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...pass through any substance-and that it can follow an undeviating course, in whatever direction it may be started, with no need for a wire or other conductor. In 1897 he won a great triumph-he succeeded in sending a message from Queen Victoria, ashore, to Edward of Wales aboard the royal yacht. Two years later he first came to the U. S., and has visited this country from time to time ever since. The amazing new wireless was used in reporting the 1900 U. S. Presidential elections...
...Chesapeake 'Bug Eye' lay to leeward. I called to the man aboard to tell us where we were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over...
...good ship President Madison steamed into the port of Yokohama. Americans were aboard, and a customs officer thought it his plain and insulting duty to breathe a little anti-exclusion spirit into his work. He examined the freeborn citizens of the U. S. for all the 60 seconds of the 60 minutes of an hour, forcing them, among other things, to stand on a wet wooden platform in their bare feet...
...York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme, had been rushed aboard still panting from victorious exertions against Harvard on the Thames (TIME, June...
...popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...