The Great Lakes Shipping Growth and Steel Ties Report
A Bradstreet's study highlights commerce on the Great Lakes with 294 navigation days yielding 10,000,000 tons through Detroit River, surpassing all U S seaports and rivaling Liverpool London. Shipbuilding rises, twelve months show shifts toward iron and steel as pipelines of transit expand across North America.
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Bradstreet’s
Great Lakes
Detroit River
United States
Liverpool
London
Lakes Superior
Michigan
Lakes Erie
Ontario
Making a Bric-a-Brac Holder From a Mahogany Desk
A vintage mahogany bookcase and writing desk can be transformed by removing upper glass and lower dimness, replacing with soft blue curtains. Shelves allow bric a brac and art treasures to be displayed, with drawers removed for easier display. Mentions New York Journal and a misattributed note on sex determination in livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Journal
The Peanut Crop and Its Rise After the Civil War
The article traces peanuts from a wartime luxury to a nationwide staple. It notes soldiers' taste spreading peanut farming from sparse patches to broad fields in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, boosting output to about 3 million bushels annually. It covers origins in Africa, cultivation steps, and shifts in supply from North Carolina and Virginia to meet postwar demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cragg-Roads
Maine
California
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carollina
Ennessee
North Carolina
Africa
Sharma
France
Norfolk
Vaw
New York Sun
A MERRY MOUNTAIN CLIMBER AND FASHION NOTES
Miss Fay Miller of Tacoma has ascended Mount Tacoma, 14444 feet high, the feat previously done by twenty eight men and no woman. The ascent included dangerous winds and icy gear at the summit with a perilous descent, while other items discuss English fashion railings and trends, domestic life of Queen Christina of Spain, and the first German settlers in America with Charleston origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Fay Luller
Tacoma
Wash
Mount
New York Commercial Advertiser
Queen Christina
Spain
San Sebastian
Santander
Raimonda
Royal Villa
America
Pennsylvania
Germantown
Chrleston
D. C
Charleston
Arelent
Carolina
James Jeland
Jamestown
Savannah
New York News
Scientific Scraps: cures, inventions, and feats across fields
A digest of varied notes includes fresh buttermilk as a cure for Brights disease, onion sleep effects, and hemp farming plans in the Bahamas. Reports cover a luminous buoy by M Dibos, Paris gyroscope use for navigation, electrical mining tech, skin metal extraction, alcohol effects in humans and dogs, floating rope inventions, dual-link welding, spontaneous hay combustion explained by fumus, musical notation reform, submerged bodies resurfacing near Hermannstadt, pigeon flight race from Perigueux to Paris with 2,746 entrants.
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M. Dibos
France
Paris
Academie Des Sciences
Hermannstadt
Perigueux
Historic Bells Across the World and Their Majestic Weights
A survey of famous bells from Moscow to Montreal notes the Great Bell of Moscow weighing about 440000 pounds with jewels valued at around 1 million dollars, plus other colossal bells in Pekin, Vienna, Oxford, and Montreal. It recounts the cracked original bell, its restoration, and notable bells like Big Ben and Liberty Bell with their histories and tonality. The piece also touches on the rise of roses in popular culture and mentions shifting fashion in botany since 1870.
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Arizona
Tracy
Ile
Kansas City
Star
Georgia
Carolina
Riece-Field
Popular Science Monthly
New York
London
Countess of
New York Times
Mary Anderson
Miss Grace Wilson
Amy Bond
Moscow
Anne
China
Pekin
Nankin
Vienna
Olmutz
Rouen
France
England
Westminster
Erfurt
Germany
Montreal
Notre Dame
Paris
St. Peter's
Rome
Oxford
Sucqueline
Tincoin
St Paul's
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Calcutta
India
Territory of
Utah
The
New York Tribune
Trotman
Forestry Division
Department of Agriculture
Northwestern Railway
British India
Argentine Republic
Holland
Belgium
Switzerland
Bjesina
Bosnia
Albert Rothachild
Bielina
Henry Whiting Garfield
National Association
Mateur Oarsmen
Mr. Gayfield
Smatens
Garfield
Ciling
Jo Ju
IF. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Peshawar
Cabul
Kashwa
Fort Baker
Frayie
Baker
Cabal
Presson
Tman
Coutentant
Aga
Theu
Chen
Boston Herald
Herri
Berg
Houston
Texas
Trenton
New York World
Jayes Land
Amerie
Saya
Ray Beatha
Ph. de Clarmont
Bloomsbury
Avd
South
Kensington
Beole
Denmark
Government
Fashion Notts
Tria
Bahamas
Cohn
Breslau
Bat Room
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