Evolution of lighting from fire to tungsten lamps
A compact history tracing illumination from fire and oil lamps through candles and gas to electric light. It covers early lamps in Fara and Babylon, the Venetian stand lamp, Edison’s 1879 bulb progress with bamboo filaments, tungsten advancements, and gas filled lamps by 1914.
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Orkney Islands
Alaska
Fara
Babylonia
Chaina
Americas
Europe
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Memorial statue marks Grant birthday centennial in Washington
A memorial statue honoring Ulysses S. Grant Centennial will be unveiled in Washington Botanical Gardens on April 27 1822 with elaborate ceremonies led by Vice President Coolidge. Designer Henry Merwin Shrady created a pyramidal memorial featuring Grant on his horse flanked by cavalry and field battery groups.
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Pril
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Point Pleasant
Clermont County
Ohio
Washington
Botanical Gardens
Coolidge
Grant
Capitol Dome
Henry Merwin Shrady
New York
George F
Unclear OCR fragment on proto news item
Fragmentary text appears to describe a bank and a debt or transport context with several garbled words making extraction of entities and facts impossible. No readable names, places, dates, or events are determinate.
Insurance Agent In Versailles Silent Spy
A disguised insurance agent arrives in Versailles Indiana to probe the lynching case amid threats and unrest. He gains trust by lodging with a local leader, gathering details under wary eyes as he works to identify those responsible. The mission risks confrontation and possible death as authorities seek arrests.
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Versailles
Ind
James M. Beck
Beck
New York
Trouble
Mever
Vernailies
Neon Wees
What Blue Flame Means and an Art Dealer Conversation
A steady blue flame signals perfect gas combustion with full heat and no waste. A yellow flame shows incomplete burning and wasted gas. The text also records a comic exchange about art and clothing in pictures and ends with a moral about a devoted man.
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Gas Logic
New York
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Gopyhent
Wheeler. Syndicate, Inc
Secretary of Treasury
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Yankees
Miller Huggins
Mays
Shawkey
Jones
Bush
Hoyt
West Round
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