Braille OCR Fragment Sparks Confusion in Archives
Fragmentary OCR from a historical page shows garbled text likely from a notice or brief. The readable bits hint at a local item or event but details such as names, dates, or places remain unclear. Archivists aim to recover legible portions for accuracy.
How a Lead Storage Battery Works and Care
An overview of lead storage battery operation detailing plates immersion in a 20 percent sulfuric acid electrolyte, charging and discharging cycles, and the chemical shifts between lead oxide, lead sulfate, and sulfuric acid. It notes electrolyte density and cell voltage as charged-state indicators, efficiency limits, overcharging risks, plate wear, and the need for fuses to prevent short circuits.
Battery maintenance guidance for radio equipment
The article advises measuring the electrolyte density after cleaning to avoid false readings. It also warns that using a storage battery in a radio receiver immediately after charging can cause unstable voltage and audible noises in field phones due to varying tube amplification.
Growth of Radio Industry Expands in United States
A year ago many manufacturers faced stock concerns as radio sales lagged. Now about 600 incorporated firms produce apparatus while 2 to 3 million fans own receivers. Some 500 stations broadcast music and other programs to listeners in all states except one, driving rapid industry growth.
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United States
Select Receiving Set Carefully
Advice to inspect a radio set’s interior before purchase to prevent loose solder joints faulty connections and dirty wiring. Warns that acid paste and filings inside the receiver can damage insulation and magnets causing the phones to fail to work.
Schools Compete in Radio Construction
New Jersey public educational institutions organize a radio competition among schools and grades. Over 4000 complete sets have been built, many intricate, with boys learning more about electricity circuits batteries and the telephone through wireless than any textbook could teach.
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New Jersey
Short Wiring Keeps Electrics From Interference
The text explains that short wiring and right angle turns in wiring reduce interference. Long leads generate adverse inductive effects as magnetic fields from nearby wires interact, so terminating runs quickly with perpendicular turns minimizes current absorption and unwanted coupling.
Condensers Enable Tuning of Spider Coil Receivers
Authors note that receivers with fixed position spider web inductance coils are restricted to a single wavelength. Using one variable condenser in series with the primary and another across the secondary provides tuning range similar to a variocoupler.
Big Station for Holland Sets Record Power at Kootwyk
During the late war Holland was cut off from direct cable with colonies. A plan calls for a very powerful radio station at Kootwyk with apparatus to reach as far as Java.
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Holland
Kootwyk
Java
Wireless Invades Arctic Territory Station at Jan Mayen
Wireless has established a powerful radio station on the Norwegian island of Jan Mayen. It communicates with Norwegian English and Swedish meteorological stations and serves sealing and whaling vessels calling at Jan Mayen.
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Wireless
Arctic
Jan Mayen
Government Maintains Ten Broadcasting Stations
The federal government operates ten broadcasting stations to disseminate crop and market news. These stations serve as the primary channels for agricultural price data and market updates to farmers and traders nationwide.
NeGLigees and Party Frocks for Girls and Women
Fashion notes describe negligees for home wear from breakfast coats to boudoir wraps and tea gowns, with fabrics like corduroy silk crepe satin georgette and crepe de chine. It highlights styles for girls’ party frocks in blue georgette and pink taffeta, plus decorative ribbons, blooms, and festive headpieces.
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Georgette
The Whittakers Reluctantly Enter Craysville Society
Pat Whittaker and his wife Ma drift into Craysville society after a push to attend dances and social events. He charms locals with sociable energy while she, initially reticent, longs to stay home. Over weeks they parade in Sunday attire and seek balance between outings and quiet evenings by the fire.
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Pat Whittaker
Ma Whittaker
Craysville
Whittakers
Peterkins
Tim Willis
Pa Whittaker
Long Peter
Had Queer Idea of Beauty and Coiffure Towers
In 1683 Rev. Increase Mather railed against elaborate coiffures of New England ladies. A 1771 Boston Gazette item describes a runaway accident bursting a tower of false hair, cotton, wool, and stuffing, with onlookers jeering as the wearer escaped with her natural locks. Hairdressers planned mountain-like hairstyles days in advance.
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New England
Increase Mather
Zion
Boston Gazette
Archery Tradition Strong in Rural Lithuania
In remote Lithuania archery remains a popular sport for all ages. The bow is a household display and used for small and big game. Wolf hunts draw farmers from miles around with prizes of skins for coats and meat for dogs.
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Lithuania
Hats and Caps Rivalry in Sweden's eighteenth century
The long conflict between Sweden's Hats and Caps defined politics in much of the eighteenth century with Hats favoring the nobles and Caps backing the common people. The terms also appeared in religious contexts with Puritans and Quakers using distinctive hat styles as symbols.
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Sweden
Tests of an Education by Nicholas Murray Butler
A quotation on education stresses yearly progress in language, manners, taste, reflection, growth, and capability. ItCelebrates the idea that true schooling shows in habits of thought and feeling and the ability to act with competence.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Progress and the farmer’s complaint about modern change
A Western farmer, unsettled by rapid progress in machinery airplanes nitrogen wireless and the earth’s rotation laments being muzzled by new tech. The Exchange notes the clash between innovation and traditional life as civilization advances.
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