Sun Tat Sened President of Chinese Republic Surprise in Hawaii
Draft article notes surprise at Dr Sun Tat Sen being chosen president of the provincial republic of China. It contrasts his rise with local views in Hawaii where he was born, recounting his early life in Maui district Kula, Island of Molokai. Mentions his father’s arrival in Hawaii in the 1860s and his education in Honolulu before embracing Christianity.
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Sun Tat Sen
Republic of China
Hawaii
Dr. Sun
Dr. Bun
China
Mach
Hono Hulu
Honolulu
Cod
Kula
Island of
Man
Horwaii
Washington and Jefferson president marks 34 years
Dr Jamun D Moffat completes thirty four years as president of Washington and Jefferson College. A noted scholar and church leader, he has expanded the college from a small campus with few facilities to a renowned institution with laboratories gymnasium and a growing endowment now surpassing 640000 and plans for a 1000000 endowment.
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Jamun D. Moffat
Washington and Jefferson College
United States
Pres Church
Presbyterian
Presbyterian Denomination, Dr. Moffat
Moffat
New Lisbon
Ohio
Washington and Jeferson
Presbyterian Church of
Wheeling
W.va
Bride Receives Four Million In Gifts At Washington Wedding
Edward T. Stotesbury presented Mrs. Oliver Cromwell with four million dollars in stocks, bonds, and securities as a wedding prelude. He also bestowed jewels valued at a million dollars. The ceremony took place at 1808 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington DC, with Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding presiding. Guests included President Taft, Mrs Taft, J. Pierpont Morgan Jr, and Mra Mor ee, while Oliver Baron Cromwell stood as surrogate father. The groom’s grand jewelry collection, a famed pearl necklace, cost about half a million dollars and was shown to Washington society.
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Oliver Cromwell
Edward T. Stotesbury
Drexel & Co
Stotesbeary
New Hampshire Avenue
Washington, D C
Washington
Ray
Alfred Harding
United States Aid
Mra
Washington Society
Mont Beau- Ufet
U. S. Ambassador Resigns for Harvard Fellowship
Robert Bacon, the United States ambassador to Paris, resigns to become a Harvard fellow replacing Jodee Lowell. Bacon explains no political motive, seeks to engage with national issues, and will remain friendly with President Taft.
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Robert Bacon
United States
Paris
Harvard
America
Bacon
Lfe
Small five room cottage design for young couples
William A Hadford offers free building advice and housing ideas through the paper. The feature extols a modern five room cottage with living dining and kitchen on the ground floor and two bedrooms plus bath upstairs, priced around 1100 dollars. It argues modern architects create bright airy small homes with storage closets, removing attics and parlor culture, and notes the value for young couples seeking comfort and dignity in a modest home.
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Wiliam A. Hadford
William A. Radford
Jackson Boulevard
Hicago
Walla
Ash can on wheels for curbside use shocks no one
Connecticut man equips an ash can with small wheels and a hinged handle that also acts as a brake. The design lets a householder push the can to the curb without soiling clothes. A bottom bolt locks the handle upright when not in use, preventing rolling or tipping.
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Connecticut
Ancient dentistry in Europe and Rome's tooth care
The article surveys historic dental practice from Phoenician bridgework in a Sidon tomb housed in the Louvre to Etruscan examples in the Coronet museum. It notes Roman references to artificial teeth and various denture methods, highlighting 6th century riveted metal bridges and poetic mentions by Martial.
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Sidom
Louvre
Paris
Museum of
Gorneto
Tarquinii
Rome
Martial
Germany makes slag brick from blast-furnace slag
Germany uses granulated blast-furnace slag to manufacture bricks. Unlike fluid slag bricks, these new slag bricks reportedly resist heat, are stronger, and more permeable to air and water, reducing water absorption and improving suitability for building.
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Germany
How to Lift Heavy Barrel Up a Ramp
The illustration shows a method using two ropes to lift a heavy barrel up steps or onto a platform. Attach rope ends near the incline top, wind both ropes around the barrel, and pull from below. The plan requires little muscle and works even on a steep incline.
Boldering Aluminum Through Electroplating Method
A Norwegian method cleanses aluminum by immersion in an electrolytic bath and plates copper on the surfaces. This coppering eases soldering between aluminum pieces, offering a swift potential solution to joining aluminum parts.
Gotandar and Fruit Press Invented by Minnesota Man
A Minnesota inventor unveils Gotandar and Fruit Press a combined colander and rear press with a revolving blade that is screwed down into contents as a handle in turned design aimed at processing produce efficiently.
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Gotandar
Minnesota
Swedish rapid firing gun sets record at eleven hundred shots per hour
The article notes a Swedish inventor producing a hand carried, shoulder fired weapon capable of about eleven hundred shots an hour. It claims the device eliminates kick and recoil, allowing a single marksman to drop a regiment in an hour, and suggests the gun will join modern arsenals.
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Masim
Sweden
FIT AUTOMOBILE TO OWNER
Nearly all large automobile factories do custom work fitting cars to buyers, similar to tailoring clothes. The method measures arm and leg lengths and adjusts seat height, footboard angle, and steering wheel length. The illustration shows adjustable parts to tailor fit for different users.
Innovations From Around the World Highlight Practical Experiments
The report notes mica concrete to imitate granite, seaweed sun glass in Japan, brighter china from sunken glaze, and American shoes expanding globally though some abroad are not truly American made. It cites briquettes from street rubbish in Amsterdam, sash racks as door bolts, tantalum pens outperforming steel or gold, and Atharge glycerin cement for wood joints. Other items include a German baker’s windmill mixer, Sweden’s ancient Tron furnaces, Japan’s battleship with American turbine engines, chalk on files to prevent chips, a hand sharpening drill, and English paper machines making 650 feet of newsprint per minute. Deposits of copper ore found on Vestmann Islands south of poled.
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China
Amsterdam
Germany
Sweden
Japan
England
Vestmanns Islands
Poled
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