Forgetting America’s naval history and its brilliant past
Paul Thieman Gommenta argues in the New York American that American naval design reflects deliberate choices shaped by a storied past. He cites Civil War shore battles, Koream coast actions, and the Spanish War, urging recognition of reasoned features like low freeboard and armor depth despite modern criticisms.
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United States Navy
Paul Thieman
New York
United States
The
Nile
Trafalgar
Africa
United States Asiatic Squadron
Japan
United States Marine Corps
Bilboquet Takes On Diabolo In Paris Feud
Paris reports bilboquet, a complex cup and ball form, threatening diabolo’s throne as crowds in America struggle to master the top on cords. The trick challenges spinners to throw high and catch with steady hands.
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Bilboquet
Paris
Ead
America
Saya
New York
United States
Hickory Trees That Bear Pecans Grow Southern Nuts in Iowa
Des Moines correspondent details Dennis Dry of Cedar Rapids and his Iowa Park and Forestry association grafting pecan shoots onto shellbark hickory trees to produce a southern style pecan crop in Iowa. He reports success with chestnuts and English walnuts via grafting on northern nut producing trees.
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Dry
Dennis
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Park and Forestry Association
State Capitol
Iowa
Suyyb
Des Moines
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hard Times in Far North Spur Poor Fur Season
A special dispatch from Edmonton reports wolves growing bolder along the Athabasca River with scarce small game, ravaging livestock and bear carcasses marking desperate times. Across the Lesger Slave country settlers face losses as trappers hope for a better winter while trading posts, tied to credit, threaten Indian and trapper livelihoods amid a harsh northern season.
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Athabasca
Edmonton
Alberta
New York Times
Lesger
Sefson
Hundred Story Skyscraper Possibility Cited by LA Architect
A Los Angeles architect predicts a hundred story building will come, aided by reinforced concrete. He cites fire protection and elevator limits as main obstacles, notes progress from the Singer and Metropolitan Life buildings, and remarks LA uses reinforced concrete for major structures.
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Los Angeles
A. F. Yost
Shoreham
Washington Post
Singer
New York
Metropolitan Life
Prac
Henly
Honors For Bowdoin Medical School Ranked Among Best
The Bowdoin Medical School received high praise at the American Medical Association meeting, ranking among the nation’s top five due to low failure rates on licensure exams. Johns Hopkins Harvard Yale and Tufts joined the list, highlighting Bowdoin’s longstanding esteem in the Brunswick institution.
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Bowdoin
Bowdoin Medical School
American Medicieal Association
Kennebec Journal
Johns Hopkins
Harvard
Yale
Tufts
Old Brunswick
Fing Crop of Fence Posts in Sand Hills
The Sindhis, deemed farthiess, near Salt Fork river, have been shown by J. W. El of Pond Creek to grow black locusts well. Bid sought land, cleared acres, planted about $60,000 worth of seed last spring, now 80 000 to 100 000 healthy trees average 3 feet tall. Next spring transplant to eighty acres. In five years trees ready for cutting posts. in ten years posts alone could be worth over 190 per acre.
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Salt Fork
J. W. el
Pond Creek
Tonte City
Okin
Bid
Paying Homage to King Neptune Crossing the line initiation aboard US fleet
Details of the equator crossing ritual describe Navy recruits facing King Neptune Rex and his court. Officers supply cigars or beer to pay their debt, while rookies endure a water tank, a wooden slide, pepper water, and a wetting by bulls before receiving a certificate making them full sons of Neptune.
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Neptune
Pacific
Equator
Atlantic
Neptune Rex
New York Evening Sun
Sne
Davy Jones
Locker
Royal Court
Queen Amphitrite
King Neptune
Ben
Sons of Neptune
Fnally
Ine
Neptne
Joya of the Twelfth Month in a New York Sun verse
A fragmentary notice notes Archibald Crombie in the New York Sun with lines about December joy and holiday imagery. It cites Christmas warmth by the hearth and holly ember glow as vignettes of the season.
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Archibald Crombie
New York
Peril in the Country at YMCA Dinner
At a New York YMCA dinner, Alger T Scudder and I W Pearsall warned the country is a dangerous place to raise boys. They argued rural youth drift toward farm labor, city offerings seem stronger, and the country church may falter without YMCA leadership. They urged the YMCA to invigorate country life to keep youths from leaving the farms.
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V. M. CG
New York
Young Men's Christian Association
University
New York American
Alger T. Scudder
New Paltz State Normal School
Nfe
Lfe
M. CG. A
I. W. Pearsall
M. GC. A
Soul houses from Egypt arrive at Boston museum of fine arts
The Boston Globe notes two ancient soul houses, likely over 6,000 years old, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian collection. These rough pottery huts, placed on graves, reveal pre dynastic Egyptian dwellings with courtyards and balconies, reflecting beliefs in immortality and ka.
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Saya
Boston Globe
Museum of Ping Arts
Colorado's New Industry
A. B. De Ricqules of Denver says Colorado now thrives on livestock and beet sugar. He notes about 1,000,000 sheep from Wyoming and other states will be cared for in Colorado this winter, with fodder from beets, hay, and corn supporting the industry. Lambs are fattened in pens and bled in spring for eastern markets and hotels.
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Colorado
A. B. de Ricqules
Denver
Washington Post
Wyoming
Monta
Idaho
Texas
T Tis
Grab Bag at Pottstown Fair Delivers Odd Wards
At a church fair in Pottstown Pennsylvania a mill worker paid a dime and reached into a large grab bag. He pulled a card bearing bizarre wards including turkey, pumpkins, scrapple and strings of stu...
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Pottstown
Philadelphia Bulletin
GOOD FOR ONE GRAVE. NOT TRANSFERABLE. JAMES DUST
A fragmentary notice notes a nonsensical pledge about a grave for James Dust and a gravedigger who subscribes to a grab bag scheme. The miller hangs a card frame and vows his own grave will be dug for nothing if he dies before Dust.
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James
Noth
New Bog Disease Impacts Fashionable Dogs in Cars
A newly observed canine illness links motor car jolts to heart strain in dogs owned by fashionable households. Vets warn the disorder affects heart function and could threaten pets during rides or travel.
Army Dirigible Balloon Specs For Bidders At Fort Myer
The signal office issued specifications for a military dirigible balloon to be tested at Fort Myer, Virginia next spring. Proposals to furnish the craft will open January 15. The gas bag will be silk covered with aluminum, up to 120 feet long, with internal balloons totaling at least one sixth of the volume. It must carry two persons weighing 350 pounds and at least 100 pounds ballast, reach 20 mph, and balance by movable weights or devices. A rudder and manometer are required, and a trial flight at Fort Myer will precede acceptance.
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Signal Office
Army
Indo
Fort Myer
Washington
New York Sun
Department
Plan for a Woman's State by Miss Gibbes
A New England court case over Miss Gibbes's will to Barnard College reveals a manuscript proposing a state governed by unmarried women with men’s political rights restricted. Her sister, Mrs. Margaret G. Post, contests the testament while portions of the writing titled Gleanings a Gift to the Women of the World are read in court.
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Mss Gibbes
Barnard College
Margaret G. Post
Newport
Mass
Chicago
United States
Church Bell Voice Behind Waterloo Gift
A Waterloo Iowa correspondent reports a fundraising tale for a church bell at the German Emanuel Lutheran Church. The donor, the mother of Rev Wolfram, saved for twelve years to raise 200 dollars, hoping the bell would honor a longheld belief.
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German Emanuel Lutheran Church
Waterloo
Wolfram
New York World
Caruso's Twenty Cent Wage and Early Fame
A fragmentary reflection on Caruso the operatic tenor from humble roots. It notes his rise, a London idea profile praising romance, and mentions a dramatic $200,000 fee claim for fifty concerts. The text references a 20 cent weekly early earning and a choir connection amid miscellaneous Victorian style lines.
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Caruso
Carusa
London
Cboir
Pine Bluff Arts Council Reverses Municipal Ownership Plan
The Pine Bluff Arts Council rejected the municipal ownership idea and renewed the contract for lighting services for five years, in a move reported by the New York Sun. The item notes a debate over public ownership versus private arrangements and confirms the five year lighting contract continuation.
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Pine Bluff
Arts
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