Gutta Percha Insulation Demand Shapes Cable Age
The rise of electricity fuels demand for gutta percha used in long‑distance submarine cables. Supply is scarce and prices may climb from 1.75 to 5 dollars per pound. Alternatives like para rubber risk failure under sea pressures. Balata and a Asaro gum are noted as potential substitutes, while Malaya India and China supply gutta percha to England and then the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Gautemalau
Orinoco
England
Malay Peninsula
India
China
United States
Sarawak
Marvelous operation transforms boy with mental disability
The case of George Weyman of New York is described as a remarkable surgery. After spending seventeen years as an idiotic, mindless ward of Blackwell's Island, an operation by Dr. Wabie enlarged Weyman's skull and grafted monkey brain tissue to achieve growth of brain matter. Over ten months the skull filled with brain tissue, and Weyman showed marked mental improvement including speech, memory, and moral perception. He now begins training to care for himself, though progress remains tied to training.
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George Weyman
New York
Weyman
Blackwell's Island
Idocy
Dr. Wabie
Asylum
Weymall
Wabie
Oakum
Population rise and long history of Paris census
Paris is reported with 2,422,969 inhabitants in the latest census, with historical figures from the 13th century to 1888 showing wide fluctuations. The piece contrasts Paris growth with European cities like London St. Petersburg and Vienna, and notes faster urban population increases in the United States. It ends by praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a health tonic for various ailments.
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Paris
Courrier Des Etats-Unis
New York
Louis XIV
Europe
London
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Deep Oil Well Near Wheeling Aims For One Mile Depth
The Wheeling Development Company plans to resume drilling a 4108 foot deep well on Boggs run near Wheeling West Virginia. The target is 5280 feet five hundred twenty eight feet further to reach one mile and the deepest well in the United States. The US Geological Survey will assist with costs to obtain strata samples.
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Wheeling Development Company
Wheeling
W. Va
Boggs Run
United States
Canada
United States Geological Survey
Cincinnaté
Language note on billion usage by press in America and Europe
Beutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Chicago argues for consistent meaning of a billion across languages. It explains that in England and Germany a billion means a million million, while in the United States it means a thousand million. The piece urges German American press to adopt the US sense for clarity.
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Politikos
Europe
Appletons
Selamlik
England
Germany
United States
France
Spain
Beutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Chicago
Plater Profits and Health Remedies in 19th Century Ad Patter
A collage of short notices offers plating business tips from Miss Smith and H. K. Deino & Co of Columbus, Ohio, with costs and profits. It also notes dueling penalties in Japan, Lydia Pinkham medicine endorsements, Orlando bees, a catarrh cure claim, and Dr Kline nerve restorer testimonials.
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Tom
Jones
Mrs. Smith
Central Park
Alexandria
Maria
Aunt Maria
Hse
Massa
Dar
Chile
Mars’ Randolp
New York Herald
Landanum
Tanner
de Quincy
Harper's Pazar
Dougherty County
Savannah
Royal Aquarium
Atlanta. Constitution
Turkey
God
Japan
Lydia
Pinkham
Orlando
Fla
KB. Walthalt, & Co
Lydia EF Pinkham
Hon
Hood
Ekavean
O. J, Hood & CO
Lowell, Maas
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Gal
Otisville
WEW
York
Nye
Lenox
Pastor Koenig
W. Weinstein
Cleaver St
Fort Wayne
Ind
Koenig Med. CO
Dr. White
Vais
Anakesis
New York City
Croup
Chicago Newspaper Union
Franklin St
Illinois State Medical Institute
State St
State Street
Chicago, Ill
Rheaa
Ann
C. E. Bires CO
Philad's
Oregon
C.w.f.snyder
McVicker's Theatre
Washington
D.C
J. B. Cranle & CO
Duis Bagger & CO
Taxton
Esc
John P.lovell Arms CO
Boston
Mass
Apugpisis
Hageltine
Warren, Pa
J. Nickerson
South State Street
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