Prof Garner Aims to Teach Chimpa to Talk in Liverpool
The Liverpool audience heard Prof Garner, famed student of the monkey Ianity, recount his long quest to prove chimpanzees can speak. He described experiments from Chicago to New York with phonographs and his four months in the jungle near Lake Nkami, vowing to return to Africa to achieve spoken communication with a chimpanzee.
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Garner
Liverpool
Ianity
Chicago Zoological Gardens
Chicago
New York
Derstand
Chicagomn
America
Sopth
Lake Nkami
Moses
Atrea
Miners Favor Ice Tea in Western Fields
A traveling observer reports Oklahoma Territory miners prefer iced tea over water or coffee in mines. He notes tea avoids stomach sickness, aids strength, and has become widespread quickly, with miners praising its health benefits and soothing effect in subterranean work.
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Oklahoma Territory
South McAllister
Ancient American Maps Found in Arizona and Texas
Ancient maps carved in rock in Tenaja canyon Texas reveal early mapmakers among tribes of Arizona Texas and Mexico. Travelers traced routes water holes and villages with vermilion painted rock panels and embedded camel depictions suggesting foreign contact and extensive regional knowledge.
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America
Arizona
Texas
Mexico
Egypt
Arabia
Bible in Broad Scots Translation Sparks Controversy
The London Chronicle reports a Canadian minister William Wye Smith translated the Bible into broad Scots. He defends the work as appealing to readers who enjoy Scots, arguing it may suit the Septuagint. The introduction cites a Revelations passage showing a dragon and a woman in stark imagery.
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London Chronicle
William Wye Smith
Women gain rights vow by NSW premier in Antipodes
In a London Chronicle reprint the New South Wales premier backs granting women juror rights. He says he sees no reason women should not act as jurors, while a critic notes women may take long to decide. The piece discusses arriving female officials and future female magistrates as part of the broader rights discussion.
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Antipodes
New South Wales
London Chronicle
Dinga-Dong
Curious Names and Rich Jacket in London News
A column surveys odd family names like Tollemache Tollemache in England and notes an elaborate jacket decorated with diamonds and Byzantine-style ornaments said to be worth thousands of dollars and soon to appear on stage. Other items include medical curiosities, buried treasure finds, locust banquets, Babylonian clay slabs, and a giant chain shipment from Lebanon to Connecticut.
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Tollemache
Lyulph Ydwallo
Odin Westor
Egbert Lyonel Tordmag
Hugh Erchenwyne Baxon
Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart
Astley Cooper
Mabel Helmingham
Ethel Hunting
Tower
Beatrice
Ethelswytha Iith Yeabel
Grace Monica
Lyonetta
Edith Regina Valentine
Myra Polwarth
Avelina Philippa Violantha
London
Remarkable Mining Camp in Josephine County Oregon
The Greenback mining camp hosts about 200 residents, including thirty families and thirty single men, centered around the Victor Junior Gold Mining Camp. It lies twelve miles from the nearest railroad with telephonic links to Leland, and despite isolation, offers a vibrant social scene with a nonsectarian Sunday school, a Wetle public school of thirty pupils, a music teacher, three pianos, many instruments, and lively vocal and instrumental performances each evening, including serial magazine readings.
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Greenback
Josephine County
Victor
Wetle
Leland
Manusisbor
Rats Endure Perilous Ocean Crossing In Nordic Sea Route
A strange coast rat species in eastern Norway periodically migrates westward in large colonial waves. They traverse rivers and mountains and spread along the country until they reach the broad Atlantic, facing deadly journeys and forming families along the way.
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Norway
Hero
Soldier's Curious Letter From the Philippines
A curious letter reveals soldier friends receiving an improvised envelope from a foot long bamboo segment carved with a knife. The message explains envelopes were unavailable and the object was used as a makeshift mail tube held by wooden pins.
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Philippines
Thore Islands
Sing to Their Oxen in French Fields
In France oxen in the fields are regularly sung to as encouragement to work. No peasant doubts the animals eat to him with pleasure.
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France
The Return and Other Oddities From a Distant Page
A collage of verses and stray instructions appears, mixing a lyric fragment about departure and returning with technical notes on lamp chimney liners and a playful party game. The passages include Arthur Symons in a monarch's uniform and a whimsical electric experiment, plus a homemade game using cornucopias and twine.
Chicago Street Boys and Home Life in the City
Chicago hosts about 6000 newsboys with 1500 in the downtown district, alongside many messenger telegraph boys boot blacks and office boys. A large homeless element sleeps in shelters lodging houses or alleys, with 80 percent Italians 10 percent Jews and 10 percent Americans. The downtown boys sometimes gamble and many seek a Boys Club to improve evenings. Blindfold drawing games reveal humor and social dynamics among youth in local centers.
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Chicago
Fourteenth Street
John F. Atkinson
Milaole Children's Home and Aid Society
A Puritan Conscience in a New England Slate Tale
A Youth's Companion tale recounts a New England girl troubled by mental arithmetic. She attempted to add nine and four, struggling with the process. She admitted failure, explaining she initially wrote twelve after mistaking the counting sequence for mental calculation and choosing fairness over speed.
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New England
Butterflies and Birds on a June Day
Butterflies grace a June day with monarchs drawing attention. The monarch’s wings glimmer with gold and copper tones as the male displays a scented hind wing sachet to attract females. The monarch faces few bird threats, while quicker rivals like the viceroy exploit early misreads.
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Don
Decorations for Invitations Paper and Harlequin Designs
The article describes imported station ery for young girls party invitations showing designs such as a dirt, two small belles in bloomers with dumb bells, and a yacht scene. It notes harlequin paper with an elephant in trousers playing a trombone and offers a coin trick using mucilage and a paper cone to make a coin disappear and reappear.
Hidden Names Revealed by Holding to Light
A fragment suggests viewing a page held to light or viewed through its back to reveal the names of a boy and four girls. The instruction resembles a puzzle or coded message, emphasizing visibility tricks rather than a clear news event.
Work of the Frost on Soil and Rock
A frost problem cracks the earth as water expands on freezing. Rocks and clods are worn to powder when ice forms, ripping apart anything containing water. Chalk soils hold more water, making chalky counties rough after thaws follow frost.
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Tenaja Canyon
Tex
BIBLE
oWell
Fostoria
Ohio
Alvada
John Gleckner
St. Helena
Lyons
Joly
Nogent-le-Roy
Chartres
Valois
Henry II
Baltimore
Babylon
German Oriental Society
Bsagila
Marduk
Lebanon Chain Works
Lebanon
Hastern Shipbuilding Co
New London
Conn
New York American
Russia
Europe
Oman
Arthur Symons
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