Monkey, Monks, and Mexican Gambler on a Frontera Steamer
A traveling Mexican in flamboyant dress makes a monkey the central stake in a three card monte game aboard a Vera Cruz steamer. The don loses heavy money, then wins back trousers and hat with the crowd cheering as the monkey remains his treasured prize. The tale ends as the steamer nears Frontera and the man lands with the monkey aboard.
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Mexico
Vera Crux
Purgatory
Old
Spain
Frontera
Hi Coat
Brillant
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Remarkable stone money of Yap island
The article describes Yap in the Caroline Islands using enormous circular limestone coins as money. Some discs reach twelve feet in diameter and are kept outside wealthy households, with values linked to size and impractical to move. A debtor would need fleets of canoes or many bullocks to transport such wealth.
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Island of
Yap
Island
Caroline
Deacon Forgets Sunday For Big River Fishing Cache
A Carthage deacon, with grandchildren, drives to Center Creek on a sunny Sunday. He discovers rods and tackle hidden under a seat and, while protesting the Sabbath, hooks a catfish and lands a four pound bass. He continues fishing past church time until reminded to return. Kansas City Journal reports.
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Carthage
Center Creek
Kansas City Journal
Profitable Irrigation Works in British India
Irrigation projects in British India cost 23 million dollars to create and water 13 million acres. The investments yield a seven percent return.
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British India
Electric Bath and Star Observation Advances Featured
Popular Science outlines a new treatment for animals using a conductive squid bath followed by electric current to kill parasites. It also details Langley’s novel approach to observing the sun and stars by circulating and mixing air in telescope tubes to improve image clarity and reduce limb boiling.
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Langley
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
London Telegraph
Smoothing Device for Hats and Silk Finishes
Oscar Hammerstein of New York proposes a smoothing device for silk hats to preserve gloss. The invention aims to let any wearer refresh a hat when the hatter is far away, using an accessible tool that lets a novice smooth the brim and crown like a professional.
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Oscar Hammerstein
New York City
New Use for the Hot Water Bag in Hat Glaze
A curved plate mounts a hot water bag for hat glazing. The rubber is filled with boiling water, the stopper sealed, and the iron applied to the hat to produce a brilliant lasting glow without scorching. The bag’s flexibility lets it conform to hat shape while pressure lays the nap via a handle on the plate. Iridescent feathers: why doves and pigeons’ feathers show cambios in color due to light interference.
An Artificial Racecourse for a New Mery-Go-Round Ride
An inventor from Philadelphia proposes an underground rail driven merry go round with an electric motor in the truck and a vertical support shaft. Riders control speed by pressure on the bridle leading to the animal’s mouth while a trolley wire provides current. Parallel tracks allow racing for heightened excitement among children and adults.
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Benjamin Beerwald
Philadelphia
Sun's Antics at Sunset
Dr Prinz of the Royal Belgian Observatory studied sun disk deformations at sunset using photography. Indentations occur frequently while jet-like flames appear from opposite sides and fuse, then vanish to form another. Pring explains these as refractions by horizontal air layers of varying density and even suggests a link to Easter legends of dancing suns.
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Prinz
Royal Belgian Observatory
M. Pring
Mantise
Carnegie Institution Grants At First Annual Meeting
The Carnegie Institution trustees approved 200000 in grants for original research and 40000 for publications. Administrative expenses received 50000, and 100000 was set aside in a reserve fund. Special aid requests were referred to the executive committee. The Year Book will include committee reports and scientific worker notes.
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Carnegie Institution
Executive Committee
Preservatives for Wood Tested at Altenburg Quarry
Experiments at Altenburg colliery Saarbrucken Germany compared lime coal tar and carbolineum as mine timber preservatives against rot Lime proved least effective Coal tar protected surface but not interior Carbolineum yielded excellent results when timber was barked and well dried Also notes Rev Harry Fairbank serving a parish of over 2000 Christians in Rahuri India.
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Altenburg Collery
Saarbucken
Germany
India
Harry Fairbank
Rahuri
Tip Takers View of Decline in the Great American Habit
A commentary by James S. Stemann in the Independent argues that tip-based wages hurt waiters, citing varying earnings across cities and regions. He notes tips often supplement low wages, with many waiters earning little beyond 15 to 75 cents a day in tips, and calls for living wages supported by waiters and patrons to curb tipping.
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James $. Stemann
Walter
Independent
Walters
Cleveland
New York
New Orleans
Louteville
Philadelphia
Stemens
Saying Prayers in Advance
Julian Hawthorne recalls his daughter Hildegarde praying on the night before a summer seaside trip. The child danced with joy then knelt to say prayers so she would not waste time on them during the vacation, as told by the New York Tribune.
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Julian Hawthorne
Hildegarde
New York Tribune
Bilkine and His Joke
Forty years after Bilkins first laughed at a shared joke about an umbrella a chance encounter with Silkins on a rainy day ends in a scuffle. A policeman warns that joking about Lent and borrowed umbrellas invites trouble from those willing to lend it.
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Bilkine
Bilkins
Silking
Silkins
True Love and Enduring Love in Shakespearean Verse
A garbled excerpt of Sonnet 116 presents love as constant through time and change, citing it as an anchor for wandering hearts and the belief that if proven wrong, no one has ever written or loved. The text shows misreadings and corrupted words around key phrases.
Theories and Facts and Fraternities at Cornell
A fragmented review notes that a theory matching known facts does not prove truth. Citing Poincare, it suggests an infinite set of theories could fit any state of facts. The piece mentions numerous fraternities at Cornell University, noting its twenty six fraternities.
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Tran
Poincore
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Groton
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Cornell
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