Townsends Montana Prattle and Dated Notions Collected
A compilation of scattered items from Townsend Montana touches on preaching, wisdom, and happiness likened to a meteor. It notes a Russian imperial wedding gift valued at £20000 and a New Jersey farmer who killed himself after reading campaign literature. Also reports a Universalist minister paying for a trowel, lineage corrections for Mrs. Louis Botha, city visitor tallies in Berlin, and two Cincinnati lovers engaged for fifteen years due to mutual imprisonment.
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Cincinnati
Mosquito Ties Malaria to Tiny Worm Introducing Disease
Scientists link the mosquito to malaria and reveal a minute worm entering via the insect's proboscis while feeding, causing elephantiasis in tropical regions. The finding challenges the mosquito's poor reputation as a disease carrier.
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Tropics
Pescadores Islands Eroded by Northwestern Winds
A Japanese geologist reports the Pescadores islands between Formosa and China's coast have suffered extensive wind erosion. The northwest winds, fierce for nine months, have reduced their area and left barren, desertlike surfaces within the green northeast Asian island world.
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Formosa
China
Pescadores Islands
Asia
Body of Lieut Beecher Recovered from Beecher Island Grave
The body of Lieut Fred H. Beecher, buried 33 years ago on Beecher Island in the Arikie river area of Colorado, has been recovered and will be sent to Brooklyn. Beecher, nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, fell in a fight with Cheyennes under Roman Nose during Gen Forsyths expedition when Forsythe and 47 men were surrounded by about 1000 Indians. Charles Christy and Fletcher Vilette broke through the lines to bring relief and later helped locate the grave for burial by relatives.
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Fred H. Beecher
Forsyth
Beecher Island
Artkare River
Colorado
Brooklyn
Young Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Roman
Forsythe
Beecher
Charles Christy
Fletcher Vilette
Lieut
Blue Dominates as Fashion Rushes to Spring Coats
The season shows a tilt toward blue in a competition with green with blue gaining favor for its flattering effect with white and gold or black and gold trims. Autumn street gowns feature tight fitted coats with black satin vests and gold button detail, seams stitched with bias cheviot straps and blue cheviot bands embroidered in gold braid.
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Eton
Helen Grey- Page
Dress Description From School Wardrobe Notes
A school dress described in dark red cloth trimmed with darker velvet and small gilt buttons. The item emphasizes refined detailing typical of period school uniforms.
Veiled Laces Shape Fashion in Coming Millinery
The Milinery Trade Review notes lace like materials and new rings and spangles in black and metallic tones will distinguish future millinery. Nets dotted with spots and wood fibre chenille cords create open work designs. Diaphones will adorn soft satin toques and drapery trimming hats of other styles.
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Millinery Trade Review
Record of long-distance carrier pigeon return
A pigeon released from La Lorraine 413 miles out at sea returned safely to Rennes. The note adds that it is a record and cites the maxim it is better to have failed in a great undertaking than never to have made the attempt.
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la Lorraine
Rennes
Snake Hunters in Florida Show Peculiar Catch Method
A Washington Star piece notes Florida snake hunters often work in three to four person teams using a pole with a forked head and a slip noose. The noose goes over the snake’s head, tightens into a bag, and the bag is manipulated to entangle the snake for safe transport.
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Florda
South America
Florida
Washington Star
Darkies
Three Kinds of Ice
German physicist G Tammann reports new findings on ice and water freezing points. He identifies three distinct ice forms with unique crystal structures, expanding water states to five forms including vapor and liquid. Some joke of a sixth form as ice cream.
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G. Tammann
Tammann
Single Wheeled Cart for Military Transport on Siberian Frontier
Russia studies Chinese transit methods with a single wheeled cart designed for mule or horse use. A load fits in a howdah attached to the saddle, aiding rapid ammunition and military stores movement and enabling light mountain guns to reach otherwise inaccessible front positions.
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Russia
Siberian
Manchurian
Tientsin
Pekin
Australian turf paper promising cheap raw material
United States Consul Mahin of Reich enburg reports a Reich navn dispatch citing a Reichenberg newspaper. An Australian manufacturer reportedly tested turf as a raw material for paper making and achieved durable paper substances. The method allegedly has patents abroad and is yielding success in making pasteboard and paper boxes from turf.
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United States
Mahin
Reichenburg
Germany
Reichenberg
Cape Nome Gold-Field Sands Distinct From California Sands
The black sands along Norton Sound near Cape Nome Alaska are said to differ from similar sands on the California coast, indicating a unique geological composition and gold content in the Nome region.
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Cape Nome
Norton Sound
Alaska
California
Photographs of faint stars vanish from plates
Dr. Isaac Roberts reports that on a plate from 1886 he counted 403 stars but a 1895 check shows only 272, meaning 131 stars disappeared. He suggests celestial photographs should be reproduced by a method yielding permanent, unchanging images.
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Isaac Roberts
Liquid air factory and acetylene notes across Europe
A Los Angeles liquid air plant is under construction for cooling use. In England a combined hydrant fire alarm lamp post is trialed. Germany counts 120 acetylene firms, with Hassfurt hosting the first small-town lighting plant. Calcutta X-rays expose a thief swallowing a diamond by leading a swallowed lead to enlarge the throat sac.
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Los Angeles
Cal
England
Germany
Nuremberg
Hassfurt
Calcutta
India
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Mlessenger
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Servia
New Jersey
Middletown
N. Y
Mason’s Union
Emery
Sirs
Louis Botha
Robert Emmet
Emmet
Thomas Addis Emmet
United Irish Directory
Fort George
Berlin
Vienna
Munich
Dresden
Hamburg
Leipzig
Zurich
Stuttgart
Basel
Dusseldorf
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