Champ Clark of Missouri a Target of Humor and Wit
A lengthy profile describes Champ Clark of Missouri as a humorist with statesmanlike traits in Congress. It notes his early flamboyance, a defeat that sobered him, and later admiration for Tom Reed. It cites his Bible study for rhetoric, birthday March 7, 1850, age fifty, and his affable, companionable nature in the House.
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Champ Clark
Missouri
Congress
House
Washington Star
Tom Reed
United States
Clark
Champ Clack
Champ
Patrick Henry
House of Burgesses
Henan
Eve Solomon
Ian
Modern Army Balloons At Aldershot Balloon School
The British Army at Aldershot uses balloon training with mainly wives and daughters of soldiers assembling gas bags. Balloons use ox intestines for material, require about 75,000 cattle for a full-size bag, and cost around 5000 pounds. Gas is stored in tanks carried by wagons, and balloons are designed to retain gas for weeks with puncture-resistant skin and quick signaling from ground to balloon via a tether and wire telegraph link.
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Aldershot
Winfield T Durbin Republican Leader and Indiana Committeeman
Winfield Taylor Durbin the Republican nominee for governor and national committeeman from Indiana, a leading figure in Anderson politics born in Lawrence 1847. He became a tanner, banker, and politician, serving in Civil War regiments and Spanish War era duties, with wife Bertha McCullough of Anderson.
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Winfield Taylor Durbin
Indiana
Anderson
Lawrence
Ind
St. Louis
Indies Spolls
Durbin
Spain
One Hundred and Sixty-first
Indiana Infantry
Miss Bertha McCullough
One Cent Per Year Mail Carrier in Wisconsin
Frank Lynch holds the lowest paid US government post as Dodgeville to Mineral Point, Wisconsin mail carrier at one cent annually. He has yet to receive a quarterly payout while bidders once offered $15 to $20 for his check. The nine mile route, winter sleighs or summer wagons, shows the odd friction of early postal contracting and penny wages amid civil war era money history.
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Iowa County
Wisconsin
United States
Frank Lynch
Dodgeville
Wis
Mineral Point
Lincoln
Questio
Post Office Department
Washington
Wisconsin i Tive
Porto Rican Homes Built From Palms and Calabash
The article describes palm trees royal and covea and the calabash providing all needs for huts and utensils. It notes how hammocks, beds, cradles, water bottles, and drying containers are crafted from these materials. A bohio or casa denotes the native hut built with local resources.
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Basti
Porto Rico
Antarctic ship design for British 1901 expedition
The Royal Geographical Society charged a chief constructor with designing a 172 by 33 by 16 foot oak ship for the 1901 British Antarctic expedition. Built by a Dundee firm, it features greenheart sheathing, ice strengthening, a 450 horsepower engine, a deep sea dredging winch, a magnetic observatory free of iron/steel nearby, lifting gear for rudder and propeller, asbestos deck coating, a large felt blanket, and wintering capabilities.
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Royal Geographical Society
Admiralty
Dundee
Greenheart
Antarctic
Modern Robinson Crusoe on Galapagos Island
An escaped convict, Pedro Guaza, holed up on Floriana Island in the Galapagos, living as sovereign of the wrecked plantation. He built a hardy settlement, hunted goats and pigs, and survived with primitive tools and skins, while capt. Tanner recounts the yearlong isolation and the island’s convicts history.
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Ecuador
Pacific Ocean
Florina Island
Galapagos
Pedro Guaza
Z. L. Tanner
United States Navy
Floriana Island
Tanner
New York World
Charles Island
Moriana Island
Chatham Island
Pedro
Gonza
Devserted
Guaza
Gunza
Pedro Gunza
Ruth Cordis Long Aims at Gospel Singing Career
Ruth Cordis Long niece of Secretary of the Navy Jollm D. Long pursues life gospel singing after revival work in Worcester Massachusetts. She sang on a U S ship in San Diego in 1896 inspiring a sailor to seek a better life, later sang before President and Mrs McKinley in Washington. Long, a contralto, began as a convert singer in Portland at 17 and shifted to concert and evangelical work amid temperance efforts.
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Ruth Cordis Long
Miss Long
Boston
California
Washington
McKinley
Mixa Long
Portland
Annie Louise Carey
Umbrella tent turns Indian lodge into portable shelter
A Cincinnati idea by Duncan Downs recreates the tepee as a collapsible umbrella tent. Two sliding collars with ropes and pulleys raise and lower the tent height. folded, it becomes a central mast with canvas wrapped around, easy to transport. Miners’ rats and apples feature in brief notes.
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Duncan Downs
West Sumkor
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Iberiba
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von Wis
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Anthropolog
Sir Hans Sloane
Jamaica
Piganinnes
Hana
Tadinp
House of Representatives
Wade
Winfield T. Durbin
Thulane
Florida
Kansans City
Wehoo Board
Dawson
Diana
Uncle Sam
Buller
North County
Gen. Buller
Frank Lynchy
Raval Geographical Society of England
Japan
Beas
Crusor
Capt. Tanner
Agalnar
Philippines
Pédra Guaza
Sankey
Biece
Lous WU
Colorado
England
London
Glasgow
Hull Niles
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