Sherman Couple Hospitalized In Baltimore With Serious Illness
Vice President James S. Sherman and his wife are reported seriously ill in a Baltimore hospital. The item notes their combined value at about eighty thousand dollars. The report also mentions a French process for extracting high grade alcohol from sawdust, yielding twenty seven and a half gallons per long ton and forty two pounds of acetic acid, with briquet fuel residue. The method is patented in the United States and may be adopted here to utilize sawdust previously discarded into trout streams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Sherman
Baltimore Hospital
France
United States
Jamaica Bay Port Plans for New York Harbor Growth
Jamaica Bay is slated for a 70 million dollar harbor expansion linked to a thousand ton canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. The project would double the bay area, extend docks, and move much of the city toward Long Island while creating a direct canal route to Jamaica Bay bypassing congested waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Island
Long Island
Lake Erie
Port of New York
Congress
Legislature
City Council
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Gaynor
Jamaica Bay
Western Hemisphere
Hudson River
New York
Hudson
Harlem River
Flushing Bay
New York Harbor
Lower Bay
Wireless to Connect Islands Across Pacific
Australia and New Zealand plan to link multiple British Pacific island groups by wireless connection. The initiative aims to improve communication among territories and establish a broader network in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
New Zealand
Corrugated Sheet Imports Flow to Siam Despite U S Oversight
The report notes extensive galvanized corrugated sheet imports into Siam while none enter directly from the United States. It emphasizes avoidance of U S entry points and suggests alternative sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
United States
Uses for Sawdust From Norway Fetching Steady Prices
Norways spruce and pine sawdust once discarded by millmen now brings steady returns as holzmehl a ground wood flour sold to linoleum and blasting powder makers. It is kiln dried packed in American sacks and commands about $12 a ton with 1907 export figures noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
America
Fashions In Borneo From Wide World Magazine
The article explains Borneoan fashion norms where limbs are bound with brass wire to alter shape, especially ankles wrists knees and elbows of children. It describes a head cap and a bridegroom to be wearing shell bangles and cowrie strings as currency, noting shell value parallels a penny per yard of fiber or twenty to thirty cowries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wide World Magazine
Reckless Gambling Tale From A Morning Paper
A bride laments her husband’s gambling instinct in a humorous quarrel. He proposed a penny matching game with Brother Frank to decide who would pay the car fare, highlighting a lighthearted domestic dispute in Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Detroit Free Press
Princess Mary: Britain's cheerful princess and thrifty heir
The piece portrays Princess Mary as a beloved 12 year old royal who enjoys games with her brothers, keeps a savings account, and learns at a strict schedule. It highlights her sports prowess, schooling, and close bond with King Edward in a lively portrait of royal life.
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England
Mary
Edward
Sandringham
Balmoral
Prince Arthur of
Connaught
Prince Edward
Prince Albert
Thames
Eton
Post Office Savings Bank
Naval College
Osborne
Naval Academy
Royal
British Museum
Gardening as a curative pastime in backyards
A columnist questions the value of fashionable sanitarium gardening for health and savings. An exchange notes nervous women in sanitariums tending personal plots, spading ground, and spending daily garden hours, with extra workers raking and burning leaves as amateur farming entertainment.
Baby's Irish Lace Cap and Bonnets Description
Bonnets for tiny babies are crafted in baby Irish crochet and cut like Dutch caps. They mount on padded crepe de chine undercaps with blue or rose satin ribbons threaded through the lace. A cabbage-like rosette sits at each side where the cap strings tie.
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Gotham
Borneo
Little Princess Mary
Princess Mary
The
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co
East
Wishkah Street
Aberdeen, Wash
A. J. Fletcher
East Market St
Evans Drug Co
Tacoma
Via
Northern Pacific Railway
M. H. Williams
Gen.l
Aberdeen
A. D. Charlton
Portland
Ore
F. Fredrickson
NEW
Summit St
Aberdeen Bicycle and Gun Shop
Oswald Bell
Baseball Goods
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