Friday, July 27, 2007

Powerful Aero Engines

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1917 In testing an airplane engine of 200 horse power a Detroit company mounted it upon a heavy motor truck, and the aerial propeller sent t...

New Methods of Fighting

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1917 Modern Warfare Is Carried On Under Water, Under Ground and in the Clouds "Digging in" has a new and important significance an...

Mongoose as Rat Understudy

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1917 Islands in the tropical or semi-tropical seas furnish ideal conditions for rats, and in many instances they have increased until they h...

Veldt Marks Its Dwellers

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1917 Loneliness and Silence Affect Those Doomed to Live in Plain of British South Africa Before the Boer war there was a saying current amon...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

People Who Eat Arsenic

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1901 White arsenic is the form in which arsenic is eaten by the peasants of Styria and the Tyrol. Prof. Schallgrueber, of Gratz, was the fir...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Hunter Treed by Wolves

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1905 Hungry Pack Turn Tables on Minnesota Sportsman Henry Temfehr, a business man of Chisholm, Minn., came to the court house to-day to clai...

Captured Baby Lynx

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1905 W. W. Bridges of Athens, while hunting recently, came upon a peculiar track of some animal, which he followed. He captured the animal, ...

Had Corner in Graves

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1905 The Melbourne Women's hospital discovered lately that a local undertakers' ring had bought up nearly all the vacant plots in th...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Coffins as Furniture

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1905 A man living at Queensbury not only uses his coffin as a piece of household furniture, but he has also a grave made in the local church...

Lazy, Dirty Panama

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1905 Although there is a new flag in Panama, and the affairs of state are in new hands, life rolls on in its accustomed way. The bells in th...

In Safety and Danger

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1905 The Scientific American recently called attention to the odd fact that the man who rides a few score feet in a New York City elevator ...

Japanese Villages Are Dark

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1905 "Without having actually seen them, you cannot imagine how dark some Japanese country villages remain, even in the brightest and h...

To Remove the Cigar Band

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1905 Simple Device That Will Often Prevent Spoiling Good Smoke Only a few years ago the placing of a band around a cigar was unknown and whe...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Indians' Christmas Festival

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1910 Miss Clara True, superintendent and special disbursing agent for the mission Indians in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, came to ...