Moon Photos Shine From Orbit to Lincoln Street
The piece notes advances in celestial photography, praising Rutherford of New York for lunar images superior to European rivals and describing how stereoscopic moon photos reveal depth. It explains lunar libration, telescope types, and the potential to enlarge plates, with mentions of sun spots, transits, and the Orion Nebula captured by Prof. Draper.
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America
Europe
Lewis M. Rutherford
New York
Delarue
Mars
Rutherford
M. Jansen
Paris
Jung
Venus
Mercury
Draper
Orion
Haltimore News
Photographing the Moon Like a Peeled Orange
A young lawyer balks at a photo of the moon, joking it looks like a peeled orange. The writer notes many images resemble fruit until illumination shows crater rims, ridges, and shadows. The piece discusses how lighting and angles alter perception of lunar features.
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Rsda
Yho
Narrow Escape At Pickel Marble Works
A workman named William Morgan was crushed between hoist cog-wheels at Pickel Marble Works on Labeaume Street and Broadway. A heavy stone trapped his throat until helpers cut the pulley ropes and freed him. He suffered a severed throat wound though the jugular vein remained intact. he was taken to Sisters' Hospital for treatment.
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Pickel Marble Works
Labeaume Street
Broadway
William Morgan
Sisters’ Hospital
St. Louis
Ulode- Democrat
Doctor cites unusual death cause in child from jump rope
Dr. Jayne of the New York Board of Health notes it is unusual to see a child death certificate listing excessive jump rope as the cause. He explains deaths often come from brain congestion and that even non fatal overexertion may damage the heart.
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Jayne
New York Board of Health
Montreal merchant Joseph McKay retires and dies
Joseph McKay a noted Montreal dry goods merchant closed his career and left an estate of 3 000 000 dollars or more. A long list of gifts includes a hospital a Presbyterian College and a deaf and dumb asylum. He was born in Scotland a bachelor and generous bequests to charities are expected.
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Alan
Hospital
Pera
Humpojty
Seattle
Mariana Harland
Joseph McKay
Montreal
Scotland
Tread Water to Prevent Drowning Says Nature Essay
An essay argues that anyone can tread water to stay alive, citing animals and varied peoples who do so. It urges widespread training, life preserver use, and a home and school slate tank to teach tread water, claiming it could save many lives from shipwrecks and freshwater accidents.
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Missouri River
Joanna
Madagascar
Africa
Madras
Cape of Good Hope
Brother Gardner on the Revised New Testament
Delroy Free Press reports Brother Gardner’s critique of a Detroit citizen’s revised Bible edition. He mocks changes such as replacing Hell with Hades and warns no ease of sin, theft, or deceit. asserts the Ten Commandments remain intact and condemns loitering, loafer culture, and political blarney.
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Brother Gardner
Detroit
Dar
Hell
Belo
Peter
Paul
Moses
Delrove Free Press
The Carpenter and the Judge’s Lesson on Honest Craft
A Cincinnati jurist recalls a village carpenter who chose to finish a crude fence beyond the letter of the job. He spent extra labor unseen by the client, yet earned only a dollar and a half. Years later the same man’s integrity wins a prestigious public contract. Thorough work yields lasting success.
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Cincinnati
A Tallor's Joke Accidental Goose Calamity
A Detroit case recounts a tailor on Fort Street who heated a goose as a joke and placed a sign offering it for twenty five cents. A man and the tailor fought when the buyer tried the goose, both jailed, with the court fining the customer eight dollars. The tale ends with the joke revealed as harmless, the man paying, and the tailor heading home.
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Fort Street
Germat
Free Press
A Rooster’s Aerial Journey From Lavender Mountain
A farm rooster near Rome was carried off by a bald eagle from Lavender Mountain. After three days, the rooster returned unharmed with beak smooth and clean, and the bird now roams the Flat woods as cock of the walk. Rome Ga. Cottrier reports a Post Office chief clerk Marr celebrated fifty years of service in Washington.
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Lavender's
John Coleman
Rome
Heroe
Issig
Cock of
Cottrier
Marr
Washington
Post Office Department
Popular Delusions on Everyday Beliefs and Behaviors
A collection of pithy maxims from the Boston Transcript noting how people misjudge common things such as milk composition, musical taste, poetry value, coat preferences, timekeeping, and social motives. It mocks prejudice and self deception in daily life.
Cooling screens on first class carriages on great Indian Peninsula line
The article describes an ingenious device on the Great Indian Peninsula Company line where first class carriage windows have damp khaskhas screens kept moist by a wheel-connected mechanism. This system cools and freshens the air for passengers during hot travel in India.
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India
Great Indian Peninsula Company
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Boston Transcript
Hicaco
Main Street, Joline
Firculars
Nea
Moline
Hodder's
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