Gladys Garland Chooses Freedom and Finds Love in Wilderness
In a bustling New York family, Gladys Garlands chooses independence over debt and social pressure. She travels to Lake Molechunkamunk to help her uncle and meets Darrell Mandeville a Wall Street broker who is later wounded there. Gladys helps him and heidän engagement follows amid family surprise.
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Juliet Garland
Dora
She
Juanita
Rosie
Juliet
Mrs. Temple
Frank
Stefani
Paul
Maine
Rangeley Lakes
Gladys
Lake Molechunkamunik
New York
Darrell Mandeville
Miss Dorrance
Wall Street
Miss Garland
Mr. Mandeville
Unely
Glen
Mandeville
Andover
Ulysses and
Temple
Lale Molechunkamunk
Crozier Disappearing Carriage Gun Tested at Sandy Hook
Captain Crozier tests a 10 inch Crozier disappearing carriage gun at Sandy Hook. The device uses dual hydraulic cylinders and a 37 000 pound counterweight to recoil and reset, firing two thirds of its recoil into the cylinders. Ten rounds were fired in about fourteen minutes.
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Crozier
Sandy Hook
New York Herald
Mablet Fishing A Chesapeake Night Sport
Mullet fishing by night in the Chesapeake is an exciting sport. A small boat with a stern light approaches a school near shore then rows toward them until they are driven ashore. The fish jump into the boat as the shoreward side tilts, allowing easy catches.
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Chesapeake
The Clam Moves Forward Despite Stereotypes
The article argues that clams are not stationary creatures as many assume. It notes that a clam buried in sand can sink deeper and slowly travel up to thirty feet in a week using its single muscular foot for motion.
Signature on Major Kirkwood Society of the Cincinnati certificate
A Baltimore family preserves Major Robert Kirkwood's Society of the Cincinnati certificate bearing Washington's signature. The parchment, framed and worn from folding, marks the Revolutionary War hero from Delaware who gave his name to a Delaware village.
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Society of Cincinnati
Baltimore
Robert Kirkwood
Society of the Cincinnati
Washington
Delaware
Lighthouse lens orders and prices described
The report outlines sizes and costs for lighthouse lenses. A first order lens is six feet in diameter and costs 4250 to 3400 dollars. A second order lens is four feet seven inches and costs 2760 to 5550 dollars. A third order lens is three feet three inches and costs from 1475 to 3650 dollars.
Iron-Tipped Piles From Roman Bridge Found in Mayence
In Mayence Germany a museum shows iron tipped piles used by Romans about 2009 years ago for a bridge near the site. The items reveal ancient construction techniques and demonstrate long enduring engineering practices.
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Mayence
Germany
Pneumatic horse collar gains favor with riders and horses
A pneumatic horse collar proves popular among horsemen as it adjusts to every neck motion, offering comfort for the horse and ease for the rider.
Irrigation Pumping: Types and Costs by Van Wie
Syracuse inventor Irwin Van Wie explains three pump types plunger rotary and centrifugal for irrigation. He details costs coal consumption per horsepower hour water yields per minute per well points and a Kansas table showing acres irrigable by No 1 to No 8 pumps with lifts up to twenty feet. He estimates 4 000 000 acres lie within thirty feet of water and urges bottom lands for irrigation profitability.
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Irwin van Wie
Syracuse
N.Y
Kansas
Kansas City
van Wie
Hutchinson Kas
New York
New England
State of
Curious Fatalities from Everyday Dangers
A column notes bizarre deaths from accidents at work and play. Cases include a girl struck by a snowball to the eye, a child pierced by a wooden skewer after a desk fall, a cyclist fatally stabbed by a bicycle handle spike, a youth crushed by a horse roller, a Sunderland worker killed by a fly wheel, and a Preston brewer drowning in ale while bunging a vat.
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Death
Ann
Manchester
Sunderland
Preston
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