Aerial torpedo ideas draw navy interest in WWI era
The Navy weighs using aircraft to deliver torpedoes as proposed by Rear Admiral Pieke. Aerial drops would strike at 2,000 feet, with torpedoes released near ships, offering rapid, hard to defend attacks. Submarines face speed limits, while German tests from Zeppelins are noted.
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Navy Department
Pieke
Spall
Lake Constance
Admiral Fiske
Park Benjamin
The
Independent
Navy Department 5
Wireless on a Motor Van Brings Quicker London Deliveries
A London motor delivery van now uses wireless telegraphic gear to transmit customer orders to head offices. Two aerials atop the van allow the operator to receive messages from up to ten miles away. Officials praise speed but note tall buildings often block signals.
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London
Worship Street
Nation Shaking Evangelism and Whitefield's Era
A retrospective notes George Whitefield born December 16 1714 as a powerful evangelist who drew crowds across nations. It highlights his intense preaching output and large audiences in cities like Philadelphia and Salem and remarks on his lasting impact into later centuries.
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George Whitefield
America
Whitefield
Kingswood
Cornwall
Cane
Philadelphia
Reston
Maeorields
Looking for a husband in a Philadelphia theater
A joke about a young married woman discovering her acquaintance Clara alone in a moving picture theater. Clara explains she is seeking a husband, revealing she already has one, in a humorous exchange that ends with the punchline.
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Benedicts
Hesside
Clara
Philadelphia Telegraph
China Needs Weather Bureau Says Red Cross Report
D Jameson urges a Chinese weather bureau to mitigate flood and famine conditions. He notes near absence of rainfall data for flood prone basins and lack of prediction systems. He cites a June 1910 downpour near Findow that lasted 42 hours and produced about 24 inches. The Zikawel observatory serves as the closest informal meteorological service.
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China
Weather Bureau
D. Jameson
American Red Cross
Findow
Zikawel Observatory
Yangtee Valley
National Weather Bureau
Setentife American
Superconductivity Found in Certain Metals at Low Temperatures
Professor Kamerlingh Onnes of Leyden discovers that at very low temperatures many metals lose all electrical resistance, becoming "superconductors." The wires heat under high current, and a slight drop in critical temperature ends superconductivity, returning the metal to ordinary conduction.
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Kamerlingh Onses of
Leydes
Weather Caption Confusion Shifts Town Voices
An unclear remark about the weather echoes through a small town as a resident muses on usefulness of local efforts. The garbled line hints at civic nerves and changing seasons affecting daily life.
Bounty List for Predators in Idaho Range
Idaho notices detail bounties offered by Soda Springs Grazing and Lincoln County Wool Growers associations to reduce predators between January and July. Rewards include coyotes 300 dollars, wolves 25, wild cats 400, mountain lions 200, coyote pups 300, wolf pups 300, wild kittens 200, lion pups 50, with some premature pups excluded.
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Idaho
Soda Springs Grazing Association
Lincoln County Wool Growers Association
Helow
Tom Fox Returns to Kemmerer After Months Abroad
Tom Fox returns to Kemmerer after an eight month visit to his old home in Japan. He was well remembered for serving beer porter at the depot and later working at Hotel Kemmerer, and he was glad to be back.
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Tom Fox
Japan
Kemmerer
Tom
How Mr. Davis Got Rid of a Bed Cold
A reader claims a severe cough and fever were cured after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The testimonial notes trying the product and purchasing multiple bottles but using only one, with a claim of complete recovery and no relapse.
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Mr. Davis
Davin
McCabe Davis
County Board delays late claims to next meeting
At the last Board of County Commissioners meeting a resolution was adopted delaying all claims received after the first of each month to the next regular meeting, with a thirty day notice to Lincoln County billholders. County Clerk Harold Harrison issued the notice.
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Board of County Commissioners
Board of County Commissionners
Pines
Lincoln County
Linewa County
Harold Ft
Harrison
Notice of Lien Foreclosure Sale in Wyoming
Notice to creditors and all whom it may concern that on the tenth day of March 1915 at ten o clock in the forenoon a public auction will be held for cash to satisfy a mechanic's lien of 928000 on one Model 17 Buick automobile owned by D K Irvine, with interest from October 20, 1914. Sale location and details provided by Breloveie.
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India
O'Malley
Bengal
Bihar
Orissa
D. Ey Irvine
D. K. Irvine
Inter Worege
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Ralph W. Smith
Robert R. Rose
Smith & Rose
Law
Kemmeren
Marshall S. Reynolds
Robert S. Spence
Evanston
Wryomins
J. W. Sammon
Lar
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Memmerer
Rauston
Cumberland
Diamondville
Ellis Hudman
Rock Springs
D. D. Spani
Rock Springs National Hank Building
L. C. Ferguson Civil Engineer
R. H. Embree
Wromina
Peon
Keammnon
Wve
Salt Lake City
Youngs Men's Christian Slavera
Hem
Young Men's Christian Association
Auta
August Jambre
Cular Photography
Capeule
Idaho Association
Lincoln
H.R
Breloveie
Kemmerer Soda Bottling Factory
F. D. Paguast & Bena
Bon Ton
Kemmerer, Wyoming
Rant
Los Senase
Plese Ant Aeling
Ben Bagnell General
Kemmerer, Wyo
Frank Rosenstein
Maripe & Tomeno
Oscar H. Will & CO
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