Hard Winter Predicted Says Honk of Geese in Story
A rustic shop talk blends superstition and science as locals cite goose honks crow flights and animal behavior as signs of a hard winter. The piece notes meteorology and the limits of long range forecasts, quoting Emery and Garriott on weather science and folklore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Martin
Black Cat
Forecas Emery
Weather Bureau
United States
Mexico
Canada
Britsh West Indies
Rockies
Prairie States
Valley
Edward B. Garriott
Government Weather Bureau
Red
Cray
St. Matthew
Profesor Garriott
French public finally concedes Wright brothers lead in aviation
Paris on October 13 admits Wilbur Wrights superior advances in powered flight after long hesitance to abandon belief in a French conquest of the air. The shift marks a clear acceptance of Wright brothers dominance over French efforts in the flight race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matin
Wilbur Wright
M. Ader
France
Paris
Wright
Wright Brothers
Plants Demonstrate Intelligence Claims Across The Ages
A long, florid piece argues for plant intelligence, citing plant movement, hydrotropism, geotropism, and responses to light. It references Darwin, Francé, Haberlandt, and Nagell, noting carnivorous plants and ant symbioses as evidence, and discusses sleep, nerves, and sensation in flora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coventry
Erasmus
Charies Darwin
Noll
Haberlandt
Nemec
Wager
Australia
R. H. Francé
Charles Darwin
Albert Magnus
Darwin
Hothous
Professor Ha
Nagell
R. HK. Franc
London Society in Turbulent Autumn Social Season
London society notes the autumn session opens with Liberal hostesses leading political salons. Mrs Asquith and Lady Crewe head social events while suffragettes disrupt ministers and police, creating public nuisance as marches and protests intensify near Westminster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Asquith
Downing Street
Lady Crewe
House of Lords
Lacy Beauchamp
Denman
Herbert Cladstone
Harold Pearson
Rosinald McKenna
Admiralty
Winston Churchill
Frederick Guest
Carlton House Terrace
Turkish Fezes Trade Shaped by Vienna and Turkish Production
Consul General Ernest L. Harris reports that Constantinople is the main fez market with Vienna and German towns supplying most fezes. He notes high in-town consumption, country-district limits, and a shift to Turkish factories to cut Austrian duties, while imported moulds from Germany shape production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest L. Harris
le Smyrna
Fezes
Constantinople
Fez
Vienna
Austria
Germany
Turkey
Asia Minor
Modern Pearl Farm Yields War Era Oyster Industry
In the Gulf of Lower California a large pearl farm becomes a practical industry. A thousand divers and skilled labor cultivate pearls using up to date equipment. The Mexican company owns the farm and relies on a discovery that pearls reach harvest maturity after two years, enabling staged shell cultivation and planned harvesting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf of Lower California
Bis California
Sheem
Satoas
Uses of Irish peat as industrial fiber source
Consul Henry S Culver of Cork reports peat beds in Ireland may yield more than fuel. An Austrian experimenter claims peat reed and grass remains can be used to weave fabrics, creating elastic durable fiber suited for cloth, warmer than wool, comparable to linen.
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Henry S. Culver
Cork
Ireland
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Banbury
Shakespeare
le Mans
Major Bouttieaux
Terra Firma
Painleve
Wrights
Europe
C. B
Francis Darwin
British Association
Dublin
Harold Wager
Albert F. Woods
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington
St. Regis
Chicago
Brooklyn
Tropics
Battery
Coney Island
London Society
Arry
Arriet
Caxton Hall
Dorking
Westminster
Whitehall
Metropolitan Police
LMF
Wiesen
Grisons
Switzerland
Davos
Filisur
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