Cadets Parade Ends Week at Annapolis Graduation
Annapolis marked the end of a packed cadet week with dress parades, awards, and a speech by Secretary Josephus Daniels. The event culminated in Friday's graduation as the first class joined the commissioned officers. Social events highlighted June week with balls, dinners, and a gala parade.
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Adet
Annapolis
George Bancroft
Board of Visitors
Howard E. Saunders
National Society Sons of Revolution
Col
Robert M. Thompson
New York
Midshipmen
Josephus Jamels
Navy
Cit
Sam
Abbreviations harden German names into catchy initials
The Scientific American notes a trend where long German titles are shortened to pronounceable initials such as Ila for Internationale Luftschiffahrt-Ausstellung and Ala for Allgemeine Luftfahrtzeug Ausstellung. New forms like Damnu and Imuk arise, aiming to ease busy readers’ usage while exposing limits of phonetic appeal.
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Frankfort-on-the- Main
Internationale Luftschiffahrt-Ausstellung
Ila
Berlin
Deutsche Ausschuss
Imuk
Internationale Mathematische Unterrichts-Kommission
Datsch
Deutsche Ausschuss Fur Technische Schulen
Profit in asparagus ability to stand annual attacks on its resources
Asparagus beds endure two months of daily cutting. Rest in July and August with proper moisture and feeding restores roots, boosting yield in coming years. After cutting ends June or July, ridges are replowed, fertilizer applied, and composted humus built to sustain growth.
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M. Roberts Conover
Quinine Deafness Case Report Highlights Risks
The New York Medical Journal describes a 16 year old girl who took 30 grains of quinine in 15 minutes during a fever season in Indiana. She developed intense headache and tinnitus two hours later, and by morning lost all hearing, deemed irreversible by aurists.
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Indiana
New York
Vacation of a Godess
The Venus of Milo comments on being taken to a summer hotel room for space and comfort. The remark notes a playful framing of a sculpture’s journey and public curiosity about its travels and display.
Value of Green Bone in Poultry Feeding
Analysis shows green bones are rich in nutrients used by growing chicks. They provide lean meat and gristle forming the egg white and part of the yolk, while marrow and fat supply the yolk. Lime phosphates from bones furnish shell salts and interior phosphates for the egg.
Handy garden tool from old shovel shown by Popular Mechanics
A simple garden tool to pulverize soil can be made from an old long handled shovel. Heat the shovel, flatten it, drill holes about 2 1/2 inches apart, and rivet spikes in the holes. A board with large nails and a long handle can also work, but the shovel is better.
Makes the Lambs Grow Hay Feed for Lambs Boom
Clover and alfalfa hay and corn will grow lambs to beat the band as farmers plan feed to boost prolific ewes and healthy lamb crops this season.
Constantinople From the Sea of Marmora to the Golden Horn
A Pittsburg Dispatch correspondent describes approaching Constantinople from the Sea of Marmora on a August morning. The voyage passes the Princes’ Islands, Stamboul, the Seven Towers, Maiden’s Tower, and the Bosphorus. He notes similarities to Pittsburgh, historic towers at the strait, and the Dolma-Baghtche Palace as a modern marvel of marble and interior wealth.
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Constantinople
Sea of Marmara
Pittsburg Dispatch
Princess Islands
Mount Olympus
Chalcedon
Scutari
Scutari Nestled Under the Great Mount Bourgerloo
Bosphorus
Sea of Marmora
Seraglio Point
Golden Horn
Pittsburgh
Stamboul
Anatolia
Allegheny
Peru
Galata
Constantine Palaeologue
Mount Washington
Monongahela River
Ohio River
Seraglio
Black Sea
Therapia
United States
Buyakdere
Aegean
Europe
Anatolian
Anadoli Hissar
Roumeli Hissar
Pliny
Byzantion
Rome
Constantine
Roman Empire
Dolma-Bagthe
Abdul the Damned
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He Watson Doqueers
Naval Academy
Icitadel
Horace
Bosporus
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