Great Wolf Chase in Oklahoma Planned Roundup
A celebrated southwest wolf chase is billed for Eschill in the Oklahoma pasture reserve on Thanksgiving Day. Notable invitees include John Abernathy US marshal, Sim Sheppard Lawton fire chief and wolf pack owner, and Col. J A Mangum of Chattanooga. Hunters will drive wolves to a center and kill them with lassos and bare hands, with dogs used as a last resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eschill
Big Pasture
St. Louis
Sim Sheppard
Lawton
Chattanooga
To Pump a Sea Dry New Dutch land from Zuyder Zee by dikes
Five million Dutch residents live behind dikes as engineers start reclaiming the Zuyder Zee into 1,400 square tiles of dry land. The project costs about 76 million dollars, spanning new farms and homes for 50,000 people with annual rents over 5 million dollars expected for the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Zuyder Zee
Glass reinforced glass telegraph poles trial in Germany
A German operation at Grossalmerode near Cassel is exploiting reinforced glass telegraph poles patented by a Cassel architect. Poles about twenty three feet long may fetch six dollars each. They claim long life in tropical climates despite insect and climate damage to wood. The imperial post department orders a district trial of the poles.
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Grossalmerode
Cassel
Germany
German Imperial Post Department
Marconi's Wireless Breakthrough Across 183 Miles in 1901
The article recounts Marconi establishing wireless communication between St Catherines Isle of Wight and the Lizard Cornwall on January 23, 1901, a 183 mile test proving noninterference by Earth's curvature and enabling future transatlantic telegraphy. It notes subsequent tests, high power stations at Poldhu Cornwall and Cape Cod, and royal messages from King Edward VII and President Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi
Atlantic
St Catherines
Isle of Wight
Lizard
Cornwall
New York Times
Poldhu
England
St John’s
Newfoundland
Cartwright
Ottawa
Europe
Poidhu
Canada
Edward VII
Signor Marconi
Osborne
Ington
Marconis
Glace Bay
Wilfrid Laurier
Dominion of Canada
London Standard
Marconi’s wireless tests link Canada and Europe
Reports detail tests from the cruiser Carlo Alberto and Marconi receivers across 1,400 miles to Cronstadt, 1,000 miles to Gibraltar, and 1,000 miles in the Mediterranean. Messages from Glace Bay and Canada to England celebrate the first wireless transatlantic telegraphy with official congratulations from Canadian leaders and British authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fang Ang
Cronstadt
Gulf of Finland
Russia
Gibraltar
Spain
Mediterranean
Corsica
France
Alps
Mr. Marconi
Carlo Alberto
Plymouth
Sydney
N. S
Poidlu
Parkin
Times
London
Marconi
England
Italy
Lord Knollys
Buckingham Palace
Atlantic Ocean
Canada
G. Marcon L
Glace Bay
Lord Minto
King
Minto
Deafness Cure Claim From Hall's Catarrh Cure
Advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube mucosa and claims nine of ten cases due to catarrh. Offers $100 for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with circulars from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and 75 cent Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Small house for rent and local social notes
Wilber Miller advertises a small house for rent. Frank Wells returned from a business trip to Wellman and West Chester. Margaret and Nora Hamilton of West Chester visited friends in the city. Nora Hamilton will be an over Sunday visitor with Mae Harley. Isabelle Rogers, visiting at R. M. Hamilton in West Chester, left for Monmouth Illinois and will return to San Jose California.
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Frank Wells
Wellman
West Chester
Margaret and
Nora Hamilton
Mae Harley
Isabelle Rogers
R. M. Hamilton
Monmouth
Ill
San Jose
Calif
Domestic violence exchange cited in court remarks
A judge questions a man about striking his wife and injuring her teeth after a witness reports the defendant saying she had it coming. The exchange centers on whether her alleged refusal of love justified the assault.
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Houston Post
Frenzied Arithmetic. Teacher Now Tommy
A classroom joke reports a teacher asking Tom about a math loss as a father counts twenty dozen eggs with eighteen bad. The boy jokes that the loss is nothing, reflecting a light exchange in a School Board Journal style.
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Tommy
School Board Journal
Studebak Wagon For Sale By Mason T and Storage Co
Local listing notes a Studebak wagon offered for sale by Mason T and Storage Co. The fragmented text mentions Miss Hazel Hagist of Keota visiting Mrs. M. P. Miller and a passenger trip by John Sullivan, with various city references.
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Studebak
Mason T and Storage Co
Hazel Hagist
Keota
M. P. Miller
John Sullivan
Jas
Burli
Ainsworth
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Washington
Frank L. Wilson & Co
Oklahoma
Dougherty Bros., Clothiers
THE
Lees
Secre
Governor General
Great Britain
Cape Breton
United States
King Edward VII
British Empire
Theodore Roosevelt
King Edwards
White House
Wash
Guglielmo Marconi
Wilber Miller
Children’s Coats
Coate
Camaren
Astrakhan
New York
Nia
C. S. Lemmon
Mes
J. A. Harwood
Reewi
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