Desolate English Waters Yield Noted Beacons Through Time
The piece recalls historic land lighthouses led by Dunston Pillar in Lincoln Heath, built by Francis Dashwood to aid travelers before a road eased dangers. Other landward beacons cited include Monken Hadley firepot, Gillingham tower, Great Welldon lantern, and the early Dungeness lighthouse tale dating to 1615.
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Lincoln Heath
Lincoln
Dunston
London
England
Leasingham Church
Potter Hanworth
Blankney
Francis Dashwood
le Despenser
Dunston Pillar
George Idl
Monken Hadley Church
Barnet
Enfield Chase
Gillingham Church
Chiutham
Medway
Tinston Pillar
Great Weldon Church
Hockingham Forest
Northamptonshire
North Foreland
Lizard
Dungeness
Kentish
William Lamplough
King's Kitchen
Chicago Public Library offers five book card incentive
The Chicago Public Library will issue one card allowing adults to borrow five books including fiction for seven days nonrenewable. Librarian Carl Rolet notes demand grows when a book is publicized and that the program aims to boost reading without significantly increasing overall circulation.
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Chic
Ogo
Carl B. Rolet
Chicago News
Phrenology’s Origins by Franz Joseph Gall
The first announcement of Phrenology by Franz Joseph Gall was delivered to Vienna colleagues about a century ago. Gall, born in Baden and based in Vienna since 1781, argued that mental talents and dispositions could be inferred from facial and skull features, a view he promoted through lectures, lectures, and writings that drew many adherents.
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Franz Joseph Gall
Vienna
Gall
Baden
Aus
Hin
Record-Breaking Love at the Lake
Jack Tracy, an avid bass fisher, falls for a mysterious singer heard across the lake one spring evening. He secretly boards a boathouse channel to meet her, but the scene ends as he hails a shadowy figure from the boat under the bridge.
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Jack Tracy
Tracy
Echama
Tie
Golden Long Period Returns in Lavope Shipping Boom
Ralph J. Paine notes in Scribner's that after war pressures eased, shipowners benefited from a surge in smaller schooners offshore. A six master, the B Winslow, carried coal to Rio and manganese home, earning about 190,000 in freight with 120,000 profit to dividends. Some captains profited by selling ships instead of chartering, including a Portland skipper who turned a 1,000 investment into orders of 50,000 and then 700,000 from two voyages and bought his own cabin catboat.
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Lavope
Ralph JD. Paine
Scribner's
Conn
Heme
Wall Street
B. Winslow
Norfolk
Portland
Rio
Chieter
Beginning of New Industry in Tondures Concession
An American gains government concession to manufacture alcohol, a government monopoly, by using waste banana bunches. He deposits 25 000 and will be credited against three cents per gallon export duties, pays 2 000 annually for inspectors, may process up to 200 000 banana bunches monthly, and builds a sugar and paper mill near the distillery to aid planters and use bagasse for paper and sugar alcohol.
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Tondures
Ole
Note About Moro Coffee Revival
The report notes efforts to rehabilitate cotton and shift Moro lands in the Marana Moros of Lanae Philippines toward coffee. It highlights past export declines due to tribal warfare and resistance, describes a 200000 young trees project, and mentions 0 000 seedlings provided to Momungon colonists with expectations of profitable coffee farming.
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Marana Moros
Lanae
Philippine Islands
Lite
Coee
American Ports Superior Study Highlights Key Port Assets
A study under the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce outlines that American ports are well suited to service the largest liners and house the United States’ largest pier and soon the greatest dry dock in the western hemisphere. It highlights notable developments along the Pacific coast including Seattle and San Diego and cites ongoing federal emphasis on port expansion.
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Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Comerce
Allbe Worker
Boston
United States
Packie Coast
Sao Prinellaco
Seattle
Los Angeles
Portland
Thea
San Diego
Seasickness Mechanisms Explored by Doctors
In the New York Medical Journal Drs Lewis Pisher and Tiane Ol Jones argue deaf and mute individuals do not become seasick due to the ear’s equilibrium organs. They attribute seasickness to disturbance of the labyrinth by unfamiliar boat motion and note variability from ear canal irritation.
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Lewis Pisher
Tiane Ol. Jones
New York Medical Journal
Ould Douches
Oldest Fruit Tree of Massachusetts Still productive Century-Old Endicott Tree
The article recounts Governor John Endicott planting a pear tree at the Endicott plantation near Danvers river in Massachusetts. The three trunk tree produced up to about 3000 pears in a season and was famed as Salem village’s source of fruit, with Endicott preserving it in his will after his 1605 death.
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Endicott
Maassachusetes
John Endicott
Danversport
Silemevillige
Kown
Endicett
Dorchester
Danvers
Massachusetts
Salem
Sumerian Epic on Nippur Tablet Reveals Post Deluge Reconstruction
Announcement by Dr Stephen Tl Langdon of University of Pennsylvania Museum describes a 2250 BC Sumerian fragment about civilization after Paradise and the Flood. The tablet, 4 by 1 inches and 300 lines, names Ark and Lahamu the deluge god, detailing Sumeria’s regeneration under the god of wisdom.
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University of Pennsylvania
Stephen Tl. Langdon
Doctor Langdon
Langdon
Lahaina
Sumeria
Wisdom
Widow Takes Damage Suit Against Mob Debated
An excerpt from the Kansas City Star quotes local voices on whether a widow suing a mob over a lynching would win. Mr Gap Johnson dismisses the case as unlikely, arguing mob justice protects the community and that juries will favor those aiming for future political gain.
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Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Neck of the Woods
Kutsas City
Unclear transport mix up in Columbus to Tadlan ypolis
An Ademe Express employee in Columbus navigates a rambling car consigned to Tadlan ypolis. The chase lasts from four to ten o clock at night as the calf and Whiteman circle the draw before Whiteman returns the animal to the Donn sylvnia line station.
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Walter Wakeman
Ademe Express Company
Columbus
Tod
Tadlanypolis
White Win
Whiteman
Donnsylvania Line
Thief Sentenced After Curtain Theft in Paris Shop
A Paris theft case records a woman caught stealing a curtain from a Paris emporium. The court condemned her to ten months in prison. Authorities found similar items in her possession, but argued the theft was a precaution against a siege. The judge rejected this defense.
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Paria
Paris
California to Build World’s Largest Bridge Connecting Oakland and San Francisco
A massive bridge project aims to link Oakland and San Francisco, relieving ferry traffic. Estimated cost is 822 million dollars. the structure will be among the heaviest ever built with five and a half thousand feet of length, supporting three roadways and four railroad tracks. Two spans will be tall enough to allow any ship to pass.
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California
Oakland
San Francisco
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Idaho
J.C. Jacobsen
Cokeville, Wyo
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