Widespread Brain Teasers and Power Facts Mentioned
A collection of brief notes touches on wise sayings about silence and ambition, Vanderbilt’s Kissam gift to Nashville University, a historic 85 mile electric transmission line in California, a 4 000 horsepower 3 300 volt plant from 1897, and France’s postal rules banning reading or forwarding certain back markings on postcards with a humorous closing question about the clerk’s duties.
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Redlands
Cal
Los Angeles
France
Last Rossini Heir Ends Life in Milan
The last surviving Rossini family member and former Tuscan count by the Grand Duke has died by suicide in Milan. The article notes a wave of self-inflicted deaths in the family, including an elderly woman who leaped from a fourth floor in Milan, marking the ninth such fatal act.
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Rossini
Tuscany
Milan
Wealth cannot replace education says Hewitt
Abram Hewitt argues that education brings lasting pleasure, preferring the experience of college days over even a hundred million dollars. He says choosing wealth would earn him the scorn of his fellowmen.
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Mr. Huntington
Mr. Abram Hewitt
New Zealand Defense Plans Seek £59,000 Annual Expenditure
A defense committee report recommends spending about £59,000 yearly to defend New Zealand against potential enemies. It calls for guns of the latest pattern at Auckland Wellington and other vulnerable points and proposes an imperial reserve to aid payment under imperial authorities.
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New Zealand
Defense Committee
Auckland
Wellington
Saltus Muses On Avalanches Of Dry Goods Submerging Novels
The article quotes Edgar Saltus describing dry goods and groceries flooding department stores shelves and submerging the real fiction writers. It notes the rough impact on novelists and invites readers to draw their own conclusion about Saltus.
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Edgar Saltus
Saltus
Treasury pays 1 cent salary to Wisconsin mail carrier
A treasury warrant certified for one cent was issued to Frank H. Lynch for carrying the mails from Mineral Point to Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He drives a stage and earns from passengers and traffic, fearing underbidding, he contracted with the government a four year service at one cent per year.
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Treasury
Post Office Department
Frank H. Lynch
Lynch
Minera Point
Iowa County
Wis
Dodgeville
Museum Curator Brings Indiana Cave Findings Home
Prof Farrington curator of Field Museum and geology professor returns from Indiana caves with 206 stalactite specimens. He notes a 1850 marked stalactite has grown three-fifths of an inch since. He brought a six foot high column, largest ever, and estimates it took 5400 years to reach its size. He hopes to date St Louis limestone formation from this data.
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Farrington
Field Museum
University
Indiana Caves
St. Louis
English Blue Grass in Kansas Affects Seed and Pasture
John S. Gilmore of Fredonia Kansas explains English blue grass or meadow fescue in a Kansas Department of Agriculture report. The grass provides seed and pasture value with yields of six to twelve bushels per acre in early years. Kansas supplies about 75 percent of US seed. 90 percent is exported. Seeding methods vary from drilling to broadcasting with fall or spring plantings. Fall seed offers quicker dominance but moisture is crucial. Seed depth, drill width, and soil preparation determine success. harvest methods and costs for seed are outlined. The grass aids cattle feed, with straw valued for winter fodder. seed sale returns depend on thrashing and rail transport costs.
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John S. Gilmore
Fredonia
Kas
Middle West
F. D. Coburn
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Kansas
United States
Norticultural Observations of the Roman Stem Apple
The Roman Stem apple originated in New Jersey and shows strong success along the coast, extending to North Carolina and the strip from New Jersey to the Rocky Mountains. It thrives as far south as Tennessee's southern line and is fairly successful in New England.
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New Jersey
North Carolina
Insect Galectia solanella Threatens Major Crops
The pest, known in Europe and Australia, feeds on potato and tobacco and mines leaves of horse nettle tomato and eggplant. Eggs hatch into caterpillars that bore between leaf surfaces causing sizable leaf mines and distortion. Farmers are urged to invest in sturdy barns rather than shacks.
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Europe
Australia
McCarthy
The Snowdrops and Crocuses Tale of Gold and Violet
A timeless garden fable follows snowdrops and crocuses as they quarrel and learn. An angel asks the sun king for a gift for the cold white crocuses, and dawns rise as sunbeams drop gold jewels on the blooms, tinting some purple and others pure white.
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Snowdrop
Arcturus
Humble Snowdrop Learns True Beauty From Sunbeams
A tale from the Christian Register tells how a meek snowdrop learns forgiveness and grows in esteem beside the radiant crocuses. The sunfather forgives, and kindness brings harmony between two flower tribes.
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Snowdrop
Christian Register
Always Be Kind to Animals and the Homeless
Advice poem urges kindness to dogs cats and all vulnerable people. It emphasizes pity for the lame blind hungry and homeless and warns against cruelty. The author Harriet Barth blesses readers with a compassionate message reflecting universal mercy.
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Harriet Barth
Cactus in Glass Case Opens Questions on Carbon Dioxide
A German druggist Ludwig Rust sealed a Echinopsis cactus in a glass case seven years ago and claims the plant remains wet and thriving. Berlin scientists wonder where the carbonic acid comes from and note there is no weighing data before sealing or after entombment. Dormancy may explain the observations.
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Germany
Ludwig Rust
Berlin
Meehan
Girls Must Chew Hides in Eskimo Housewife Test
A Smith finds an Eskimo wife based on housewifely skills including cookies sewing and chewing hides. Furs must be abundant to endure cold. Women spread seal reindeer and bear skins to dry then break and chew hides to make garments.
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Wessenger
H, Eaton
Townsend
Montana
W. K. Vanderbilt
Kissam Ball
University At Nashville
New York
Ohio
Michigan
California
State Horticultural Society of
Illinois
Farmers’ Review
Horticultural Society
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