A New Pitching Machine for Baseball Training
A detailed description of a new baseball pitching machine featuring a belt driven by a cord and rotating throwing tube. The device offers adjustable speed, precise ball placement, and varying curve by operator control. Report notes trials by Harvard observers and praise from baseball men as a right-hand pitcher in one.
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Dali
Lite Certanty
Harvard
Mysehine
Tiai
Toston
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Laughter the Best Medicine Essay Notes Its Moral Force
A long reflection explores laughter as a vital, universal habit valued across ages. It contrasts childishness with mature joy, cites thinkers from Sterne to Shakespeare, and argues laughter relieves grief, aids healing, and signals shared humanity. It presents laughter as a doctor without a diploma improving mood and social bonds.
The Power and Joy of Laughter Across Time
An essay on laughter's social value, its varying forms across people and eras, and how humor lightens gatherings. It notes historical anecdotes of laughter ending lives, contrasts male and female, adult and child responses, and ends praising laughter as a cheerful, life-giving force that banishes malice and brightens existence.
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Adam
Zeux
Pomponius Mela
Philip IV
Anne of Austria
Spain
Why We Sleep And The Role Of Light In Rest
A scientist notes sleep aligns with daylight as eyes develop. Humans rest about eight hours due to lighting limits, while plants rely on sun for growth. Eyeed animals split time into waking and sleeping phases, with activity during light and rest in darkness. Lower, sightless sea life lacks regular rest patterns.
Snake venom as a high priced, risky business
Venom from snakes commands about £6000 per pound troy in a growing, dangerous trade. Collectors must capture live snakes and venom is harvested by extracting sacs or causing venom to release onto plates, then sealed in phials. The work is perilous, with bites yielding only small amounts.
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Iito
India
Manners and tragedy in royal etiquette stories
A historical anecdote recalls how strict court etiquette led to a Siamese queen drowning after falling from a state barge while officials refrained from action. A Spanish king’s youth story shows a footman punished for saving the monarch, illustrating peril when decorum overrides safety.
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Spain
Madrid
Prince of Monaco's Island State and Its Royal Curiosity
A profile of Albert I of Monaco, ruler of a tiny yet prosperous state famed for Monte Carlo gambling. He funds scientific exploration and a near complete maritime museum, collects ocean specimens in a boat driven by curiosity, and maintains strict social rules while welcoming visitors with lavish commerce.
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Imma Calve
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Tim Weld
Nice
Albert
Bleaching Negroes With X Ray Therapy
A Philadelphia doctor reports using X ray therapy to lighten dark skin. After multiple treatments some subjects shift from deep black toward light chestnut and olive tones, with lighter complexions reaching creole hues. The experiment aims at near white coloration but raises questions about safety and ethics.
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Philadelphia
Liquor for All of Chem State Law Sparks Controversy
Guthrie dispatch notes state and county dispensaries begin under the Billups act amid illness claims. Doctors are pressed to write prescriptions for whisky or beer to ease chronic pains seen as relief from suffering. A county dispenser, Ol smith, faces patient pleas as a farmer arrives with a new ailment.
Cures by Sea Water Quinton's Surprising Claims
Kansas City Journal reports French biologist M. Quinton claims sea water cures via injections of a purified sea water serum or plasma. He states all animals include about one third sea water and that the sea water is the vital element of organic cells, essential for life.
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Kansas City Journal
M. Quinton
Unusual Farm Family Union Ties Heath and Hornback Kin
In Larue County near Oak Hill Church five miles west of Buffalo two neighboring farms hosted Heath and Hornback families. Each family had two boys and two girls who played together. The Heath brothers married the Hornback sisters and the Hornback brothers married the Heath sisters. The intertwined clans settled locally and raised children who now share a rare relationship.
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Larue County
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Buffalo
Wiliam Heath
John Hornback
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Hornback
Montclair Dog Catcher Uses Decoy to Nab Offenders
David Steinfeld, Montclair’s dog catcher, introduces a plaster cast bulldog decoy to lure unlicensed dogs. He stands the figure on corners and barks himself, attracting dogs to be caught. In one hour he captured 11 unlicensed offenders using the tactic.
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David Steinfeld
Montclair
Steinfeld
Nelicopter Demonstration Promises Aerial Breakthrough
The Nelicopter, a mastlike airship with a twenty foot pole and a forty pound engine, features opposing horizontal propellers aimed to lift and lower the craft. Inventor Williams asserts the machine will fly and plans to astonish the world with its performance.
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Philadelphia Preas
Wiliams
Hypnosis and Mind Reading in Early Psychology
A Providence Journal piece explores psychology as a science of consciousness with focus on hypnosis, mind reading, and phenomena like telepathy. It notes muscle reading, dual personalities, and experiments by James and other scholars, while acknowledging sensational beliefs and limits of early psychological theory.
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Piszibie
James
Harvard
France
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Piper
How He Fools the Bees by Moonlight Plowing
Forest Anderson a well known farmer works by moonlight to avoid bees during daytime. While plowing near the stands of bees he and his horses are severely stung prompting him to continue at night under the light of the moon.
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Indianapolis News
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