How Icebergs Form and Drift From Glaciers
An 1890s Cassell's Magazine excerpt explains iceberg origins from Greenland glaciers, detailing calving, floebergs, and ice types. It describes bergs’ chalky white to greenish surfaces, blue shadows, and slow southward drift melting into the Atlantic while shipyard observers note towering fronts, waves, and blue cave features.
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R. E. Peary
Greenland
Great Tee Cap
Battin Bay
David Strait
Smith Sound
Atlantic
Cassell
Endless Chain Dredge Described For River Gold
The device uses an endless chain of buckets mounted on a boat to continually lift dirt from river bottoms where gold-bearing material accumulates. A telescoping tube feeds the buckets into a separator, improving efficiency over single-bucket methods and enabling dredging of channels and harbors with forward motion and dirt discharge into scows. Designed by Robert H. Postlethane of San Francisco, per the Louisville Journal.
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Robert H. Postletheanite
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville Journal
Ingenious device to prevent premature burials
Count Karnici Karnici, a Russian chamberlain, reports a hermetically sealed iron box atop graves connected to the coffin by a tube. A glass ball detects movement or breathing, triggering a lid release, a rising flag, bell, and lamp to alert rescuers. The system provides air and speaking access, and, once the coffin is sealed, it claims to neutralize gas and offers 14 to 21 days of potential revival.
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Count Karnici-Karnici
Count Karnici
Karnici
Alcohol as heart stimulant debated by Kellogg and critics
A health article argues alcohol is not a tonic or stimulant for the heart and describes a Kellogg recommended cold chest compress and room for evaporative cooling. It contrasts German and French practices of alcohol use with cold baths and warns against brandy or wine with therapy citing medical tests and investigators.
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Winternity
Germany
Kellogg
Too Many Of Us Insist On Fishing With Live Bait
A reflective fragment discusses a fishing anecdote where a minister cuts live bait from a caught fish. The piece condemns self interest and dogmatic scrutiny, noting the harsh tendency to value convenience over mercy. It contrasts male and female views on sensitivity, urging restraint and kindness over demands for immediate gratification.
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Wmitten
Don’t economize on tips ends in a costly lesson
A harlem couple alters meals to save money, he stops tipping, she investigates and discovers his frugality affects staff. At his cheap restaurant she orders a lavish, full dinner for two, proving his alleged thrift hurt workers and ending in a sharp reversal. The tale warns against false economy in tipping.
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Harlem
New York Tribune
Henry
Inncheon
Mary
American Influence Spreads Through English High Society
The Earl of Mayo notes a growing Americanization of England in Forum, with American women marrying into and influencing Britain’s elite. Americans dominate social events, dining, and yachting circles last summer. hotel life and hospitality increasingly mirror American practice, as London hotels expand and imitate U S styles.
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Earl of Mayo
Forum
England
London
New York
How to make butter from cream and churning tips
Emma L. Hill explains butter making from cream notes on temperature testing by finger and tongue, gradual warming with hot water, and the influence of souring, thickening, and chilling. She emphasizes minimal churning, daily churns, and preserving sweetness for flavor.
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Emma L. Hill
N.Y
Gate for the Barn
An Ohio farmer describes simple barn gates to ease stock handling. Pine crosspieces three by one inches form the top and bottom spacers, while two vertical oak pieces two by one inches provide strength, with emphasis on knot-free timber for durability.
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Ohio
Barn Gate Gate Hinges and Latch Construction Details
In this gate the vertical pieces are four inches apart. The strap hinge with a bolt hanger is used, bolted through the gate with quarter inch bolts. The latch is from the same material as the vertical pieces and is cut down to fit. A lever top unplugs the latch and a short right angle piece holds the gate when closed. A light brace keeps shape. eight such gates in the barn provide safety at night against wandering animals.
Milking glove tube aims to improve dairy cleanliness
A new milking glove tube from Australia uses a valve and extended tube to transfer milk into a covered pail. Critics say despite potential cleanliness benefits the device is impractical and hard to keep clean, while traditional hygiene remains essential in dairying.
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Australia
The Bacteria Scare Explained
Bacteria are plants like fungus not enemies by default. Many are harmless or beneficial as shown by sour milk. Alarmist reports exaggerate risk. control measures should focus on actual disease-producing bacteria rather than mere presence.
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Col. Ingersoll
Timely Dairy Notes and Silage Guidance
Practical dairy tips on cleanliness and milk handling, from utensil care to rapid milk removal, salt quality, and cloth strain. Advice on butter making, churning, and deep setting with ice. Extends to silo feeding, corn and clover crops, cowpea and sorghum, plus silage as a cheap, low-harm feed with dry fodder to balance rations.
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Science
ION
Rui Robleman
Marconi
Milton Marks
Anil
HPAL
New Zealand
Mackie
Persone
Timely Dairy Notes
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