Love and Adventure in an Unknown Land
An American youth with imagination pursues a voyage to Tan Kuan an empire of the Yellow Sun and to a mysterious land beyond the Great Wall. The tale features a sophisticated hero a unhappy heroine and an Arab maiden amid traders and thieves in a quest-filled romance.
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Helen of
Tan Kuan
Empire of the Yellow Sun
Great Wall
China
Tower of Babel
Tan Juan
Koresh
The Waif and the Poet's Lost Love Across Time
A doomed romance follows Mary and poet John Levington from early courtship in Dowagiac to poverty and separation. Their child Con grows amid hardship, relocation, and travel from Michigan to San Francisco and the Philippines, where a shipboard tragedy ends in silent consequence.
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Mr. Martin
John
Mary
Mary Levington
Dowagiac
John Levington
Lexington’s
Con Chee Ming and the small leather sack
Con Chee Ming and the small leather sack is discussed alongside notes on shell shapes and aerodynamics. The text explains that modern long range shells are cigar shaped with tapering at front and rear, and that boat-tailing reduces vacuum drag. It also compares this to torpedo-shaped racing car sterns and explains how tail shaping eases air entry into the bore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everybody's Magazine
Sure-Footed Goral in Farther China Expedition
Roy Andrews led an American Museum of Natural History expedition into farther China observing the goral, a mountain goat. He noted a goral running at full speed down a cliff that seemed almost perpendicular.
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Roy Andrews
China
American Museum of Natural History
London Cats Rescue Sparks Public Outcry in London
Report from Brooklyn Eagle notes annual rescue of thirty thousand starving cats in London streets. Authorities inspect welfare concerns while activists decry cruelty and demand humane treatment and reform.
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London
Brooklyn Eagle
Will Not Be One Day Without PE-RU-NA
Mrs. Mary Fricke of Belleville Illinois credits PE-RU-NA with dramatic health recovery after years of stomach cramps headaches and weakness She says she relied on twelve bottles and has remained well for fifteen years now weighing nearly two hundred pounds This testimonial urges others to try PE-RU-NA for improved appetite digestion and overall vitality Sold everywhere in tablet or liquid form.
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Mary Fricke
Bornman &T
Belleville
Ill
Mrs. Fricke
Peru
Don’t Let Catarrh Drag on You into Consumption
The article discusses the danger of catarrh progressing to consumption and criticizes local sprays and inhalers. It promotes S.S.S. as a blood remedy that reaches the disease source and removes germs, claiming real results. Readers are urged to obtain a bottle from a drugstore and seek free medical advice from the Medical Director in Atlanta, Georgia.
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S.S. S
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Algiers Rich in Sundays and Sabbath Traditions
A correspondent notes Algiers observes at least three Sundays weekly yet remains busy with commerce and prayer. Arabs and Moors often leave shops unattended for mosque visits, while robbery is rare. The French Sunday is notably French and Jews keep the day as a strict rest, their Sabbath scenes evoking Old Testament imagery in colorful street garb.
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Algiers
Ear ornaments in Burmese culture surprise visitors
Burmese men and women bore large holes in their earlobes to wear articles such as wood pieces, jewels, or rolls of gold or silver. When unused, men pass small items like cigars through the holes, while women use them as bouquet holders.
Father Arguments Spark Family Quarrel
A ten year old girl teases her parents about their bickering noting her father often argues with her mother. The girl quips that her father is her mother's goat, prompting laughter and a moment of shared humor in the domestic scene.
Ingenious Motion Pictures Show U S Bureau of Standards Building
Government representatives display motion pictures of the United States Bureau of Standards industrial building rising from ground in ten minutes. The film, made over ten months, exposes a short length of film daily to document construction.
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Popular Mechanics
United States Bureau of Standards
A Student of Steam Rollers
In a humorous exchange Mrs. Torkins asks why a steam roller is at a convention. The reply calls the term a figure of speech and notes steam rollers are noisy yet easy to sidestep in practice.
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Charley
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By Jeremy Lane
He Century Company
Chapter
Michigan
Jobo
April
Levington
Cemetery Hill
Dowaglac
Little Con
Con
Chicago
Dearborn Street
Memphis
Shasta
Gulf of Air
San Francisco
Cory Street
Orient
Philippines
Bill
Elopura
Chiney
Chee Ming
Mrs
Mary Pricke
Postum Cereal Co., Inc
Battle Creek, Michigan
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