Queen's Belfast students plan man powered Flycycle
A group of aero nautics students at Queen's University Belfast aims for the 15000 prize for first man powered flight. Guided by Terence Nonesl ex, they prototype a two rider tandem called the Flycycle. Wind tunnel tested, it weighs about 500 lb and could fly two minutes over a mile at 20 ft high, speeds 35 to 40 mph, with oxygen possibly extending to two hours.
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Queen’s University
Belfast
Terence Nonweslex
Just What Is Your Horse-Power
A British clergyman and his engineer son calculate that winding a church clock uses one seventh of a horse-power every nine days. They explain horse-power as 23 000 pounds raised one foot in one minute and note working power: horse about four-fifths, man about one eighth. The article adds Chicago health authorities report 20 to 30 percent of first heart attacks are fatal, with anticoagulant therapy improving survival if survived.
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Chicago
Won His Wife In A Poker Game
Johnny Bemis won his wife in a high stakes poker game in Warren Idaho in 1871. He bet everything including a Chinese slave girl known as China Polly, who later became his wife after nursing him back from a near fatal injury. They lived together for forty nine years until his death.
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Warren
Idaho
Johnny Bemis
Hang Chang
Far East
America
Johnny
China Folly
China
Polly
Johnnny
John Sinclair
China Polly
Justice of the Peace
Cripple Creek
China Polly and Johnny Bemis Love Story Ends
The couple lived from 1871 to 1920 with China Polly teaching Johnny to read and writing. Polly ran a large garden feeding them and selling produce to miners in Warren Idaho. They hosted famous guests including a U.S. vice president and Idaho governor. Polly died in 1935 and was buried beside Johnny with the inscription China Polly wife of Johnny Bemis.
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Johnny
China Polly
Warren
Idaho
United States
China
Polly
Grangeville
Johnny Bemis
Dog or Wolf Mystery Spreads in Leyden Woods
David Baker shot a large mangy canine near Leyden Massachusetts and the find sparked debate. Luman Nelson an 83 year old taxidermist from Winchester New York labeled the animal a young wolf Baker agreed outdoor writer John W Randolph of The New York Times reviewed the specimen.
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David Baker
Leyden
Mass
Winchester
Luman Nelson
New England
Nelson
Baker
John W. Randolph
The
New York Times
Classified Ads and Wildlife Notes in Ontario and New York Context
A collage of ads offers farm stock and business opportunities in Ontario and Georgia, plus a mix of animal debate notes. It includes Bray Hatchery shipments and broiler bookings, a spinal nerve massager ad, Nutria purchasing terms from Canadian Nutria Ltd, and local hospital staff notices. The wildlife discussion cites Hamilton and Schevill over coyotes and coy-dogs with Harvard involved.
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Nelson
Cornell University
William Hamilton Jr
Hamilton
New York State Conservation Department
New York
Harvard University
Barbara Lawrence Schevill
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Breeders’ Association
Canadian Nutria Ltd
A.A. No
Stouffville
Ontario
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