Mile a Minute Water Ride on the Seine
The London Mail reports experimental hydroplanes by Compte de Lambert with De Dion and Bouton. A 14 horsepower motor achieved 20 miles per hour, with plans to reach 25 and possibly 40 kilometers per hour as designs improve. The 36 by 9 foot boat uses five fins that rise from the hull as speed increases, lifting the stern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Mail
Seine
Puteaux
Compte de Lambert
Messrs
de Dion
Bouton
Mini Her Favorite Song
A Cambridge child recalls attending Sunday school with her sisters and brother last summer. The three year old Annie behaved well and enjoyed hymns and stories, though she notes that they never sang Yankee Doodle during the lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Auburn Cambridge
Annie
By the Bad Sea and a Car Smoking Quarrel
A seaside vignette shows a couple by the sea as a woman wonders about tides and the moon. In a streetcar interlude Dennis Flahherty smokes loudly, sparking a clash with a passenger who objects to smoking and jokes about wife and poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Flahherty
Dennis
Grateful to Grandma In a Fractured Exchange
A Boston Transcript excerpt centers on a child Gracie praising her grandmother for punishment memories. Gracie explains loving her grandmamma because she punished mamma in childhood and hopes the punishment matched what mamma experienced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reginald
Boston Transcript
Jane
Martha
Eva
Mrs Ely Seeks Pay for Oil Painting
In a public quarrel over an oil portrait, Mrs Ely says she will not pay the artist yet. She explains he needs the money more than she needs the painting and she will wait for payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Detroit Free, Press
Gray Letter on Americanisms in 1761 Cambridge Shipping
The London Atheneum printed a Gray letter from 1761 discussing ship goods to Cambridge and noting two Americanisms. Gray, a learned figure with fastidious taste, uses guess and reckon in typical English speech now seen as Americanized, as illustrated by quote examples from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Atheneum
Gray
Cambridge
Gillam
Notice of Sale in Socorro Mining Claims Auction
Public auction to be held July 1, 1905 at 1 pm at the north door of the Socorro court house for cash. Sheriff Ekanpeo Baca sells multiple mining claims including Lottie Croesus Eliza Rowena Jensica Mountain King Jeanette Copper Clif Epee Glance Oscuro Azure and others in Mound Spring Mining District, to satisfy a 1422.85 and 28.85 costs judgment in the Pank vs Midway Consolidated Mining Company case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexic
Socorro
Charles G. Pank
Midway Consolidated Mining Company
Territory
New Mexico
Lottie
Recorder’s
Socorro County
Recorders
Eliza
Recorder
New Mex
Mountain King
Jeanette
Bocorro County
Oscuro
Mound Spring
Ekanpeo Baca
Notice of Patent Application for Ida Hill Group Mines
United States patent application filed by Graphic Lead and Wine Mining Company for Ida Hill Group comprising Silver Chord Presse Contact Ida Hill Kelsey and Enterprise Lodes in Magdalena Mining District Socorro County New Mexico. Document describes survey details surface claims, boundaries, adjoins, and net claimed areas with multiple lodes and conflicting claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ida ‘Hill Group
Prexie
Contact
Hill
Kelsey
United States Land
Cruces
New Mexico
Graphic Lead and Wine Mining Company Corporation
Territory of
James G. Fitch
Socorro
Socorro County
Ida Hil
Silver Chord
Presse
Ida Hill
Magdalena
New Mexico Meridian
District of Lanide
Las Cruces
Silver Chord Lode
K. Dee
Cor. No
Hisestone
Atone
Owas
Ning
Prexie Lode
Enterprise
Morrie Lode
B.A. Stats
Greyhound
Uphic Lo & Z M. Co
Waldom
Greyrvey
Silver Bet
M. Co
Henriette Billing
Kelsey Lode
Silver Hell Lode
Enterprise Lode
Ida Hill Lode
Said
Botorro County
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DR. Swisher
The
University of New York City
U. 8S
New [Mexico
C. G. Duncan
California Street
Kornitzer, M. D
A. M
Aergeon
L &. Kittrell
Dewrist
Abeyta Block
San Marcial
Harvey House
A. A. Sedileo
Attorneys AT Law
Ames G. Fitch
Attorney AT Law
Terry Block
W. A. Fleming Jones
N. M
Public Land Scrip
Elfego Baca
BE. Kelley
Garbage Coal Mining CO
M. L. Hilton & Givane Luera, Proprietors
Pine
C. T. Brown
A. H. Hilton
San Antonio
E. E. Burlingame & CO
Sissi Laboratory
Pero
Majlor
Lawrence St
Denver
H. Chambon
Santa Fe
N. Mex
Follatin
Severo Rael
Ramon Dionicio Lopez
Nazario’ G. Baca
Severo Hepa
Quemado
N. M. Maxvel R. Orero
Mini
Grandma
Eve
Him
Johnny
Detroit Tribune
E. L. Smart
Harter Section
Cor
B.T
N. E. Cor
Himestone
Ixie Lode
Discovery Point
Greyhound Lode
Sur
Norees
S. W
Aldo Lode
Am'd
da Hill
Reley Lode
Chaim
CANDY
Kansas City
G. Biavaschi
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