From Coal Tar to War and Peace Chemistry
The article traces alchemy myths to chemistry's real progress through coal tar by products. It explains fractional distillation of crude coal tar yielding chemicals like benzene and toluene, then intermediates used for drugs, explosives, perfumes, foods, and photographic materials. It notes Germany's 1859 dye industry lead as a strategic asset for peace and war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garret
Ben Jonson
de Soto
Spain
Germany
Perkin
Animals Directed in Moving Pictures Using Trickery
Dr Raymond L Ditmars curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo explains patience and subterfuge are key to directing animals for films. He and Charles Urban film the Fables of La Fontaine using zoo animals to portray humor tragedy and human foibles through staged scenes and food bait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond L. Ditmars
Bronx Zoological Park
New York
Ditmars
Charles Urban
la Fontaine
Zoo
Doctor Ditmars
Celebrating the Javanese New Year Festivities
Mrs. Major Morrison of the Salvation Army describes a Javanese New Year lasting about a week in early June. Natives prepare for a month, buy new clothes, adorn districts with paper and lights, enjoy fireworks and dancing girls, and settle loans before returning to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tlim
Major Morrison
Salvation Army
How Headstones Originated Through History
The article traces the ancient practice of erecting headstones to antiquity and marks the mausoleum as a pivotal invention in 352 B C. It notes Artemisia queen of Caria commissioned Mausolus’s tomb at Halicarnassus, whose ruins remained until 1857 when excavated artifacts were brought to England by archaeologist C T Newton for the British Museum.
How to Be Patriotic
The article cites The American Forestry Magazine noting durable building benefits to self and nation. It warns against waste and decay, estimating the United States loses about a hundred million dollars annually to preventable wood decay.
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American Forestry Magazine
United States
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Asbury Park
INGS
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Robbinsville, N.J
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John Worcb
N. Broad Street
Trenton
N. J
Notary Public
Charles C. Groves
Cranbury, N. J
Love Brothers
Hightstown Hardware Company
Brightstown, N. J
Gunson Clothes Shop
RE. F. Gunson
E State Street
Hotel Windsor
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