West Africa Coast Earns Notorious Title in British Outlook
Special correspondent from Nigeria recalls West Africa as an infamous “White Man's Grave” region, a place of fever, filth, and mortality that has haunted English memory. The piece links climate to gradual debilitation, noting how the coast undermines vitality and careers, even among officials, with illness signaling a creeping threat to life and work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
G. Ward Prince
Nigeria
Devil's Island
West Africa
England
Obstinacy in Babies Merely Human Nature
Dr D M Levy Chicago psychiatrist reports that obstinacy in young children is a normal development phase. Resistance rises from six months, peaks around eighteen months, and declines after age five with girls showing more resistance than boys.
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D. M. Levy
Chicago
China Has a Venice There Is a Floating Soo Chow
A description of Soo Chow in China as a true Venice with canals and boats. The city shows a bustling floating population where water transport carries passengers and freight. Peddlers and tradesmen use boats. crafts hammer gongs to attract attention as cobblers and weavers work along the shores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Venice
Soo Chow
Meni
Ancient Fundamentalism and the Folly of Contradiction
The speaker mocks blind belief in extreme absurdities, citing Lactantius to question those who defend falsehoods after error. He challenges the notion that foot steps can exceed heights and crops grow downward, noting the folly of clinging to inverted ideas.
Nicotine in Tobacco Content and Smoke Forms
Nicotine is a colorless poisonous liquid that darkens on air exposure and solidifies. Tobacco varies from two to eight per cent nicotine, Havana cigars usually two per cent or less. Nicotine is not present in tobacco smoke, splitting mainly into pyridine and collodine with pyridine more abundant in pipe smoke.
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Havana
Storm Tornado Survivor Recalls Sudden Onslaught
A storm burst upon a tor nado victim who describes no warning before the house collapsed and wind scattered belongings. He recalls escaping being shattered and, in a startled moment, remembering he had to post a letter for his wife as others reacted in shock.
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Tormado
Bis
Mr. Meeke
Samoans keep physically fit through open air life
In Samoa one group of Samoans are baseballers another loves cricket so much they miss work for long village matches. They wrestle some catch and their huts are described. no minerals, pigs abundant, crops export copra and rubber. Mr. Mills notes natives’ clean habits and strong religious devotion in Adventure Magazine.
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Christan
Samoa
Mr. Mills
Adventure Magazine
Daughter's High Ideas Spoil Daddy's Meal
A man and friend discuss how his daughter's new etiquette book purchase has left him flustered at meals. He jokes his manners are regressing and that he cannot discipline her due to constant reminders from the daughter and the book.
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Tam
Cubit Lengths Across Civilizations and Bible References
The cubit length derives from forearm measure. Egyptian cubit equals 20.04 inches, Roman cubit 17.4 inches. Bible mentions two cubits, one likely the cubit of man and the other the cubit after the first measure. Hebrew cubits remain uncertain with temple cubit estimates from 10 to 26 inches.
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Tomba
Egypt
Jollan
Ascalon
Early Piano Invention Traces To Pythagoras And Cristofori
The idea of the piano traces to ancient guesses by Pythagoras with a mono chord instrument of a single string over oblong bas bridges. Stringed santir like precursors evolved into piano fortissimo with Bartolommeo Cristofori in Padua, a harpsichord maker credited as the inventor.
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Pythagoras
Bartolommeo Cristofori
Padua
Air holes add $66 million in ice cream sales
A recent Department of Commerce conference on weights and measures reveals that U.S. ice cream makers produce a billion quarts annually, but one fifth of that volume is air space. Selling by bulk rather than weight costs about $66,000,000 due to air holes in the containers.
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Department of Commerce
United States
Popular Science Monthly
Box office man quits theater job for potato commission
A box office man who quit selling theater seats ends up at a commission house. He reflects that selling seats caused trouble and arguments, while boasting that he now sold 2000 bushels of potatoes and still has good stock. The anecdote frames a shift from entertainment sales to agricultural goods.
Precautionary Piano Care With Cheesecloth Bags
An old note advises against playing the piano during a lull and suggests hanging four cheesecloth bags filled with camp squares inside the instrument to deter moths. It warns moths may damage the felt but notes bags should not obstruct the piano’s mediating parts.
First American pianos traced to Rankin and successors
The article traces the origins of the piano in the United States from 1800, noting John Isaac Rankin of Philadelphia as the maker of the first upright in America, with early Baltimore makers following. It mentions German, French, and English predecessors and highlights key figures like Johannes Francis Kahl and Jonas Chickering in shaping American piano design.
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United States
John Isaac Rankin
Philadelphia
Joseph Tlsky
Baltimore
Johannes Francis Kahl
Germany
Washington
Jonas Chickering
John Broadwood
Preserve Relics of Emperor Charlemagne
A vault in the Aix la Chapelle cathedral in Prussia houses Charlemagne’s relics. The emperor, interred in 814, rested on a marble throne with crown and scepter. Frederick II moved the body in 1215 to a gold and silver casket. the throne and other relics remain notable, with most items now in Vienna.
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Aix-Schapelle
Rhenish
Prussia
Carlo Magno
Charlemagne
Frederick II
Vienna
Kansas City Star
Brick Buildings Endure Through Ages in History
Brick has been the imperishable building material across civilizations. Europe’s brick houses endure hundreds of years, and America shifts from wood to brick amid fire losses. Boston’s Old South Church and Faneuil Hall, Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House and many historic structures show brick resilience.
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Europe
America
Old South Church
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Independence Fall
Philadelphia
Betsy Rosa
Evolution of the Pocketbook Through England’s Purses
The article traces pocketbook history from leather purses with cord and perfumed quilts to netting styles worn by all ages, then to multi compartment book-like cases with gold silver and bronze sections for different coins, and finally to larger card cases as banknotes became common.
Why They Hesitated Inspector’s Lagoon Swim Tale
An inspector of schools in Natal visits a small farm school at a coastal river mouth. He invites the boys to swim in a lagoon, which they watch from the bank after the inspector undresses and enters. After a long swim he jokes that they were afraid to bathe with him, and a boy replies they saw a crocodile yesterday.
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Natal
South Africa
Dumbarton Castle A Historic Scottish Fortress
The ancient castle of Dumbarton sits on a rocky rise above the Clyde near Glasgow. Though no longer of military value it remains one of four fortresses to be kept under the Union Treaty. Notable memory includes Mary Queen of Scots’ childhood stay in 1548 and Sir William Wallace’s confinement in 1806. Dumbarton Rock's fame dates to its capture by Picts and Northumbrians in 156 A. D. Exchange.
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Dumbarton
Clyde
Glasgow
Scotland
William Wallace
Mary Queen of Scots
Dumbarton Rock
Insinuation at the Theater Departure
A wife apologizes for making Harry wait as she hurries to theater. She says it took little time to put on her coat. He bluntly asks if she wore only one coat, then notices her blush as he fixes his gaze on her face.
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Harry
Junior Red Cross Aids Peace By Big Growth
A new high level in peace time membership of the American Junior Red Cross is recorded for 1925 at 5,738,648 school children, up 143,000. The organization grew through school service, a regular swimming program with LifeSaving Service cooperation, and disaster relief work after the Missouri Illinois Indiana tornadoes. It has extended to Indian and native Alaskan schools with Eskimo children joining junior work and international school correspondence now spanning 34 countries.
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American Junior Red Cross
Red Cross
Junion
Missouri
Mlinois
Indiana
Sduition
Strong Membership Appeal In Red Cross Disaster Relief
Community leaders urge widespread support for Red Cross disaster relief efforts. The appeal emphasizes preparedness and organized local action to handle peace time calamities, urging citizens to join and bolster nationwide relief capabilities.
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Red Cross
How Doctors Treat Colds and the Flu
Doctors and druggists now recommend Calotabe, a purified calomel tablet, to break up a cold overnight or shorten grippe. One or two Calotans at bed-time with water, no salts or nausea, and by morning the cold vanishes. Family package with full directions available for 85 cents at any drug store.
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Physiciana and
Druggista
Tiger’s Grandson Sells Automobiles Seattle
Georges Gatineau, grandson of Georges Clemenceau, once personal secretary to the “Tiger of France,” now sells cars in Seattle after a globe trotting career. He served with the French army from 1915 near Verdun, later squandered an inheritance in European gambling resorts, and has since journeyed from Singapore to Paris, New Orleans, Boston, and finally Seattle, where he has begun the process to become an American citizen.
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Seattle
Georges Gatineau
Georges Clemenceau
France
Andre and
Therese Clemenceau Gatneau
Gatineau
Tiger
Verdun
Europe
Singapore
Paris
New Orleans
Boston
Central
South America
Fools Are Certain Uncle dialogue fragment
A fragmentary exchange shows a cautious exchange between a boy and his uncle. The dialogue hints at certainty and hesitation, capturing a simple family moment without broader context or events.
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Tommy
Mathematical Impossibility Charles Say Bill
A playful exchange defines a mathematical impossibility as a sum the teacher cannot do. The dialogue frames a classroom joke about limits of arithmetic and problem solving.
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Charles
Bill
Adlerika gas relief promises quick intestinal evacuation
An old advertisement touts Adlerika as a rapid gas relief and colon cleanse product. It claims ten minutes to evacuate waste and relieve constipation, urging readers to buy through Reynolds Pharmacy in Reynolds, Georgia.
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Reynolds Pharmacy
Reynolds
Trellis and Garden Structures Custom Made to Order
We craft climbing plant trellises and flowering arrangements for porches entrances and house exteriors. Services include porticos summer houses garden seats bird houses and sheds built to your specifications with emphasis on beauty and fragrance.
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Junior Red Cross
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Georgia-Alabama Business College
Macon, Ga
Macon
Ries & Armstrong
Third Street
Essex
Hudson-Essex
Hudson
Joe Wilder
Mauk, Ga
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