Plant Juice Gains Favor as Personal Testimony Spreads
Mrs. A. D. Rayson of 892 Ninth street North Portland Ore says after three weeks with Plant Juice her stomach and liver improved and she can climb stairs easily. She reports better appetite sleep and reduced rheumatic pain and urges others with nervousness despondency and fatigue to try the product sold at Eaton Swaney's Drug Store.
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A. D. Rayson
Ninth Street
North
Portland
Ore
Minneapolis
Minn
Eaton & Swaney’s
Lampblack Qualities in Painting Pigments
Lampblack is a durable pigment mainly of carbon with small mineral matter and moisture. It offers strong covering and color, wears like the truth, and despite a grayish sooty look remains a distinct color. No paint stock is complete without lampblack, valued for its impact in mixtures and its historical durability in grave markers.
Novel water tower with multi direction water jets
A new water tower design projects several streams of water in different directions. Its discharge pipe can enter a window or opening, ending in multiple nozzles pointed various ways. The pipe is adjustable for height tilt and angle.
Briquetting Coal Fuel Output Rises in Value Despite Plant Decline
The US Geological Survey reports 1913 coal briquettes totaling 181 859 short tons valued at 1 007 327 dollars, a 17 percent drop in tonnage but over 5 percent rise in value from 1912. Seventeen plants operated eight in the east five central and four on the Pacific coast using various coals and binders amid mild winters reducing demand.
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United States Geological Survey
Central States
Pacific Coast
United States
Canary Archipelago Population and Size Summary
The Canary archipelago, a Spanish possession about 3,000 miles east of St. Augustine, comprises thirteen islands with a total area of 2,700 square miles and a population near 400,000.
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Canary Archipelago
St. Augustine
Fla
Chance Builds Yankees Around Misfits In 1900s Surprise
Frank Chance, hailed as the Peerless Leader and then manager of the Yankees, creates a real team from a group of misfits in a single season. Only one preexisting member besides the batteries remains after Chance took charge.
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Frank Chance
Yankees
Chance
Rickey Sets Dress Rules For Browns Players
Branch Rickey outlines his leadership for the Browns emphasizing self management and daily routines. He requires 7 45 wake time eight hours sleep and attentiveness at breakfast while discouraging drinking and smoking. He notes most players are temperate and vows to keep drinkers away from the team.
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Rickey
Branch Rickey
Browns
Latin American presence marks Niagara Falls talks
At Niagara Falls the A B C mediators and U S and Mexican delegates were joined by South and Central American diplomats to report progress. The move signals broader regional ties beyond the U S Mexico dispute. Frederick W. Lehmann, former solicitor general under Taft, faces leadership roles with Justice Lamar and H Percival Dodge assisting. Lehmann, a Democrat, rose in Des Moines and Saint Louis law circles.
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United States
Mexico
Niagara Falls
Canada
Joseph R. Lamar
United States Supreme Court
Frederick W. Lehmann
St. Louis
H. Percival Dodge
Lehmann
Taft
Germany
Iowa
Tabor College
Nebraska
Des Moines
American Bar Association
Peruna touted to restore appetite and vitality
An ad claims appetite loss and listlessness improve with Peruna. It asserts tea spoonfuls before meals revive interest in food, boost digestion, and lift spirits, noting thousands testify to relief and offering Peruna tablets for those who object to liquids.
Birthday Gift Proposal Turns Downby a Fashionable Court Remark
A fashionable young man asks Mildred to accept himself as a gift for her birthday. She responds coldly that she only accepts useful presents, turning the proposal into a sharp social moment from a Philadelphia Inquirer snippet.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Inserting Wires In Gas Pipes
A Popular Mechanics note describes how a contractor ran a wire through a gas pipe with three ninety degree bends using a vacuum cleaner. A sized ball on a string was pulled through the pipe to lay a line for drawing the wire.
Convenient door contrivance aids moving heavy articles
A hinged wooden door acts as a portable ramp to move barrels, machinery, and other heavy items up and down stairs. When not in use, the door folds up against the cellar wall secured by a catch for storage. Also notes an extreme coal price and jewelers polishing coal into scarfpin mememtoes of a coal strike.
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London
Sharpening a Knife On Aluminium After Oilstone Work
A knife blade gains a razor edge by strapping on smooth aluminium without lubricant after whetting on an oilstone. The method emphasizes careful grip and steady motion to refine the edge.
Places and travel loom for tramp in street scene
A police officer questions a tramp who admits having no fixed home. The tramp boasts of the vast options before him in the United States, saying he is overwhelmed deciding where to start his journey.
New Crimper For Blasting Fuses
An engineering magazine notes a new detonator crimper that forms a uniform groove around the copper shell by pressing the top, contracting the shell without disrupting the powder train, unlike older methods that flatten the sides to reduce diameter.
Extending a Twist Drill for Deep Holes
When a twist drill is too short for a difficult hole, extend it by wrapping the shank with emery cloth or several layers of paper before inserting it into the tapered hole. This creates a longer effective reach and ensures a deeper cut with the drill.
Constructing Pennant Winners From Old Baseball Teams
The piece notes that pennant teams often form over five to six years. Mack built a 1905 champion in five years, McGraw’s 1911 team in six, Clarke of Pittsburgh spent six years 1903 to 1909, and only a few 1909 regulars remain. Clarke’s current squad is almost entirely new with Adams as the lone pitcher survivor.
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Mack
McGraw
Clarke
Pittsburgh
Hans Wagner
George Gibson
Wilson
Leach
Byrne
Abstein
Miller
Hyatt
Adams
Federal league abandons livelier ball after big scores
Federal league promoters adopted a ball twice as lively as major league baseball but found it unappealing. Many fields are compact and the lively ball produced excessive home runs, so the league switched to a ball similar to that used in organized baseball. Big scores followed the change, reducing any sense of authentic major league quality.
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Federal League
McCoy Praises French Fighters After Europe Visit
Kid McCoy, famed middleweight, says average French fighters are superior to average foes and will soon contend with the world's best. He credits their progress to training from the ground up and versatility in both hands. In other brief items, a lawyer prompts a judge to remark on upside down points of law during a heated case.
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McCoy
Kid McCoy
Europe
Huerta Envoys Proclaim Mexican Representation Abroad
Diplomatic observers note Brazilian ambassador Domicio da Gama called Huerta envoys delegates of the United States of Mexico signaling broad recognition. The trio Emilio Rabasa Luis Elguero and Augustin Rodriguez assert they act with full power to defend national honor and Latin Mexican identity.
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Huerta
Senor Domicio da Gama
Mexico
United States
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Senor Augustin Rodriguez
Huerta En
Interventor
Central Banks of
National Railways of
Rafael Elguero
Senor Rabasa
Washington
Senor Rodriguez
School of
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C. T. Scurry
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Aberdeen
Tennyson
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Grays Harbor Railway and Light Company
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