Science ax PROGRESS and the Grasp of Palsy
Article discusses a newly named condition paralyzing tremor and weakness called paralysis agitans or "binking palsy." It details symptoms including tremors, muscle weakness, facial affect, and a distinctive gait, noting onset, progression, and lack of a cure. It also mentions treatments focused on nutrition and motion, with occasional relief from slow voluntary movement and massage. The piece shifts to notes on kites for war telephony, then to a patent for an integrated scrubbing device for windows with a built‑in water reservoir and mop.
New Farm Implement for Pest And Stubble Burning
Wedlington Ark citizen unveils a two wheeled fire powered weed and insect destroyer. A fire mouth drives intense heat via a rotary fan, with adjustable jet size and hand-powered fan gear. Mounted on a trailer it speeds across fields to burn stubble or destroy pests, with potential for a manure spreader attachment.
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Wedlington
Ark
The Aeroscope Experiment Describe a Rotary Paddle Image
A six foot wooden paddle spins at 1500 rpm within a dark chamber creating a circular screen for viewing objects. A fixed black plate behind the paddle captures a bright photo image on the moving surface, producing a solid appearing object in perspective.
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Varis Exposition
Caves War Supplies and Saltpeter Debate
The article argues Mammoth Cave Kentucky and other caverns supplied saltpeter essential to U S wars including 1812 and the Civil War. It notes a Journal of Geology discussion where W H Hess disputes bat guano origin, proposing evaporation through cavern roofs absorbed nitrates from soil.
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Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
United States
Journal of Geology
W. H. Hess
Russian Inventor Popoff Demonstrates Wireless Telegraphy
The Russian inventor Popoff has applied a telephonic receiver to transmit telegraphic messages without wires. Using radio-conductors, resistance variations are observed directly in a telephone. A Russian cruiser near an island in the Gulf of Finland reportedly communicated telegraphically without wires with a distant island twenty nine miles away where the ice breaking steamer Ermak was stationed, aiding twenty seven Russian fishermen wrecked on an ice floe.
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Popoff
Gulf of Finland
Ermak
Tor smallest wild cattle Anoa described by Lydekker
Dr R Lydekker notes the anoa as the smallest wild cattle in world history its shoulder height about three feet three inches and it shares traits with the large Indian buffalo suggesting it may be a primitive buffalo type.
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R. Lydekker
Cees
Reserves for rubber trees eyed on Romblon and Pauitaul
The department of agriculture plans to set aside forest reserves on Romblon north of Panay and on Pauitaul in the Jolo group. U. S. army officers say these islands may be among the richest in the world for rubber trees. In Zanzibar a new gutta percha is reported from a tree with a peach shaped fruit the size of a small melon.
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Department of Agriculture
Romblon
Panay
Pauitaul
Jolo
United States Army
Zanaibar
Cremation Debated as Dead Body Disposal Question
An 1880s discussion notes rising cremations in major U S cities, about 2000 yearly, with totals 8886 cremations from 1876 to 1898. Insurance firms fear crime and fraud, religious groups urge burial per Scripture. Arguments consider evidence preservation, societal impact, and health checks before cremation.
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San Francisco Bulletin
United States
San Francisco
A Fortune in Old Quilts From Georgia Farm Women
A Georgia mother and daughter turned heirloom quilts into a thriving business. Forty wedding quilts, stored for decades, sold to ladies at a northern hotel, yielding enough to pay the mortgage and stock the farm anew. They now plan to expand the venture to a steady income.
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Georgia
Toothpick Industry and Imports Across Nations
New York consumes about 700 million wooden toothpicks annually with most supplied from Japan Portugal and Maine. US production uses five thousand cords of timber yearly, ninety five percent from Maine. Logs are processed from white birch and maple in Franklin County then cut into veneers and finally finished at a thousand per minute. Portugal yields the finest hand whittled orangewood toothpicks sold in top restaurants, while Japan ranks second with reed cut toothpicks sold despite a 33 percent duty.
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New York City
Japan
Portugal
Maine
United States
Franklin County
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York
Tion
Sun Power And The Calver Helio Motor Promise
The article traces a long quest for solar power from ancient thinkers to Dr William Calver of Washington, who claims to have invented the pan heliomotor. It describes how his mirror arrangement concentrates sun rays to extreme heat potentially reaching 10 000 degrees currently, with aims to harness full heat output. It notes dramatic demonstrations like burning rock, melting cyan metal, and piercing wet wood in seconds, comparing heat to electric arcs and other materials’ responses.
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Archimedes
Edison
Ericason
Mouchaut
Pearson's Magazine
William Calver
Washington
Calver
Redaliste Oppose am Tallinn Bill
Socialist deputies seek to distance themselves from any responsibility for King Humbert’s murder. At a recent meeting they decided to oppose a government bill modeled on the French anti anarchist law, arguing it restricts personal liberty for anarchists.
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Redaliste
Aunt Ellen's Odd Wedding Plot From a Swamp Dream
From a Missouri dialect vignette Aunt Ellen proposes a bizarre plan at church, blaming a rival wife for her husband’s intended fling. Miss Jennie doubly questions the event as Aunt Ellen reveals a comic, ominous motive tied to a fast wife and a Sunday tale.
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Jane
Chile
Ellen
Jenny
Mistah Jones
Jennie
Aunt Ellen
Oman
Lizy Jane
Temple of Solomon
Kew Burgl ar Protection
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humorous item riffs on a New Jersey goat that defeats a large fighting mastiff. The goat knocks the dog down with a jab to the neck, then another strike on the exposed section, prompting the dog to tumble. The joke centers on keeping a strong watchdog to scare burglars away and the odor of such a pet.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
New Jersey
Fragmentary Detroit Journal clipping evokes ancient Egypt with odd dialogue
A garbled passage cites a Detroit Journal item with stray lines about a hoarse Croaker and a queen of Egypt. The text blends archaic drama and street newsboys shouting Monolith, technic, 81, creating an odd, fragmented historical feel without clear narrative or date.
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Egypt
Detroit Journal
Just Taffy the Wire First clothing salesman
A brief exchange from the Boston Transcript humor column presents a faux sales interaction where a man remarks on pleasing both wife and husband with compliments, allowing purchases of any item. The piece satirizes sales tactics and social dynamics in Boston.
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Boston Transcript
Laughing Gas and Quick Quips Across Papers
A collage of humorous quotes from various papers in a single column style. Jokes concern music, theater, dues, ghost walks and social manners. Some lines reference characters like Yorkrode and Bingies while others note a tip system and fashion hints from New York.
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Towson
Yorkrode
Baltimore
Yonkers Statesman
Maude
Philadelphia Record
Detroit Free Press
Columbia
State Journal
Thomas Tibbs
Indianapolis Journal
Sys
New York
Detroit
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