Mormon history collection donated to Wisconsin historical library
Theodore Schroeder of Salt Lake City has given to the Wisconsin historical library a major collection on Mormon history. It comprises 23 000 bound volumes pamphlets and newspaper files making it one of the largest such libraries. The article also notes Japan’s lone orphanage and strong care for the destitute and orphans, a belief that childless houses are accursed, and the adoption zeal therein. It reports a French general approving soldiers singing on marches and state provision of small instruments for musicians among troops.
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Theodore Schroeder
Salt Lake City
Wisconsin Historical Library
Japan
Smoke Ban in Abyssinia Deepens Its Odd History
A long standing Abyssinian law from 1642 bans tobacco to stop priests from smoking and now even visitors must avoid smoking. Elsewhere a massive earth slide threatens Ayse in the Annecy region of France, with thousands of cubic meters of earth poised to collapse into the valley as autumn rains approach.
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Abyssinia
Annecy
France
Ayse
Diverse oddities and Harvard gift promise new building
A collection of brief items notes why horses sleep with one ear forward, hints Harvard will gain a new building funded by a Boston donor. It mentions Foxcroft House site, initial 50,000 dollar gift, and a near doubling of that amount. Additional items cover Korea law aging crowds, a Panama neutrality treaty, and Abydos artifacts at Carnegie Institute.
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Boston
Harvard
Foxcroft House
Ants Resist Drowning Revealed by French Experiments
French scientists demonstrated that ants cannot drown. In tests, ants submerged in water double and become inert, then revive once returned to air after varying durations of immersion.
Widow continues clergy sermon writing business in London
About a year ago in north London a retired clergyman who wrote sermons for others died suddenly leaving mainly sermon material. His widow, educated and clever, took over the work and has been carrying on the business since. The fact was discovered only a month ago.
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London
Snow Fireplaces Keep Warm In Arctic Gold Camps
In frigid Alaskan camps at sixty degrees below zero workers fashion snow into bricklike blocks to form snow fireplaces for cooking. Fires melt the surface but refreeze when out, making the structure solid enough to last until the next fire. A snow fireplace used for cooking can endure an entire winter without rebuilding.
Giants in Our Days vs Past Greats, Washington Letter
Senator Stewart of Nevada argues that modern men surpass those of earlier eras in intellect and achievement. He cites Franklin’s gulf stream chart, Edison, Marconi, and others, noting progress in science, war, and industry, and warns against worship of ancient giants. He praises Lincoln Garfield and McKinley and urges pride in contemporary greatness.
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Washington
Stewart
Nevada
Israel
Rameses
Sennacherib
Darius
Leonidas
Caesar
Shakespeare
Macaulay
Prescott
Bancroft
Galileo
Copernicus
Newton
Franklin
Agassiz
Columbus
Julius Caesar
Ife
Lucifer
Milton
Santos-Dumont
Edison
Marconi
Benjamin Franklin
Gulf Stream
Ocean
Capt
Foster
Nantucket
Royal Packet Company
England
George
Folger
Royal Treasury
Our Republic
Lincoln
Garfield
McKinley
Palmerston
Gladstone
Bismarck
Ji Hury Chang
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Xenophon
Homer
Virgil
Napoleon
Glagstone
Hery
Smith D. Fry
The Garden-Party Misfortune at Arabella’s Lawn
A light verse recounts a summer garden party hosted by Lady Arabella with a select guest list and Molly assisting. Rain forces the party indoors leaving guests and tea in disarray and ending with a vow that Arabella will not host again.
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Arabella
Molly
Thelawn
Constance M. Lowe
Caseell
Blarney Stone At Blarney Castle Ireland Attraction
The Blarney stone sits at Blarney Castle eight miles from Cork Ireland reached by Cork and Muskerry railway. Two stones exist the real hard to access and a second for nervous visitors swung from the tower battlements. Tourists visit to kiss the stone hoping for speech to aid their desires and eloquence as noted by London Tit Bits.
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Blarney Castle
Ireland
Cork
Cork & Muskerry
London
The Vanishing Elephant Trick Explained
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune summary explains a magician’s Vanishing Elephant trick. The performer centers a silver elephant on a stand, uses a shade and colored handkerchief, and reveals the elephant has vanished into the audience member’s pocket. The method involves freezing mercury to form the statue and melting it into liquid mercury to complete the illusion.
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East India
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Beaver builds dam in room with chairs and boots
A Yellow stone National park keeper tames a young beaver that later asserts its instinctive industry by constructing a dam in a room corner. It uses chairs, books, old boots, and an empty pistol left within reach as building materials.
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Yellowstone National Park
Tricks To Balance An Egg In Any Position
An expert describes methods to position a blown egg by filling it with fine sand or grains and sealing with wax. One method places the egg upright with sand to shift balance, another uses meat bits and sealing wax to fill the lower part after warming. Both end with wax seals to hide tampering.
Foreign Facts and Fancies From a Distant Page
A collage of early 20th century curiosities spans Indigo in Central America and brigandage near Vienna. It notes tea yields denting dividends in London, German ship orders canceled amid gloom, and gold inlays on steel blades. It also covers Germany’s souvenir postcard boom, vast postal mentos, and the Channel submarine cable scheme with 26 knot speed and safety controls.
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San Salvador
Vienna
London
Germany
Imperial Post Office
England
France
Early 1900s Odds and Ends Briefs
France pays England about £100,000 yearly in cable rent. Oil shipments total 7,500 barrels daily exclusive of pipe. Oak lumber loses 20 percent in seasoning and over 30 percent when dry. Mexican mountain Indians vary rattles. forms resemble a human body. Some 60,000,000 young fish to be released in the Columbia River. 6,000,000 expected to return after fattening. A map of America drawn in 1500% by Martin Waldsee Muller, naming America after Amerigo Vespucci. The cabinet gains secretary of agriculture during Cleveland’s first term. Boston Chamber urges creation of a department of commerce and industries.
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France
England
Beaumont
Mexico
Columbia River
America
Wolfegg Castle
Prince von Waldburg-Wolfegg
Martin Waldsee Muller
Amerigo Vespucci
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of the Interior Department
Cleveland
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Department of Commerce and Industries
Most Expensive Trolley Car to Be Built in Philadelphia
West Philadelphia prepares the design of a luxury trolley car for a syndicate in Ohio costing about fifteen thousand dollars. It will be a sleeper dining car with sofa beds, sleeping berths, plate glass flooring, sheet metal siding, pneumatics, bells and sand boxes, a tile floored bathroom, urns, electric heaters, wash stands, ice boxes, and controllers. It will feature patent electric headlights with interchangeable glass for signals, and supply hot and cold water.
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West
Philadelphia
Ohio
Princess Viroqui and Dean Mars Divine Health Bond
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a notice or item mentioning Princess Viroqui, Dean Mars, and Lydia E. Sauder related to health restoration or benevolent gifts. Readable names imply a society or health benefit item but details are unclear.
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Dean Mars
Praaman
An Yi
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