Tennessee Girl Uses Dried Apples for Sculpture
In Knoxville Miss Isabel Million creates human face sculptures from dried apples. She shapes wrinkled apple pieces to resemble mountain people and finishes with a varnish. Her doll heads are carved before drying and carefully dressed to reflect character and life.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Isabel Million
Miss Million
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Scientific American
Orators and Spurgeon Pulpit Tale of A C Dixon
The London Christian World recalls past Metropolitan Tabernacle occupants Benjamin Keach John Gill and John Rippon. It notes a 30 year old incident when a trustee invited American preacher A C Dixon to speak at Spurgeon’s tabernacle after Dixon spoke at the world Sunday school convention. Dixon’s father praised Spurgeon yet the son was refused study at Spurgeon’s college and did not reapply.
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A. C. Dixon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
London
Spurgeon
Tabernacle
Benjamin Keach
John Gill
John Rippon
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Dixon
Wood
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Tungsten Ores Production in 1918 United States
Preliminary statistics from Frank L Hess of the geological survey show US tungsten ore production in 1918 at 5065 net tons of concentrates with 60 percent tungsten trioxide. Of this 5015 tons valued at 5 156 500 were marketed or consumed, 50 tons left on hand at mines December 31. Output lagged behind 1916 and 1917, though 1917 had been the largest for any country.
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United States
Frank L. Hess
Geological Survey
British Empire
Guardian of the Light Angel of the Blind Leads Lighthouse Work
Winifred Holt heads New York City’s Lighthouse for the blind where the sightless learn useful work. She previously served in France for blinded soldiers, founding Phare and teaching over three hundred men to live without sight. She worked in the first Somme trenches.
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Winifred Holt
New York City
France
New York
Somme
Microbes in Our Clothes and Cold Epidemics
A brisk note cites demobilized soldiers catching colds after putting on issued uniforms. Sir Ernest Shackleton, returning from the Antarctic, recounts that a bale of clothing from England triggered an epidemic of colds once opened. He blames microbes awakening in the closely packed garments.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic
England
Sir Ernest
New Rail Link Connects France And Spain Through Pyrenees
A new tunnel bypasses the Pyrenees mountain pass and connects Puigcerda in Spain with Ax in France, enabling rail travel from Prades through the Ariege valley to the Ebro and on to Saragossa and Barcelona. The route reduces climbs over 9,500 feet, easing travel for Mediterranean tourists and linking key Mediterranean and Aragonese regions.
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Spain
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Prades
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Pulgcerda,s
Ebro
Saragossa
Barcelona
Perpignan
Etiquette and Department Book Sells To Servant Girl
A doorstep scene unfolds as a servant girl rebukes a book seller for habits and manners. The seller discusses etiquette rules while the girl, salving mud from her feet, rejects the book, yet the lady inside is overheard insulting the delivery and hints the work meets her needs.
Longest British Strike at Lord Penurbyns Slate Quarries
The strike began at Lord Penurbyns slate quarries in Bethesda in October 1900 and lasted until November 1903. It caused over 1.5 million dollars in wage losses, shifting Britain from importing slate to exporting a weekly 1 200 tons of foreign slate to British markets.
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Lord Penurbyn
Bethesda
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