Ohioan’s Plan to Free Thaw Offers to Take Prisoner’s Place
Among thousands of letters after Harry Thaw’s second trial, an Ohio man offered to swap places for 3,000,000 dollars. He proposed disguises, photographs, and a staged escape with intermediaries. Mrs. Thaw handed the letter to Thaw’s counsel. other notes promised hypnosis to stop the DA and a ventriloquist to sway the verdict.
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Harry Thaw
Stanford White
New York Times
Ohio
Matteawan
Thaw
Listen Island
Jerome
Fee
Tiat
Evelyn Nesbit
Test of gas electric car over rails promises railroad revolution
A Schenectady special dispatch reports a big electric company's gas electric car covering seventy five miles on various rails. The vehicle includes power house, transmission lines, and substations in an eight by feet space. Two sixty horsepower motors drive the car, operated by one person with precise speed control.
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Schenectady
N. Y
New York
Gasoline Engine Powers Turbine Car With Heat Recovery
A direct current generator is driven by an eight cylinder gasoline engine. Exhaust gases are recycled through pipes to heat the car, demonstrating an early concept of energy reuse in vehicle design.
Future of Aeroplanes Five Hour Paris London Flight
Henry Farman, winning the Deutsch-Arch deacon prize, envisions rapid aeroplane progress from sport machines to a five hour Paris London airborne omnibus. He expects future craft to blend Bleriot and Santos-Dumont styles, with 75 to 100 mile journeys within a year at low cost versus autos.
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Paris
London
M. Warman
Theatrical Experiment At Bournemouth England
A grand hall attached to the Theater Royal in Bournemouth allows patrons to wait before performances and to retire between acts for ventilation. Ten will be served in this hall and the orchestra will play during intervals.
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Bournemouth
England
London Globe
Theater Royal
The Sea Fight and the Futur Doctor General Rixey
A Harper's Weekly poem by Earle Hooker Eaton imagines a naval future where doctors command ships. The surgeon in command orders vaccination and vaccine quills, as the fleet opposes foes and consents to iron pills, amid humorous mock battle imagery.
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Rixey
Earle Hooker Eaton
Harper's Weekly
Mafeking Night Inspires Wild London Jubilance of 1900
A vivid account of Mafeking night in London on May 18 1900 describes how Britons flooded the streets in ecstatic celebration. The scene includes Whitechapel revelers dazzling a Pall Mall policeman, a middle class observer on a four wheeler with union jack, and a personal note on cherishing two cheaply made flags amid national relief after Baden-Powell relief of Mafeking.
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London
Mafeking
Baden-Powell
England
Pall Mall
Piccadilly
Ely
Shepherd's Bush
Hackney
London Flags Rally Loudly and Anthem Echoes
Thomas A. Janvier notes in Harper's that London crowds waved flags with passion and sang the national anthem along with Soldiers of the Queen and Absentminded Beggar, sharing vigorous display and fervor.
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London
Thomas A. Janvier
Harper's
A Chummy Fearless Bird and a Dainty Dress Suit Tale
A humming bird story from Outing Magazine notes the bird’s fearlessness and meals from flowers or lips, while a San Francisco Chronicle joke recalls Corrigan losing his only dress suit after a man he knew died of heart failure. A London Answers quip follows about morphine and temptation.
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H. K. Job
Outing Magazine
Corrigan
San Francisco Chronicle
London
Fanning Family Sets New Record Despite Old Phonograph Limits
In a lighthearted note from a Puck feature, the family living in a flat reportedly owns a phonograph with many records while a mock brag about breaking a previous record by five hours and twenty six minutes is cited. Martial the ancient poet is referenced with a quip on appearances.
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Puck
Buffalo herd back on prairie in Oklahoma reserve
Former New York Zoo buffaloes, fifteen Duffa Joes, relocated to a 8,000 acre Wichita forest park in Oklahoma, have welcomed two calves Hornaday and Oklahoma. Keeper Frank Rush reports thriving conditions with alfalfa hay, shelter sheds, and plans to roam the Wichita range in spring as they regain wild instincts. Government experts expect them to regain their forefather prowess.
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New York Zoo
Oklahoma
Uncle Sam
New York Zoological Gardens
Wichita Nations Forest
Washington
Cache
New York
Hornaday
New York Gardens
Frank Rush
Leon Puncher
Wichita Range
Plains
World's Largest Clock to Crown New York Skyscraper
The Metropolitan Life building's tower in Madison Square will house what is claimed as the world's biggest clock, surpassing London's Big Ben. The 58 story, 658 foot tower will place the 25 foot diameter dial across the 25th to 27th floors, with the dial center 246 feet above the street, towering above surrounding buildings.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Building
Madison Square
New York Herald
Westminster Abbey
London
Metropolitan Building
Enormous Clock Details in Early Building Plans
The proposed clock will be visible from afar with four foot high letters on its disk and twelve foot long hands. No order has been placed yet and operating method is undecided. Large clocks have varied power, with electric and compressed air systems noted in contemporary examples.
Invention to Eliminate Typesetting by Etched Plates
Italian inventor Gus Germani designs relief type forms on metal printing plates. Acid etching creates raised letters, enabling easier proof reading with a 45 degree mirrored view. Patents applied.
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Gustvo Germani
Pittsburg
Stork’s Quadruplet Visit On Majestic Ship
The Majestic of the White Star line welcomed four kittens born at sea with their mother Jennie, the ship’s cat. Dr. French, the ship surgeon, rushed below after a summons from the purser to greet the stork delivery. The feline family, three generations, had been aboard for years and even occupied the dining saloon before being moved to the fore castle.
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Stork
Majestic
White Star Line
Dr. French
New York
New York Herald
Jennie
Finger Nail Pen by Miss Lizzie Martin of Red Lion
Miss Lizzie Martin an eighteen year old from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, has invented a finger nail pen. She grew the index nail to length and trimmed it to a pen shape, splitting it for writing. She says the nail pen is a novelty and an improvement over the ordinary pen.
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Lizzie Martin
York
Miss Martin
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