Navy fleet of 1800s battleships becomes obsolete relics
An analysis notes that most ships from the pre dreadnought era, including the Olympia, Brooklyn, Oregon, Texas, and Massachusetts, are now obsolete. It traces how newer cruisers and dreadnoughts surpassed them, with 28 vessels retired or in reserve and a total value exceeding 100 million dollars.
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Iitken
George Dewey
Olympia
Manila Bay
William T. Lampoon
Crelwr
New York
Santiago
Winfield Scott Sehley
Trooklyn
Dewey
Hampeon
Schley
Admiral Ftadger
Wyoming
Arikanee
Florida
Utah
Lowey
Banpron
Navy
George von le Meyer
United Htetee
Petalio Ie
United States
von Bampoon
Philip
Shite
Phillip
Cristobal Colon
Cervera
Sampson
Texas
Lone Sur
New New York
Maine
Havana Harbor
Spain
Chesapeake Bay
Madger
Texac
Indiana
Kentucky
Alabama
Mineola
Manila
Saratoga
Scampoon
Brooklyn
Sobley
Oregon
Clark
Clark's Immortal Around the Siown Ship 5. the Battleship Tows
Evans
Massachusette
Todiana
Massachusetta
Kearsarae
Krarsarge
Uinoia
Alno
Kvann
Thomas
Sperry
Wisconsin
Alabana
Tillnore
Tonopah
Nevada
Tallahassee
Worlda
Terror
Monterey
St. Louia
Charleston Mt
Milwaukee
Newark
Chicago
Raleigh
Coghlan
Mantle
Great Britain
United States Atlantic
Far East
Heobe
Obie
Miswouri
Clases
Atlantic
Ampton Roads
Siateen Arcbholasw
Across the Sahara for Fun Retired General’s Expedition
A fragmented account recounts a long excursion from Algiers to the Gulf of Guinea by a retired general and party. They traveled by rail car and automobile across the Sahara and Niger River, aiming to record moments along the way. The journey spanned about five months with one casualty a pet dog.
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Previler Presaure ‘Teip
Algiers
Gulf of Guiness
Bahare
Niger
Bemba
Wilson plans public golf links for the National Capital
President Wilson’s new commissioners for the District of Columbia aim to provide public golf links in the capital as golfers wager he will play there. He continues to prefer the Washington Golf Club in Virginia with Dr Cary Grayson and a secret service guard, playing for exercise and personal discipline.
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Abuington
Wilson
Dretret
Columbia
Virginia
Washington Golf Club
Cary Grayson
Secret Service
White House
Grayson
Washington
Chevy Chase Club
Senator Targeted for Marriage Scan Incident
Senator Knute Nelson Wah received a Cupid's Column clipping and a photo seeking marriage with a young widow in Washington DC. He refused to act, joking that he would not run a matrimonial agency for a private request, despite the unusual prompt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knute Nelson Wah
Cupid
Washington, D. C
Washington, DC
Minnesota
Public Enquiries to McAdoo on Running Treasury
A collection of humorous letters to Secretary McAdoo from citizens and a Californian, asking how to run the U S Treasury. They request stronger money handling, weekly deposits, burglar alarms, and guards, with mock signatures and satirical lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
U. S. Treasury
United States
New Haven
Telefua
Job Hunter Guessed Capitol Office Vacancy Death Scheme
A tale from the national capital tells of Allen who sought a post in the post office department. He learned a clerk drowned, claimed the job, but the congressman revealed the vacancy had already been filled by a Massachusetts man who followed the drowned clerk to the sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redfeld
Department of Commerce
Redfield
Allen
Hie
Massachusetts
Come Must Wear Earrings Cowes lo
The text details a law about cows and ear accessories, mentioning when a cow wears an earring and the care it requires. It then shifts to a home remedy for enamel cement using putty, coal ashes, table soil, and cooking steps for hardening the cement in a kettle with water.
Bel rows Bag Blue advert inspires quirky overheard weather talk
An ad copy for Bel rows Bag Blue appears amid a jumble of dialogue about clean white clothes and a visiting foreign guest. The exchange touches on Ragtime and mistaken lyrics about waiting for a steamboat, framed as light humor.
Castoria and a grim scaffold anecdote in historical note
An OCR fragment discusses Castoria a child remedy with a sneer at the FS signature and a macabre scaffold anecdote. It recounts Macdonald who murdered Mixe Holt and the hangman forgetting the cap as Macdonald told his executor to use a handkerchief from his pocket to bind his eyes.
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Braming
Fletcher
Macdonald
Mixe Holt
England
Hard Work Too Preakfast or Work Confrontation at Door
Mr Newlywed questions a tramp at a bungalow door asking for breakfast or work. The tramp answers both, and the husband angrily orders him to eat a biscuit and steak, while Mrs Newlywed scowls at her husband's waste of her cooking class first frusta.
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Mr. Newlywed
Wayfarer
New Bibliotheque Nationale Chief Ousted After Mona Lisa Theft
M. Jean Homolle, Made the librarian in chief of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, was removed as public anger rose after the disappearance of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Homolle, 65, a Legion of Honor member, presided over a vast collection including 4,011,000 books and 2,600,000 engravings at the world famous library.
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M. Jean Homolle
Bibliotheque Nationale
Paris
Wos
National Museums of France
Louvre
la Goconda
da Vincl
M. Homolle
Mona Lina
Parte
Grape Nuts touted as ideal aging food in ad copy
An advertisement extols Grape Nuts as a perfect food for old age, stressing easy digestion, balanced nutrients, and mental stamina. It cites a farmer and a retailer touting the product and Postum as a coffee substitute, with claims of strong nerves and clearer thinking.
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Iowa
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