Woman Delegate Mrs. Annie Pitzer Seeks Suffrage Message
Mrs Annie Hamilton Pitzer of Colorado Springs sister in law of Speaker Champ Clark serves as national delegate from Colorado's Second District at Baltimore convention. She aims to show delegates that women voters are not masculine and will advocate universal suffrage in future politics.
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Baltimore
Champ Clark
United States
Annie Hamilton Pitzer
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Pitzer
Anne Hamilton Bennett
Missouri
Columbia
Boone County
Mrs. Pitzer
Women Writers as Humorists Say Women Do Have Wit
Jeannette L. Gilder argues women possess a keen sense of humor and rely on it to endure life’s burdens. She notes a widespread belief that women lack humor is unfounded and points to contemporary women writers producing some of the era’s most humorous books.
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Jeannette L. Gilder
Wireless messages from ship cause family confusion
On the President Lincoln two girls sent a wireless message home saying We still eat GRACE AND JULIA. The line split West and ill misread as ill ness, then corrected to We still eat. The family learned seasickness did not affect dating openness.
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Lincoln
New York
Grace
Julia
Efficient Dishwashing Tips From a 19th Century Household Guide
A detailed guide on dishwashing urges abundant towels and varied wiping cloths, hot water, soap, ammonia, and borax. It prescribes separate pans for washing and rinsing, careful handling of glassware and silver, and drying cloths to prevent germs and ensure sanitary, pleasant cleanup.
How to Get Rid of Dandelions This Summer
Two methods for removing dandelions are offered by Sub urban Life. Hand-pulling requires cutting below the crown with a sharp knife to limit root spread. The other method uses copperas a iron sulphate mixed with salt and water, sprayed onto the lawn and reapplied after two weeks for a richer green after treatment.
How to Make a Dustless Duster
The article explains a dustless duster method using moistened paper to trap dust on carpets or rugs. It discusses why sand or fiber aids oil in traditional dusters and promotes paper moistened with water as a cheaper, cleaner alternative that can be burned after use.
How to Embroider Scalloped Toweling Edges
Embroider scalloped towel edges by outlining with a small machine stitch. Use button holing to secure the edge for a firm finish. For padding, insert tiny rolls of raw cotton held by fine thread, creating thick padding and a satisfactory result.
How to Make Steel Like Electroplate
A quick home method describes splitting an india rubber ball into two parts. Dip one half in paraffin then in powdered bath brick, rub the steel with it, and finish with the other rubber half dusted with bath brick to achieve a brilliant polish resembling electroplate.
How to Improve the Lamplight with Sugar Impurity Absorption
Before filling a paraffin lamp bowl with oil add a few lumps of sugar to absorb impurities. This reduces smoking and clarifies the flame. Renew the sugar occasionally for continued brightness and a cleaner burn.
Pay of Ship Captains Across the Atlantic
The New York Post reports that express steamship captains are underpaid relative to their duties. Titanic commander Captain Smith earned about 5000 dollars a year plus a 1000 dollar bonus, with many routes yielding 2000 to 3000 dollars fixed salaries.
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New York
Europe
Smith
Titanic
White Star Line
New York Post
Will G. Steel and the Crater Lake National Park
Will G. Steel began with a sensational report he found as a 12 year old in Kansas. He journeyed to Oregon to verify Crater Lake then campaigned for its protection becoming a pioneer in the Northwest conservation movement. He organized the Maazamas on Mount Hood in 1894 and helped establish Crater Lake National Park in 1902.
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Kansas
Oregon
Will G. Steel
Crater Lake
Washington
Steel
Northwest
Mr. Steel
Mount Hood
Mountain Club
Ohio
Portland
America
The Carnegie Pensions Sixth Annual Report Summary
The Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching reports endowment of 12.123 million dollars with 590 thousand dollars income in the past year. Retiring allowances and pensions total 526 thousand dollars, supporting 3873 professors and widows at an average 1631 dollars annually. Administrative costs were 36 thousand dollars and 16 thousand dollars funded educational bulletins. Thirty-one new retiring allowances and seventeen widows pensions were granted.
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Carnegie
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Laird
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
Seafaring heads: long skulls of Vikings in captains
The Indianapolis News notes Captain Amundsen and Dr. Nansen share long narrow Vikinglike skulls. It observes seafaring peoples from the Baltic to the Mediterranean tend to long heads, contrasting with inland Europeans. It adds that Japanese, though round headed, navigate well.
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Amundsen
Nansen
Baltic
Mediterranean
Europe
Indianapolis News
Porous Lead Aims to Boost Battery Storage Capacity
Danish educator Professor HY Manover at the Polytechnical in Copenhagen claims a porous lead electrode with microscopic cavities increases surface area and reduces weight, potentially boosting storage battery capacity up to five times without adding size or weight.
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HY. Manover
Danish Polytechnical High School of
Copenhagen
Surprise to England Reveals Clear Skies During Strike
During the coal strike suspended industries yielded an unexpected boon as English observers noted unusually clear skies. Amateur astronomers near major cities used telescopes to great effect and reported stars shining with unprecedented brilliance in several districts.
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England
Panama channel explained for Isthmus waterway
Colonel William C. Gorgas describes the Panama channel as a system of lakes locks and sea approaches. Ships travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific via Gatun Lake and a series of dams cuts and locks lifting and lowering vessels through 85 and 55 foot stages. The Gatun dam creates a lake over 150 square miles capable of sheltering a fleet of ocean going ships.
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Panama
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama Canal
Panama Channel
William C. Gorgas
The
American Medical Association
Zane
Oline
Gatun Lake
Gatun
Chagres River
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Uncle Sam's Laundry Machines Clean Dirty Currency
The government bureau of engraving and printing tests new money washing machines that clean and iron notes in two to three minutes. They expect annual savings around one million dollars as 60 percent of paper currency can be reused after washing. Foreign governments monitor the tests as Germany’s Reichsbank sent 47 000 marks for laundering with perfect results.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury
Ralph
Reichsbank
National Bank of Germany
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Wildlife raids burden North Pyongendo province
An official report records frequent animal incursions in North Pyongendo last year. Tigers appeared 147 times killing an ox. leopards raided 115 times, taking three cattle and seventy six pigs and injuring twenty pigs and five cattle. wolves raided 714 times killing two people two cattle and 288 pigs and injuring five cattle and thirty nine pigs. Bears appeared seventy times killing six people and injuring three. Wild boars raided nine times.
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North
Pyongendo
Japan
Moving Picture Investments Battle Across the Industry
The article contrasts theatrical managers and film manufacturers as a money and brains clash. Theaters seek solutions while moving picture firms have solved initial issues and push for better offerings. The number of theatrical producers is the smallest in 25 years as movie magnates grow.
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Moving Picture
Iris Miser Finds Rarest Iris in Kyoto Shrine Garden
Frank Seaman of Wister County New York recalls his quest in Japan for irises. He meets Osugi San, a Kyoto priest who guards the finest iris, refuses to sell a single bulb for $1000, and declined a lifetime city pension for planting 100 bulbs. He spent forty years perfecting the craft, saying iris cultivation is still young.
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Japan
Frank Seaman
Wister County
N. Y
Osugi San
Kioto
Cooking Beef Hearts Across Several Preparations
An old cooking guide outlines methods for beef heart dishes. Dieters learn baked beef heart with gravy, sliced heart with forcemeat, stewed heart, and spiced beef heart with a vinegar glaze, plus parboiling and seasoning tips.
Snap Six Acreage Lots With Lumber For Building
Six acre lots available near Elma Washington with 20 000 feet of lumber suitable for a house. Nearly all cleared with gravel soil suitable for construction. Easy terms through RB Steiner Elma Washington. 6 percent 3t.
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Steiner
Elma
Wash
Publishers Notice For Subscribers City Carriers
Subscribers served by city carriers who do not receive the Herald on Monday or Thursday by 6 p.m. should call City Messenger Co. at phone 5931 for immediate delivery.
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Herald
City Messenger Co
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