Block Island Cited as Atlantic Helgoland by Navy Leader
Rear Admiral Grant urges the house naval committee that Block Island be used as an impregnable Atlantic outpost with submarines based at New London. He compares Block Island to Helgoland, noting its strategic coastal defense value and potential as a stepping-stone for Atlantic operations.
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Grant
House Naval Committee
Block Island
Helgoland
Atlantic
Seven Seas
Germany
Newport Harbor
Wilhelmshaven
Portsmouth
New London
Ocean
Dardanelles
Baltic
Straits of Dover
English Channel
France
North Sea
Rhode Island
Fifth Avenue the J joyous
A Harper's essay extols Fifth Avenue as the liveliest reflection of New York life daytime. It praises sunlit streets, crisp air, clean parks, and the city’s vibrant commerce while noting its fame for pleasure and its mixed moral reputation.
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Broadway
Fifth Avenue
New York
Harper’s
Butter Tree of Tropics and Its Uses
Mr. Yerby the United States consul at Sierra Leone describes the shea or butter tree. It yields edible butter from nuts and already exports to Europe for use in artificial butter. The tree bears at fifteen, peaks at twenty five, encourages butter plantations, with potential for chocolate makers candles and soap industries.
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Tropics
Yerby
United States
Sierra Leone
Europe
Edison tale sparks with a girl’s honest answer
In a story narrated by Thomas A. Edison the scene centers on a schoolteacher asking about the most wonderful human achievement. A young girl replies that a man who provides for his wife and family is the greatest creation, prompting quiet and reflection.
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Thomas A. Edison
Sunset Over Hoopyville A Minor Dart at A Prairie Town
An Easterner in Ohio admires a sunset from a hotel veranda. A passive local replies dryly, praising it as “Not bad” and calls the town “a little plice ke Hoopyville,” implying a humorous clash of perspective.
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Ohio
George
Tancer
Peru Junin Chamber of Commerce formed in Cerro de Pasco
A new Junin department chamber of commerce is organized with headquarters in Cerro de Pasco. The ministry of finance approved its statutes to promote mining commerce stock raising agriculture and related industries and to publish reports and statistics for the government. It will issue quotations on minerals foreign exchange and prices, form a library, run schools, and act as an arbitration board for disputes.
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Junin
Peru
Rehember of Commerce
Cerro de Pasco
Ministry of Finance
Chamber of Commerce
Lima
el Peruano
Department of
Government of
Department of Junin
Deer Rescue At Regis and Grasse Ponds
Hunts Dickson and guide Lowell Brown found seven deer in Grasse pond water with one stuck in mud near the shore. They and a state forest fire service member built a sapling brush bridge to free the exhausted deer, which recovered and disappeared back into the woods.
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Adirondacks
Hunt Dickson
Lowell Brown
Regis Pond
Grasse Pond
Mr. Brown
St. Regis Pond
State Forest Fire Service
Soldier's Parting Scene Before Mexican Border Action
A militiasman is kissed goodbye by his wife and two children as troops prepare to depart. An onlooker mocks the wife’s decision to send her husband to war, prompting her fiery retort that she compelled him to go, and she stands by his front.
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Wowan
Two sisters kill butterfly in playful capture
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat recounts a fable like scene where two young girls ages four and seven capture a butterfly. The older girl breaks a feeler and a cabhouse is built to admire it. In a twist the butterfly is killed when the house tips.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
May
Maay
Trout Donor Requests Cause Of Death Of Fine Brown Trout
An official trout expert in Washington receives a brown trout and approves its taste but then gets a letter asking why the fish died. The donor asks for examination and analysis to determine the cause of death, seeking a possible answer.
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Bureau of Fisheries At
Washington
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