Martian Telegraphy Fantasies Stir London Society
A New York World summary notes a London Society of Arts discussion by W. H W Preece on wireless telephony and signaling with Mars. Experiments suggest earth currents can cause strange night sounds. speculation grows that Martian inhabitants might converse by electricity, aided by solar and auroral effects, with Edison and Preece cited as pursuing related lines of inquiry.
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Mars
Society of Arts
London
W. H W. Preece
Post Ofice
Myr Preece
Flat Holm
Preece
Max
Thomas A. Edison
Ogden Mountain
New Jersey
Mr. Eilison
Mr. Preece
Mr. Edison
Earth
Planets
Lick Observatory
Lick
Flamtarion
Venus
Capricorn
Schiaparelli
Edison
New York World
A Leap and a Rescue Train Brakeman Hero Told
A Chicago Record report recounts a dramatic emergency on a western bound train to Emerson on June 16 1878. Conductor Wallace and a tramp hero leaped for a car to save passengers as a runaway cars impossibly teetered toward a chasm. The rescuer later became a railroad general manager. Also featured is a vivid skew on the Dokos people of Africa their height diet and slave history in Popular Magazine.
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Wallace
Emerson
Chanuucey
The
Express
No. 7
Chicago
Kaffa
Susa
Africa
Henry E Dixey’s Country Friend
A reminiscence about Edwin Booth in New York playing King Lear and a joyful reunion with a boyhood friend. The piece also recalls a Georgia hog stealing courtroom quip and light exchanges from the New York World.
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Henry E. Dixey
Liberty
New York
Edwin Booth
King Lear
Booth
Harry
Ned Booth
Hamlet
Henry Fb. Dixey
New York Herald
Southwest
Georgia
Chopin Poem and Odd Slug Tale Featured in McClure's Magazine
An excerpt from John Talman in McClure's Magazine presents Chopin's twelfth nocturne as a voyage of exaltation and sorrow, followed by a curious 19th century note on a slug found in a cellar. The piece contrasts sublime music with vivid natural history reporting from New York Ledger later.
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Earth
John Talman
McClure’s Magazine
New York Ledger
Slant-Eye Surgery and a Wellington Jest
Readable frays mix satire with historical curios about eye straightening surgery in Japan and a Wellington anecdote. A Boston commentary ridicules cosmetic procedures abroad while a duel in Wellington’s camp reveals class snobbery.
Peddler and Damp Detector Inventions Spotlight
A quirky column shares a peddler selling resonators that magnify sounds like a cannon, a damp detector trinket from England to expose damp sheets, a courtroom quip about writing names, Zanzibar coast control by the British East Africa Company, Kipling as dictionary, and a venomous snake bite cure via reptile blood inoculation.
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England
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Warren, Pa
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W. Jarvis
Water St
Atlanta Constitution
Miss May Budd
Chopin
Boston Advertiser
Wellington
Spain
Caesar
Alexander
Sheffield Telegraph
Moom
Plase
New York Week
Zanzibar
Imperial British East Africa Company
Rudyard Kipling
Scott
Stott & Bowne
Draggista
Emc
Keystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
Klin
Kline
Ladelphia
York Chemical Works
York
Bright
Lumbago
Anyene
Col
EB. M. Larren
All Drugeists
J. K. Ronne
Hickory &J
Warren, Penn’a
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