Journey Up the St Johns and St Augustine in 19th Century Narratives
The writer describes travel from Charlestown to Jacksonville and St Augustine, meeting State Senator S. on San Marco Avenue, viewing old town sights, the plaza, slave market, and bay views. The narrative shifts to a feature on the history of rain drops, water cycles, and U.S. government studies of surface and subterranean waters, highlighting gauging stations and water supply research.
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St. John’s
Florida
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
San Marco Avenue
Anastasia Island
Moorish Ponce De Leon and Alcazar Hotels Featured
The writer tours the Ponce De Leon with Senator and Mrs. S described as a vast Moorish palace with splendid verandas, a central fountain, marble halls, ornate mantels, and lush gardens. Nearby Alcazar, Cordova, and Anastasia Island are noted for their beauty, courtyards, and exotic furnishings. The piece also touches on water resources and flood and power considerations in the eastern United States.
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Phen
Ponce de Leon
Alcazar
Ponce
Cordova
Anastasia
United States
Central States
Relic of Bull Run Erected At Battlefield Site
A small monument marks the bloodiest Bull Run sector, about a thousand yards northwest of Groveton crossroads by the old railroad cut. Soldiers who fell there were buried, and after the war veterans erected the memorial, now tucked away in wooded isolation.
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Bull Run
Groveton
Manassas Gap
Gainsville
Leesburg
Sudley Springs
Budley
Jackson
Washington
Warrentown
Arington
Herschel the Great Musician and Astronomer of Bath
The article notes William Herschel excelled as a musician before famed as an astronomer and ran the Bath Orchestra. It highlights his era, listing notable contemporaries like Franklin, Pitt, Burke, Hume, Gibbon, Watts, and Voltaire among others.
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Herschel
Bath
Benjamin Franklin
Fox
Pitt
Burke
Hume and Gibbon
Watts
Sheridan and
Garrick
Gainsborough
West and Reynolds
Voltaire
Paine
Blackstone
Goldsmith
Duke of Wellington
George the Third
England
Washington
New York Working Women Urged to Build Mills Hotels
Mrs Clarence Burns of the Little Mothers Association urged the New York Federation of Women's Clubs to create low cost mills hotels for wage earning women. She cited 255732 working women in the city with average weekly earnings of five dollars and three dollars for boxmakers, arguing for affordable, respectable housing.
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New York
Clarence Burns
Little Mother’s Association
New York Federation of Women’s Clubs
New York City
Burns
Mills Hotels
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Cleveland
Rockefellera
Carnegies
Angle Manufacturing CO
Murray ST
The Great Salt Lake Its Size Shape And Features
The Great Salt Lake in Utah measures seventy five miles long and thirty five miles wide with a 291 mile circumference. It contains six islands, the largest sixteen by five miles, and a peak about 600 feet above the lake. The dense water lets people float easily, second only to the Dead Sea, and the waters are slowly receding from the shore.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
Dead Sea
Great Salt Lke
Giant Sugar Beet Saga From Colorado Farm
A Colorado farmer recounts a remarkable sugar beet that grew enormous after being irrigated with abundant river water. Harvesting required dynamite and a saw mill, producing thirty foot slabs, then shipped to Rocky Ford factory where sugar content reached forty five percent. The farmer profited by selling cattle and reclaiming the leftover sugar, claiming irrigation proves its success and hints at future plantings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Shugar Bates
Gunnison
Rocky Ford
Agricultural Department
Chicago
Talking clocks awaken sleepers with voice alarms
A new clock invention uses talking discs to call out the hours and awaken users. Alarms feature voices or cock crowing sounds and can be changed to prevent familiarity, potentially replacing traditional bell alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friend Supply CO
Washington Street
Dept
Boston
Mass
Deception in Canvasback Duck Preparation Highlighted
An article argues that the canvasback duck’s flavor stems from its diet of wild celery and criticizes hotel cooks for feeding ducks celery to mimic the wild bird. It notes Chesapeake Bay and Wisconsin ducks share this taste and explains the birds dive and swim to escape hunters and retrievers.
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Chesapeake
Wisconsin
Wolverine
Chesapeake Bay
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Charleson
Fort Sjumter
The
Uncle Sam
Touet
OF Hotel
Save Market
Augustine
Little Mother's Association
Dead Sea of America
O’shannasy
Zoc
Columbia Novelty Co0
Pittsburg
NM. P.C.C
National Photographic Chemical Company
Ith Street
Pa. Ave
N. W
Washington, D. C
Wicheas Lonzworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
Miss Roosevelt
Address National Photo-Souvenir Co
Washington, D
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