Various Scientific Notes And Baseball Anecdotes From Recent Issues
A broad set of notes covers Vedalia cardinalis in California reducing pests, polar life contrasts, gutta percha production near Singapore, large Ruhmkorff coils for foreign use, and nut trees potential food sources. Also discussed are tornado dynamics in summer, gold sands near Norton Sound, and labor efficiency with machinery per Wright. The baseball tale features McGuggenheimer and Plunk as the Whistling Thistles lose 49 to 7 in a chaotic game with balls lodged in a base and repeated ground plays.
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California
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
South Pole
Singapore
Washington
Parville
Gulf States
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Norton Sound
Cape Nome
Alaska
United States
Carroll D. Wright
America
Europe
Extraordinary Batting Tale of Plunk de Guggenheimer and the Lilacs
The story recalls Plunk de Guggenheimer filling in for an injured right fielder for the Hurvling Lilacs in a key game against the Whistling Thistles. A dramatic triple play by the third baseman and a sharp baserunning by the pitcher and first baseman help drive a historic win in a 50th straight victory bid.
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Lickory
Plunk de Guggenheimer
Plunk
Whistling Thistles
Large Cone Shaped Gold Nugget Reaches Mint
A New York Ledger note reports a British Columbia gold ingot weighing 7,9? ounces in a cone form, 18 inches high and 34 inches around the base, valued at 135,275 dollars. The mint has rarely seen such masses, with bricks usually the largest form, and much gold arriving as dust refined at assay offices before mint use.
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New York
Ledger
British Columbia
United States
Denver
Alaska
Seattle
Mint
Philadelphia Ledger
Grand Palais to Become National Museum and Art Center
The Petit Palais and Grand Palais sites are described as destined to form a vast art complex. Visitors will see an elegant porticoed entrance, Ionic columns, and a courtyard garden setting. A retrospective exhibition within signals the planned national museum status after the exhibition closes.
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Petit Palais
Grand Palais
Etiquette in China and a Southern cafe confrontation
A, Baltimore Sun piece on Chinese politeness and guest tea rituals contrasts Western missteps with Chinese decorum. It notes officials, courtesies, age questions, and ambassador protections, then shifts to a Chicago Inter Ocean report of Corbett quelling a cafe altercation, ending with a waiter’s demand for compensation.
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China
Baltimore Sun
Paris Exposition Grand Palais A Marble Masterpiece
Describes the Grand Palais des Beaux Arts as the Paris Exposition’s triumph a vast marble structure covering 32 000 square metres with three great arches and a long Ionic colonnade. The exterior murals enrich the ornate design and overall style. Miss Burks handles horse rentals and payments, often alone and armed with shooting irons.
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Grand Palais Des Beaux Arts
Nose Itch Saves Man From Road Agent
A California stagecoach hold up is recalled where a passenger claims an itching nose forced him to scratch. The highwayman uses the muzzle of a shotgun to stop the scratch and keep the passenger compliant, producing a comic moment noted by the Troy Press.
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California
Knight of the Road
Troy Press
Swiss Village Frames Alpine Exhibit In Paris Gallery
A Swiss village displays alpine life with replicas of real Swiss homes set along a cliffside settlement. Visitors wander through rooms filled with medieval art objects in gold and ivory, and the exhibit includes rugs tapestries and furniture as part of the presentation. The village lies just outside the main exposition grounds, drawing many visitors for its picturesque precincts.
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Switzerland
Girl Carries The Mail In Far Away Arizona
Former Brooklyn resident Miss Sarah M. Burks is likely the West’s only woman mail carrier with a route from St. Johns to the distant frontier. The article notes vast resources at Cerro del Mercado, with estimates of 9.9 billion pesos value and 1,046,604,200 cubic feet of metal, suggesting the iron mountain is the world’s greatest and other masses may be found in Mexico.
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Mexico
el Correo de Sonca
Cerro del Mercado
Durango
England
Brooklyn
Arizona
Sarah M. Burks
St. John’s
Frederick Weidner
French executioner Deibler amasses fortune from guillotine work
M Deibler, the French executioner, is said to have earned about 500,0000 francs from his work with the guillotine. An execution in Paris reportedly saw him accompanied by his little son, raising the belief he intends him to pursue the same trade.
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M. Deibler
Paris
Cossacks Favor Warfare Over Commerce
The Cossacks disdain trade with few merchants among 60,000 fighting men and 128,000 in reserve, only 440 of their own people engaged in business.
Immigrant pioneer reporter braves Arizona wilderness
Miss Burks travels 200 miles weekly between Jimtown and distant towns, crossing a barren, mineral rich region. The sparse settlers, alkali streams, Navajo and Apache presence, and scarce vegetation depict a harsh landscape rich in gold, silver, and copper deposits along the western border.
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Jimtown
Ariz
Miss
Burks
Fishin for fish what dere hain't any
A traveler questions a South Carolina brickyard fisher about fishing for fish that aren t there. The man answers the object is to show the wife he has no time to work in the truck patch, despite fishing for nothing. The exchange reveals humor and social context in dialect.
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South Carolina
Washington Post
American Freezers In Demand Worldwide
Ice cream freezers manufactured in the United States are sold globally wherever ice is used. Ice cream consumed in Calcutta Melbourne or any city or country would likely have been produced in an American freezer.
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Calcutta
Melbourne
He Bore It Out in a Sharp Exchange of Witty Prose
A short exchange features a boastful remark about a bag and rumors of a diner’s appetite. The dialogue hints at a humorous chestnut about a man’s surprising capacity and the other’s confident claim he has witnessed it firsthand.
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Harqua Hala
Chivalry Cost Him Money In South Side Café Scene
A South Side café table scene shows a fluffy girl lamenting modern men who buy gin rickeys rather than risking lives for a lady. Jim Corbett, a popular waiter, hovers nearby as the conversation hints at old time chivalry versus contemporary behavior. The man grows nettled at the remark.
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Jim Corbett
Various curiosities and notes from a historic periodical
The excerpt lists bits about an elephant corps named for army use led by a general, the oldest Free Mason Adna Adams Treat aged 103, a drought report from Western Australia, a Kansas missionary in China about English speaking babies, home burn treatment with ammonia and charcoal, Cape Nome’s arctic circle proximity and gold camp potential, and a musicians’ ages with notable names and birth years.
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King of Siam
Adna Adams Treat
Denver
Colo
Kansas
China
Wichita
Kan
Cape Nome
Arctic Circle
Pachman
Emil Liebling
Joseffy
Sherwood
Hylested
Friedheim
Paderewski
Sauer and
Rosenthal
Siloti
D’albert
Busoni
Godowsii
Hambourg
Street-boy chivalry sparks at Edinburgh Christmas treat
A reader recalls a Christmas mission hall event where a barefoot girl shivers in the cold while hundreds wait. A compassionate street boy removes his cap and tells her to stand on it, modeling quiet protection and courtesy.
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Walter Raleigh
Sunday
Edinburgh
Worn-Out Uniforms Boost War Office Revenue
The article notes that worn-out British Army uniforms sold fetch nearly 150000 dollars annually for the War Office treasury.
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War Office
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McGuggenheimer
Thistles
Grand Palace OF Fine Arts
Corbett
Doughty Corbett
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Girl
Post Woman IN the
Desert
Nood
Ocdnadta
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