Connecticut Avenue Bridge in Washington Opens Soon
The Connecticut avenue bridge across Rock Creek in Washington is complete and commonly called the handsomest concrete span in the city. Construction began in 1898, cost $850,000, and it features five 150 foot arches with a 52 foot width and a 130 foot maximum height, plus decorative lamps and a temporary macadam roadway awaiting final settlement before a permanent asphalt road is laid.
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Connecticut Avenue
Washington
Rock Creek
Insurance for artists and authors in England now possible
London insurers offer policies to cover failure risks for writers, dramatists, painters, composers, and even golfers. Policies require established reputation and credible forecasts, with clauses for sales targets and performance longevity. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Kipling could insure large sale volumes. Pinero could insure plays.
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England
Indies
London
A. Copan Doyle
Royal talisman worn by Kaiser linked to sacred ring tale
A Westminster Gazette report details the kaiser’s alleged possession of a legendary Hohenzollern ring. The massive gold court ring, said to grant protection, dates back to medieval times and was supposedly captured at Jerusalem. It descended as an heirloom from Margrat Ulrich to his heirs, bearing a Latin cross where a Koran sentence once appeared.
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England
Hohenzollern
Nuremberg
Jerusalem
Ulrich
Saladin
Westminster Gazette
Domestic Arsenic and Enormous Import Volumes in 1906
The Los Angeles Herald reports that thousands of tons of arsenic waste fumes from U S smelters, yet over 8 million pounds of arsenic and compounds were imported in 1906 costing about 375 000. Domestic production was just over one sixth of imports, valued at 63 460. Arsenic ore distribution aligns with granitic rocks and ores of tin copper and antimony. Native arsenic is rare and not a major ore source.
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United States
Los Angeles Herald
Senator Money Defends Smoking Cigar Amid Health Advice
The Mississippi senator, under physician orders to quit smoking, is seen with a large cigar in his mouth in the capitol committee room. He insists he is merely smoking a cigar and not using tobacco, joking that he is not quitting. The remark contrasts with Senator Beveridge’s smokeless period after twenty years.
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Senator Money
Senator Bacon
Capitol
Mr. Money
Beveridge
New York World
Ramsey proves electrical nature of northern lights in lab
In a Royal Society lecture Professor Ramsey demonstrated that the aurora is driven by electricity. He suspended a glass globe with a metal ring inside an electromagnet and showed an alternating current glow around the ring. When the coil current varied the glow streamed downward like the aurora and krypton appeared in the globe's rarefied air.
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Royal Society of London
Ramsey
Globe
Wild goats vanish from Europe with Piedmont as last refuge
London Globe reports the common wild goat is nearly extinct in Europe. The species survives mainly in the Piedmont mountains, with about 300 head in the royal parks of Gressoney protected. Federal authorities are urged to allocate funds for reacclimatizing the wild goat, while private efforts have had limited success.
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Europe
Alps
Piedmont
Royal Parks
Gressoney
London Globe
When Landis Was Bowled Out A 1904 Campaign Tale
Indiana congressman Charles B Landis tells a campaign tale critiquing Democrats and their platforms with humorous fits and asides. The crowd cites places and figures while a witty exchange about a lobster from Oyster Bay adds a satirical note. A German American banker and Max Goldberger are mentioned in a broader commentary on American prosperity.
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Landis
Charles B Landis
Indiana
Hill
Wolfert
Cleveland
Buzzard’s Bay
Parker
Esopus
Mr. Landis
Oyster Bay
Lincoln Beachy Talks of Paris Flight and Air Power
Lincoln Beachy, a famous balloonist in Toledo, comments on Henry Farman’s Paris aeroplane flight. He predicts airplanes will dominate the air as light and powerful motors enable modern invention. Beachy admires progress and shares a humorous phonograph anecdote about a Toledo man and his wife reacting to a recording.
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Lincoln
Stewart
Nevada
White House
President Lincoln
Senate
Mr. Lincoln
Lincoln Beachy
Toledo
Henry Farman
Paris
Mr. Beachy
Nominating Speech lampoons rulers with historic parallels
In a speech at a political convention George Kleipeter of Carrollton is quoted by Bill Irwin as joking that Alexander the Great Caesar Napoleon and Cromwell ruled over a world that had no more worlds to conquer He then nominating Sam for prosecuting attorney in a humorous procession of historic pairs
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bill
Irwin
Secretary of State
George Kleipeter
Carrollton
Alexander the Great
Caesar
Brutus
Charles I
Cromwell
Napoleon
Europe
Asia
Josephine
St. Helena
Sam
Diverse Oddities and Observations From Around the World
A broad mosaic of curiosities and incidents includes foreigners mining in Colombia, a Long Island man biting his owner during animal handling, a St Louis man fined for a rabbit chase, and high tides driving rats from Boston piers. Reports cover Italian emigration, a Bronx zoo lion’s fatal hemorrhage, Icings of Spain’s hat customs, and twins in Chicago identified by teeth. Other items note sea serpents seen by Calvi fishermen, a 240 pound beer-fed hog causing chaos in Brooklyn, aging Jones clans in New Hampshire, price highs in Italy, a Wells Cathedral statue resembling Campbell-Bannerman, and motor car disputes in Clerkenwell court. An anchor dredged from the Kennebec and a Alaska-returned Verden with riches are also mentioned alongside mining surveys in Pittsburgh, chocolate maps for teaching, South Africa’s Chinese inmate, and Germany’s brandy monopoly projections. The piece closes with remarks on Dutch representation in British media, Empress Eugenie’s gem encrusted pen, and a quill pen used in treaty signings and weddings.
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al Per Molog
John Case
Long Island
Case
William E. Robinson
St. Louis
Boston
United States
Bronx
Zoological Park
Spain
Moore
Chicago
Charles A. Street
Calvi
Corsica
Brooklyn
Jones Hill
Enfield
N. H
North End
Enfield Center
Milan
Italy
Wells Cathedral
England
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Clerkenwell
London
Northampton Institute
Kennebec River
Maine
Captain Kidd
Verden
Alaska
Des Moines
China
Manchhuria
South Manchurian
Carnegie Technical Schools
Pittsburg
Schenley Park
Vaud
South Africa
Johannesburg
Africa
Germany
Arthur Marshall
Holland
Eugenie
Ward
Lord Bangor
Unseen Causes of Telephone Trouble Bothering Subscibers
A historic article explains that most telephone problems arise from subscribers own actions rather than central systems. Examples include spectacles resting on the bell box, muffled bells, damp cords from umbrellas, faulty desk sets from liquids, leaky plumbing, and careless jabbing of cords. It urges using company experts to trace issues quickly and notes no charge for calling the exchange.
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Exchange Office
Hearn on Browning and Meredith in Craftsman
Lafcadio Hearn argues Browning and Meredith will fade due to obscurity yet honors Browning and calls Meredith the greatest philosophic poet of the nineteenth century. He notes their obscurity resembles coffee stains inspiring but only intelligible to the reader’s imagination.
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Lafcadio Hearn
Browning
Meredith
Rossetti
Tennyson
Eating an Orange Lamented in Harsh Peel Methods
A London Chronicle correspondent laments crude methods of orange eating and suggests a refined approach. Peel a circle to reveal the fruit, use a teaspoon, and savor the juice while discarding the seeds. The piece notes only the pips remain after enjoying the fruit.
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London Chronicle
The Fool at the Station
A man asks the Colorado Midland railway clerk what time he can go to Glenwood and is told seven thirty. A woman nearby then asks if she may go at that same time, prompting a brief exchange at the ticket counter.
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Colorado Midland Railway
Glenwood
Denver Post
Printing quality as business investment and image
The piece argues that printing must be good and priced reasonably to be profitable. It compares quality to the appearance of a business, stating poor printing costs more in price and harms the store, wagons, and clerks.
The Power of Expression in Individual Thought
The passage argues individuality lies in how thoughts are expressed and that few share the same level of expressive power. It suggests language shapes value, noting many share ideas but differ in articulation.
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