Advocates Growl for Export Rise and Panama Era
Congress backed Wilson in endorsing the get together drive to expand foreign markets. A 30 member foreign trade council was formed to coordinate industry efforts, aiming to boost American exports through Panama Canal openings and tariff changes. Allen B. Johnson urged a forward movement for U S exports amid retooled trade relations.
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Congress
Wilson
Foreign Trade Council
Panama Canal
Allen B. Johnson
Philadelphia
Association of
Foreign Exporters
United States
Trade Journal optimism boosts harvest season outlook
The trade journal notes clouds lifting and better business with encouraging crop prospects. It highlights easy money, optimistic financiers, and non imminent war. Congress aims to adjourn in hopeful times, and rising public buying sweeps the country as summer nears, signaling rising prices and profits.
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Congress
Trade Journal
Close of Travelogues at Parish House in Cheyenne
A good audience welcomed Dr. Vosburgh for his final travel lecture on Japan. The speaker praised Japanese healthfulness cleanliness and taste, noted fine carved shrines temples and pagodas in the color pictures, and said many Japanese spectators attended. Audience praise for Dr. Vosburgh and the State Leader’s educational entertainment was heard widely.
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Japan
Cheyenne
Vosburgh
The New Freedom of Expanding Trade Vision
The article urges joint action by county manufacturers and merchants to expand U S exports. It argues tariffs have limited trade and credits the Underwood tariff law for opening coasts to world commerce. Delegates totaling over a hundred attend a congress of exporters convened this week in More.
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United States
Congress of Exporters
Harmonica Spoon Promises Dinner Harmonies
A Nebraska State Journal note riffs on a harmonica spoon that lets diners enjoy music while eating. It compares the idea to a Maxim silencer and Edison praise, predicting dinner hour harmony replacing silent slurps as a playful tribute to novelty and satire.
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Thomas A. Edison
Nebraska State Journal
Locating a Ship's Position by Dead Reckoning and Sun
A Travel Magazine excerpt explains marine navigation methods for finding latitude by shooting the sun at noon and calculating longitude via chronometer observations. It describes using sextants, logarithms, and Greenwich time to plot a ship’s position on a chart with intersecting latitude and longitude lines.
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Greenwich
Travel Magazine
Spartan Floggings and Rigid Curb on Fat in Ancient City
The Spartans kept a constant military regime from age seven, enforcing strict dress, public dining quotas, and punishment for excess fat. Aelian notes Naueus, son of Polytus, faced public shaming and banishment threats to reclaim Spartan discipline, illustrating extreme measures to maintain fitness for service.
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Aelian
Naueus
Polytus
Ephors
Sparta
A Literary Coterie and a Dinner Guest Gubbins Story
The New York Post recounts a social slip at a dinner where Gubbins introduces a guest to his daughter but misdirects the guest toward another, naming two individuals and reflecting a humorous mix up in social introductions.
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Gubbins
Misa Gubbing
Gubbine
Homer
New York Post
The Place of Come with Us to The Place
A fragmentary note invites readers to visit The Place described as an implied gathering spot. Details about purpose, date, or participants are unreadable in the surviving text.
Open Air Life Changes the Modern American Businessman
A New York Tribune observation notes a shift in the shape of middle aged businessmen. The today’s man is lean and athletic, with a full chest and slim waist, unlike 1800s fashion favoring fat, soft forms. Open air life, exercise, golf, and motoring are cited as causes.
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Queen Alexandra
New York Tribune
Ancient High Finance in China and White Deershine
In ancient China the first banknotes era saw skins used as cash. Emperor Ou Ti ordered the treasury to stop this practice. Courtiers entering the royal presence covered their faces with skins, until a decree limited facial coverings to white deer skins from royal park rovels.
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China
Ou Ti
Wyoming's High Peaks Highlight State Mountain Riches
The article notes Wyoming has nine peaks over 13,009 feet, with Gannett Peak at 18,785 feet and Grand Teton at 13,747 feet plus Fremont and Cloud Peaks near 13,730 feet. It mentions 31 more named peaks above 12,000 feet and many unnamed summits, contrasting with eastern Appalachia and Colorado’s unnamed giants.
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Wyoming
United States
Gannett Peak
Grand Teton
Fremont Peak
Cloud Peak
Colorado
Stones and Glass Houses Origin of the Saying
The tale traces the proverb Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones to a moment in English history. London’s streets housed many Scotchmen after the England Scotland union and vandals smashed windows at Buckingham's Glass House. King James or a royal favorite reportedly warned Breenie Steenie to beware those who live in glass houses should fling stones.
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England
Scotland
London
Buckingham
Glass House
Breenie
Steenie
Feeding on Gunlight Major Miramond de la Roquette
Feeding on Gunlight a fragment mentions Major Miramond de la Roquette of the French origin in a brief, unclear context. The text is garbled with incomplete phrases and lacks coherent events or dates.
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Miramond de la Roquette
Diet and Sunlight Linked in Desert Natives
Observations in southern Algeria suggest that humans directly utilize radiant energy from sunshine. Researchers note that natives in hot sunny regions have lower baseline nutrition, while sunlight appears to compensate the deficit in nutritive quality and quantity for those in less favored climates.
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Algeria
An Extraordinary Man
A Chicago Record-Herald brief quotes a wife praising her husband as remarkable. She notes he quickly located something she had pointed out in a closet, underscoring his “extraordinary” qualities in a light exchange.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Unclear Fragment Reflects Personal Reflections
A fragmented text presents rhetorical questions about surgery, price, and personal resolve. It reads as a poetic or conversational snippet rather than a complete news item, mentioning a doctor and themes of price and operation with ambiguous context.
Zacatecas Captured In Hours Say Carranza Chief
In Durango May 29 report from General Carranza’s headquarters says Zacatecas City will fall within hours. Commanders Panfilo Narvaez and others received verbal orders to attack. Zacatecas, in the republic’s heart, is garrisoned by about 38,000 troops under General Medina Barron. Federal deserters say the garrison is discouraged and demoralized.
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Durango
Mex
Zacatecas
Carranza
Panfilo Naters
Republic
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