Sabron and Pitchoune: A Turbulent Paris to Algiers Tale
Captain YZbY 3 Base Pall Coma narrates Sabron, French cavalry captain, and his dog Pitchoune. Miss Redmond, American heiress, befriends Pitchoune as Sabron seeks a mission to Algiers. Tremont doubts Julia Red Cross work while Sabron is wounded and separated from his dog.
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la Comte de Sabron
Pitchoune
Marquise d’Esclignac
Mise
Duc de Tremont
Sabron
Algiers
Tremont
Julia
Marquise
Red Cross
Hammer Abou
Marquia
Pitchorne the desert hound seeks a fateful scent across Sahara
Pitchoune runs with his nose to the ground across the Sahara seeking the correct trail. He endures fatigue and hunger until an oasis offers rest and water. The tale casts the dog as epitome of instinct and wisdom as he moves toward an unknown village at daybreak.
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Pitchoune
Pitchorne
Mickette
Sabron
Sahara
Salomon
Mies Redmond
Solomon
Lucullus
Capitaine's Awakening in Fatou Anni's Hut
The Capitaine de Babron regains consciousness in a mud hut under a blue sky, sheltered by a cotton awning. He recognizes Fatou Anni, his rescuer, and meets her three grandchildren. a dog he knows plays nearby as he drinks from a porous earthen vessel amid strong odors.
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Capitaine de Babron
Fatou Anni
Sabron
Fatou Anni and the genie Pit choune in the desert village
In a sunbaked oasis Fatou Anni, a ninety year old Arabian grandmother, tends her corn while a visiting dog Pit choune appears like a benevolent genie. The animal’s miraculous passage near a sacred ring stirs superstition as a warlike village prepares for clash with white settlers. Sabron, a dying captive, is cared for by Fatou Anni as Pitchoune roams the desert seeking aid, the tale lingering at a cliffhanger as Bedouins arrive.
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Fatou Anni
Pitchorne
Pitchoune
Allah
Pitchhoune
Allah Akbar
Why Some Are Color Blind
Color blind people cannot distinguish colors due to retinal cones missing or defective. The retina contains rods and cones. loss of a cone type causes dull or grayish perception, and even normal eyes cannot see ultraviolet or electric rays.
Soldiers' Winter Clothing From Paper in War
The article notes Japanese soldiers use mulberry-bark paper garments with a thin layer of wadding between sheets and quilted. The fabric is warm but not washable, a drawback in winter campaigns, where practicality outweighs cleanliness considerations.
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Japan
New Guinea a Vast Unexplored World for Naturalists
The article notes that New Guinea is the largest island with half controlled by Britain and the other halves by Germany and the Netherlands. It highlights its size, proximity to Australia, and status as largely unexplored land with ferocious tribes, cannibal customs, and rich natural wonders including birds, parrots, and climbing fish.
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New Guinea
Great Britain
Australia
Greenland
Holland
Madagascar
New York
Chicago
Rene Bache
Boston Herald
France
British Isles
Philippine Islands
Borneo
Sumatra
Equator
German New Guinea
Cecil G. Rawling
Philippines
Andaman Islands
Equatorial
Africa
British New Guinea
Motion Pictures In Color
A serious effort to reproduce motion pictures in color is described with color films, three color proposals, and the challenge of precise image alignment. A London Society of Arts exhibit in December 1908 showed a two color result from G A Smith's process.
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G. A. Smith
Society of Arts of London
Preventing Fly Breeding Through Cleanliness and Disposal
The article stresses sanitation to curb house flies and disease. It outlines cleaning premises, proper garbage handling, and manure management using borax spreads, arsenic, and iron sulphate solutions, plus weekly bin emptying and screening to destroy breeding sites and deodorize stables.
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Department of Agriculture
Sity
Wisconsin
Hutchinson
Department
Paris
Forbes
Number Tags on Fishes Off Norway Shine Light on Migration
Dr. John Hjort described a study using numbered tags on fish released over years off Norway. Records show time and place of release and recapture, revealing migration patterns and growth rates from scale rings. Growth varies with favorable years and a catch estimate emerges from a roughly one to ten ratio for common food fishes.
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Norway
John Hjort
Inventor’s Airship Light Years Ahead of Time
A Birmingham, England inventor built an airship resembling a Zeppelin some fifty years earlier. Proposals that it could drop bombs in an invasion were dismissed by scientists as impossible. The craft performed several flights but was destroyed by fire to end ridicule and further sarcasm.
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Birmingham
Eng
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Kaiser-Wilhelm
Captain Rawling
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