Uncle Sam’s Assay Office Elects Electrolytic Refining
An outline of the United States assay office in Wall Street New York detailing its role in buying impure gold and alloys and refining them electroplating to pure forms. The office accepts materials with at least 20 percent gold and silver and a minimum value of $100, reflecting shifts from sulphuric acid to electrolytic refining.
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Wall Street
New York City
United States
Assay Office
Assay
Europe
New York
Vinci tonic promises strength for old people in ad
A Boston lawyer touts Vinci cod liver and iron tonic as rebuilding waning health and stamina for his 76 year old mother. The ad guarantees refunds if it fails to boost strength and invites readers to try Saxo Salve with a similar guarantee from Dean House, Druggist in Cambridge.
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Vinci
Boston
P. S
Your Own Architect Heralds a Man's Honor in Life
A quotation on personal honor and actions. It frames life as a heralds office where a man derives his reputation from deeds. Honor is the reflection of one’s conduct, shining before others and rebounding on the individual.
Greatest Earth Diameter Pointed By Chimborazo Peak
The Earth’s shape is a flattened spheroid with equatorial bulge. Professor L Henkel cites Chimborazo in Ecuador as the source of the greatest diameter at 7 929.3 miles, with its antipode near Sumatra. pole distances may vary due to surface features and a possible shorter line near the poles.
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Mount
Everest
Himalayas
Pacific Ocean
L. Henkel
Schulpferda
Chimborazo
Ecuador
Sumatra
Equator
North Pole
South Pole
Arctic Ocean
Spitzbergen
Greenland
Antarctic
Big Bay
Mount Erebus
New York World
A Boy's Moment of Fame in Burns Time
Walter Scott, at age fifteen, astonishes Edinburgh learned men by identifying Langhorne as the poet behind a famous inscription. Burns praises him saying the lad will be heard of yet, then passes him in the street without recognition, leaving Scott’s fleeting fame long remembered.
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Walter Scott
Burns
Edinburgh
Langhorne
Robert Burns
Scott
Ariadne Gilbert
St. Nicholas
Mim
Aubure
Freck
Notable Historical Athletes Turned Presidents and Pioneers
A roundup from Ladies' Home Journal lists numerous leaders who starred in college sports. Notable names include Charles William Eliot of Harvard crew in 1853, Abbott Lawrence Lowell on Harvard track in 1877, Thomas B. Reed on Bowdoin boat crew in 1858, Robert E. Peary in 1875 baseball throwing, and Robert Bacon on Harvard football and track in 1879. Also cited are Yale figures Thomas Lee McClung in 1891 football, H. S. Graves quarterback, Gifford Pinchot on Yale 1888 squad, Princeton's Franklin B. Spalding on football 1886, Robert E. Speer on 1888 Yale team, Richard Harding Davis at Lehigh, and Frederick Remington on Yale rush line.
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Harvard
Charles William Eliot
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Thomas B. Reed
House of Representatives
Bowdoin College
Robert E. Peary
Robert Bacon
France
Thomas Lee McClung
United States
Yale
H. S. Graves
Gifford Pinchot
Bishop Franklin
Spalding
Utah
Princeton
Robert E. Speer
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Richard Harding Davis
Lehigh
Frederick Remington
Ladies’ Home Journal
Metchnikoff’s Fifteen Year Diet Include Boiled Banana Intake
The scientist Professor Metchnikoff advocates a strict cooked-food regimen to prevent illness. He shows two ripe bananas and explains removing the rind, boiling the fruit, and sterilizing utensils and drinking water to kill germs.
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Metchnikoff
Deciphering Sogdiana Texts by M Gauthiot
In Chinese Turkestan desert sands a vast forgotten civilization yielded preserved manuscripts in an unknown language. M Gauthiot, a young Frenchman, deciphered fragments aided by notes in known languages, promising new knowledge of Sogdiana and its people once mentioned by Strabo and Herodotus.
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Sogdiana
Chinese Turkestan
M. Gauthiot
Strabo
Herodotus
Improved Searchlight for Ocean Liners Uses Telescope Link
An improved searchlight gives new value by coupling a telescope directed beam to the light. The observer swivels the telescope to scan for icebergs while the searchlight mirrors the same motion, keeping the beam on the aimed point. Electrical mechanism controls the light.
London postal tube project details outlined
The proposed postal tube in London would be nine feet in diameter and six and a half miles long. It would be built with two tracks two feet wide and would use steel rails powered by motors. Construction would run through London clay.
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London
College education worth money or not
A Western university asserts college education raises earning potential. The claim is debated as some graduates earn far less than the figure suggested while others, with or without college, achieve high pay. The value hinges on practical use and application of learned skills.
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Western University
Jacksonburg Items and Local Notes
Local notices from Jacksonburg recount ill health, visits, farm updates, social events, and community matters. Items include Emily Kitterman’s illness, Lafe Beeson on the farm, Charities lunch plans, K P roll call, and early birds of poultry and sickness in the area.
Special Yangtze Water Makes Best Tea, Says De Rosthorn
De Rosthorn recounts a crossing of the Yangtze near Chenkiang where boatmen dip water from a spring at the bay bottom believed to be anciently valued for cooking. He concludes this spring water, when paired with Mingshan tea leaves, yields the finest cup in the world.
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Yangtze
China
Mingshan
de Rosthorn
Chenkiang
Milton Items Show Local Happenings In One Week
Local notes recount births visits and family milestones from Milton and nearby Bentonville Connersville and Dayton Tenn Highlights include a new son born to Mr and Mrs Harry Border Wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Jas Coons and cremation of Mrs Martha Commons In Milton a high school dinner honors Wayne county trustees and praise for Miss Leak and the domestic science program with support from trustees and teachers including W H Miller and Prof Thompson
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Jas. Coons
Messrs
Martha Commons
Dayton
Tenn
Horace Hurst
Connersville
Cincinnati
Centerville
Judge Commons
Commons
Dublin
Samuel Boyd
Mary Boyd Witt
Susan Wilson
Dr. Wilson
Richmond
Washington Township
Milton
Miss Leak
W. H. Miller
Thompson
If I owned the world a boy imagines a grand ball game
Johnny, ten, envisions world ownership as a stadium scheme. He would enlist Atlas to sign two baseball teams, lay out a Sahara diamond, fence it with the Rockies, use the moon as a ball and the North Pole as a bat, and perch on Pikes Peak to watch a game.
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Sarah
Johnny
Atlas
Sahara
Rocky Mountains
North Pole
Pikes Peak
Honest customer proves trustworthy shopkeeper's boy speaks
A small shopkeeper and his son are alone when the man customer visits. The shopkeeper slips upstairs for change and tells the boy to watch the customer. The boy later reports the man did not steal anything, saying I watched him.
Rat Population Comparisons in Britain and India
The text argues that rats in America roughly match human population, but are less dangerous than those abroad. Professor Elliott estimates 40,000,000 rats in the British Isles. It claims India has four rats per person, outnumbering humans.
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America
Professor Elliott
British Isles
India
Consulting His Comfort
A Washington Star quip contrasts a father’s stance on his son using slang with his daughter’s habit of criticizing his grammar. The exchange highlights family dynamics and language norms in a light, humorous tone.
Foley Kidney Pills Restore Health and Kidney Function
Advert says disordered kidneys bring misery with pain and fatigue. Foley Kidney Pills promise relief by restoring health, strength, and normal kidney and bladder action. Advertiser B. A. Carpenter.
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B. A. Carpenter
County official laments power to curb heavy farm wagons
W. O. Jones, county superintendent of public highways, says he has issued orders to enforce the law against heavy hauling and wishes he could issue stronger directives to keep heavily loaded farm wagons off the roads. He questions why he lacks greater authority to act.
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W. O. Jones
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Sound
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