New Process Helps Ice Cream Makers Stretch Sugar Use
The University of Illinois agricultural experiment station proposed heating cane or beet sugar with acid to invert it into a syrup. This inverted syrup acted like honey, was sweeter, did not crystallize, and could replace sugar in ice cream. With 1.4 percent less sugar, a similar sweetness was achieved, saving about 300,000 pounds per million used.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Illinois
More Money in Silver Coin Than Its Face Value
A Hartford Times excerpt explains that silver coins often contain more metal value than their face amount. It notes trade dollars stamped 420 grains may sell for under half a dollar, while an ounce of silver runs above $1.80, giving coins about $1.20 in metal value.
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Canada
United States
Hartford Times
Garden of Gethsemane Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poem reflects on the garden of Gethsemane as a universal passage all must endure. It contrasts cheerful youth with looming inner trials and ends with a prayer for acceptance of fate, invoking the line Not mine but Thine.
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Garden
Gethsemane
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The World’s Population Estimate in 140 Years
A conservative estimate suggests world population closely mirrors the number of people who have died in the last 140 years. The figures rely on rough guesses and are treated as provisional.
Wilson and Hughes Vote Totals in 1912 Election
The last election showed President Wilson with 9,129,606 popular votes and 277 electoral votes, while Charles E. Hughes had 8,538,221 popular votes and 254 electoral votes. Wilson won both popular and electoral counts.
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Wilson
Charles E. Hughes
Hughes
Vintage cookbook notes and recipes for flutes and desserts
A collection of home cooking guidance from Mary C. Upham including moral verses and practical recipes. Instructions cover shaping rich bread dough into sticks called flutes, baked banana with Sultan sauce, apple puree with custard filling, chicken in cream sauce, and a simple home made breakfast mush.
Number of Vere Mayweed American Legion posts tops six thousand
The national headquarters in Indianapolis announced the Vere Mayweed American Legion now has 6 561 posts worldwide. France England Canada each have one post Alaska four Hawaii five Cuba one Panama one Mexico one and the Philippine islands one. New York leads with 777 posts followed by Pennsylvania 497 Illinois 869. Iowa 345 Ohio 298 Massachusetts 288 New Jersey 224 Missouri 220 and Indiana 203.
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American Legion
United States
Indianapolis
France
England
Canada
Alaska
Hawaii
Cuba
Panama
Mexico
Philippine Islands
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Towa
Ohio
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Missouri
Indiana
Early Playing Cards and Suit Evolution
In early playing cards swords replaced spades and coins stood in for diamonds, forming the historical suit structure. The shift shows how card symbolism varied across regions and periods, influencing game play and design traditions.
Negro Supreme in Liberia Faces Harsh Living Conditions
The article notes that while the black population holds land and voting rights in Liberia, residents endure extreme climate and disease along with pests and nuisances. Emory Ross describes mosquitoes, roaches, rats, ants, jiggers, fleas, and heat causing severe discomfort, with the forest environment pressing on health and mood. It warns against staying more than 18 months on Africa’s west coast.
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Liberia
Republic
Emory Ross
Geographical Review
Dhobie
Africa
Water Power and Precipitation in the United States
An article explains how precipitation splits into evaporation runoff and absorption, with about 50 percent evaporating 33 1 3 percent running off and 16 2 3 percent taken up by plants. Runoff supports domestic irrigation and industry, while only some is available for water power. It notes US precipitation ranges from 150 inches in mountains to 9 inches in low areas, with Idaho valleys at 20 inches and eastern mountains at 40 to 60 inches.
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United States
Idaho
Oldest Conductor in World Runs Southern Indiana Train
In Orleans Indiana eighty nine year old John Bills serves as the Monon railroad conductor. He runs the Orleans to French Lick 18 mile round trip three times daily and has worked in Monon service about forty years. Bills often aids as brakeman and even rides atop a box car to seal it during the journey. He is celebrated as the oldest active railroad conductor in the world.
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Doctor Osler
Orleans
Ind
Monon
John Bills
Bills
French Lick
West
Indiana
Worth Remembering Friendship in Adversity
A reflective piece on solidarity and moral virtue. It argues friendship sustains amid poverty and hardship, that justice exists in conscience, and that good deeds rebound with sting to the wrongdoer. It suggests health as a measure of material wealth, noting few can claim genuine poverty in health.
Four Eclipses In 1920 Forecast By Government Bureau
The government Weather Bureau reports four eclipses in 1920. Two will be solar and two lunar, with a total lunar eclipse May 2, a partial solar eclipse May 17, a total lunar eclipse October 27, and a partial solar eclipse November 10.
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Government Weather Bureau
The Silhouette of Self When Viewed from Angles
A Philadelphia Public Ledger reflection on how a person’s appearance and character shift with the angle of view and lighting. It notes how a man’s chin, greed, envy, and other traits seem altered in profile compared to a full face, and that judgment depends on approach and illumination.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Ben Jonson among peers in the age of dramatic genius
Coleridge praises Ben Jonson noting his intense art and perfect plots like The Alchemist. He argues Jonson would be a great dramatist with Beaumont and Fletcher, yet would not surpass Shakespeare, calling Jonson the greatest man after Shakespeare in that era.
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Ben Jonson
Alchemist
Beaumont and Fletcher
Shakespeare
Coleridge
War material share led by Sheffield firms
The city of Sheffield supplied 70 percent of Britain’s war materials via private firms, per a pamphlet from the city council. In Vienna cinemas some numbers on seats are lit to guide empty rows. Danish tavern owners may bear medical bills for drunk patrons. France tops Swiss wooden-sole imports, with Paris footwear using wooden soles and leather patches to muffle noise.
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Sheffield
Great Britain
Vienna
France
Switzerland
Paris
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Fort Kuestrin
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U. S. S. Florida
Admiral and His
Hugh Rodman
Mick
New Mexico
Mme. V. Fraya
Madame Fraya
Kentucky
Edwin P. Morrow
House
Senate
Blue Grass
Denmark
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