Ladies Cricketers Form Regional League In England
The article reviews a new women’s cricket league with eight first division clubs and a similar number in the second. It highlights Sedgley Park Ladies’ Club as the strongest county side, led by captain Mabel Pulman at seventeen with 46 wickets for 68 runs, and praises rising interest as Devonshire intends a county team and girls’ schools produce skilled elevens coached by professionals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Rose
Sedgley Park Ladies
Elsie Jones
Mabel Pulman
England
Devonshire
E. Phillips
Duffield Ladies’ Cricket Club
Derbyshire
Roedean
Cheltenham College
Wycombe Abbey
Lancashire
Manchester
Harpurney Ladies
Sedgley Park
Forest Hill
London
W. R. Williams
Ultra Microscope Revolution and Invisible Sunlight
An early 20th century account highlights Zsigmondy and Siedenstopf as pioneers in ultra microscopy. It explains the shift from bright field to dark field illumination, enabling viewing of particles at molecular scales. The piece recounts experiments with sunlight, dust particles, and distilled water, emphasizing advancements in光 physics and ultra violet photography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Lucien Larkin
Zsigmondy
Siedentopf
Optical and Physical Laboratory
Wonderful deep sea fish illuminate ocean depths
Deep sea fish captured between 1000 and 2000 fathoms in the Atlantic were surfaced by trawl. Artists made casts to preserve their shapes and colors, noting jet black bodies and luminous organs that light up dark waters to attract prey and recognize kin. The public debt per capita was $10.74.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Massive Whales Die Stranded in Penzance Bay Prompt Fossil Speculation
In Penzance Bay England a half dozen enormous whales strand and die as high tides trap them among sand spits. The event is linked to fossil science noting how such accidents preserve bones and create future museum displays, paralleling mastodons and iguanodons preserved by ancient sand and mud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penzance Bay
England
Pengance Bay
Europe
Beloes
Bernissart
Death Trap Ashphalt Lake and a Cosmopolite Port
An article recalls California’s Rancho La Brea asphalt lake where animals and predators perished in sticky tar, echoing a Coal Age tale of ancient death. It also notes Punta Arenas growing as a wool shipping port with a population of about 12,000 and discusses mule imports and prices in 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pycraft
California
Rancho la Brea
Punta Arenas
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Lady Cricketers
Miss Plowman
Miss Brooks
Photos
Edgar Lucien Barkin
Onil
Major Piano Company
San Antonio
Crockett
Marshal & Wendell
Brewster
Walworth
Cole
the Mayor Piano Company
Traiis and
Soledad Streets
Wolff & Marx
United States
Themian Canal Commission
New Orleans
Beenias
PROTO
National
Battersea Park
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