Lemon Grass Oil Industry in Southern India
The article notes lemon grass oil is mainly distilled from Cymbopogon flexuosus in the Malabar coast and grown in Travancore. It highlights high citral content around 70 to 80 percent, uses in perfumes and polishes, and describes cultivation, distillation, and commercial development in South India.
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Trivandrum
Wravancore
India
Bengal
Malabar
Travancore
Anjengo
Ior
United States
South India
Theater Party Rules and Rituals in Old Shows
A Life magazine style sketch defines a theater party as two types of attendees: seasoned repeat viewers and those who dread the performance. The piece notes noisy interruptions, chorus participation, seat tapping, and chorus-drowning echoes as fashionable behavior at musical shows.
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de Rigueur
Oil Declares Petroleum A Global King In wartime Era
The piece argues petroleum and its products will dominate future life and industry as warfare heightens reliance on oil. It notes growing attention to refining transport distribution and use of petroleum across military and domestic sectors.
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Petroleum Review
Unexplored Canadian Lands Highlight Vast Ontario Tracts
The report notes three Ontario tracts of 6000 to 8000 square miles unnamed in history. It estimates the east Reindeer lake and Kasin rivers region at 73000 square miles, larger than the New England states combined. Total unexplored land reaches about 901 square miles not on maps, excluding smaller areas.
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Canada
Ontario
Reindeer Lake
Kasin
New York
New Jersey
Inecticut
Massachusetts
Hiteness
Rubber production doubles in eight years report
The colonial bulletin cites Henry Jumelie noting world rubber output roughly doubled in eight years. In 1915 production reached about 140,000 tons, rising to 1.7?1, and 115,000 in 191? The report credits reduced German and Austrian imports in 1915 and highlights Malaya as showing the greatest relative rise.
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Henry Jumelie
Bulletin of the Colonial Institute of Arseille
Germany
Malavete
Indiana urges reforms for mental defectives care
The Indianapolis News reports calls for early diagnosis and prevention, voluntary admission laws, and psychiatric wards. It favors expanding industrial farm colonies for epileptics and the mentally defective to improve lives and aid society, with a proposed legislative commission to study the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Indianapolis News
Pain relief for angina via simple exercises
Dr. Samuel Constable promotes mechanical exercises to relieve angina without drugs. A practitioner’s trial showed immediate pain cessation in arms and chest with bed bar stretches lasting about 40 seconds, repeated multiple times. The method reportedly provided quick relief during episodes and was repeated for weeks with consistent results.
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Samuel Constable
London
New York Medical Journal
Constable
Well West mingor and English tourist exchange
A far West mingor jokes with an English tourist about telephony troubles. They quip that when workers were tired of the bankrupt PEo, they became crusty and disliked how the receiver handled business. The tourist asks who they are, and the answer is they just hung up the receiver.
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Far West
Mingor
Sartinio
Oil From Seeds In Germany Shifts To Poppy And Stone Oils
In the past year Germany produced 662,250 pounds of oil from sunflower seeds and expects a rich poppy seed crop this year. Attention is drawn to the oil content in cherry and plum stones, which are typically discarded. 1900 statistics show 22 million cherry trees and 70 million plum trees in Germany, with fruit stones collected by children but many wasted due to extraction difficulties.
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Germany
German Invention Sorts Coffee Beans by Color
A curious invention uses a light beam to inspect coffee beans by color. Beans pass into selenium cells and are directed by electric control into different receptacles based on color. The device demonstrates selective resistance to current for each bean type.
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Othlel
Supply Commission for All Government Suppresses Agitators
The article reports measures by the Supply Commission to curb agitators against conscription. It notes improved military sit uation in Russia and Italy's steady push toward Trieste. It also outlines plans for organizing farm labor in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Trieste
U. S
United States Plans Large War Effort Through 1918
The United States estimates three to five more years of war and prepares on a vast scale to supply allies. Wilson aims to mobilize a million men to France next year and another a year later if needed, while drafting a national army and coordinating massive munition transfers valued at around ten billion dollars annually. Russia's crisis and political shifts, Italy's push toward Trieste, and pressure from conscientious objectors and draft protesters are also covered.
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United States
America
France
Ireland
Italy
Trieste
Trentino
Wilson
Bernard Baruch
Great Britain
Sucho
Ptabhin
National Army
Texas
West Virginia
Secret Services
Chicago
New York
Sevelt
Phaase
Tepre
Mexico
Canada
Cuba
Aviators Strike Deep Into Enemy Lines In Night Raids
Reports describe Royal Air Force units dropping large explosives on enemy military targets behind the front. German plans for a major offensive in France are anticipated as Allied forces press for decisive action. Submarine losses lessen while ships including a hospital ship and an armored cruiser succumb. Brazil moves to revoke neutrality and align with other republics to defend the Americas. Agricultural plans expand labor organization nationwide with local to state coordination. Domestic politics focus on revamping war revenue and reforming health censorship debates. Tornadoes devastate central Illinois towns Mattoon and Charleston with hundreds killed and widespread damage, followed by deadly southern storms along the Mississippi Valley.
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West Front
France
Admiralty
Spain
Norway
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Brazil
Department of Agriculture
Ane Nonmner
Taeker
Hefvy
Braisted
Mattoons
Charleston
Wis
Mississippi Valley
An Oversight in Browning’s Magazine Dialogue
Brief excerpt from Browning’s Magazine presents a child asking how deep the ever is and a mother replying the measure is too cheap. The exchange plays on irony about measuring nature before filling it with water.
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Browning
Strict Plant Law in Switzerland Targets Rare Plants
A Baltimore Sun style quip about Mrs. Blossom and a rain check underscores a strict Swiss plant law. The rule bans possession of specimens with penalties for illegitimate ivy imports, highlighting stringent protections for rare flora.
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Switzerland
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Supply Commission For All
Edward W. Pickard
Kerensky
Finance
Shingaroff
Boris Bakhmetieff
Tokyo
Sberia
Root
Belgium
Maxim Corky
D. Rizew
Berlin
Rizew
Socialist Party of France
Stockholm
Austria
Julius Andrussy
Hungary
Tisza
Cadorna
Mestre
San Giovanni
Adriatic
Gerum
Dillon
Ed Dailey
Gibson
Mike Tuttle
Big Timber Undertaking Co
Patterson Furniture Co
C. Graff
Big Timber, Montana
J. S. Solberg
Kuppenheimer Clothing
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