Machines to Detect Truth Reported by Harvard Professor
Harvard psychologist Prof. Hugo Munsterberg unveils experimental lie detecting devices. The automAutograph, pneuograph, and sphygmagraph monitor involuntary muscle movement, breathing, and heart activity to reveal thoughts. Tests cited include Harry Orchard at Boise as a subject. aims to keep innocent out of jail and guilty properly charged.
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Harry Orchard
Boise
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
New York Times
Hars
Frek Munsterberg
Frei. Munsterbere
Munsterberg
Maeterlinck on Bees and Adaptation
Maeterlinck argues bees show intelligent adaptation beyond humans, noting a bee transported to Australia or California quickly alters behavior, using perpetual summer and abundant pollen to rely on daily gathering rather than winter provisioning. He cites Buchner on bees thriving amid changing conditions.
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Thera Larza
Australia
California
Buchner
Barbadox
Blind Boys Play Football and Baseball at Kentucky Institution
The Kentucky Institution for the Blind fields a football team in its third year with nine games last season ending in one win three ties and five losses. Players use sound cues to locate ball carriers and kicks while baseball is played with guides and partial sight. The article notes the intense crowd noise and coaching calls amid the unusual sightless sport.
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Kentucky Institution For the Education of the Blind
American Magazine
Child Labor in England Half-Time Wage Earners in London
The Craftsman notes about 30 400 half time wage earners among 480 006 children over seven in London. Some work 14 to 50 hours weekly with pay as low as 1 to 2 cents per hour. Laundries and barber shops impose long hours while grocers, milliners, and dress shops pay with food or short wages.
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London
Land Rule Defines Stocking Capacity of 100 Acres
A rule states that 100 acres of land can sustain 200 sheep or 33 horned cattle, outlining the carrying capacity for livestock.
Railroads Revert to Government and Global Chemistry Advances
Chinese authorities will revert all constructed railroads to the state twenty five years after opening. French railways place orders with German locomotive makers for unusually heavy engines. Chemistry underpins steel, dyes, and tantalum use. indigo and ultramarine production expand. Tantalum hardness enables efficient filament production for electric lamps, with tiny ore supplies yielding vast lamp output.
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England
Electric
Arthur D
American Chemical Society
Abram
Hewitt
Ekeberg
Boware
Noty Australita Aloge
World's Largest Stack Rising at Indian Point
The Boston and Montreal Mining Company builds a monumental smokestack at Indian Point across the river from Great Falls Mont. When finished it will be the world’s tallest concrete stack, about 49 feet shorter than the Washington Monument, with 250 tons of concrete mixed daily for the foundation.
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Boston and Montreal
Indian Point
Great Fails Mont
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Enginee Beetten
Boston and Montana Company
Kor. 1
Paris
Washington Monument
Macaulay on Charles II death in System of England
In his System of England Macaulay notes a notable quote about Charles II’s death. He mentions a prescription signed by fourteen doctors that helped him recover some senses, though he remained in extreme danger.
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Macaulay
England
Charles II
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Obscure quotation from Pittsburg Post discusses tension between a daughter's chosen partner and her father's consent, noting fathers often object but often stay silent to avoid conflict.
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Pittsburg Post
Beware of the pensive maid warning in papers
A reader notes cynical views on marriage ads and sensational stories in newspapers accusing them of rot and sensationalism. The remark laments flawed reporting and suggests skepticism toward marriage and social expectations.
Country Estates and the Complete Modern Mansion
The article describes to elaborate country mansions with vast estates. It covers living quarters for owner and guests, extensive stables, farm buildings, poultry and kennels, a diary and dairy facilities, market gardens, conservatories, and an automobile house with repair shop. It notes water supply and reservoirs as costly necessities.
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Lenythgiand
Broadway Magazine
Crop notes praise beans as soil nitrogen givers and protein sources
A long summary from a paper by G Corbett for the Department of Agriculture extols beans as nitrogen fixing crops that improve soil fertility and fit crop rotation. It notes beans can yield up to 200 bushels per acre and fetch around five dollars per bushel, comparing them to alfalfa and other staples. It also touches on beans as meat in diet and mentions education and morality passages from a school context.
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Michigan
G, Corbett
Department of Agriculture
Rochester Democrat, ‘and Chronicle
Fatal Powder Puff Causes Panic in Manayunk
A French poodle named Curly from Miss Waomi Barrington’s 4350 Gates Street caused a mill district scare in Manayunk after swallowing a powder puff. Police suspected rabies and a shot was fired. the dog was returned to its owner for care.
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Waomi Barrington
Gates Street
Manayunk
Philadelphia Inquirer
Curly
Main
Rector Streets
Green
Canceled Stamps Pay Mortgage for Pa. Widow
Mrs Sammnal Long of near Washington Pennsylvania shipped five and a half barrels of canceled stamps to a Worcester Massachusetts dealer for 1200 dollars. The sale clears the mortgage on her farm begun after her husband died seven years ago. An informal stamp-collecting surge turned the farm into a repository and kept expanding until the deal closed. Pittsburg dispatch to the New York Tribune.
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Sammnal’ Long
Washington
Worcester
Maia
Harrels
Homestead
Pittsburg
New York Tribune
Paris papers praise Mrs. Isaac L. Rice for noise suppression
The Paris press highlights the American work of Mrs. Isaac L. Rice of New York who has contributed significantly to suppressing unnecessary noise. The report notes her efforts and impact in reducing noise pollution.
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Paris
Isalac L. Rice
New York
Arsenic Use Sought for Locust Control in Transvaal
A telegraphic note reports demand for arsenic to destroy locusts in the Transvaal and mentions a proposed colonial industry around its manufacture.
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Transvaal
Ita
Bears Halt Trains On Lehigh Valley Line
An Alientown dispatch reports multiple bears sighted in the North Mountain region and seen from Lehigh Valley Bowman's Creek branch trains. One bear paused on the tracks as Engineer Miller whistled and rang bells, then slipped into an apple orchard. he estimated the bear at about five hundred pounds.
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Big ‘Sears
North Mountain
Lehigh Valley
Bowman’s Creek Branch
Wilkes. Barre
Miller
Alientown Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
Pastor Bowman scales church steeple to evict bees
The Rev. Warren J. Bowman of St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church climbed the exterior of the steeple above the belfry to remove a large honeycomb and drive out the bees that disrupted services. Lacking a bee specialist, he improvised with ladders and mosquito netting, escaping without fall or sting.
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Warren J. Bowman
St. Paul's Methodist. Episcopal Church
Bowman
Oyster Bay
N. ¥. Tribune
Plague Effort Shifts To Rat Eradication Across India
London Telegraph notes that bacteriologists and authorities in India now deem rat extermination the priority to curb plague. It cites Calcutta Bombay Poona and many towns as plagued by rats multiplying rapidly, urging rat-proofing of new buildings under local authorities.
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India
Calcutta
Bombay
Poona
London
Telegraph
Arizona barber convicted of wife murder and sentenced to hang
In an Arizona court a barber was tried for his wife's murder. The evidence was circumstantial but the District Attorney’s arguments led to a conviction and a death sentence. After the verdict the judge allowed a final statement. The prisoner stood and asked to speak to the District Attorney.
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Arizona
Dan
Pertais
Philadelphia
Decline in Female Enrollment In European Universities 1906 67
The report shows 2 105 women among 4 400 matriculated students and 2 740 studying without matriculation. Medicine and philology see the largest gains while Protestant divisions remain scarce. The University of Berdin leads with 23 g students as Munich, Leipsie, Bonn and others follow in attendance shifts.
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United States
Durin
Berdin
Munich
Vis
Rubingen
Geissen
Erlangen
Practical education should train the whole person
Calvin M. Woodward argues for expanding instruction to develop intellectual moral and physical powers. He urges practical study over pure theory, with less desk work and more shop garden and industry training for life. He calls for gardening agriculture and animal industry in country schools.
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Fraining
Iit
Calvin M. Woodward
St. Louis
Swiss Prison Escapee Hoche Captured in Village
A Swiss convict named Hoche escaped Thorberg Prison and drifted about Maristalie Fuboure village before being recaptured. The case follows his confession and notes that prison controls there are loose.
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Hoche
Thorberg
Switzerland
Maristaie Fuboure
Washington Star
Iter World
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Letclas
Kirby
Spence
Andrew Knight
Alaurice Maeterlinck
Harper’s
Maeterlinck
New
Jéssons
Japan
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