Slumbertown Awakens With Fireworks Ride Parade
Silas Brown of Slumbertown snoozes in Sleepy Griggsby’s store until a plan sparks a lively Fourth of July revival. Griggsby rigs fireworks to wake the town, provoking a chaotic show that draws seven hundred residents to buy stock and cheer the surprise turnout. The tale ends with Silas Brown’s quip on advertising lifting all boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Brown
Slumbertown
Griggsby’s
Silas
Tabby
Fido
Griggsby
Si Brown
Floren
T. Sapp, JR
Junior Civics League Organizes in Evanston Illinois
The Foster street school in Evanston forms a junior civics league of students under fourteen to beautify the Fifth ward. Members clean wrecks alleys yards and assist Street Commissioner Houses with ward improvements. The group plans flower and vine plantings and aims to spread to other schools. Miss Ellen E. Foster leads the effort and envisions long term civic benefit. Ornamental street lighting is also discussed comparing American and foreign practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster Street School
Evanston
League
Ellen E. Foster
Foster Street
Oher
Manu
Individual Improvements Show Civic Benefit
A persuasive argument urges residents to improve their own premises to uplift nearby areas and raise property values. The author claims well kept homes set a wholesome example, elevate living standards, and inspire broader community enhancement, with effects lasting even if later neglect occurs. Conduct the experiment and observe outcomes.
New Diving Apparatus Enables Safer Deep Sea Work
A novel diving system uses a tall vertical standpipe and a sealed operating chamber attached to a surface barge. Divers descend the shaft, breathe outside air through the tube, and operate from within helmeted chambers while electric lights illuminate the seabed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tie
Byal
Night Signaling Device Patented by Lieutenant Ramsey
First Lieutenant Fred A. Ramsey of the marine corps at Puget Sound barracks applies for a patent on a night signaling device for ships or land parties. The two light system uses red and white lamps and a typewriter like keyboard to flash letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Ramsey
Marine Corps
Puget Sound Barracks
Ramsey
Norwegian Inventor Patents Water Safe Clothing
A Norwegian inventor patents clothing lined with a non absorbent vegetable fiber that supports a man in water. Twelve ounces of the material can keep a person afloat, with tests at Christiania showing favorable results. Rugs of the same material reportedly support two people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christiania
Simple Etching Fluid And Process From Popular Mechanics
A brief DIY method to etch copper using powdered copperas and water. Warm the part and apply beeswax with a design, cover with table salt, moisten with solution, let dry, then remove beeswax with kerosene for a simple etching outcome.
Lydia E Pinkham Ad Promotes Open Lab Verification
An old Lynn Massachusetts sign on Lydia E Pinkham's Medicine Company invites public inspection of its lab and business methods. The ad asks readers to verify claims about the Vegetable Compound and questions its ingredients efficacy and confidentiality, asserting millions of letters and cures while urging doubters to learn confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia KE. Pinkham
America
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
City Fire Alarm Boxes List with Locations
A compiled list of real and imaginary fire alarm box locations in Aberdeen detailing box numbers and cross streets. Entries include Box No 4 Young and Thomas North Aberdeen Box No 5 B and Cleveland Highland Home Box No 7 Terrace avenue D street High School Box No 8 Burrows Dock Box No 9 Hume and K streets Northern Pacific Depot and others through Box No 47 Hume and Washing ton streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young and Thomas
North Aberdeen
Cleveland Streets
Highland Home
Terrace Avenue
D Street
High School
Wilson Bros’ Mill
S. E. Slade Mill
Market
The Work Cure For Consumption Teaches Gradual Exercise
Dr M S Paterson promotes graduated labor and pure air as a treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis. A Brompton hospital trial shows improved health and resilience with a six stage program from rest to six hours daily pickax work, monitored by temperature and gradual activity increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. S. Paterson
Brompton Hospital Sanitarium
Dr King’s New Life Pills Endorsement from Ingleside Resident
Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina praises Dr King’s New Life Pills after 15 years of indigestion and $200 spent with little relief. The testimonial claims the pills are the best ever sold and notes availability at Evans Drug Co and Postoffice Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
N. C
Evans Drug Co
Postoffice Pharmacy
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Crigeshby
Grimeshby
Grigsesby
Chen
Grigesby
Junior Civics League
Society of
Illinois
Aberdeen
le F Fleur Ee
Ladie
Fasulite
Acca Tumbae
Stik
Shetland Pony Ballet
Mares Picards
Kalists Supreme
American Mill
Fourth
Franklin School
Jefferson
M Streets
Hume
Anderson & Middleton Mill
Heron
Broadway
Third and
Hart-Wood Lumber Co.’s Mill
Western Cooperage
Kbox
Hume and
Washington Streets
Schilling
R. R
Patty Edna Maretta
Grand Street Parade
the Herald Printery
Herald
Herald Printery
the Colonial Hotel
Svow
Asoscsoce Telephone
The
Centlemen
Ralston
South F St
Lee Williams
Prop
Humboldt
Fred Hewett
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
Harn
Ermania
the Pioceer Hotel and Cafe
Heron St
Aberceen
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