Eloise Rogers Heads Baylor Choral Club
Miss Eloise Rogers daughter of Mr and Mrs Wm R Rogers is elected president of the Baylor Choral Club for the year The club plans tours through Oklahoma Arkansas and parts of Texas Cameron music lovers await a weekend visit Freshman last year Rogers led vocal solos on their Texas tour and is praised for rare range and sweetness plus a promising musical future.
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Eloise Rogers
Wm. R. Rogers
Baylor College
Belton
Baylor Choral Club
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Cameron
Miss Rogers
Gas From Flower Gardens Sparks Pittsburgh Gas System
The text credits George Westinghouse with advancing natural gas industry around Pittsburgh by sinking a shaft in his wife's garden, yielding a geyser at 1,600 feet. It notes his development of a leak free piping system and stepwise pressure reduction to safely deliver gas to customers.
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Pittsbutch
George Westinghouse
Airbrake
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
Brother Pat Dead Leaves Mike Grieving in Patch
A short tale from Everybody's Magazine portrays Mike working in a potato patch when a letter arrives. He foresees bad news from his brother Pat and confirms the death by recognizing the handwriting, revealing the story's somber moment.
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Mike
Pat
Everybody's Magazine
Origin of silhouette name in fashion history
The term silhouette comes from Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister famed for economy measures in 1759. It describes stripping business and art to outlines, with black and white profile portraits becoming popular and the name sticking to this art form.
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Silhouette
Etienne de Silhouette
Water buffalo valued in Chinese fields for rice cultivation
The water buffalo is highly valued in China for farming. It is reputed stronger than the ox and capable of hauling heavy loads. Females produce milk of superior quality used to make ghee. Its hide is prized for strength and durability.
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China
India
The Power of Thought in a Quiet Room
R H Holloway endures interruptions while planning office transfers in a 1926 City club scene. After a vivid dream of a silent yacht voyage, he embraces a revised slogan Think plus action and orders 50 copies for department heads.
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R. Holloway
Holloway
Mr. Holloway
City Club
Democratic
Successful Men Magazine
Roedin
Ile
Mediterranean Sea
Mr. Intloway
Composition of Yeast
The article explains yeast as a culture of minute fungi that appears as a surface froth or sediment in sugary liquids and drives alcoholic fermentation. It grows by cell multiplication, requires seed yeast, and ordinary cake yeast is pressed cultures of such fungi in other substances.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Early Gas Use Across Civilizations and Cities
The text traces ancient and modern adoption of gas for practical needs. It notes Chinese use after the Christian era for salt evaporation and possible heating, early European experiments by Murdock and Winsor, and the first U S gas plants in Baltimore 1816 Boston 1822 and New York 1825.
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Peking
Europe
Murdock
Winsor
United States
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Annular Eclipse Explained by Moon Sun Alignment
An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is near the sun’s node at new phase and at apogee. The moon’s apparent size is slightly smaller than the sun, so its shadow does not reach Earth and a bright ring surrounds the dark moon.
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Earth
Turkey market outlook and calls for quality birds
Government estimates this year’s US turkey crop at 96 percent of last year. With 4 percent less volume and higher prices, producers in Cameron Texas are urged to keep underweight turkeys off the market to avoid Northern buyers blacklisting Texas stock and harming local prices. Cooperation could help Texas dressers compete and pay producers better.
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United States
Texas
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Yoke HI
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Vogue
Cameron, Texas
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R. H. Johnson
C. N. Green & Brothers
C. N. Green
Leland Green
Funeral Directors Ambulance Service
J. H. Sapp
W. M. Marek
Gage
Lalla Meyers
G. B. Taylor
Western Newspaper Union
Henry F. Lippman
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Federal Land Bank of
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W. G. Gillis
Cameron National Farm Loan Association
Turkey
Cameron Texas
Simmons
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Fr. A. Marek
Prop
Fletcher
Ars
New York City
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