Ophir Legend Reignites Search for Egyptian Gold Mines
An ancient Egyptian mining belt between the Nile and Red Sea draws authorities and explorers who claim extensive gold and gem workings existed in Darehieb and Wadi Allagi. Ruins of castles, dams, and a former city surface as evidence of a long history of wealth, with Darehieb serving as a key depot for operations likely halted over a thousand years ago.
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Egypt
River Nile
Red Sea
Ophir
Sheba
Solomon
Macrizi
Omary
Darehieb
Wadi-Allagi
Wadi Allagi
Durehieb
Movument
Thig Castle
Sunday Passes Baseball To Pulpit In Evangelistic Work
William A Sunday, once a noted pitcher, ordains as evangelist in Chicago and pursues preaching, while Pittsburgh court action frees Lajoie Bernhard and Flick to return to Pennsylvania baseball after contempt purge. Vardon defends golf open title at Prestwick, Indiana forms golf league with Marion Muncie Anderson Richmond, and football rules panel rumors shift rush line and quarterback rules.
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William A. Sunday
Chicago
Lajoie
Bernhard
Flick
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Harry Vardon
Prestwick Secotland
Vardon
Tom Vardon
Indiana
Indiana Golf League
Marion
Muncie
Anderson
Richmond
Ingenious Diamond Separator Transforms Kimberley Mines
Fred Kersten, a miner in Kimberley, devised a grease coated vibrating table system to separate diamonds from garnets and concentrates. The device uses a tilted greased surface with water flow to let heavier diamonds stay while lighter stones wash away, replacing slow hand-picking. The invention boosted efficiency, reduced labor, and increased profits for miners.
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Kimberley
Fred Kersten
Kersten
Deadly Death Gulch in Yellowstone's Remote Gorge
The Anaconda Standard identifies Death Gulch as Yellowstone's most dangerous area, remote and seldom visited by tourists. Trapper lore spoke of a carcass-strewn pass once thought myth, later confirmed, with skeletons of elk, deer, and bear along its walls. In Bozeman a visit by Dr. Frank W. Traphagen and Peter Koch revealed a poisonous gas filling the lower canyon when wind is still, capable of killing any breathing animal.
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Death Gulch
Yellowstone Park
Yancey’s
Seton Thompson
Frank W. Traphagen
The
Agricultural College
Bozeman
America
Peter Koch
Hazeman National Bank
Traphagen
Fozeman
Foggy Night Umbrella Parade in Philadelphia
A foggy Chestnut Street scene shows four solemn young men in evening dress carrying umbrellas, triggering onlookers to rally to coat and cab as theater crowds spill out. The episode ends with no rain despite damp air and dim lights.
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Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
Party of Four
Jack
Servant Girl Problem Across Nations Reveals Domestic Labor
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune examines the global state of domestic service. It contrasts America’s shortage of reasonable wages with Britain’s vast female domestic workforce and notes European norms. It describes French, Russian, German, Italian, and Parisian “nursemaids” and their social dynamics, highlighting wages, mobility, and etiquette in households abroad.
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America
Great Britain
England
Board of Trade
Wales
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Helena
Italy
Europe
France
Paris
Old Mexican vase at American Museum of Natural History
A remarkable terra cotta jar designed to imitate a turkey, adorned with solid gold leaf, is displayed in the Mexican hall. Curated by Marshall H. Saville, the artifact is hailed as a priceless example of ancient American ceramics, likely a funerary or votive offering from a civilization over a thousand years old. Carl Lehmholz found it in Tepic, where two skeletons and gold ornaments were uncovered in a former temple or burial site.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Marshall H. Saville
Mexico
New York Herald
Carl Lemholtz
Tepic
Faunce Rebukes Leisure Class At Brown Graduation
Rev. Dr. W H P Faunce president of Brown University denounced the wealthy leisure class for lacking duty to society in his baccalaureate sermon at Providence. He warned that those with no wish to serve are anti-social and anti-Christian, citing rights without duties and pleasures without responsibilities. He criticized lavish living and alimony aided by legal or birth privileges, foreseeing social strife for their offspring.
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W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
New York City
John D. Rockefeller
Providence
R. J. Dence
R. I
America
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Football Rules Committee
East
Kid” Broad
Cleveland
Aurelio Herrera
S. Titus
Henley
Philadelphia Cricketers
Cambridge University
Himesberley
Yellowstone Gulch
Fukien
China
Philippines
Manila Times
Gusher Darling
Cute
Stroy
Madrid
Valley of the Spree
Berlin
Rome
Rockefeller Save
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