Roofed Church Bet On Samoan Cricket Feat
In Apia the Rev Neemia leads a flock in a two year ongoing cricket project to roof the mission church and install stained glass. Players pay a shilling per bat with two teams trained weekly, funded by parishioners and ship crews, while locals adapt kilikiki cricket with cocoanut thatch scoring. Foreign residents resist as the scheme disrupts weekly life.
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Apia
Mission
Neemia
Beach Road
Globe Trotter
Newest Word in Flanders Euphonious Carriage Term
Anvers Flemish academy coined a long word Snelpaardelooszonderspoorwegpetrolrijtuig to mean a petrol powered horseless carriage that travels fast and runs without rails. The piece notes its length may outpace usefulness and mentions Edison plans a circumterrestrial telephone circuit with a transatlantic cable and world route.
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New York Herald
Flemish Academy of Anvers
Flanders
Parvo
Anvers
Spain's Start on a New Navy Rio de la Plata cruiser joined for free
The Rio de la Plata protected cruiser, nearly ready in Havre, is to form the core of Spain's navy. Funded by patriotic donors from Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, and Europe, the vessel costs nothing to Spain. It is a 2000-ton steel first class cruiser with twin screws, a 235 foot waterline, 33 foot beam, 22 foot depth, 3800 hp, 18 knot speed, armed with 15 cm and 12 cm guns, rapid-fire battery, six 67 mm guns, and three torpedo tubes under Captain Don Jacobo MacMahon.
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Rio de la Plata
Societe Des Forges Et Chantlers de la Mediterranee
Havre
Spain
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
France
Don Jacobo MacMahon
Sun Bonnets Dominate Shops as Fashion Rage Grows
Sun bonnets in all styles flood shops and exchanges as the season's rage. Outdoor girls must own several, with many making them at home though it is time consuming. Muslin lace and ribbon designs appear in plain and flowered colors, some soft and drooping, ready to suit every taste.
Thistledown Bride Celebrates Nine Years of Mill Labor
A Norristown mill worker married last week after nine years of service. For her wedding, overseers presented three handkerchiefs woven from thistledown. The delicate fabric, gathered from meadows and resembling cobwebs brushed with silver, required months of effort in carding, spinning, and weaving before producing a warp.
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Norristown
Philadelphia
Plague Clings to Localities Tied to Geology, Rats Spread Disease
The Director of the Geology Survey of India cites evidence that plague persistence in places like Bombay is shaped by local geology. Areas with trap and crystalline rocks may aid spread, and rats are confirmed as disseminators. After granaries in Bombay are emptied for export, plague resurges as rats disperse through the city seeking food.
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Geologicy Survey of India
Bombay
Wild game scarce as Swiss beasts vanish across centuries
The New York Press notes Swiss wildlife decline with beavers extinct since the 12th century and bears killed by 1698. It records wolves gone by 1837, lynx, wild boar, deer wiped out by 1748 1750, and numerous other species exterminated over five centuries, with only rare chamois kept by landlords.
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Switzerland
Zurich
Red Cross
Lake Morat
Beaver Brook
Barbereche
Berne
Chamois
New York Press
Temperance Work by Mrs Mary Hunt Advances Education Laws
Mrs Mary H Hunt forged nationwide and international influence in scientific temperance instruction. She held leadership roles, secured compulsory temperance education in forty one states and national congress, and influenced schools in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick across eighteen years of work.
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Frances Willard
Mary H. Hunt
United States
Hunt
Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction
National Educational Association
Utah
Arkansas
Virginia
Georgia
Forest reservations in the United States total acreage
The thirty forest reservations cover 40 600 000 acres across thirteen states and territories. Seven reservations lie in California, the Sierra reserve being the largest at 4 006 000 acres. In the past 35 years about 11 000 000 000 feet B M of timber on public lands burned in forest fires.
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Mur
United States
California
Sierra Forest Reserve
The Terrible Threat in Mia and George's Banter
In a playful Chicago News snippet Mia teases George about their limited affection and a single kiss in hours. George warns that eating more green onions could prolong the next kiss dramatically.
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George
Mia
Younglove
Chicago News
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Tional Congress
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Bours
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Tetepta
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Franklin Streat
Wasbiegton
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