Advertising Lessons From a Century Past
A 1900 American Press Association piece counsels merchants on persistent, varied, honest advertising. It urges steady growth, emphasizes continuous campaigns, evolving ad content, and clear local information to build trust, attract customers, and expand business.
Abdul the Damned’s Graveyard tale of Bosporus recovery
An English wrecking company sought to recover a sunken object near the former palace of Abdul the Damned in the Bosporus. Two divers surfaced frightened and refused to resume, reporting a bottom crowded with bodies and a terrifying sight, suggesting it was a graveyard of Abdul’s enemies and possibly discarded harem members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abdul the Damned
Bosporus
Turkey
T Hat
Meeting to Study Infant Mortality Campaign in New Haven
The American Academy of Medicine will hold a November conference in New Haven to study the prevention of infant mortality. Leading physicians and sociologists will join to examine medical philanthropic institutional and educational aspects. Government data show high infant deaths in major cities and the event aims to improve health environments for babies. Utah discovers tabbyite related to rubber production in Wasatch County with elaterite admixtures and new usable products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Academy of Medicine
New Haven
United States
James H. Mason Knox, Jr
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore
Richard A. Urquhart
Edward T. Devine
Charities and the Commons
Schiff
Columbia University
New York
Homer Folks
New York State Charities Aid Association
C. E. A. Winslow
Laboratory of Sanitary Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York City
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington
Helen C. Putnam
Providence
R. 1
Academy
George Blumer
Yale Medical School
F. H. Gerrish
Portland
D. C. Hawley
Burlington
J. Madison Taylor
James H. McBride
Pasadena
Cal
Charlies McIntire
Easton
Janne Addams
Gull House
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Charles V. Chapin
Irving Fisher
Yale University
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Laura Drake Gill
Association of Collegiate Alumnae
Charles R. Henderson
University of Chicago
Utah
Wasatch County
Utiah
Tabby
Unita
Auto exploits lift driver in flying car on Long Island road
A daring driver clung by one hand to the steering wheel as his car smashed and lifted into the air at ninety miles an hour on the Long Island Motor Parkway. The crash left the vehicle airborne briefly before it plunged to the ground, underscoring the peril of high speed travel on the express road.
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Long Island Motor Parkway
Vanderbilt’s Narrow Escape in a 100 Horsepower Renault
A 1900 article recounts Willie K Vanderbilt Jr driving a Renault at up to ninety mph on Long Island parkway. A faulty universal joint brake caused the steering to fail, but Vanderbilt saved himself by grabbing the emergency brake and stopping the car before it toppled onto an embankment. He then calmly arranged repairs with mechanicians in New York.
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Long Island Motor Parkway
Willie K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Vanderbilt
America
Mr. Vanderbilt
Lakeville
T.S. Linscott
Paul
Corinth
Aquila
Christian Church
Silas
Timothy
Jesus
God
Christ
Gallio
Thessalonians
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Edward H. Harriman
James J. Hill Sveakisg
Henry Herbert Huff
American Press Association
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Laston
de. Linscott Fee
Bible Study Club
Renault
Westbury
Grandstand
Central Park
Renate
New York American
T. S. Linscote
D.D. Paul
A. D. Knowles, D. V. S
Livingston
Patterson
Big Timber
Montana
P. J. Sheeran
M. D
Mont
Main and Lewis Sts. Livingston, Mont
Hamner & Burke
Attorneys At Law
A. P. O'Leary
Elliot & Coit’s
Bigtimber
D. Claiborne
Richard
M. W. Barr
Bigtimber, Montana
A. K. Wearne
Grand Hotel
D. H. Masrh Contractor & Builder
6Th Ave
Bramble St
A. G. Hatch
Elliot and Coit
Etore Bie Timper, Mont
B. J. Klein Hesselink
Alexander Fyfe
Frank Larson
Big Timber and
Billings
John G. Ellingson
E. C. Clark
Bie Timer, Mont