The Atlantic City Boardwalk: A National Thoroughfare in Glass and Planks
The Atlantic City boardwalk is the United States’ premier seaside thoroughfare. Its 60 foot width supports costly maintenance, constant cleaning, and strict policing to keep it dry, orderly, and attractive.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia
New York
United States
Union
Texas
Coney Island
Chase
Maryland Avenue
Michigan Avenue
Ventnor
Margate City
Longport
Fish Travel Far in Scottish Board Migration Study
The Scottish Fishery Board blue book notes a female plaice recording 215 miles in three months and another 150 miles in two months. Marked fish were released to study migration from the Firth of Forth to near Spurn lightship. Findings show females predominate with size, and catches since 1905 hint at a decline in trawl fish numbers except codling, lemon soles, and small plaice.
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Scottish Fishery Board
Firth of Forth
Spurn
Moray Firth
Venus Heads Adored Adenoids Gaffe As Hygiene Lesson
A Boston school visit to the art museum exposed gaps in hygiene education. A student claimed Aphrodite had adenoids because the statue’s mouth was open, prompting a cautious teacher response about observation and health awareness.
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Venus
Boston
Art Museum
Peter
Vikings In History Norways Home of Fabled Norse Heroes
The article recounts Norse beginnings in Norway with Harold Fair Haired and Gyda, linking their tale to the rise of Viking culture. It explains why Norsemen valued freedom, how small domains sparked continual quarrels, and how Harold’s conquest of Norway led to his marriage and the start of the Viking era, with kingship and sea rovers.
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Norway
Asia
Harold
Gyda
Erik
Sweden
Feas
Harold Haarfelger
Harold the Fair-Haired
Bats Called Helpful Not Harmful Insect Control
Department of Agriculture experts warn against killing bats describing them as beneficial to crops by destroying mosquitoes and other pests. They debunk hair entanglement myths and acknowledge the vampire bat as a bloodsucker.
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Department of Agriculture
Her Husband's Belief in Women Voting Discussed
A Kansas City Kansas suffrage meeting hears a washerwoman say her husband does not stand on suffrage, preferring women stay home. She washes for six families. her husband is not working unless he found something this morning.
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Kansas City
Kan
The Rhino Ceros Rests in British East Africa Plains
A long reflective profile of the rhinoceros ceros living solitary on the grassy uplands of British East Africa. It moves little, relies on its nose, and ignores the daily life of zebras, hartebeeste, kongoni, gazelle, jackals, and hyenas as hunters approach. The narrative contrasts its ancient imperviousness with evolving pressures and a muted, stubborn survival.
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British East Africa
Kilimanjaro
Kenya
Sam Listening Yet in the Picture at Church
A country boy, visiting churches with his father, sees a vivid picture of Samuel talking with the Lord and listening to a telephone. The next Sunday, in a distant church, he exclaims with wonder that Samuel is listening again, recognizing the same scene.
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Samuel
Sam
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