Four Hundred Million Dollars for the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal costs loom at four hundred million dollars as Frank G Carpenter explains. He compares the sum to wages and ages, notes the estimates by President Taft and Colonel Goethals, and details spending, savings from reuse of French materials, labor practices, machinery efficiency, and strict bidding to prevent fraud.
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Frank G. Carpenter
Culebra
Canal Zone
Panama
Panama Canal
Uncle Sam
Fatt
Goethals
Congress
Pan- Aia
Panam
Uenenne
Atlantic
Suez Capal
Suez
Chicago Drainage Canal
Sam
Gatun Lake-Basin
Tmen
Hey
New York
Geo
Nale
Bam
Gt Machiner
Gatun
Pittsburg
Isasur
Secrets of Beauty From Mme Lina Cavalier
A period beauty column extols strawberries lemon juice and oranges as skin care remedies. It cites European court beauty queens using strawberry baths to bleach skin and offers tips like lemon juice for freckles nails and tonics, plus orange juice for complexion and a note on a famous actress drinking orange juice for fresh skin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secrets of Beauty
Mme Lina Cavalier
Europe
Bathrom -Weill
Cresaigny
May Irwin
Beauty Questions Answered On Hair And Skin Care
A reader asks for scalp care to reduce dandruff without oiliness, suggesting frequent shampoos and tonics like olive oil or tincture of tar. Also offered are drying powders, a sparing fruit rich diet, and alternating hot and cold cloths to clear the skin, with iodide water and Turkish baths mentioned for cleansing and boils. Blackheads remedy includes green soap scrubbing and pressing with a sterilized needle to extract, followed by cold to heal.
Night and Daylight Echoes in a Fragmented Verse
A fragmented verse piece blends dawn longing and night sorrow with ghostly imagery of rebirth and a cross motif. The text shifts to garbled phrases about Greece and Chicago recreation, mixing poetic lines with stray notes on city playfields and public spaces.
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Inius
Greece
Chicago
Fragmented OCR item on smelting process and pintectabl
Readable fragments indicate a note about smelting and a pintectabl term. No clear names, places, dates, or outcomes are discernible.
Aged clues from community meeting spark prop auction talk
Fragmentary notes from a local board discussion show talk of a property auction and community function planning. Names and precise actions are unclear due to the damaged text.
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Gatun Lake
Mme
Lina Cavalieri
Ima
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