Predict Weather Year in Advance Forecasts and Impacts
The article argues for long range weather forecasting from two to five years ahead, noting its potential to guide agriculture and markets, stabilize prices, and aid navigation and industry. It traces early pioneers like Prof. Abbe, discusses trade and insurance implications with Lloyd’s, and foresees international cooperation to harness weather data.
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Fifth Baptist Church
Cleveland Abbe
Abbe
Lloyd's
United States Weather Bureau
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
United States
Cotton Exchange
Japan
Last Matterhorn survivor Peter Taugwalder dies in Zermatt
The last survivor of the 1865 Matterhorn tragedy, Peter Taugwalder Jr., dies at eighty one in Zermatt Switzerland. He witnessed the drama and was the only witness still living who had direct experience of the descent after the summit. The 1865 climb included guides Michel Croz and the Taugwalders with Whymper Hadow Hudson and Lord Francis Douglas.
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Croz
Hadon
Hudson
Lord F. Douglas
Peter
Taugwalder
Lord Francis Douglas
Matterhorn Glacier
Zermatt
Peter Taugwalder
Matterhorn
Switzerland
Swiss Alps
Taugwalders
Michel Croz
Whymper
Hadow
Cros
Douglas
Edward Whymper
Peter Taugwailder
Alnne
Peter Taugwalder Jr
Enga
Prominent Feller Quote in Dinner Tale About Jay Gould
Mrs Barton French recounts a Paris anecdote about Jay Gould during a tour with Lord Dunraven. Gould ignores famous landmarks while signs reading Lover appear all over the city. At day’s end Gould asks about the word Lover and is told the sign says lover.
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Barton French
Monte Carlo
Lord Dunraven
Jay Gould
Paris
Notre Dame
Oath and Truth Revealed in Courtroom Humor
A courtroom exchange ends with a witty witness explaining that lying under oath harms one's honor before God and man, noting lawyers as the sole exception. The quip appears in a humor column from Everybody's.
Quotable Odds and Ends from a Patchwork Night
A collage of aphorisms and adages culled from various authors and voices. The collection blends wit and wisdom on wealth, happiness, laziness, fame, and human nature, including references to Confucius and Juvenal. It reads as a miscellany of pithy quips rather than a single narrative with clear events or figures.
Dictionary dispute sparks an encyclopedia appeal
An eminent lawyer storms from court in a huff then argues with the big dictionary over spelling. He seeks relief by appealing to the encyclopaedia while awaiting his partner's readout of developments, a quip from The Green.
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Encyclopaedia
Green
Office Headquarters Offer in County Seat
A formal invitation expresses welcome for TRISTE BOS to make the office their headquarters in the County Seat, signaling a strategic move and local support for establishing a base of operations.
Darling Dawling Dared a Hall of Laughs in Class
A student barely enrolled in English. the instructor misreads the scribbled name Dawling. After a tense pause he repeats Darling causing loud laughter, as the narrator admits the mispronunciation and growing embarrassment. The moment captures schoolroom humor and social nerves.
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Darling
The Limit on Hand Washing Bans
The Limit sketches a family skit about strict hand washing rules with a back and forth between a child and parent. The child complains of frequent demands to clean up before going out and before bed, contrasting motherly nagging with a friend’s laxer rules.
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Bureau
Behring Sea
Lake Baikal
Siberia
Greece
Rome
Joseph
Egypt
A. Louer
Juvenal
Confucius
Colman
C. L. Tiistman
Mer. Diller
Nebraska
M. J. Powell
Faibury
Jefferson Co
Triste Bos Fae
First National Bank
Fairbury
O.C. Diehl
Diller
Nebr
Seweler
Optician Opties
Gletz
Waggoner Bros
Out West
Burlington, Rnc
Pacific Coast
Colorado
National Parks
W. I. Filley
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