Do You Know That Facts From A Bygone Era
A collection of curious notes on science history and trivia including Rhine length, steam expansion, eye care tips, Antwerp cathedral capacity, train braking, lightning visibility, ice to water heat, locomotive puffs, early English racing, Philippine flower size, locomotive life, soil temperature, rabbit population growth, King Alphonso’s reign, atmospheric pressure of man, ballot origin, and weather patterns.
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Antwerp
Belgium
England
Philippine
Alphonso
Spain
Mrs Helen Irvin Appointed Negro Women Wage Earners Assistant
Mrs Helen Irvin has been appointed special assistant to Miss Mary Van Kleeck, chief of the women in Industry service, US Department of Labor. She will focus on economic problems affecting negro women wage earners and work with Dr George B Haynes. She is Howard University and Philadelphia School of Domestic Science graduate, studied economics at Chicago and Penn, taught domestic science at Howard and home economics at Miner Normal, directed girls manual training at Baltimore High. Since the war she has served with the food administration and Red Cross. She contributed to the pageant Democracy Triumphant in Washington last Fourth of July.
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Helen Irvin
Mary van Kleeck
Women In Industry Service
United States Department of Labor
Irvin
George B. Haynes
Howard University
Philadelphia Schhool
Chicago University
University of Pennsylvania
Miner Normal School
Baltimore High School
The
Food Administration
Red Cross
Washington
Land schemes to aid returning soldiers and school reform plan
Secretary Lane calls for arid and swamp land development to provide farms for returning soldiers and for a stronger public school system to Americanize foreign born citizens. He urges immediate work on irrigation projects, land set aside plans, and government backed home farms with long terms. He warns against endless debt but argues investment in soil and education national security.
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Washington, D. C
Lane Saga
Lane
Farm Loan Board
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Hesita
Ins Coe
Doyo
England
Canada
United States
Wilson
Centennial births and world events mark today
Mary Todd Lincoln's birth centennial is noted alongside a warm welcome planned for President Wilson in France. Oregon merchants form a state chamber in Portland, a Baltimore pageant ties to the Southern Commercial congress, and a House committee opens hearings on permanent radio control. Philadelphia dinner discusses the food problem with grocery trade leaders. Boston hosts a talk by former Argentine ambassador Dr Romulo Naon on Argentina U.S. relations. Today also includes sports calendars for racing in New Orleans and Havana, baseball league meeting in Chicago, Langford Butler boxing in Rock Island, and London’s King Trophy tournament.
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France
Wilson
Oregon
Portland
Chamber of Commerce
Army and Navy
Baltimore
Southern Commercial Congress
Louse Merchant Marine Committee
Washington
Philadelphia
Association of Manufacturers' Representatives
Romulo 8. Naon
Amparsador
United States
Argentina
Boston
Boston City Club
Jefferson Park
New Orleans
Cuba-American Jockey Club
Havana
American League
Chicago
Sam Langford
Big Bill Butler
Rock Island
London
Senator William P. Dillingham Turns Seventy Five
Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont marks his seventy fifth birthday. One of the chamber’s oldest members by age and service, he previously served as Vermont governor and state's attorney, with earlier stints in both legislative chambers. He was born in Waterbury Vermont and studied law in Wisconsin before joining the Vermont bar in 1867. He has long promoted education and temperance.
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William P. Dillingham
Vermont
United States Congress
Dillingham
Waterbury
Wisconsin
Matt H. Carpenter
Atate
Anniversaries and historical notes from early 1800s to late 1880s
A compact listing marks events and birthdays: 1818 Robert Newton, famed surgeon who pioneered circular breast removal, born in Gallipolis. 1881 in New York City, date October 9. 1870 events in Phipsburg with famine era surrender to Germans. 1887 Moscow University riot closure. 1888 Southern interstate immigration convention convened at Mongonery, Alabama.
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Robert 8. Newton
Gallipolis
D. D
New York City
Phaisburg
Moscow ‘University
Historic 19th Century Leaders and World War I Moments
A compact roundup notes 1894 Sir John Thompson dies at Windsor Castle. 1911 King George crowned emperor at Delhi Durbar. 1914 Montenegro occupies Vishegrad. 1915 Wilton sends note to Austria on Anaeona matter. 1916 Bethmann Hollweg announces entry into peace talks as Mohileff fighting continues and British Byng repels German assault west of Cambrai.
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John Thompson
Windsor Castle
Delhi
George
India
Vishegrad
Wilton
Austria
Anéona
Motor Driven Potato Peeler Then Revolutionizes Peeling
A machine described in Popular Mechanics uses a revolving perforated drum driven by a 1 3 horsepower motor to peel 40 pounds of potatoes in three to four minutes. The inner drum surface is roughened with numerous perforations to aid peeling. The device operates by lowering the filled drum into a wooden container as it runs.
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Popular Mechanics
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Mary Todd Lincoln
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E. E. Horn
Treasury Reserve
Opportunity Management
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Texas
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