Boston High Schooler builds iceboat automobile airship hybrid
Walter Metz a Walham High School senior in Boston recently unveiled a unique machine on the Charles River. The craft combines an iceboat automobile and airship concept driven by a two blade air propeller, claiming speeds up to 30 miles per hour under actual timing. Metz built it in his father’s workshop and says the design is original, with the propulsion using air rather than wheels to support weight on ice.
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Meta
Steamboat Harry the Gambler Tells His Life of Luck and Loss
In a candid confession the veteran gambler known as Steamboat Harry recounts a life of early gambling, debts, a costly education in card tricks, an ill fated partnership with a skilled cheater, and a turn to a new partner Scotty that sparked a fragile comeback while lamenting wasted winnings and hopes for a straight path forward.
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Chicago
Sterard
Harry Patterson
Harry
Mr. Jones
Mr. Smith
Cirections
Kale
Scott
Scotty
The Gambler's Confession On Tricks And Downfall
A former professional card sharp recounts learning crooked tricks from bottom dealing to the cold deck, detailing life on the road and in gambling dens. He explains the rigs with three accomplices, the switch and cold deck, and the need for a calm exterior. The piece ends with moral reflections on the ruinous price of a life of crime and lost reputation.
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Wallingford
Dye
Companion
Tory
Con- Firse
Turimmin
The First Americans by Harper's Magazine
The article discusses the Hohokam as the earliest Americans in the Southwest long before Pilgrim Fathers and Spaniards. It notes their name lost to history, scarce surviving ruins like Casa Grande, and the role of archaeology and geography in reconstructing their past. It emphasizes the vast, largely unknown ruins in Arizona and the need to study to learn early U.S. history.
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United States
Arizona
Casa Grande
Gila River
Maine Hide of Liquor In Biddeford Home Reveals Cache
A search of Alphonse Toullot's Biddeford premises by Deputy Sheriff Johnson and Civic League secretary Ed H. Emery uncovered a hidden stash under a rug in the bedroom. Four pints of whisky, one pint bottle half filled, and 17 empty bottles were seized in the cache.
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Alphonse Toullot
Biddeford
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Sanford
Ed H. Emery
The
Civic League
Origin of Common Things Its Whimsical Path From Jinrikisha to Soap
A kaleidoscopic survey traces curious origins of everyday items from the jinrikisha’s rise at Atlantic City to Japan to the mustache’s religious signaling in Spain, and from water power’s religious roots to bank checks born from foggy London streets. It also covers soap’s accidental discovery in Savanna, the silk hat craze sparked by a London barber, and a tour through early drug habits and cures, noting opium, ether, and varied fiendish dependencies and the social responses to them.
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London
John Hetherington
Hetherington
Savanna
Italy
Slaves To the Deadly Drugs in America Today
A long account warns of a million drug addicts in the United States, detailing morphine opium cocaine and heroin hazards, the spread of new powders and cures, the role of doctors, and the social reach from Belmont Michigan to national markets, plus dramatic anecdotes about Stanley Ketchel and law enforcement.
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United States
Among the Cannibals in a Tit Bits Yarn
Mr Jackpott Jones reads of a Tierra del Fuego wreck where cannibals killed two men and ate one of five women among the survivors. The savage feast included bizarre items from the woman’s attire and gear. The chief, after days of silence, reportedly burned 40 children and vowed not to eat another white squaw.
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Mrs. J
Tierra del Fuego
Polar Notes Peary’s Pole Claim Sparks Skepticism
In Chicago Post notes on cross examination of Captain Peary a congressman questions his polar data. The piece argues the North Pole was never lost and that Peary did not blaze a usable trail. It contrasts Peary with Cook who knew the path but did not go.
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Chicago Post
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North Pole
Peary
Cook
Mortgage for Life for Chinese Immigrants Exposed
The Philadelphia Star reports on Chinese migrants charged about 350 for passage and guidance to immigrate. After landing they work as cooks, gardeners, or laundrymen earning 35 to 50 dollars monthly, and may be mortgaged to repay the costs if they are sent back, a brutal cycle described as a mortgage for life.
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Philadelphia Star
United States
Guide
China
Rome’s Decline Attributed To Sedentary Lifestyles
The piece reflects on Rome’s long history and decline as sedentary pursuits wear on societies. It cites doctors guessing at ailments while pondering the fate of the “Mistress of the World” after millennia of ease and indulgence.
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Rome
Here Is the Decimal Clock
A Louisville inventor fitted a clock with a standard twelve hour face and ten outer divisions for decimal time. Time is read in hours and tenths, not hours and minutes, simplifying pay calculations. A start at 9 30 becomes 8.5 and a finish at 12 8 shows a 3.3 hour span.
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Scientific American
Louisville
Wireless signals from Eiffel Tower reach ships far at sea
The Paris observatory and Eiffel Tower harness radio telegraphy to time signals for ships up to thousands of miles away. Clocks at the tower transmit precise hourly contacts, enabling navigators to determine exact positions and correct chronic errors in marine chronometers.
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IL O
Hiffel Tower
Registration of Baronets Ends Bogus Titles in Europe
A panel of observers notes a royal initiative to register baronets, the lowest hereditary English title, aiming to curb fake knights who have long exploited hotels and mothers seeking marriageable daughters. The plan recalls James I’s 1611 creation, funded by selling patents and lands that often did not exist. A forthcoming official register will reveal legitimate holders and drop many pretenders.
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Rades Pheople
Edward
London Gazette
James I
Marmaduke Vere de Vere
Language Struggles Shine in Chinese Ad Poster Letter
A Chicago Post item notes a Chinese billboard advertiser received a letter from a local billposter revealing the clumsy side of English. The missive claims 1400 Jinja feats of boards, 27 defrant locations, and 300 manual feats, all to occur on April 1 with more defrant locations forthcoming.
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