Garbage To Gold How New York Built An Island From Waste
A New York Village era feature explains how vast garbage disposal operations on Ricker's Island in the East River transform refuse into marketable products. Ashes and debris are sorted, cooked in digester tanks, refined into grease and oil, with solids pressed into fertilizer. The article frames waste as wealth and describes the island’s growth and value.
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New York
Oxfords
Racker
Ninetieth Street
Manhattan Island
Ricker’s Island
Manhattan
Tornado Toll Spurs Changes in Language and Etiquette
A reflection notes gradual shifts in dress and etiquette after a deadly tornado across three states. It argues language drift is defended by familiarity and that literacy and usage shape acceptable forms, with parallels drawn to broader cultural adjustment.
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Christian Science Monitor
Mountains of Copper in Equatorial Africa Open Rich Copper Fields
A missionary traveler describes vast copper rich hills in Congo, with ore visible on the surface, noting the region's immense mineral wealth that draws global interest. He observes green tinted hills and suggests Congo copper may be among the richest in the world.
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Equatorial
Africa
Congo
Simplified Spelling Movement Withdrawn by MLA
The Modern Language Association of America has withdrawn its sanction of the simplified spelling movement. Despite extensive funding and support from educators and notable figures, public interest waned and Roosevelt's public printer order failed to gain traction, signaling that spelling reform remains a matter of growth rather than overhaul.
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Modern Language Association of America
United States
New York City
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelt
Tennyson
Swinburne
Shakespeare
Bacon
Wyelff
Fresh meats fruits and shoes on sale at local market
California hams and bacon be listed with prices the store offers a full line of Hammond Swift Cudahy products. Fresh vegetables include lettuce radishes green onions tomatoes wax beans Bermuda onions asparagus and apples in bushel baskets. Spring and summer Hamilton Brown shoes arrive with men’s dress and school shoes two trucks on the job ready to serve customers.
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California
Hammond
Swift
Cudahy
Hamilton-Brown Shoes
Thermostatic Metal Bends with Heat for Temperature Control
British experts announce a new alloy named thermostatic metal that permanently unites strips of metals with different expansion rates. The combined strip bends consistently with temperature changes, offering a reliable basis for oven thermometers, electric heaters, jet machines, and precise scientific instruments.
Latin America Holds Vast Undeveloped Fertile Land
The region is noted for possessing the largest stretch of undeveloped fertile land in the world. This vast agricultural potential is highlighted as a key point in discussions of Latin American development and resource wealth.
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Latin America
Electric Fountain Table Decoration
A new table ornament features a compact electric fountain with a small rotary pump driving water from a copper well to a ring of twenty tiny nozzles. Water recirculates from a basin reservoir, with height adjustable by a valve. In summer a hint of perfume freshens the room.
Kidneys Benefit From Foley Pill Says Local Reader
Mrs. L Gibson of La Junta Colorado writes that after suffering aches and swelling from kidney trouble she took Foley Kidney Pill and felt relief quickly. She reports feeling fine now and notes the medicine is sold everywhere.
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L. Gibson
42Th
Edison St
la Junta
Cole
Foley
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