Methusalem the giant California sequoia found by Mrs Duncan
A colossal sequoia named Methusalem was discovered by Mrs. Mattie Duncan near the Tule River basin south of Sequoia National Park. The tree stands about 480 feet high with a trunk diameter up to 99 feet at seven feet from the ground and its lowest limb could support a twenty story skyscraper. John Muir measured the tree, which is among the largest known, and local lumber mills in the Tule River region extract vast timber from this forest giant.
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Mattie Duncan
Diana
California
Gen. Grant National Park
John Muir
Duncan
New York World
Mount Moses
Sequoia National Park
Tule River
North America
Arctic Circle
Asia
Europe
Golden State
Tule
Methusalem
Dillonwood
Edison as a Reader Delights in Monte Cristo
The article portrays Thomas A. Edison reading habits as unusual yet vivid. While absorbed in a technical problem he distracts himself by reading The Count of Monte Cristo after his wife suggests it. He finishes the book at five in the morning then resumes work for 36 hours straight without rest or food.
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Thomas A. Edison
New York Times
Count of Monte Cristo
Mrs. Edison
Dumas
Gen Nord Elected in Haiti Amid Revolt Claims
A Haitian presidential election produced Gen Nord as de facto president after taking office. The elderly northern leader, from near Cape Haytien, pursued the role amid Haiti's turbulent politics aided by his wife who sought control of the mansion. Also notes balloon therapy for consumptives and a physician surgeon distinction in a Chinese medical anecdote.
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Hayti
San Domingo
Venezuela
South America
Haiti
Gen. Nord
Cape Haytien
Parker Head of Democratic Prospects for 1904
Parker emerges as a leading Democratic presidential possibility with broad support from east to west. Democrats believe he can unite factions and win New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Indiana, while Hill aides push for governorship no longer decisive. Bloomers banned for Oklahoma basketball players and a note on breakfast priority among the longest lived peoples.
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Alton B. Parker
Hill
New York Herald
Judge Parker
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Indiana
New York State
Court of Appeals
Wallace
New York City
Congress
South
St. Louis
Missouri
Parker
David B. Hill
Texas
Bryan
Bailey and
Culbertson
Thomas Ball
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Minnesota
Gorman
Maryland
Senate
Thompson B. Ferguson
Oklahoma
Bloomoers
Senator Pays $90 For Wrong Time Train In Indiana
Senator Fairbanks sought a 2:30 pm Princeton speech but missed a Terre Haute to Princeton connection. He hired a special train for 90 dollars, arriving early at Princeton only to learn the talk was scheduled for 7 pm, the committee having not updated the time.
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Fairbanks
Princeton
Ind
State Committee
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Vincennes
Grandmother Growth Goddess Among Huichol Venerated
The Huichol in Jalisco honor Grandmother Growth as their chief goddess of vegetation. Carl Lumholtz brought back a carved wooden image for the American Museum of Natural History. A special god house holds votive offerings and ritual sticks symbolizing height growth prayers for children. A Paris Academy study explores a throat gland controlling human stature and artificial stimulation to maximize height.
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Mexico
Jalisco
Lumholtz
Paris Academy of Sciences
Good Roads and the National Road Revival
A discussion of Henry Clay and Walker Brownlow advancing highway improvements. Brownlow’s bill would create a Bureau of Public Roads in agriculture and seek a $20 million national appropriation with state and local support, praising broad congressional sentiment for better nationwide highways. The piece recalls early 19th century road building and the shift from turnpikes to railroads, stressing national economy and public praise for road builders.
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Henry Clay
Waler P. Brownlow
Tennessee
Popular Branch of
Congress
Brownlow
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of
Cumberland
Potomac
Maryland
Wheeling
Ohio
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississippi
Alleghenies
New Orleans
Natchez
Ohio River
Indiana
United States
The
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Primate of England Dr. Davidson Named Canterbury Archbishop
Rt Rev Dr Randall T Davidson bishop of Winchester since 1885 is appointed archbishop of Canterbury succeeding Dr Temple who died December 23. At 83 he is noted as progressive, popular with Queen Victoria, and famed as “the Queen’s bishop.” He declined Canterbury in 1896. He began as curate, rose to chaplain to Archbishop Tait, and became dean of Windsor before bishop of Rochester and Winchester. He warned that being bishop of Winchester did not pay well. He is Oxford Trinity educated.
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Randall T. Davidson
Winchester
Canterbury
Temple
Davidson
Tait
Deal
Windsor
Rochester
Harrow
Trinity
Oxford
Fan On Locomotive Lights Rail Cars With Wind Powered Dynamos
A novel method to light trains uses a locomotive mounted dynamo powered by a wind driven fan above the headlight. Each car stores electricity in small accumulators and automatic cut off limits charging. Tests reportedly show encouraging results amid wind powered generation claims. A separate hospital report details a 19 year old man saved after a self inflicted gunshot wound to the left chest, with heart repair and lung repair performed and patient recovering.
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Cossier
City Hospital
St. Louis
Edward Spilker
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Jory
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Indiana Statesman
Grandma Goddess
Nichola of
American Museum of Natural History of New York
Carl Swmnboltz
Canary Islands
Walter P. Brownlow
Primate OF England
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Winchcots
Dr. Temple
England
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