Bronze Age Relics Dug Up Near Jerusalem Cavern
Bronze age artifacts unearthed from a limestone cave north of Jerusalem by Prof. William Bade reveal pre Semitic Palestine customs. Pottery jarhandles and seals bear the name Jah Jahn, suggesting Canaanite origins 8000 to 8500 years BC. Traces of a walled city and towers near Tel Nasheth may be Mizpah of Samuel.
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Jerusalem
William ¥. Bade
Pacific School of Religion
Berkeley
Calif
Palestine
Amos
Jah Jahn
Abraham
Tel Nasheth
Bade
Samuel
Pathfinder Magazine
France village elects laughing candidate Castagne
M Henri Castagne rode in on an ass to the Pessac mairie to take his seat as councillor. Wearing a gray top hat with ribbons, he carried a picador’s lance and campaigned on a pledge that all drinks would be free in local cafes within three months. He won by 60 votes as the village’s most popular candidate.
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Henri Castagne
Pessac
Bordeaux
France
Castagne
Seek Royal Treasures Century Under Water Off Kiba Coast
A sunken Polluce off the coast of Kiba is being salvaged a century after it left Naples for Spain with Ferdinand IV’s valuables. The captain scuttled near Elba to avoid French interference, failed salvage attempts followed, and a fisherman recently recovered mast fragment prompting renewed search efforts.
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Kiba
Naples
Spain
Ferdinand IV
Napoleon
Elba
Ferdinand
Birds That Qualify as Farmer's Good Friends
Howard T. Middleton argues in Farm Journal that the grosbeak is the most valuable for farmers, feeding heavily on potato bugs and protecting potato fields. It also preys on cucumber beetles canker worms caterpillars army worms cut worms and chinch bugs, while cuckoos and quail also contribute insect control.
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Howard T. Middleton
The
Farm Journal
Mr. Middleton
Statistcs Used to Bolster Slavery
A brief remark notes that statistics were employed steadily to justify and strengthen the institution of slavery.
Centennial Celebration Honors America’s First Iron Horse Lion
The August 8 9 10 observance in Honesdale Pennsylvania marks the 100th anniversary of the Stourbridge Lion the first practical locomotive to run on a permanent American track. Horatio Allen piloted the Lion on a three mile test near Honesdale in 1829. The ride proved steam power works but the engine proved unsafe on frail rails and was not used further. The article traces early trials from Watt to Stephenson listing pioneers Evans Dearborn Stevens Trevithick Cooper and Davis and notes the evolution from three mile tests to a 250 000 mile rail network and more than 70 000 locomotives in the United States.
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Iron Horse
Honesdale
America
Horatio Allen
United States
Yale University Press
Oliver Evans
Benjamin Dearborn
John Stevens
Richard Trevithiek
Liverpool & Manchester Railway
George
Robert Stephenson
Stephenson
Liverpool & Manchester
Lfe
Great Britain
Europe
Pennsylvania
Carbondale Railroad
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
England
Foster, Rastrick and Company
Stourbridge
Stephenson and Company
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Stourbridge Lion
Carbondale
Allen
New York City
Baltimore & Ohio
Charles Carroll
Baltimore
Ellicott’s Mills
Peter Cooper
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cooper
Tom Thumb
Ellicott's Mills
Gray Horse
Phineas Davis
York
Davis
Charleston
Hamburg
West Point
Muaic
Mohawk & Hudson Bailrosa Company
Albany
Schenectady
New York Central
Southern Railroad
West Point Foundry
de Witt Clinton
Charleston & Hamburg
Mohawk & Hudson
New York & Harlem Railroad
New York
Camden & Amboy Railroad
New Jersey
Philadelphia & Germantown & Norristown Railway
Columbia Railroad
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
Reading Railroad
New England
Boston
Lowell
Worcester
Providence
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Holy Land
Maldon
Macs
Iticurg AT
Liana
Actlias
Post
Elmo Scott Watson
C. A. Lehman
Long Beach
Pioneer
Chicago & Northwestern
Falcon
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Utah
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