The Andrus Transmitter Test and the Humble Pie
A young inventor Robert Andrus seeks funding for a transmitter device. Everett Carter, a wary capitalist, offers $10 000 for rights but is outmaneuvered by Andrus and Florence Carter who arrange a proper test with legal oversight. A year later the couple reveal their partnership and father learns he once refused the breakthrough.
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Atwood
Everett Carter
John Delafield
Cranston Building
Delafield
Florence
Delafied
Ake
Andrus
Carter Motor Company
Daddy
Daday
National Engine Company
Andrus Transmitter Co
Rascal
Robert
Powerful Navy searchlight marks new tech era
Government experts say 200 million tons of coal are wasted yearly due to poor mining methods. The U S flagship Connecticut gains the world’s strongest searchlight, a five foot mirror made for the government in Germany, enabling detection of ships ten miles away. A thoracic surgery case at German Hospital expands on inflated lung mechanics. Halley’s comet prompts a prize for orbit computation with differing ephemeris suggesting a mid June perihelion in 1910.
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Connecticut
United States Navy
Germany
Halley
Comic Supplement a Peril
The Sunday comic supplement is a national peril for juvenile crime studies warn that it shapes children toward dis compliant and cruel behavior.
Buffalo Bill Advocates Hard Work For Longevity
Buffalo Bill told Kansas cavalry reunion that a centenarian life comes from hard work and being a skilled shot. He boasted Americans are better marksmen while recalling a fluent but comic exchange with a French prince who claimed many birds and few wild cows killed.
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Buffalo Bill
Kansas
Bairds
Philadelphia Record
The Little Voyager and Nighttime Poems
A collection of children's verses and anecdotes from the New England Magazine, New York Tribune, and ChristianRegister. Includes imagery of Dro Land dreams, a Maine bullfrog tale, a subway cat mystery, a child’s Washington composition, and notes on Washington’s founding and governance.
Barn Dance at Washington Boarding School Students Swap Roles
Last year at a Washington boarding school for girls ages thirteen to sixteen a leap year barn dance featured invited boys in rustic regalia. Calico dresses aprons sunbonnets, reels and confetti battles filled the hall, with cornstalks farming gear and a haystack luncheon on the platform.
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Washington, D. C
Truthfulness and a Train Tale on Lying
A short saying urges truthfulness and warns of business risks from falsehoods. A story from Bee Hive recounts a man on a Manchester to London train who steals a friend's bag after delaying its owner, illustrating the cost of deception.
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Manchester
London
Spelling Out Numerals in a Noted Misprint
A London People's Friend note recalls a printing blunder where a passage read of tenants as ten ants due to a rule forcing numerals above nine to be figures. The gag lies in the compositor’s struggle to spell tenants while following numeric typography rules.
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London
England
Ornithological Error
Judge convicts a student for snatching a turkey from a grocery window. The prisoner admits it was a lark but the judge calls it a drunken act and sentences sixty days. Boston Transcript report.
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Boston Transcript
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