Congress Plans Shelves to Replace Desks in New Hall
Proposals for the Sixty-second Congress call for bench seating with shelves in front for notes, reducing the chamber size by about one third while increasing seating. The plan keeps the ceiling, adds wider galleries, and avoids pillars except near the press gallery, potentially accommodating 400 House members and the Senate’s 92 to 96 members.
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National House of Representatives
United States
Senate
Dying Pearl Necklace At Louvre Noted By Report
A London paper reports the Louvre pearl necklace of 145 pearls valued at 60 000 dollars has faded due to disuse. The article cites a similar deterioration in a wife of a peer rope of pearls kept in a dark place after a family death, losing luster in a few days rather than years.
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Louvre Museum
Mme. Thiers
London
Samoan Population Small in 1909 Census
The 1909 census shows Samoan Islands population at 6 780. The figure reflects a small population size for the islands at that time.
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Samoan Islands
Date of McKinleys Birth in Doubt Amid Conflicting Records
The article notes conflicting birth dates for President McKinley. Congressional Directories list Feb 26, 1844 in most editions, while a 1897 directory and some records cite Jan 20, 1843. The discrepancy prompts historians to resolve a long standing dating conflict surrounding McKinleys birth.
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President McKinley
William McKinley
McKinley
House of Representatives
Mr. McKinley
Representative Burke
Pennsylvania
Mc.Kinley
Mr. Burke
Teach Farmers Daughters Schools Planned in Netherlands
An Amsterdam newspaper reports the Netherlands will establish schools in the kingdom to teach farming daughters housewifery and farm work. Initial summer programs cover basics of household duties with plans to expand to nature study cooking sewing and administration in rural settings.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Kansan warms his orchard with improvised stoves
Sam Young of near Atchison Kansas plans 500 sheet iron stoves to curb frost damage in his sixty acre orchard next spring. He has twice saved crops with smudge fires and believes stoves will be more effective. Each stove costs about 40 cents to build and five men will tend them. Other local orchardists are adopting the frost protection method. Benart, who sold 5000 dollars of apples in 1910, says he has saved crops too, but Young pioneers large scale stove usage.
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Sam Young
Atchison, Kan
Mr. Young
Benart
Young
Population center shifts west and north in ten years
Former Lieutenant Governor Hugh T. Miller of Indiana reports the U S population center has moved thirty miles west and two miles north over the past decade. The new center lies in Washington township Brown county near the Monroe county line at longitude 86 21 4 and latitude 39 11 1 in township 9 north range 1 east.
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Hugh T. Miller
Indiana
United States
Washington Township
Brown County
Ind
Monroe County
Township 9
Raspberries Grow on Trees in Hellam Heralded
A. W. Shaw of Hellam township York county Pennsylvania grows a raspberry bush of the yellow variety described as tree sized. The bush is as large as an average peach tree standing eighteen feet high with branches extending over fifteen feet from the main trunk on both sides.
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A. W. Shaw
Hellam Township
York County
Flying Machine Designed by German Inventor
A newly invented German flying machine features four wing groups. Two pairs of wings flap via cranks connected to a motor, while the remaining wings operate by a similar mechanism. The device demonstrates mechanical aviation concepts of the era.
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