Webster's New Instrument Dives Into Sound Waves
Prof A G Webster of Clark University unveiled a device measuring sound by light waves at the AAAS gathering. The apparatus uses mirrors prisms and a tiny drum to convert sound into colored light fringes projected on a screen for analysis.
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Ie Shuili
Viet
Webster
A.G. Webster
Clark University
Ireeting
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Isaac
Professor
Neeby
Ayetr
Lord Berleigh
Vienna Patriot Upsurge in Emperor Jubilee Stunt
A Vienna correspondent reports a craze among patriots to scale church towers for the emperor’s jubilee. On August 1, five men attempted Saint Stephen’s tower with ladders and flags, while police tried to halt them. A 43 year old worker named Schrieber was intercepted near the top after mounting the vestry to fix a flag.
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Vienna
London
Neiws
Saint Stephen's
St. Stephen's 5 Tower
Jargene
Imerély
Burs
Schrieber
Fragmentary Meteoric Sound Report From Distant Collision
A damaged OCR segment notes a scientific sounding discussion of sound transmission over long distances. It mentions a sound with a minuscule atmospheric pressure and a distant whistle recorded seven and a quarter miles away, touching on collision possibility and detection reliability.
The Magnificent Tomb Temple of Karbak
A historic description calls the Temple of Karbak the world’s most magnificent tomb, occupying nine acres, twice St. Peter’s area in Rome. It envisions gigantic columns, beautiful courts, and wondrous avenues of sphinxes as a poet’s dream.
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Karbak
St. Peter's
Rome
Hood's Sarsaparilla and other health notes
A mix of patent medicine pitches and curiosities including Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to purify blood and aid digestion, a Cuban hat seller misusing a Spanish English dictionary, Trinity Church's long existence and wealth, Burmese coin beliefs, horse flesh as food trends, and scattered notices on Western Florida land and a Polk County missive.
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America
C. J. Wood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Santiago
Where Gabbage Grows Wid
Cabbages grow wild in Germany where they originated Radishes are native to China but have been grown in Europe for centuries
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Germany
China
Europe
Random Shots and Quips From an Eccentric Logbook
A garbled piece notes quirks and witticisms about careful dancers sermons settlers lawyers and a playful fable tone. It references a first settler possibly being last to settle a bill and includes whimsical lines about bees fish brains and a jurist.
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Territory
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Trinity Church Corporation
New York City
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Louisville
Missioner, Polisdubla
Stien Brown
California
Fie Syrve .Co
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California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal Gle
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Mase
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Carrie
Gvenza
Exoryacere
Kay
Oparrell
New York Avenue
Washington, D.C
Cuba
Sapo
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