When the Fleet Came to Sydney
The United States Atlantic Fleet's arrival in Sydney astonishes Australians and stirs calls for a stronger Australian navy. Officials praise the visit for strengthening Pacific defense ties with Britain and the United States, while celebrations include schoolchildren and public banquets. The article notes Roosevelt and Sperry’s cordial reception and outlines the fleet's return itinerary from Manila to the United States via the Mediterranean and Canal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sydney
Australia
Thomas Prior
South Australia
Australasian
America
Britain
Pich
New South Wales
Sperry
Panama Canal
Sydney Harbor
Roosevelt
Cadle
Queensland
Northern Territory
Admiral Eperry
George Reid
Hall Columbia
Hampton Roads
Canada
Manila
U8. Navy Department
Colombo
Loe
Port Said
Mediterranean
Ville Franche
Marseilles
Genoa
Leghorn
Malta
Algiers
Athens
Naples
Negro Bay
Morocco
Gibraltar
Daisy Automatic Baster Promises Automatic Meat Juices Circulation
The Daisy Automatic Baster, built in Beaver, Fa, offers a self acting system that distributes meat juices during roasting. It uses a heat gathering plate, an automatic valve, and a shaft to spray moisture over the pan, with water in a lower receptacle. The device is steel finished with copper handles and is advertised to last for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
By & Company
Beaver
Head Transplant Breakthrough Reported In Animal Tests
An American doctor claims a dog head was grafted to another body with the host living 26 minutes and remaining conscious most of the time. The report cites Berlin University and Dr Posner as earlier thinkers while noting continued secrecy around some surgical feats. A Budapest government employee carried a lottery prize by door to the office after lifting the door from its hinges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Posner
Berlin University
Hved
Posner
Budapest
Austria- Hungary
Thatcher
Eselieh
Lad
Income
Boen & Bot
Julien
Monsieur Julen
Whech
Nam
United Kingdom
Australia
Diggings
Trena
Noisy Ghosts in Hull Terraced House Sparks Alarm
Readers in Hull report a haunting in Richardson Buildings Sykes Street where Mrs Gilson and Mr O Grady with a baby heard tapping and witnessed rumbling nurses, falling bric a brac, flying missiles and cups leaping from tables. Police and P C O Kelly investigated but found no clue. The family suspects a supernatural link to the death of a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
P.C. O'Kelly
O'Kelly
Richardson
Ataira
Gilsons
O'Gradys
P.O. Hynes
Conetebie
Glison
Hynes
Pac Oroelly
Buo
Wannyo
Gilson
Ryan
Uncounted Children Inquest Speech Stuns Shoreditch Court
A London inquest transcript shows the coroner Dr. Wren Westcott grilling Savare about his wife’s children. Savare yields a cryptic exchange claiming fourteen children with only three surviving ages twenty three, fifteen and thirteen as the coroner ends the question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoreditch
London
Wren Westcott
Savare
Paris Mandates Larger Hats for Coming Winter
Paris fashion decree requires ladies to wear oversized hats this winter. A new model with broad crown and beaver trim for afternoon wear measures over a yard in diameter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Diggers' Poet William Thatcher: Australian improviser and singer
The piece recalls William Thatcher, the Diggers' Poet, a 19th century Australian performer famed for topical songs on goldfields. He rose on Victorian and New Zealand stages, adapting current news into rapid verse, entertaining miners with rustic wit and rough-hewn charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Thatcher
Lim
Thatcher
Australia
New Zealand
Fourteen Husbands and One Husband List of Divorces
A Nebraska woman Mia Phoebe Townsend aged 50 has been married fourteen times and now faces another divorce suit. She recounts how she managed husbands and claims she knows how men behave, though several former spouses are dead or divorced. Her written partner list includes many names and dates. she says if her current husband fails, she will marry again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Phoebe Townsend
Donge
Nebraska
U.S.A
Kent
Joseph Zoover
G. W. W. Smith
Charles E
Ewing Henry Straw
John J
Salts Jeage Luman Co
Scott Thomas Birchel
Philip Moomawr
Edgar Fenton Charlen T Hitchcock
Charles Henaby
Bigford
Anthony W. Townsend
Tattooed Princess Reveals Paris Med Journal Case
Dr. Variot reports a Continental princess who long wore extensive tattooing including a blue green serpent on her left arm and a portrait with armorial bearings on her right arm. A bracelet of fuele ibises adorned each wrist. The artworks were removed after fashion faded, amid weeks of severe pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Variot
Paris
Widower Seeks Wife From Workhouse Inmates
An S1-year-old widower from County Wicklow asks the Baltinglass Board of Guardians to find him a wife among workhouse inmates. He provides a self described spec and notes a seven acre farm, calling himself the model farmer of Ballytarena before guardians order the letter to be read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltinglass
County Wicklow
Ireland
Board of Guardians
James Cummins
Ballytarena
Land of Fire in Tierra del Fuego Revels in Grim Wilderness
Desolate Tierra del Fuego shows a grim coast and a split society. Sailors report ships circling Cape Horn while Fuegian tribes hunt fish with rawhide lines and barter whisky in bleak huts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Horn
Jeems
Earth
Circus Fue
San Diego
Hart
Tierra del Fuego
Fuego
Self closing garbage tin for hospitals homes factory use
A Chitaso company offers self closing waste cans including Justrite oily waste, hospital, and household models. Features include a foot operated bail, automatic lid action, strap iron legs on oily waste can, three sizes per model, and finishes in white enamel or galvanised iron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chitaso Ie
Aml House Holt
Saplinry Hospital
Difficult Railway Making and Panama Canal Comparisons
The piece compares difficulty in railway building and the Panama Canal project. It notes a 2364 mile Canadian Pacific railway from Tora to Sudbury costing over £3,000,000, engineers John G Sullivan and Panarma’s chief assistant warn of smaller but real challenges, including a swing French River Bridge and a 1800% long viaduct above Parry Sound. It cites 5,000,000 of dynamite used, three fatalities during three years of construction, and stresses the heavy engineering feats involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yass-Ganberra i
Fat Canuia
Tora
Sudbury
Canadian Pacific
Air
John G. Sullivan
Panarma
Panama Canal
Freneh River
Parry Sound
Man Malone Exhibits Rats to Warn Living in Northampton
A man named Malone was jailed in Northampton for breaking hotel windows and was paid to roam showing tethered rats to warn others. He exhibited rats tied to a table with a string, then killed the rat with his teeth while his hands were bound behind him. He was repeatedly whipped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malone
Northampton
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Inz & Ib. Tins
New York Herald
Evening News
VIEJO
Tennyson
Thatcher Waa
Theodora Hook
Wade
Nighooth
Stanter
Mehdy
Begal
Coures
Ineo
Bobby
Bob
China
Richmond Thatcher
Eigius
Tattooed Princess
Blanc Mangel
Hade Mark
Freeman's Factory
Jay’s Inn-road
Prego
Theia
Fire
Fuegian
Grim
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!