Completion of Chicago Union Station A Major Engineering Feat
The new Chicago Union Station stands as a landmark in engineering and city planning. It showcases a vast main building with a 100 foot high waiting room, a 125 seat conference room, and extensive terminal facilities covering 85 acres. The station serves 50,000 passengers daily and handles 300 trains with major rail lines including the Pennsylvania Railroad and Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul.
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TRE
Chicago Union Station
United States
Chicago
Rome
Geargn
Union Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
Chicago, Burington & Quincy R. A
Chicago & Alton BR
Bananas Reserve Flavor Tip From Tropics
The piece notes that ripe bananas are often picked green in tropical countries like Costa Rica and Jamaica to survive shipment. Efforts to cultivate commercially in California or Louisiana fail due to frost, and large East Indies varieties are impractical to ship.
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Costa Rica
Jamaica
America
California
Louisiana
East Indies
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Franklin and His Kite Reexamined by New Letter
A London book from W74 cites a Franklin letter on his kite experiment now in the Franklin Institute library. The text describes making a kite with a pointed wire on a vertical stick and explains how lightning from thunderclouds would travel along the wire, electrify the kite and twine, and cause the fibers to stand out and be drawn toward a finger.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
London
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Franklip
Thrimekundan Defeats Solomon in Ancient Tale
The manuscript recounts King Thrimekundan of Bhela beating Solomon, ruling 60 minor kings and 3,14 ministers, with 500 wives of wealth and 600 beautiful wives. The inventory appears in the Hibetun Mysteries translated from Jacques Lace and performed in Piberin monasteries during the sixth moon with accurate costumes and wigs.
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Solomon
Thrimekundan
Bhela
Hoki
Jacques Lace
Piberin
Pliva
Pamily
Vaccination and Tetanus Deaths Reported by Health Bureau
The United States Public Health Bureau released Dr. Charles Armstrong's report on eleven tetanus cases following smallpox vaccination, nine deaths. Cases spanned seven states and years 1921 1924 1925, all linked to bunion pads used by physicians to cover vaccination wounds.
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United States Public Health Bureau
Charles Armstrong
Bureau
F. Mason Padelford
Medical Liberty League
Forest
England
Jockjaw
Armstrong
Bunion Pada
Ancient clocks show ingenuity from Strasbourg to Glasgow
The article surveys historical timepieces from the Strasbourg Cathedral clock with figures including Death to a tortoise plate clock with water and brass serpents. It notes early public clock dials, sun and moon motions, and tide indicators. It mentions George the Third's barometer clock and Glasgow's adoption of dial illumination then modern electric clocks claiming long accuracy.
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Dore Eurlois
Strasburg
George the Third
Glasgow
Metal Mountain in Italy Prompts International Interest
A Tuscan mountain named Mount Aminta allegedly contains a unique alloy of metals including aluminum manganese and mercury with hints of gold in river sands nearby The prospect has drawn exploitation offers from France Germany and Louisiana and echoes ancient tales of a hermit who predicted gold on the summit.
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Italy
Aminta
France
Germany
Louisia
Palestine progress through irrigation and settlement drives hope
The text argues Palestine faces underdevelopment not overpopulation, noting newcomers irrigate, fertilize, and till land, creating prosperity. They bring money, establish schools, build towns, roads, and communications, though numbering around 100000, and promise shared prosperity if Arabs embrace change.
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Ntestine
Palestine
Chrontele
Argentine Textiles Grow with Wool and Cotton Mills
William R. Barbour notes in Adventure Magazine that Argentina’s textile industry is taking shape with small mills mainly in Buenos Aires producing cotton and wool cloth and hosiery. The country still imports finer cotton fabrics from Europe and the U.S. but is expanding cotton production toward self sufficiency in coming years.
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Argentine
Buenos Aires
Europe
United States
William R. Barbour
Adventure Magazine
Valentines Return To Store Windows In Lyons Display
A Lyons Kansas Republican note recalls old fashioned valentines in German made, featuring cupids and bluebirds. They recall tender memories from grandparents' days and charm shoppers with sentimental verses and ornate borders.
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Germany
Lyons
Kan
Deaf secretary aids merchant in unusual dictation method
A Western city merchant keeps a young deaf and mute woman as private secretary. She types letters by facing him as he dictates in the usual manner, delivering results as satisfactory as any other staff member.
Origin of the word gazette traced to Venetian paper
A fragment explains how the Venetian newspaper read aloud in Venice during wartime costs a gazetta a small coin. The term gazette may derive from gazetta or gazza magpie. a parallel to jitney and nickel is noted, with discussion of alternate theories.
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Venice
Vienne
Gazetta
Gazette
Pathfinder
Lasting Aqueduct of Emperor Valens in Constantinople
An ancient aqueduct built by Emperor Valens in 378 AD endures in Constantinople. Its main bridge spans 2,000 feet in length and rises 75 feet high with arches about thirty feet across.
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Emperer Valens
Constantinople
Wealthy New York doctor sued by two women over attention
Two women sue a New York doctor who paid them attention as part of sexual harassment allegations. The case notes a sharp remark about health and apples attributed to the doctor.
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New York
Arkansas
Thomas Cat
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