Deportation Crisis Over Baby Born to Immigrant Couple
New York faces a paradox where a newborn American citizen was aboard a Bremen-bound ship after his mother Lotta Romanik, deemed an inadmissible public charge and insane, was deported. Legal action narrowly saved the mother and baby from separation, highlighting gaps in emergency provisions within Ellis Island policy.
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New York
Europe
Ellis Island
Americcan
Terra Firma
High Seas
Lotta
Hernan Romanik
Romanik
Russia
Attorney Street
Hasl Side
America
Board of Special Inquiry
El‘Ris Island
Land of Plenty
Attoeney Street
East Side
Countary
Bellevue Hospital
State Institution For
Ward’s Island
Romantic
Bellevue
Herman Romanik
New York Infirmary
People’s Law Firm
Unite Hebrew Charities
People’s Law
Liverpool
Bremen
Bilis Island
Fever Brings Postcards to a New York Patient
A New York woman recovering from typhoid fever amasses a large postcard collection. Friends send views of New York City and distant places, plus illustrated songs, jokes, and varied designs. The sick find them attractive, easy to view, and diverting, while shops report strong demand and a growing sale.
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New York
Alps
Margate
Brighton
Trouville
Paris
London
Japan
Rome
Naples
Wild Pigeons Return After Years of Silence in Lehigh County
A Philadelphia Record correspondent reports that wild turtle doves are now legal to shoot and wild pigeons, once abundant and feared extinct, appear in small flocks. Looming legend says doves foretold pigeons return. hunters saw distant flocks but could not shoot.
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Kistler’s Valley
Philadelphia Record
Lehigh County
Inventive boy’s explosive claims breakthrough power and danger
Evansville report details Louis Byrd of Hazleton Indiana who developed a powerful white powder for blasting and guns that outruns nitro smokeless and ordinary black powder. His brother’s accidental discharge damaged a gun barrel. Byrd sought patent protection while offering a $10,000 value claim. Byrd previously worked on a drill for onion seed distribution two years earlier.
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Evansville
Ind
Louis Byrd
Hazleton
Bill
Louis
Carl
Hymera
Byrd
Underground garden in Dublin cellar grows market produce
A Dublin resident converted a deserted wine cellar into an underground market garden. Sea kale rhubarb and mushrooms flourish where barrels once rested. Shoppers in the market district visit by lantern light to pick fresh vegetables without railway charges.
Moon broke away left Pacific Ocean as a hole
Professor Pickering imagines the Pacific Ocean as a hollow from the moon’s departure. A slightly larger scoop might have left us surveying the Philippines through a telescope rather than sending congressional parties to visit them.
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Philippines
Pickering
Pacific Ocean
Obeyed Orders Literally In Kitchen Cake Misadventure
Mrs Young Matron recalls a cook Nora who baked a fruit cake for an hour by the clock and put the clock in the oven by mistake. Nora insists she was only following orders as she explains the clock ended up in the oven with the cake. The tale illustrates strict obedience and comic consequences.
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Lipincott
Nora
Rabbit Skin Blankets From Canada Entertain Readers
A writer recounts sleeping under rabbit skin blankets obtained from Canadian Indians. The linen-like fabric is light and warm, woven in narrow strips with delicate white and brown shading. Priced at $12, the main flaw is hair shedding unless covered with silk on both sides.
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Post
Secret Liner Steward Guard Spotted by Transatlantic Traveler
A man recently back from Europe says a steward on every transatlantic liner appears idle yet continually monitors galley staff. The traveler claims his sole duty is to keep stewards from throwing dirty dishes overboard to avoid washing them.
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Europe
N. Y. Sun
Clock with Thirteen City Times Surfaces in England
An English-made palace clock shows thirteen dials for London Paris Rome Berlin Vienna St Petersburg Constantinople Washington Yokohama Peking Bombay Samarkand Teheran. The native numerals accompany city names, and each dial sits in an ornate ormolu frame for display in a princely setting.
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England
London
Paris
Rome
Ber
Old Boiler Tubes Find New Life as Pipe
In coal and metal mines discarded boiler tubes, corroded and scaled, can be cleaned and flanged to become air or water pipe for pressures under 100 psi. Each tube, though slim in value as scrap, proves useful after reworking. flanging is preferred over threading due to thin walls and warp.
The Smallest Engine Ever Built by Robert Bunge
A marine triple expansion miniature engine built by New Yorker Robert Bunge is praised as the finest of its kind. The model measures 3.5 inches wide and 3.25 inches tall with a link reversing motion and 100 psi steam driving 7,260 rpm. The high, intermediate, and low pressure cylinders are 5/16, 8/16, and 10/16 inches respectively, with precise piston valves and a single-piece steel shaft and cranks.
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Robert Bunge
New York City
Scientific American
Tiny triple expansion engine earns world’s smallest claim
A description of a miniature triple expansion engine notes sub inch hardware including hexagonal nuts under one sixteenth inch, studs under one thirty-second inch, steel crossheads with brass wear shoes, an one eighth inch steam pipe and three sixteenths inch exhaust. The maker asserts it is the smallest such engine in the world and invites observation in action.
Warmed steering wheel aids cold weather driving
An English inventor patented a device to warm the steering wheel by circulating water from the engine through water jackets to a hollow spoke and back to the tank. In about thirty seconds the wheel becomes thoroughly warm, reducing numbness for drivers and promising wide use in public service automobiles in winter.
Beees and Flowers In Bee Attraction Study
Belgian naturalist Mile J Wery reports new experiments on how flowers attract bees. Perfume alone shows little draw. artificial flowers under glass shades attract as well as natural ones. Whole brilliantly colored blooms attract more than cut parts. Honey lacks attraction. Color and form drive bee visits more than scent, with sight dominating honey search.
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Mile. J. Wery
Great Grapevine at Hampton Court Described in 1830
The famous Hampton Court grapevine planted in 1769 had a stem 13 inches in girth and a main branch 114 feet long in 1830. The plant covered over 160 square yards and yielded about 2,200 bunches of fruit in a year, averaging a pound per bunch, roughly a ton of fruit total.
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Hampton Court
England
Japanese Name Pronunciation Note on Admiral Togo
The text explains that Admiral Togo’s name is pronounced like Tongo and that the Japanese letter g is sounded with an n in certain words. It also defines the victory shout Ban zai as May the emperor live for ever.
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Togo
Fatal deaths in New Orleans report sparks inquiry
A New York paper headlines fatal deaths in New Orleans, noting one death was not fatal and has not yet been publicly accounted for, prompting questions and ongoing scrutiny.
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New Orleans
New York
Illuminated door numbers aid locating houses at night
A Baltimore inventor proposes a powered door frame light system. An electric lamp inside a casing above the door frame shines onto the street number on the transom when a visitor presses a nearby button. The device would work only if all houses on the block were outfitted similarly.
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Baltimore
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Eyes for the Umpire in Egg Toss Debate
An essay discusses eggs hurled at an umpire in a western town signaling a shift from bat and cushion protests to a premeditated malice. It argues egg throwing reframes impulsive gestures as deliberate wrongdoing and warns against quick suppression of the new tactic.
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