Cardiff Giant Fraud Exposed Behind Mythic Hoax
Read about the Cardiff Giant deception once thought genuine. Accounts credit Professor Marsh Yale and Dr John Boynton Syracuse with exposing the fake after Barnum’s bid failed. The original gypsum statue traveled from a Chicago stone yard to Cardiff amid scientific and religious interest.
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Andrew
White
Cardiff
Farmer Nowell
Barnum
Doctor White
Marsh
Yale
John V. Boynton
Syracuse
Chicago
James Hall
Grotesque Italian Refugees in Rich Attire Observed
English writer describes two Italian refugees during retreat who, among mud and rubble, carried lavish furs rings gold chains and pendants yet looked frightened and uncertain as they trudged along a railroad track amid chaos. The scene contrasts wealth with fear and hardship during wartime evacuation.
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Paix
G. Ward Price
Century Magazine
Cavite Sends Time Signals From Pacific Station
A Cavite radio station, in cooperation with the Philippine Bureau of Posts and the Manila observatory, has been broadcasting time signals along the 120th meridian east since October 1. The Manila transmit clock links with Savile station via posts. Signals start at 10 55 a.m. and 9 55 a.m. standard Greenwich time and run five minutes, with some minute markers omitted. This service supports merchant and naval fleets on the Pacific.
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Cavite
Pacific
Philippine Bureau of Posts
Mankin Observatory
120Th
Greenwich
Selence
Manila Observatory
Savile
Bureau of Posts
Mantia Observatory
Dying of the Original Navel Orange Tree in California
The original 1872 navel orange tree, source of the first navel oranges in the United States and progenitor of countless California trees, is dying. horticultural experts begin diagnosis to save the famed tree once planted by Mrs. L Tibbetts who sourced it from a Washington DC botanical garden after its Bahia Brazil origin.
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United States
California
Baha
Brazil
L. Tibbetts
Botanieal Gardena
Washington, D. C
Electric Protection and War Service Devices
A Montreal Star note discusses war era devices and a Canadian aviator who designed a heated suit with electric wires to keep a flyer warm. The idea is linked to peacetime use for apartment dwellers whose janitors may neglect maintenance.
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Montreal
Btar
Illinois Picnic Set at Riverside Park June 20
The annual summer Illinois picnic will be held at Riverside Park on June 20. The committee has begun arrangements and promises visitors a good time with more particulars to follow next week.
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Illinois
Riverside Park
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