Danish West Indies as Naval Base for Panama Canal Defense
Washington weighs the United States’ purchase of the Danish West Indies for 25 million dollars. If acquired, St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix would gain a strategic naval base with deep harbors, shipyards, and coaling stations to guard Atlantic trade routes to the Panama Canal.
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America
West Indies
Panama Canal Zone
Denmark
United States
Washington
New York Times
St. Thomas
St. Joan
St. Croix
Danish West Indies
Panama Canal
Seward
Roosevelt
Rigsdag
United States Senate
Jess
Manish West Indies
Caribbean
Cuba
Porto Rico
San Juan
Charlotte Amalie
Coral Bay
St. John
Helgoland
Germany
Copenhagen
M. Hageman
Europe
Large South African power firm dominates regional supply
The Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company of Johannesburg stands as the region’s largest power and lighting firm. It operates four major stations supplying nearly all gold mines and reef towns with three phase long distance transmission at 40,000 volts overhead, 20,000 volts underground, and 10,000 volts overhead.
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Victoria Falls
Transvaal Power Company (Ltd
Johannesburg
South Africa
First sewing machine patent dates and public works sums
The earliest authenticated sewing machine patent was in England in 1755, 81 years before the first U.S. machine. The U S reclamation service recorded about $100 million in net investments at the start of the current fiscal year. W C Condit marks 50 years as pastor of Ashland Kentucky Presbyterian Church, succeeding his father and never serving elsewhere.
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England
United States Reclamation Service
W. C. Condit
Ashland
Picturesque Blue Island Market Day Draws Multicultural Trade
Train passengers and locals flock to Blue Island on market day as hucksters sell and trade animals from geese to rabbits. Dealers bargain in improvised exchanges while the parade of wagons, goats and pigs winds through town and onto the trains.
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Illinois Central
Blue Island
Tony
Middle West
America
Cy de Vry
Unselfish New Yorkers Donate Blood for Poliomyelitis Cure
In Willard Parker hospital, cripples who walk with past polio scars give blood to aid current patients. Volunteers include youths and adults who speak of purpose found, despite lifelong setbacks. Blood collection is careful with only mild temporary weakness.
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York
Abraham Zingher
Willard Parker Hospital
Zingher
Pittsburgh Renamed Its Smoky City After Smoke Abatement
Pittsburgh declares it is no longer The Smoky City as smoke production falls by 75 percent over three years despite higher business activity. Mellon Institute researchers quantified a $10 million annual loss from smoke nuisance, prompting a civic movement and new smoke regulation ordinances enacted March 4, 1913.
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Ittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
University of Pittsburgh
Bureau of
Tussock Moths Threaten Chicago Shade Trees
Chicago is besieged by millions of tussock moths in the caterpillar stage eating city tree leaves. City Forester Jacob H. Frost notes widespread infestation, especially among West Side willows, and recommends hiring boys to brush egg masses into a pail then burn them, backed by arsenic of lead spraying. The moths cause rashes when they contact skin.
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Chicago
Jacob H. Frost
Lydia E Pinkham's Compound Aids Women Through Change
A Durand Wisconsin woman testimonial cites relief from hot flashes and nerves after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Another Blackstone Massachusetts resident says daily pains and suffocation sensations eased with the remedy. The ad urges middle aged women to heed warning symptoms and try the product.
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Durand, Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Many Ripeway
Massachusetts
Blackstone
Mass
Witnesses Spark Confusion Over Mrs Gay’s Status
In a bustling scene the comment turns on Mrs Gay and her husband as chaos clears after the final horn. A bystander insists she is a widow, while another clarifies she is the widow of the late Mr Gay’s wife, prompting quick exchanges about social status and marriage.
Designer avoids circuses to protect imagination
Dialog shows a designer who never visits circuses or shows, explaining he avoids attending to keep his imaginative edge intact. The exchange highlights his irony that designing billboard images keeps him from experiencing them firsthand.
Melancholy youth studies flirt’s facial cues
A quiet student admits two months of study to decipher the expression of an outrageous flirt. He remains unsure what her signals mean as summer begins.
Home Sweet Home Sketch War Gasp Of Gas Works Smell
A London sketch portrays a soldier on leave greeting a comrade with irony as the gas works scent is oddly praised, highlighting wartime homecoming contrasts and urban atmosphere.
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Tommy
Jimmy
London
The Reason Why Scene Inside a House
A belligerent father stops a suitor from entering by claiming the hat rack is occupied. The suitor, timid, acknowledges the barrier and jokes about the chair or hat stand being the obstacle to entry.
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Trate Parent
True joy is a sincere and sober motion
The fragment presents a reflective idea on joy expressed as a genuine and restrained movement, suggesting a mood of measured happiness rather than outward excess. It reads as a philosophical or inspirational snippet with no explicit events, people, or places.
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Louis XIV
Knights of Malta
French West India Company
Santo Domingo
Bieques
Frederick Treves
Windward Islands
Teach
Blackbeard
Sir Frederick
Maynard
H. M. S. Pearl
Bath Town
North Carolina
France
Turkey
Smoky City
Cater Laboratory
Berkaley
Cal
Chicago, Nl
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