The Cradle of Cyclones Explained by Ellicott
Lieut. John M. Ellicott describes cyclone formation using a water pan analogy. He explains the rising air from heat and vapor creating a vacuum, drawing in surrounding air to form a spinning center that travels from tropics toward the pole, threatening ships and forests before moving to Europe or over the sea.
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John M. Ellicott
U.S. X
St. Nicholas
Lieut
Ellicott
Tropics
Pole
Luckiess
Atlantic
Europe
Automatic powder weighing and dispensing machine
A Bombay patented device by Prof. Shanker Bhise weighs and delivers powdered materials such as flour sugar or coffee automatically. The mechanism uses a rotating set of receivers with elastic bottoms that adjust to compensate for weight differences and a register shows the weighed quantity.
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Shanker Bhise
Bombay
India
Scientific American
Glass Insulation Enables 36000 Volt Transmission
Dr. F A C Perrine of Stanford University completed an experiment in Marysville California using the Yuba Power line between its powerhouse and Brown's Valley ten miles away. It shows 36000 volt transmission over a copper wire with glass insulation versus 16000 previously the maximum. The test promises to halve future wire costs for electrical transmission plants and reflects current wire prices.
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Marysville
Cal
F. A.C. Perrine
Leland Stanford University
Yuba Power Company
Brown's Valley
Fall of East For. 23 years innovator on perpetual motion
Louisiana inventor Sam Fall has pursued perpetual motion for 23 years. His latest device uses a large pulley with quicksilver tubes as weights. The mechanism alternates tube extension and retraction to reduce resistance and overcome the dead center, aiming to drive motion and weight transfer.
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East
Sam
Mr. Fall
Fall
Infection by Breath Shows How Cigar Smoke Reveals Spread
A writer explains how smoke from a cigar visualizes the path of expired air and microbes, illustrating how rebreathing breath in crowded streets and close homes helps spread disease. Sunlight reveals saliva and dust carried mouth to mouth, underscoring infection risk.
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London
Perches Improve Poultry Housing Against Lice
Homer W. Jackson explains a hanging perch system to replace old wall or floor mounted perches. The design uses spaced poles and removable supports to keep perches from touching the building, reducing lice and mandating lighter cleaning. Regular kerosene oil treatment helps control remaining pests.
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Homer W. Jackson
Music's Power Highlighted By French and Russian Experts
Last September Dr Ferrand spoke to the French Academy presenting four papers on music and its bodily and mental effects through demonstrations. Russian savant Dr Betzchinsky praised music's therapeutic value and linked musicians to heavy hair and tremulous heads, citing Pederewski and others among harpists violinists and cellists as supporting the claim.
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Ferrand
French Academy
Betzchinsky
Pederewski
Removing Honey With The Bee Escape
E S Mead describes a simple bee escape device for honey handling. The tin box with V shaped springs lets bees exit but not return, easing removal of honey from hives and reducing brushing work. He outlines installation steps and timing to minimize robbing and maximize efficiency.
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E. S. Mead
Ohio
Facts for Farmers Advice on Stable Care and Crops
Practical notes emphasize using lime in stables and hiring capable help, as brains pay. Light tools kept in good order, blue grass resilience, removing burdock at crown, and parsnips noted as good. Warns against throwing slops indoors and advises lime or raw bones for clay soil fertilizer.
Clover as Dual Crop Improves Feed and Soil Health
The piece explains clover’s two harvests per season with hay first and pasture or green manure second. It notes rapid growth, shading, and high quality feed for dairy cattle and stock, plus benefits for hogs, wheat, corn, and potatoes. Seed profit varies with price, and harvesting must respect bloom and curing stages.
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St. Louis Republic
Handy contrivance for paying out barbed wire during fence building
The illustration describes a handy contrivance to pay out barbed wire. A stout stake corner brace supports a reel, guiding upper wires and braces at set heights. Teams pull the reel forward to stretch the wire while a partner staples, repeating as more wire un reels.
Heroes of war and a Chicago veteran’s recovery tale
A. Schiffeneder of 161 Sedgwick Street Chicago, Civil War veteran and prominent Grand Army man, recounts his wounds and imprisonments in the Army of the Potomac. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health, appetite, and strength after years of stomach catarrh.
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Chicago Times-Herald
A. Schiffeneder
Sedgwick Street
Chicago
America
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Army of the Potomac
Shenandoah Valley
Battle of
Gettysburg
Schiffeneder
Bell Island
Andersonville
Sherman
Georgia
Mr. Schiffeneder
Liquid Manure Recipe From Gardeners Chronicle
Instructions for making liquid manure in a 40 gallon tank using fresh horse dung soot and optional poultry droppings. After settling add water or soap suds for dilution and repeat filling with fresh material. Fermentation signs may appear in summer and require quick white vitriol as a stabilizer.
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Gardeners’ Chronicle
Modern road machines speed grade work with less labor
A historical note explains that new machines create even grades more efficiently than air plows and scrapers. It highlights symmetry in centerline grading and reduced labor and cost for road construction.
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Neen Vance
Family Charity Debate Sparks Household Turmoil
In an afternoon scene, two fair daughters press a charity party to aid the poor while the father decries the disruption and mocks the plan. The elder notes their duty, and the mother’s tone hints at support as the quarrel ends with a quip about funds.
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Detroit Free Press
Why He Had Hopes Mr Gotrox
A dialogue centers on a daughter not being of marriageable age. Mr Hardupp argues in favor of timing while Mr Gotrox remains skeptical. The judge weighs in, noting delay only compounds the issue.
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Mr. Gotrox
Hardupp
Asthma Cure Promoted by Buffalo Doctor
Dr. P Harold Hayes of Buffalo New York offers a free postpaid book giving proof of successful asthma and hay fever cures. He claims over forty thousand treated with many lasting cured years and provides names and addresses for inquirer verification. He asserts non organic asthma can be radically cured and cites testimonials including Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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P. Harold Hayes
Buffalo
N. Y
Hayes
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