and fire its guns by radio. He says the concept deserves encouragement and could confine a war to radio control, which he suggests might not be entirely bad.
Three British freighters meet in Table Bay in legend
The Johannesburg Star recounts the trio of British cargo steamers once linked by disaster and revival. One ship exploded at Adelaide harbor, later rebuilt by Dutch owners. Another split and rejoined after salvaged sections, now back in service. The third survived a collision with Americas cruiser Chicago, in which repairs shortened its bow and spurred ongoing litigation.
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Table Bay
Swift
Adelaide
Holland
Amsterdam
Goodwin Sands
Thames
London
Americas
Chicago
San Pedro
Johannesburg
Cheerful newsboy inherits $10000 from local patron
Gerry Reed of Allentown Pennsylvania, aged 18 and a newsboy, received ten thousand dollars from the will of Oliver H. Gernert a former Allentown theatre operator who valued the boy’s cheerfulness and service to customers.
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Gerry Reed
Allentown
Reed
Oliver H. Gernert
Airplanes first used in warfare at Tripoli and the Balkans
The article notes that the earliest combat use of aircraft occurred in the campaigns in Tripoli and the Balkan theater. It highlights the pioneering role of air power in modern warfare and marks a turning point in military operations.
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Tripoli
Balkans
Crochet Doll Pattern 5969 for 16 Inch Christmas Gift
Pattern 5969 provides a 16 inch crochet doll with hair, eyelashes and dress. Instructions cover slip and dress, all done in single crochet with wool and mesh dress. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg for pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Invention Brings Fortune From Bible Based Armament Process
A 77 year old man after 16 years of poverty devised a method to convert old Bibles into gun cotton artificial silk cellulose and expensive note paper. His machinery runs at a Cardiff factory and eight other plants where armaments are produced from ancient Testaments.
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Cardiff
London Daily Express
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Detroit News
South Britain
Enterprise
Oregon
Alice Brooks
Alice
Brooks
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