Hunting Queer Prey In Ocean Depths For Bom Bay Museum
An expedition near Solidar reefs south of Ceslon captures a live giant octopus. Professor Grimshaw leads the team using nets and chloroform to subdue the 510-pound creature with eighteen-foot tentacles. The specimen is transported to Bombay and later dies in the museum, the only alive specimen of its kind recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Lewin
Solidar Reefs
Ceslon
Bombay Museum
Theoctopis
Snonster
Ane
Penata
Nini
Bombay
Mnaeum
Quad
Notable Literary Figures and Personal News
Peter Rosegger, the Austrian writer, received over fifty congratulatory telegrams on his sixtieth birthday. Edmond Rostand, famed as the Benjam in of the French academy, leaves Paris for Cambo with his Paris house up for rent. Mary McLane joins the Denver Post staff after a celebrated career. Maurice Rollinat endures a tragic bereavement as his wife dies of bythorobia at the Pasteur institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Rosegger
Edmond Rostand
Benjamin
French Academy
Paris
Cambo
Mary McLane
Annabel Lee
Denver Post
Maurice Rollinat
Pasteur Institute
Love Reckons Hours for Months and Days for Years
A reflective line quotes Dryten about time, absence, and the enduring weight of memory across long spans.
Sherman’s Fight At Mission Ridge Fortieth Anniversary War Story
Sherman opens the battle at Mission Ridge on Nov 24 1863 as Hooker attacks Lookout Mountain. Grant’s plan aimed to cut Bragg’s supplies by sweeping the valley and striking behind the ridge. Federals massed artillery and infantry, clashing with Maney’s brigade and Confederate breastworks as Sherman’s forces pressed uphill toward the ridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Kilmer
Herman
Mission Ridge
Joe
Hooker
Lookout Mountain
Grant
Leutenant
Sherman
Bragg
Chattanooga
Old Thomas
Army of the Cumberland
Thomas
Tennessee
Maney
Perryville
Sherman Crosses Tennessee River at Mission Ridge
George L. Kilmer recounts Sherman's nighttime river crossing and ridge assault near Chattanooga. Pontoon boats ferried 3 000 troops ashore, breaching Confederate lines, with a tunnel maneuver shaping the battle and Bragg’s defense tested by a feint from Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Sherman
Chattanooga
Sporting Notes on Racing Boxing and Yachting Prospects
Twamy Ryan seeks a bout with Philadelphia Jack OBrien. Morton FP Plant plans to sail the schooner Ingomar abroad next season. Billy Mack, 2 17, racing sold to Joseph Wells of Bluffton. Clarence Mackay plans to keep a major racing stable. Pat Daly to return from England next month. Eddie Mitchell to train for Walter Winans of Brighton. Sam Strang wins shooting medal at Chattanooga Mountaineers Club. The Monk aims for a 2 04 sulky record with Billings approval.
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Twamy Ryan
Philadelphia
Jack” O'Brien
Morton FP. Plant
New York
Will Rice
Ingomar
Billy Mack
Mack
Joseph Wells
Bluffton
Ind
Tom Rea
Montpelier
Clarence Mackay
Pat Daly
England
America
Eddie Mitchell
Crexcenn
Walter Winans
Brighton
Sam Strang
Brooklyn
Mountaineers
Chattanooga
Teoy
Geers
Mr. Billings
Clergy Moves and Mission Plans Highlight 19th Century Faith
Rev Edward Judson will join the University of Chicago divinity faculty and remains pastor of Judson Memorial Baptist in New York. Rev Milton Norton of Emmanuel Church St Louis declines a Turkey mission, saying St Louis needs missionaries more. In western Massachusetts a diocesan fund seeks 35000 for a bishop’s permanent Springfield residence. Prominent New York Baptists buy land by the Hudson near West Point to establish a Baptist summer resort with education features akin to Chamaguá.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Judson
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Judson Memorial Baptist Church
New York
Rey
Milton J. Norton
Emmanuel Congregational Church
St. Louis
Bins
Turkey
Western Massachusetts
Lund
Springfeld
New York City
West Point
Chanranigua
Royal oddities from a curious court
The king of Italy detests cards due to his father’s hours spent on them. The shah of Persia fears travel and travels by express train with orders restricting speed. Queen Christina of Spain wears 200 rings in rotation with each dress change. Queen Alexandra wrote up to forty letters in a day, assisted by Miss Knollyn who sometimes pens a hundred.
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Italy
Persia
Queen Christina
Spain
Queen Alexandra
Miss Knollyn
The Cook Book Tips on Cooking Sugars and Dried Ingredients
The article offers kitchen tips such as using sugar instead of molasses in baked beans to avoid dull flavor, and adding a tablespoon of milk to potato water to keep color. It also describes stiffening cream with gum arabic beaten with sugar, keeping drowned flour on hand by toasting dry flour until light brown for thickening.
Paris Inventor Unveils Mechanical Leech For Blood Draw
SCIENCE SIFTINGS reports a Paris inventor patents four surgical devices named a mechanical leech to replace traditional bloodletting. The piece notes widespread electric lamp development by hundreds of electricians and offers scale comparisons for electrons and atoms to illustrate the vast differences in size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Animal Oddities in Persia and New England
A giraffe is described as an unlikely drinker while a donkey remains more reliable for drinks. A pig kept in Persian stables is said to benefit horse health. Charles Wetmore of Winchester Center Connecticut owns a remarkable hen that lays eggs in a tree, keeping his crew busy hunting the eggs.
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Persia
Charles Wetmore
Winchester Center
Conn
Mr. Wetmore
Charade and Puzzles In a 19th Century Page
A page of word games and crosswords with numbered items from No 353 to No 359. Charades, familiar phrases, metagrams, beheadings, and famous poems appear alongside cryptic clues and a Pied Piper reference. Names like Pleasant season and various puzzle labels are included.
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Horder
Hamelin
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Pacific Avenues
Willmar
Indians
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
New Mexico
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
C. Carpenter
Minneapolis
Ming
Santa Fe
Nove
J. E. Smith
Tunnel Hill
First Tennessee
Smith
Massa
Chickamauga
Brage
George L. Kilmer
Sporting Notes
Earth
Akry
Maine
Newton
Lin
Jong
Chicago Evening, Post
Crank & Selle
Eloe
Robespierre
Rover
Bunch
Ether
Piper
India
River
Visagen
Charade
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