Colorado farm crops produce wealth and industrious farmers become rich
Eaton district farmers report rising profits from diversified crops in Colorado. Letters from CHRIS NELSON and others describe large potato, wheat, and hay yields with substantial net earnings, noting irrigation, alfalfa, and shared farming as keys to success and urging others to invest in farming here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Denver Chamber of Commerce
Eax
HL. Eaton
Eaton
Weld County
Arkansas Valley
Colo
Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade
Denver
Uilemen
Col
Wastit
Chris
Nelson
The
Gentleme
Er of Commerce
Fr. B. Shattuck
Cole
Jame
Ise
Rela
Lamsdedt
J. M. Collins
Eaton, Colorado
Coloem
Toam
Inyoshi
Agnes Phipps Memorial Sanitarium planned east of Denver
Lawrence C. Phipps funds and plans a new Agnes Phipps Memorial Sanitarium at Montclair to treat tuberculosis using Trudeau methods. A seven‑member self perpetuating board will guide the project with exclusive 160 acres purchased for the site and 40 acres for immediate use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Lawrence C. Phipps
Montclair
Phipps
Pittsburg
Agnes Phipps
Trudeau
Gerald Trughes
Sixth Avenue Boulevard
Hughes
Chester
Morey
Charles J. Hughes, Jr
John F. Campion
Walter
Cheesman
John ‘H. Sawyer
John G. McMurtrie
Tyson
Dines
Mr. Hughes
Phi
Thomas J. Gallaher
W. Holden
William H.bergfold
Car
Roll E. Edson
Pennsylvania
Adirondack Mountains
South Carolina
Georger
Carnegie Company
Bethell
Colfax Avenue
Memorial Hospital
Two New Oil Strikes Draw Boulder Enthusiasm
A Denver Republican report from Boulder notes two new oil strikes raising strong hopes among oil men. The Wellington well near Republic reached oil at 2,440 feet and is touted as a potential hundred barrel per day producer. The Bradford well near Rocky Ford began at 2 a.m. and rapidly reached 800 feet by noon, with officials expressing satisfaction and long bets on a productive zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Boulder
Wellington
Bradford
Rocky Ford
G. E. Wilson
Republic
Frank Goudy
J. Fr. Cretcher
C. H. McVre
M Vay
Alaska Craters Active Near Mount Blackburn
Seattle readers receive a special report from Skagway describing a volcanic outbreak near Mount Blackburn in Alaska. Geologist J C McFarland recounts an April 11 eruption with ash, smoke, and a brief, intense seismic event following a week of minor quakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Times
Skagway
Marth
Alaska
J. C. McFarland
McFarland
Blackburn
North Pacific Ocean
Mull Glacier
Mount Blackburn
Machine to Duplicate Patterns Advances Engraving Trade
The article describes J. H. Martin of Roanoke Virginia presenting a machine that can copy patterns exactly or scale them in length or width. It targets engraving and drawing trades, with emphasis on reducing the skill barrier and enabling commercial use in reproducing complex designs. The telephose system and improved multirad doors are noted as features of the device.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Martin
Roanoke
Monroe St
Kate Taylor
Hartman
Perua Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Inventors Propose Flexible Engraving Pantograph and Wind Scarecrow
An article describes a versatile engraving pantograph allowing resizing without altering symmetry, with a heavy base, vertical post, and adjustable frame. It highlights renewed invention ideas from Everybody's Magazine and notes substitutes for elastic materials. Alexander C. Davis of Lafayette, Indiana, designs a wind driven light projecting scarecrow to deter birds, using a post mounted frame, forward lamps, and a revolving mirror wheel to cast light across fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Alexander C. Davis
Lafayette
Ind
Night scarecrow lights and long Paris telephone wires
The article describes a light reflecting scarecrow used at night to scatter beams across fields and flashes from the sun in the day for visibility. It then details the International Telephone System with Paris as a hub, listing connecting cities such as London, Hamburg, Berlin, Turin, and Milan, and notes the Paris Cologne route often travels via Berlin, extending the wire distance to about 1000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
London
Hamburg
Berlin
Turin
Milan
Cologne
Mars Ice Caps Debated by Lowell and Others
Popular Astronomy features Percival Lowell weighing in on Mars polar features. He challenges the idea of water ice, noting Mars is far colder and has no atmosphere to trap heat, suggesting frozen carbonic acid gas forms the so called ice caps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
Jee Cap
Holden
Percival Lowell
Earth
Apparatus Aids Beach Launch And Water Propulsion
An invention by Samuel T. Brittain of Boston introduces a combined beach launch and water propulsion apparatus. The device helps passengers enter a boat from very shallow beaches, then powers the boat via a geared drive and pivoting blades. The Kronprinz Wilhelm showcases bulkhead water tight doors controlled from the bridge, a system invented by Prof. Dorr, with all twenty doors proving effective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hest
Samuel T. Brittain
Boston
Mass
Kronprinz Wilhelm
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
Prof
Dorr
Discover Unknown Germs by Balloon Ascents
Dr. F W Hutchison, a noted English scientist, is conducting a series of balloon ascents from London and nearby towns to study bacilli in the upper atmosphere. Results so far are satisfactory and many hitherto unknown species of germs have been discovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Hutchison
London
Noted Female Astronomer Dorothea of San Francisco
Dorothea, a leading female astronomer from San Francisco, earned a Paris Observatory place in 1887 against fifty Frenchmen and has since led a seven year effort with five fellow women to photographically map the heavens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothea
San Francisco
Paris Observatory
Dog Breeds, Cure, and a Quinine Joke Dialogue
A fragmented dialogue mentions a setter and pointer dog, humor about training and pointing toward a cupboard. An old sales line promises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day with money-back guarantee. The text includes a stray remark about wealth and auto ownership, ending with a garbled line about Uncle Eten and an inability to talk.
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Dickerson
Greeley
Raton
Sam
Hk. D. Hughes
Bruce Eaton
George Koenig
Raton, Cole
George Jones
G. Booth
McAfee
Arnold
Boulder Basin
Aurora
Old Redoubt Volcano
Everybody's
India
G Rock
Lynn
England
Egg Rock
Little Chronicle
Allen
Addrees Allen
Olmsted
Lesley, N
Ile
Uncle Eten
Hamlins
Denver Directory
Tome Surent
Tereaver
Coubatetea
Brown Palace Hotel
Colorado Tent & Awning Co
Lawrence Breet
E. E. Burlingame & CO
Susans Laboratory
Mallee Geld & Sin
Lawrence St
Deaver
Coles
Trent, Nam
Oxford
Piret
Pater
I. Moree
Mar
Mate
Thompson
Charterhouse
Rue de la Paix
Porter Drug
Cuem
U. S
Courrtcuna
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