Hail Insurance in Austrian Empire Insurance Institutes
The June Bulletin analyzes hail insurance by Austrian and Hungarian institutes during 1907–1909, noting 17 institutes across four organizational forms. It details policy counts, insured sums, premiums, and claims, with regional spread by Bohemia Moravia Galicia Tyrol and cross‑border activity, highlighting growth and competition between mutual and joint‑stock societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Empire
Bohemia
Moravia
Littoral
Carinthia
Dalmatia
Tyrol
Vorarlberg
Mutual Institutes
Mutual Institute of Cracow
Galicia
Italy
Squirrels Play Golf on Rockefeller Estate in Tarrytown
Hiram Revere reports a sighting of squirrels on John D. Rockefeller's Pocantico Hills estate acting as golfers. He described two squirrels putting with tails, a yard full of spectators, and nuts exchanged as prizes in a fifteen minute mock match. Old furniture made new. Carter Mullaly Transfer Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Hiram Revere
Hiram
Rockefeller Estate
County House Road
Revere
Carter- Mullaly Transfer Co
Dangers of British shores buried in coral and sand
Chambers' Journal warns that major hazards like the Goodwins Shambles Manacles and Sable Island threaten shipping. The track of ocean highways, not inherent deadliness, drives wrecks with Goodwins worst on record and Sable Island claiming over 200 vessels, aided by fogs and shifting sands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers
Burial Island
Boiling Reef
Iron Rock Ledge
Mersey
Goodwins
Kentish
Isle
Lomea
South America
Queen Anne's
Liverpool
Hoyle Sands
Liverpool Bay
Lizard
London
New York
Gravesend
Griffith
Lundy
Bristol
Severn
British Isles
Bristol Channel
Holyhead
Ireland
Rome
Aurania
Sable Island
Cape Canso
Nova Scotia
Moravia
John Cab
Francis
Halifax
America
Duke of Kent
Queen Victoria
Restoring a San Pedro Park Bathing Pool Idea
An observer imagines turning San Pedro park into a child friendly bath and wading pool using a cement 180 by 30 foot pool fed from the park lagoon. Engineers estimate a $1000 cost including changing booths, while city water shortages and spring restoration are debated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Pedro Avenue
San Pedro Park
Whittaker
Washington
San Pedro Springs
San Pedro
Local Bank Urges Youth to Seek Mutual Benefit
The bank invites all young men to establish relations with them, promising to assist in efforts to get ahead in life with safe, sound banking and a willing attitude to help in any appropriate way.
Dwarf Elephants Sighted in Uganda by English Official
An English official in Uganda reports sighting a herd of dwarf elephants, described as thirty to forty individuals roaming a plain in solitary fashion. The observer notes their lack of tusks, none exceeding ten kilograms, and records a dead member with an eight kilogram tusk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uganda
Harper'n Weel
Curious case of Miss Bessie Stewart mystifies doctors
Miss Bessie Stewart of Wellsville is described as suffering a hysteria or cataleptic trance with multiple personalities. She can read unseen texts in the dark, predicts deaths, and, in trance, smokes a pipe and speaks as a man. Dr. T. H. Winans will publish details in Medical Century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Bessie Stewart
C. T. Stewart
Wellsville
T. H. Winans
Stewart
Medical Century
New York
Flissouri Normal School
Texas
Dr. Winans
Miss Stewart
Africa
Mount Sinai Location Reassessed by Damascus Scientist
Dr Musil of Damascus argues Mount Sinai lies at Halal Bedr, an extinct volcano in the Hedjaz region of northwest Arabia. His Berlin academy submission links Josephus description of Arabia Petraea to a concrete site near the volcano, refining traditional geography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephus
Einal
Moses
Arabia
Petraea
Academy of Science
Berlin
Musil
Damascus
Mount Sinai
Old
Halal-Bedr
Hedjaz
Trusses That Curb Rupture Harm and Scam Perils
An exposé condemns elastic and spring trusses sold by drug stores and clinics as dangerous and ineffective. It touts the Cluthe Truss as a superior, self adjusting device held by suction, promising safer, constant support and a 60 day trial with a free 96 page book explaining rupture cures and dangers of surgery. It invites readers to write for the book and the cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonuy
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Myrtle
Thames
Barrow
Buxey
Kent
Essex Shoals
North Sea
Newcome
Suffolk
Hell Gate
Paris
Montagu
Lundy Island
House of Commons
G. A, Duerler Mfg, CO. Pure I Hg OE
Che Emmet Bank
W. Commerce Lt
East 23Rd St
New Yoik City
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