Mexico in Nineteenth Century Climate and People
A detailed survey outlines Mexico across 17 latitudinal parallels with climate zones from tierras calientes to high plateaus. It covers population by race, languages, railways, mining, and major cities like Mexico City, plus geography, rivers, coastlines, and historical rail projects up to 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Great Central Plateau
Republic
Tierras Calientes
Tropical America
Vera Cruz
Guaymas
Acapulco
Great Plateau
Gulf
Pacific
Rio Grande del Norte
Rio Bravo
Valley of
Valand
Radium Costs and Testimony in Tariff Hearings
Pittsburgh executive Sonority M. Flannery told lawmakers that his company spent about $650,000 over three years to produce two grams of radium and estimated a cost of $480,000 with $240,000 revenue. He projected producing one gram a month from April and claimed Colorado holds enough radium to supply the world five times. He pledged to deliver 200 grams to the government within five years from January 1, 1915, at a maximum price of $80,000 per gram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Flannery
Pittsburgh
Colorado
Timekeeping by stars and betel nut clues across cultures
The passage notes various traditional ways to gauge time and distance. It describes Apache star gourds used to read hours by constellations, Assam hill people measuring distance by chewed betel nuts, and references Washington Irving relating Dutch colonial custom to pipes. It also mentions a Montaguis Indian marking snow travel with a tall stick and using shadow angles to gauge ahead distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assam
Washington Irving
Wouter van Twiller
Canada
ROW OVER HESSIAN TABLET IN FIGHT FOR MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS
In New Jersey a dispute over Red Bank battlefield marker inscriptions reaches Vice-Chancellor John H Backes. The state and Gloucester county contest jurisdiction and control of four bronze plates commemorating the 1776 fight, with one plate dating the Hessian commander Carl Emil Von Donop and asserting a critical view of his ambition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Gloucester County
Red Bank Battlefield
John H. Backes
New Jersey
Sons of the Revolution
Board of Freeholders
Court of Chancery
Carl Emil Kurt von Donop
Hesse Cassel
Port Mercer
Girl Is Clever Detective in Chickens Case
In Bowie Maryland Miss Marjorie Zug used clever detective work to trap Wade Coleson white, jailed at Upper Marlboro. She traced chicken theft from her hen house by following footprints a mile and a half to his house and found feathers from her nine year old pet hen in his room. She swore out a warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Zug
Coleson
Girl vanquishes cougar with rock and rifle near Spangle
Margaret Bell, 17, of a ranch near Spangle Spokane County, faced a massive cougar while seeking cattle. She stunned the animal with a rock, then returned to fetch a rifle and killed the cougar, reporting a dramatic near encounter with the wild predator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Margaret Bell
Miss Hell
Spangle
Miss Bell
Margaret
Shaw Labels King a Syndicalist on Unity Platform
London report notes George Bernard Shaw at a socialist unity demonstration saying Keir Hardie, Mr Hyndman and he once shared a platform in Victoria’s reign when she was a Whig and in Edward VII’s era as a Liberal, and now in George V’s time the King appears to be a Syndicalist. The trio claimed continuous collaboration across reigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Bernard Shaw
Keir Hardie
Hyndman
Queen Victoria
Edward
George
Refuses Elective Office, Newton Justice of the Peace
William P. Coursen, elected justice of the peace last November, did not know of his election until recently. He refused to serve after receiving one vote. A separate report from London notes Dr. Hans Beck of Berlin University argues a skull found in German East Africa suggests man is one hundred fifty thousand years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
William P. Coursen
London
German East Africa
Hans Beck
Berlin University
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Monroe Journal
G. M
K.P. Beasley
Journal
Jefferson and
Beasley Streets
Ve Crag
City of
Sierra Madre
Contal
Boca del Monte
Mexico City
Porfiro Diaz
Cero del Marcado
Durango
Geological Society
Association of Engineers and Architects
Socilety of Natural History
Estados Mexicanos
Republica Mexcana
Cornucopia
U. S
Gulf of California
Gulf of Mexico
Caribean Sea
Pue Ia
Popocatepelt
Ixtaccida- Alt
Gulf R
Tampico
Fletcher
Red Bank Battlefield Monument
Man
King
Otis -Briggan
B.V. D
Stout
Girard
Scrivens
W.H. Belk & Bro
Monroe, N. C
By the
Way
J. C. Smith CO
J D. Saleeby
Monroe, N
Court House
Cadteu
N. Y
4Th St
N.Y
Pure Food
Shepherd Grocery Co
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