Kip's Partner and Ruth Build a Wilderness Pact
Kip and Billie Moran rise from Portland roots to clear land in Oregon with timber wealth while Kip loves Ruth. A cruel winter tests them. Ruth secretly funds Kip through Billie’s letters. Kip recovers, plans a wedding, and vows a true partnership with Ruth as they set to marry after enduring hardship together.
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Kip
Portland
Hillig
Billie Wis
I State University
Mia
Killie
Hayville
Stone Village
Academy
Pths
Billie
Dayville
Bill
Ruth
Oregon
Tio
Winnipeg
Kip Clemmons
Old Bill
If Dreams Came True by E. Marriner
Poem imagines a world where dreams come true offering a carefree summer with family joy and rest. It envisions days away from work or school, a homey life with a loving partner, children, friends, and simple comforts by the fireside.
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E. Marriner
Spiced Baked Apples and Plum Chutney Recipe Notes
Home recipes describe spiced baked apples using tart apples filled with sugar cracker crumbs water and spices then baked with a splash of water. Variations include stuffing with brown sugar butter and nutmeg. Plum chutney combines plums apples sugar vinegar ginger salt cloves cayenne and onion boiled slowly for two hours.
Mixed Pickles and Pickled Onions Recipe Card
A historic kitchen note describes making Mixed Pickles with small cucumbers green tomatoes onions celery pepper salt and spices overnight, then scalded with a half water half vinegar solution and sugar, plus a spice bag. Pickled Onions are brined with whole spices, jarred, scalded vinegar refreshed on days two and three, then sealed.
Frick Retirement Frames Union Pacific Director as Wealthy Steel Lt
Tall Oak Little Acorn H and CG Frick will retire as Union Pacific directors. Frick is conservatively estimated worth over 100 million dollars, rising from a clerk position with his grandfather to chairing H. C. Prick Coke Company, the world’s largest. His ties to steel magnates and prior service with Carnegie shaped his rise.
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Acorn H
Frick
Union Pacific Railroad
H. C. Prick Coke Company
Carnegie
International visitors arrive to study U S governance and industry
Oxford mayor Sir Robert Bucknell arrives to examine American institutions notably Dallas governance. Berber leader Hassan Ben Ali lands seeking to buy an airplane after visiting the United States. France’s Leclerc de Pulligny heads a mission to study U S methods. John Ade, 85, author and father of humorist George Ade, recalls pioneer farming life and Newton County history.
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Robert Bucknell
Oxford
England
United States
Iwo
Dallas
Texas
Sheik Hassan Ben Ali
Morocco
Ben Ali
Leclerc de Pulligny
France
New York
John Ade
George Ade
Indiana
Newton County
Heat and Horse Loss Argue for Electric Wagons
New York City faced a six day heat siege that killed 171 horses daily, totaling 1 026 with a half million dollars in value wiped out. Many horses survived only at half capacity, and 25 percent of drivers’ time went to preventing sunstroke, bolstering the case for electric vehicles and better horse care.
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New York
Health Department of
New York City
Spontaneous Generation Debated by Milestones in Biology
The century long debate on spontaneous generation showed that ancient experiments claimed life arising in decaying matter or boiled extracts, while Spallanzani later argued that thorough boiling and sealing prevent life from appearing. modern biology accepts that new life arises from existing similar organisms.
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Francisco Redi
Florence
Needham
Spallanzani
Amazing Swim Power Of Four Footed Animals In Cold Seas
An account praises various animals for swimming ability including elephants in India, polar bears in frigid waters, elks and reindeer, and a swift squirrel. It notes the polar bear’s long, strong swims and even hints at crossing the Calais Dover route. Also includes a house furnishing anecdote about crinkled cheesecloth curtains for a Japanese style room.
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Burross
Webb
Animila
England
India
Mr. Oliphant
Ife
Calais
Dover
Salting the Newly Born Baby Custom across Regions
A curious practice described as siting the newborn appears in Asia and parts of Europe. Proponents say salt wards off evil spirits and strengthens the child for life. Russian Armenians salt the infant's bare skin for hours, then wash with warm water. In Asia Minor babies are placed in brine for a day, while some Greek and German groups powder their children with salt.
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Asia
Europe
Asia Minor
Greece
Germany
Deadly vapor risk in petroleum ship holds
Explains that explosions come from inflammable vapor left in emptied oil tanks, not the cargo. Evaporating oily film adheres to tank walls and rapidly forms vapor that can mix with air to create explosive volumes, making a spark capable of triggering a catastrophic blast in an apparently empty hold.
Oil slicks feared as harbor fire risk noted in Baku
A film of petroleum on water can release volatile vapors capable of igniting and roaring flames in harbor ships. Warnings are issued about oil slicks around the world, with Baku cited as a center of petroleum trade where surfaces remain covered by oil for long stretches offshore.
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Baku
Submarine Detection Experiments By Airman Aubrun
In Oberbourg tests aviator Aubrun piloted a Depordussin plane to locate submarines and torpedo boats. The trials showed air reconnaissance can detect submerged subs from 3000 feet, with buoy drops to signal torpedo boats. Further trials planned including mines, torpedo boats, ships, and coordinated maneuvers at varying depths.
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Oberbourg
Aubrun
Aubrin
Aubron
Population figures for London and New York from census data
The Administrative county of London shows a total population of 7 252 968 with an area of 114 8 square miles. Greater London covers 69 percent of that area. In 1910 New York City’s five boroughs held 4 776 883 residents, now estimated above five million.
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London
Greater London
New York
Haitian Exiled Leader General Leconte Dies at 41
General Cincinnatno Leconte, once head of Haiti’s larger revolutionary faction and president, died aged forty one after exile began following Simon’s ascent. From Kingston he plotted against Simon, amid a turbulent Caribbean political era. James Wilson of the U S Department of Agriculture, aged seventy six, celebrated his long tenure as secretary. Born in Scotland in 1835, he moved to Iowa then Congress, later shaping farming policy. Dr George Chalmers Richmond, a Yale graduate and rector in Philadelphia, draws attention for pulpit remarks on the Astor-Force wedding. An audience member’s question on woman elicits a brisk, humorous definition from a married man in attendance.
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Keovil
Wiltshire
Bach
Wesleyan Central Hall
Rochester
William Hennan
England
Fanny Wadhams
Theltar
Hennin
Worhups
Brighton
James Doughty
Cupid
Rotherhithe
Cincinnatno Leconte
Simon
Haiti
Lawger
Lord Alexis
Kingston
Jamaica
James Wilson
United States
Wilson
Ayrehire
Scotland
America
Connecticut
Iowa
Iowa Assembly
Congress
George Chalmers Richmond
Hugh Richmond
Thompsonville
Presbyterian Church
Dr. Richmond
Springfield
Massachusetts
Easthampton
Williston Seminary
Yale
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
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