Santos-Dumont’s Dream of World Benefit From Inventions
The article quotes M Santos Dumont asserting that true invention serves humanity not profit. He predicts airships and flying machines will soon be common, reducing travel discomfort and easing railway crowding. He notes naming variations of his surname and reflects on the economics of science, literature profits, and public understanding.
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M. Santos-Dumont
New York World
France
Santos
England
Santos- Dumont
Died in Bridgeton While Not Sleeping After Civil War
Reports honor Captain Hiram Pugh who died at Bridgeton New Jersey after refusing to sleep in bed since returning from the Civil War. The piece blends oblique notes on other topics including literary criticism and a failed joke about a meat company, with scattered aphorisms and ad text.
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Walter Scott
Robert Cadell
Abbotsford
Scott
Hiram Pugh
Bridgeton
New Jersey
Lydia E Pinkham Plant Compound Helped My Health
Mrs Anna McKay, mother of five, describes severe female ailments after childbirth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health and strength after seven months of faithful use, expressing deep gratitude to the remedy and its inventor.
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Annie McKay
Sons of Temperance
Spadina Ave
Toronto
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anna McKay
Chaplain Sons of Temperance
New Printers Adjusting Stick Aids Typewriting Progress
Feature notes a patent dirt deflector and ventilator for railroad cars by Frank L. Nichols. Article discusses ocean bed composition by Ocean Ned M. Thoulet and A D Houghton experiments on a protoPlasmic mass, plus Thomas Griffin of Chicago’s two piece printer’s adjustable stick for nonpareil measurement.
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Deview
Frank L. Nichols
Washington, D.C
Thomas Griffin
Chicago
Griffin Adjustable Stick Introduces Rigid One-Piece Pan
The Griffin Adjustable Stick features a single solid pan for added strength and lacks back slits or holes that weaken the design. It sets faster than competitors as it avoids removing screws or rivets.
New Horse-Hair Process From Frankfort Company
A Frankfort on the Main firm develops a method to produce horse-hair from cellulose or derivatives in any length. The challenge lies in drying strength, as the pressed cellulose hair remains weak and brittle when dry and breaks easily.
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Frankfort-on the-Main
Modern Science Notes On Hair, Light, Tin Foil And Typing
The article surveys methods for twisting hair into strong threads, notes moonless night light estimates by Burns and Newcomb, details tinfoil manufacture including Dutch leaf and composition foil, and presents a home typing keyboard gadget by Joseph Challinger. It also recounts a Royal Institution lecture where an iron ring linked with copper coil demonstrates strong induced magnetism, likened to a modern miracle.
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Gavin J. Burns
Simon Newcomb
Rafael Granja
Royal Institution
8. P. Thompson
Jericho
Lightning Rod Experiment
K R Kosh identifies rusted connections as effective during thunderstorms and proposes a theory that oscillating electromagnetic waves restore conductivity briefly. He tests with a rapid receiving camera, but signals are too distant for conclusive proof.
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K. R. Kosh
Arctic Expedition Windward to Get Major Repairs in New York
The Peary Arctic Club steamer Windward will receive extensive repairs in New York this spring, including new engines and boiler, before heading north this summer to aid Lieut. Peary on the Arctic relief expedition.
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Peary Arctic Club
New York
Peary
California Farm Machinery Demonstrates Modern Steam Power
A Southern California grain ranch uses a fifty horse power engine with eight foot drive wheels to pull farming equipment, consuming twelve barrels of oil daily and employing seven men. Fifty five furrows are turned per plowing pass across forty feet, illustrating the era’s advancing agricultural technology.
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California
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