Warship Models Show Scale Replicas in Navy Yard Ship House
The navy builds miniature 5 to 8 foot versions of new warships in Washington to preview final design. Each model uses quarter inch to foot scale with carved wooden guns and nickel silver fittings, inspected by naval officers for potential changes before completion. One craftsman leads the process with two assistants, the downcast whittlers.
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Uncle Sam
Navy Yard
Washington
New York Herald
Mirabeau and Danton Courageous Yet Theatrical Deaths
London Standard notes Mirabeau and Danton as monumental figures of the revolution. Their deaths are praised for courage but deemed overly theatrical by English taste, contrasted with Marie Antoinette’s silent stoicism on the scaffold.
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Mirabeau
Danton
Frochet
France
Marie Antoinette
London Standard
Pearls Die If Stored Away Says London Mail
The London Mail reports that pearls must be worn to keep their luster. Locked away, pearl necklaces dull and can turn almost black over years. Continuous wear preserves glow, with resuscitation methods possible if pearls age in obscurity.
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London Mail
Nighttime bird migration mysteries and star guiding theories
Naturalists debate how birds navigate at night as they migrate between seasons. Birds travel two to three miles high and may use stars to chart their course, with cloud cover causing disorientation and lower flight.
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Home
Earth
Actors in China Earn High Salaries and Live Luxuriously
A Chicago Chronicle report notes native Chinese actors earn up to 1800 dollars yearly, gaining comforts unseen in America. It describes a rigorous three year apprenticeship, a 50-play repertory, and a prestigious national actors club with 30,000 life members.
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China
Chicago Chronicle
The Steam Radiator Fact Sheet
A Pittsburgh Press excerpt explains using an electric fan to improve steam radiator heating. Placing a fan to blow air across the radiator increases heat transfer, creating a forced draft that speeds condensation and warms the room with modest electric cost.
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Pittsburg Press
The Man With the Grievance
A London World quote rails at abundant letters about petty faults and social changes. It laments that favored claimants with leisure warn of England’s decline amid complaints over corpulence, spelling, and red ties among the lower middle class.
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England
London
The Transvaal Climate Affects Aging in Women
An Englishwoman aged thirty five who has lived long in Transvaal country districts appears much older than her years. Reported healthfulness of the climate is linked to this perceptual aging, attributed to the rarefied air.
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Transvaal
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight Recital Sparks Homeward Hope
The bashful sister asks if the other young man would leave, and the response grants permission to try. A remark on tobacco seeds notes that minute seeds can sow an acre per thimble, highlighting curious contrasts.
The Soldier of '76 Comes to Life in Dorchester Heights
General John Thomas led provincial troops in South Boston with a small force of about 100 men. His regiment, seen as rabble by the British, fortified Dorchester Heights overnight, earning admiration for their gritty discipline and social equality among ranks.
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John Thomas
Boston
Washington
Little Army
Thomas
Roxbury
Bill
Dorchester Heights
Story of Hawkins A painter led astray by praise
The piece recounts English painter Hawkins at twenty as a celebrated talent who ends life in a fool's paradise. A MP Mr Ackers convinces him to travel to Paris to finish a painting, promising holiday and expenses. Hawkins agrees, Ackers buys the unfinished work for £50 and destroys the canvas to free Hawkins for a life of carefree folly.
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Hawkins
Ackers
Paris
A Troublesome Creditor Drove Poet Marot to Plea
The poet Clement Marot, short of funds, complained to the king that his creditors harassed him despite settling their claims. The king found humor in the tale and granted Marot an on the spot pension to ease his finances.
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Clement Marot
Dying on Stage A Grim Tally of Actor Endings
A list recalls actors who died during performances or shortly after on stage. Edmund Kean collapsed while delivering Othello lines in 1833 and died shortly after in his son's arms. Mrs Glover died soon after a final benefit in 1850. Harley, playing Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream in 1858, collapsed after speaking I have an exposition of sleep come upon me and died within hours.
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Edmund Kean
His Friendship at Church Sparks Cuspidor Proposal
At a western state country church annual meeting pastors note Sunday spitting nuisance near the store. The pastor jokes a solution with cuspidors, and a deacon moves to appoint Brother A and Brother B as cuspidors for the year.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Why are you yawning and the soap bubble thickness
A landlady asks why Johnny yawns and he says he yawns when hungry. He explains he goes to bed when sleepy. The text also notes the violet shade of a soap bubble film is about one million two hundred forty thousandth of an inch thick.
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Johnny
MO. A. Moore
Bryan
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