Liquid Oxygen Explosive May Cut Blasting Costs
The United States Bureau of Mines reports liquid oxygen as a cheap explosive for mining and quarry blasting. Experiments at Pittsburgh show benefits where dust and gases are absent, with savings from lower material costs and reduced handling dangers. Germany and Mexico already use it. portable plants in Germany enable on site production.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Pittsburgh
Upper Silesian
Germany
Lorraine
Briley
Reergs MG Ee Collom
Couresyng
Find Bones 10 000 Years Old in Ancient Tombs
An excavation party of four opened over 3 000 tombs with most yielding little. They found stacks of first class material in one or two tombs and an enormous pile of fossilized bones containing the earliest human remains in Egypt. Among the bones was part of a pigmy skull, dating roughly 10 000 to 20 000 years old.
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Pndon
Egypt
Egyptian Kings Clash Over the Holy Carpet
Cairo King Fuad and Hussein of Hedjaz dispute the Holy Carpet during Mecca pilgrimages. Egypt insists Egyptian doctors accompany the caravan, while Hussein opposes imports and seeks British mediation. The Cairo mosque holds the Carpet, and no doctors may go without it. diplomacy follows. Six silver foxes bring $6,000 at Vancouver.
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Cairo
Fuad
Eueypt
Hussein
Tedjaz
Momirch
Mecca
Hedjaz
Great Britain
Egypt
Boy of 13 Patient in Hospitals Ten Years
Bethlehem, Pa. A 13 year old boy, Stanley Spiratiou, has spent ten of his thirteen years in and out of hospitals. He injured his leg at age three at the Du Font powder works scene, blood poisoning followed a poor setting and amputation of part of the leg. He has undergone 13 operations already and awaits a 14th.
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Bethlehem
Stanley Spiratius
Sacred Heart Hospital
du Font
Hnstings-on-the-Hudson
F. W. Spanutlus
Lehigh University
Stanley
Masting
St. John's Hospital
New York City
Flowers and illness advice from the Royal Historien Society
The piece discusses sending flowers to a friend in hospital and advises varying the message and approach. It attributes the guidance to Charles M. Duke of the Royal Historien Society, noting that different ailments may require different vessels or approaches.
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London
Charles M. Duke
Royal Historien Society
Trial Marriage Cost 21 in Days of Old
An ancient Egyptian marriage contract found by Professor W. F. Vetrle of London outlines a trial marriage in 500 B C G. If a man chose single blessedness or marriage he paid 21 to test the option. The contract assigns a woman about 4 for her role as wife, with a divorce penalty of about 17 to end the union.
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W. F. Vetrle
London
England
Air Mail Boxes Open in Berlin Hotel Bristol
A bright red Luftpostkasten at the Hotel Bristol Unter den Linden in Berlin takes only air mail. It is emptied six to eight times daily, offering convenience by avoiding trips to the post office. The blue box nearby handles ordinary mail, and more air mail boxes are planned.
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Berlin
Bristol
Unter den Kinden
Luftpostkasten
Air
Germany
Rstol
Swordfish Aids Man In Grabbing Four Foot Shark
Toulon correspondents recount a battle at sea between a shark and a swordfish near a fisherman's boat. A large hooked line drew the shark up after a struggle, then the swordfish slashed the shark’s flanks, allowing the fisherman to haul the catch aboard without injury to his nets.
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Paris
Toulon
Foxes Sold To Local Merchants For Breeding
In the Heights district near the city limits three pairs of young foxes were sold to W. F. Kop, Braley & Kuxick and Joseph Carter, all local businessmen. Dr. Mercer breeds the foxes commercially and reports good success with the stock. A government aviator flying over the Quatridke valley had to descend after fuel ran out, placing his Airedale dog on the ground to warn motorists while he searched for gasoline. Norton Virginia reports modern surgery saving a fifteen month old girl's life by removing a safety pin from her throat through an operation.
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Heights
W. 4. Kopp
Braley & Kuxick
Joseph Carter
Dr. Mercer
Mahonoy City
Norton
I. ‘Puller
Wise
Injunction Quiets Noisy Hounds at Michigan Camp Meeting
Spiritualists near Vicksburg Michigan sought relief from ten howling hounds on the Almon Shears farm. The court granted only an injunction ordering kept dogs as quiet as possible to prevent further disturbance amid the camp meeting.
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Vicksburg
Mich
Almon Shqurs
Flowers and remedies guide amid wartime supply notes
A fragment notes advice on plant remedies for burns and nervous complaints, recommending blue flowers for inflammation and red flowers for nervous issues. It also mentions extensive use of mules in a wartime Word war effort, with a stray line about a square of blue silk as a tonic for head pains.
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Ion
Seasonal Good Things and Flavorful Dishes Featured
A collection of old time recipes and food tips includes cakes from raised batter, chili sauce, African apple pie, quick cheese and milk soup, hot beef sandwich, tomato toast with bacon, fish with potatoes, vanilla ice cream with pears, cucumber pickles, and apple cocktail. The piece blends steps, substitutions, and playful verses to enliven kitchen work.
Petroleum powers the world lights and transport
A note on petroleum's rise from a little known medicine to the planet’s main energy source and motor power across sea, land, air, and industry. The text mentions a Danish bill to give government control of radio telephony in Denmark.
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Rigsdag
Denmark
Family Skeletons Costly Profiteer Seeks Ancestry Help
A profiteer, already owning a country estate and town house, seeks to complete his wealth with an ancestry scheme. On a friend’s advice he hires an investigator to research, who later offers a sealed package for sale. When asked for the fee the investigator demands one thousand dollars.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Women urged to try Swamp Root for kidney troubles
An advertisement targets women with kidney and bladder complaints, linking back pain, headaches, and fatigue to kidney disease. It promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy and offers a sample for ten cents, urging readers to mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Not His to Spend
Fragmentary verse dialogue hints at a social misstep and birthday memory. The speaker objects to another's spending power while recalling a prior Sunday. The lines reference a person named Rian and a quip about being adored or a mere knocker.
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Rian
A Mother's Endorsement of Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
A Mahoningtown mother praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a safe effective remedy for young women entering puberty. She shares her daughter's improved health and weight after use and mentions a free text on women’s ailments. The piece also notes historic wig fashions beginning in the seventeenth century with Abbe La Riviere influencing Louis XII and court use.
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George E. Whitacre
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
E. Whitacre
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mahoningtown
Lydia BE
Lynn
Massachusetts
la Riviere
Louis XII
Milwaukeem Merchant Splits Found $3 With Red Cross Help
A Milwaukee merchant named Nick Beltosos encountered a $3 bill left by two women in his shop. He proposed three ways to settle it and chose to give the money to the Red Cross. The item references Bible history in Scotland from 1570 and notes early tall New York buildings and royal figures who taught.
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Milwaukeem
Nicholas Beltosos
Nic
The
Red Cross Courier
Red Cross
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