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Topeka State Journal in Topeka, Kansas

18 Dec 1903

Page 6

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Topeka State Journal

Location

Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1903

Page

6

Millionaire Estates in Adirondacks and Across America

A wide survey of how wealth funds vast private preserves in the Adirondacks and other states. The article notes William C Whitney, John D Rockefeller, Durant and Vanderbilt among magnates building roads, fencing land, and placing game preserves. It details Whitney items including Camp Killoquah and Lake St. Regis access, Rockefeller’s Meacham Jake area, and Vanderbilt’s Biltmore holdings in North Carolina plus Shelburne Farms in Vermont. The Dexter murder case near Dexter Lake is mentioned amid anger from locals over land enclosure and fishing rights.

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How Pyrography Began with Cranch’s Fire Portraits

About a century ago artist Cranch warmed a poker over a fire and traced a bold design on a wooden mantle. He refined the hot mark into decorative fire pictures on wood panels, turning it into a new art form now known as pyrography.

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Cranch Craneh Noon
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Trade treaty aims with Abyssinia eyed by U S envoy

Consul General Skinner plans a formal commercial treaty with Abyssinia under King Menelik II to secure access for American goods and prevent a bloc in Africa. The effort follows Abyssinia’s growing trade ties and aims to boost U S competition against European empires while paving paths for American banking and commerce.

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Abyssinia Maeselijex Robert P. Skinner Mentleant Africa Hogland Menalek Skinner Ban Hong Skinner Presen Dave South Africa Willliam H. Fille Menetek America Theodore W. Finchon
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How Planets Are Weighed

The article explains weighing planets by observing their mutual gravitational influence. Using deviations from expected orbits and universal gravitation, measurements with telescopes estimate a planet’s mass by the effects on nearby bodies.

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Igolar
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Inkstand tale at Marlborough House linked to Prince of Wales

An old tale recalls a silver inkstand once used daily at Marlborough House and later at Buckingham Palace. The story narrates Prince of Wales observing a blind man and a lame dog struggling on the road, prompting him to aid them and later gifting a silver inkstand to Marlborough House as a sign of mercy and Christian charity.

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Rdwart Marlborough House Prince of Wales Marlborouth Prince of Walt Maine Waluno
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