Noblest Game Fish in the World
In a sweeping view of angling, salmon is hailed as the noblest sport fish. The piece extols its beauty, size, strength, and flavor, noting big salmon especially prized and that pike and other monsters seldom compare. It closes by mentioning a two year course in scientific furm ing at many scientific schools.
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Tim
Federman
Iite
Trent
Pacific
Atlantic
Woo
Kip- Ting
Long Bay
Huntich Columbia
Conor
Canada
Ireland
Scotland
Gillies
Shad Eggs and Rainy Trees Across the Canary Islands
A fragmentary newspaper sketch covers a laurel tree whose leaves shed water each morning forming a drinkable tiny pond for locals. It also recounts salmon angling lore in Ireland and Scotland, the mystique of salmon rights, and curious notes on water tears from trees, shad stock plans for the Shannon, and a Paris-bound divorce aftermath involving Mrs. Kate Wright and Joseph Plonier.
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Canary Islands
Logan County
Kentucky
New York
Philadelphia
Kate Wright
Wright
Sam Wright
Astairs
Joseph Pionier
Alfred Pionier
Joseph Plonier
Kitty
Joseph Pionter
Ghid
Practical Farming School Planned Near Sing Sing
A school of practical farming will be started by prominent New York figures on a farm near Sing Sing. The program includes both men and women students and will cover gardening orchard care stock and poultry keeping bees and house decorations among other topics.
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New York
Sing &Ng
Queen Marguerite of Tlily Prefers Incognito Alpine Tours
Harpers Bazaar notes Kaynt Women at Home queen Marguerite of Tlily hides her identity while mountain climbing and bicycling in the Alps. She travels as a commoner, stays in chalets, and even rides in royal parks alone, once being briefly detained by a royal guard who doubted her claim to royalty.
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Marguerite
Kaynt
Marguerite of
Tlily
Harpers Bazar
Alps
Royal Park
Ages of the World and a Wireless Telegraph Clock
The German geologist Heinrich Schmidt of Jena maps world ages into day parts, yielding eleven named periods and a final six thousand year history as five seconds. A new wireless telegraph clock by Richard Kerregs would synchronize London clocks via Hertzian waves, using a coherer arrangement to link public and private timepieces.
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Heinrich Schmidt
Jena
Real Society
Atta Nonual Conversaziona
Richard Kerregs
London
Krupp Gun Contracts Allegedly Bring Huge Profits
The Frankfurter Zeitung quotes a Krupp competitor claiming the German guns maker profits from government contracts. Prices cited show field guns at 1 145 dollars, later orders at 464.30, Krupp lowering from 1 146 to 492.48, shrapnel at 2.03 versus 1.19 by rivals.
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Krupp
Frankfurter Zeitung
Kripp
Navy
German Navy Department
Buckwheat Cakes and a Jackson Era Soldier
A Virginian recalls a former Stonewall Jackson aide who loved buckwheat cakes kept hot by a personal stove in his dining room. He supervised flour prep and cooking, pairing the cakes with Virginia sausage. The man fears buckwheat’s collapse could end this culinary habit.
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Stonewall Jackson
Jackson
New York Sun
Frenchman’s offhand remark at waxworks echoes party stiff formality
A Parisian visitor to Madame Tussaud’s waxworks in London offhandedly compares the partylike crowd to an ordinary English gathering, noting a hint of stiffness. The remark, attributed to a young Frenchman, reflects a candid diplomatist’s moment of honesty.
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London
Madame Tussend
Youth
Navy plans massive new fleet to vastly expand U S sea power
The navy will build eleven armored ships and three improved Olympia type cruisers, with hull and machinery costs totaling about 51.9 million dollars. Five battleships of the Pennsylvania class and six California class cruisers are authorized, plus five Holland submarine boats at 176 thousand dollars each.
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Congress
Navy Department
Oregon
California
Brooklyn
Ehipy
Olympia
Secretary of the Navy
Tattooed Portraits On Lovers Back Stir War Era Rumor
Report describes Professor Jake Lon della tattooing portraits of sweethearts on soldiers and others. Women are his best customers. soldiers’ images and names appear on arms backs and breasts. Lon della cites wartime trends and lists recent designs such as snake horses peacock and butterflies on Mrs Frank Caldwell.
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San Francisco
Philippines
Jake Londela
Londella
South Africa
London
Frank Caldwell
Rew Lawn Mowing Device Shown For Close Shrub Cutting
An article describes a lawn mower with a front projecting cutting apparatus to trim near trees without bark damage. It features two knife sets reciprocated by a cam plate, less power than older designs, simple mechanism, and a small brush above the knives to push debris.
Rosales Polarxpedition Sets Sail From St Petersburg
Baron Toll commands the Daria with twelve sailors and a Yakutek Cossack interpreter. The Norwegian whaler type vessel to winter 1900 1901 on the northeast Taimyr flank aims to reach regions between Jeannette and Fram routes, pass Lena mouth, New Siberian islands, and push toward Behring Strait then Vladivostok with three depots and 1200 days provisions.
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St. Petersburg
Baron Toll
Lena
New Siberian Islands
Greenland
North America
Vladivostok
Behring Straits
New Siberian
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Lre
White Star Line
Oceanic
Liverpool
Moreton Frewen
Innishannon
Queenstown
Frewen
Lady Randolph Churchill
United States Fish Commission
Shannon
Chicago Tribune
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