Keep Sweet and Duty Amid Plains War Signals
A veteran frontier tale unfolds as Webb orders Field to join a scouting detachment while Ray leads a dawn march toward the Platte. Field resists, but Webb enforces, and Field’s funds become an issue as a night of tension ends with Stabber’s war-pitched band seen on the move.
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Kennedy
Eagle Butte
Stabber
Fort Frayne
Maj
Webb
Ray
Col. Plodder
Laramie
Department
Cade
Platte
J. Mr. Field
Ross
Field
Tui
Sergt. Schreiber
Duffy
Blake
Mr. Field
Eld
Hay
Kay Stred
Beverly Field
Capt
Pat Webb
West Point
Bill Hay
Phoenix
History of Gunpowder Reaches Back to Ancient Times
A Franklin Institute lecture cites early gunpowder origins in China and India through soil chemistry and charcoal formation. Chronicles mention Hindu restrictions, Alexander the Great, and siege warfare before 1300, with England adopting manufacture by Elizabeth I and use at Crecy. Also notes strawberries’ salicylic acid and a London microbe study, plus rail fare trends.
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Joseph Wheeler
United States Army
Franklin Institute
China
India
Quintus Curtius
Alexander the Great
Asi
Philostratus
Alexander
Ganges
Julius Africanus
Constantinople
Thessalonica
Belby
Toulouse
Europe
England
Elizabeth
Crecy
A Daughter of the Sioux Chapter II Fort Frayne Scene
A fragmented excerpts from A Daughter of the Sioux by Charles King depict a midnight skirmish near Fort Frayne. Kennedy helps Field escape a night encounter with Sioux dispatches and a vow of secrecy haunts the pair. Fort Frayne awakens as a forced march gears up amid Sioux tensions led by Stabber.
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Gen
Charles King
First ever photo of machine-made window glass rollers
The Alexandria Indiana plant of American Window Glass Co unveils the Lubbers machine, the first successful device to automate glass blowing. The company plans to install it in 41 plants, risking millions to replace skilled hand blowers who initially feared losing their trade.
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Alexandria
Ind
American Window Glass Company
Patent Belgian glassblowing machines go to factory
WN by machinery reports that double ring Belgian blowers return to the old country while others pursue different work. John H. Lubbers of Allegheny Pennsylvania, a skilled glassblower, holds the patent and stands to earn millions from the invention. Westinghouse workers in Pittsburgh have labored behind walls to install the new rollers, 10 and 19 feet long, 30 inches in diameter, with machines still under patent secrecy. The public will be shown the devices only after all are permitted access.
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John H. Lubbers
Allegheny
Lubbers
Westinghouse Works
Pittsburg
Publc
Cincinnati Enquirer
Typewriting Experts Reveal Subtle Clues In Forensic Sheets
A Chicago Tribune note explains how expert analysis can distinguish machine made sheets. In a law case a suspect sheet differed in spacing and paragraph starts, with shaky letters and different punctuation. The culprit was suspected to be a young nervous beginner, while the rest showed an experienced typist.
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Chicago Tribune
German inventor lights harbor buoy by wave power
An inventor proposes a self powered buoy light using wave motion to drive a small dynamo and charge a storage battery. The system eliminates land cables and could also power bell buoys. Experiments run on the German coast and ore location method uses high potential lines to detect underground masses. A Kansas City report tells how a nine year old rode a cow to safety during a flood.
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Germany
Yes
Cornwall
North Topeka
Kansas City Journal
Polly at Fisheries A Kitchen Ocean Poem
A playful homemade verse by Hannah G. Fernald in Youth's Companion imagines Polly cooking up a sea of dishes. The girl pretends to fish among plates, cups, and spoons turning them into whimsical sea creatures with sharks and whales.
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Hannah G. Fernald
Comanion
Heroic Little Mary Katie Murphy Saves Family
Ten year old Katie Murphy kept house for her widowed mother and four siblings. When a gas leak trapped Mrs Murphy, Katie shut off the gas, opened a window, and summoned help, saving her mother from likely death. Neighbors praised her calm presence and quick action in a perilous moment.
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Katie Murphy
Tommie
Charie
Katie
Mary
Nellie
Mrs. Murphy
Murphys
Jane
Cincinnati
Birds and Animals and Other Notes From June
A compact item describes various natural home life scenes from June including chimney swifts nesting in a farmhouse, porcupines feeding by moonlight, a Baltimore oriole nest, a kingfisher burrow, and bullheads guarding their young. It also recounts a Detroit lawyer’s rule on cases for percentage gains and notes Kentucky’s debt reduction with bonds paid and obligations unpresented.
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James Russell Lowell
Lowell
Porcupines
Porcupin
St. Nicholas
Apples for the cows prove risky and practical fencing
A rural note discusses feeding cows apples and potatoes with care to avoid choking, noting safe methods like neck restraints and outdoor racks. It cites experiences from a cider mill owner and a Rural New Yorker writer. It also covers milk fat variation and crop cover practices to improve soil and forage. It recommends sowing crimson or red clover in corn and using cowpeas for fall pasture to reduce hay needs.
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Imam Stanchton
J. S. Woodward
New Yorker
Indoor Snowfall At Stockholm Party Affects Guests
A recent Stockholm party on a clear cold evening grew uncomfortably warm as guests crowded into a single room. Window sashes froze and a pane shattered letting a cold draft in. Snowflakes fell indoors as moisture saturated the air and a sudden drop in temperature caused a light indoor snowfall.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Bears as Gum Chewers in Northern New Hampshire
A New Hampshire hunter reports spruce gum scarce in woods as bears in northern New Hampshire awake from hibernation and chew the resin. Ike Nivins of Wentworth killed two large bears and, in their stomachs, found sizable spruce gum masses that likely were eaten the previous fall and remained undigested through winter. Every bear slain this spring in the region reportedly carried spruce gum, suggesting a local habit.
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New Hampshire
Ike +Nivins
Wentworth
Tke
New England
Churning in Persia by Nomads in Goat Skin Tents
A primitive Persian method still used by nomads involves a goatskin receptacle hung inside a goatskin tent. Milk is dumped into the vessel and rocked by hand to separate fat from milk. The process yields butter once separation is complete.
The Persian Nomad and Life Under the Stars
A Chicago Journal excerpt contrasts the Persian nomad with Moorish life, noting his tent under stormy skies and his large family inside a goatskin shelter. It questions punishment by prison and mentions torture as common, then pivots to a note on land use and a simple roof sketch for tearing off vegetation.
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Chicago Journal
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Hogan
Pat Kennedy
Partron
Big Horn
Washington
N. Y. Times
Polly
Birds and Animals
Detroit
Blank Corporation
Detroit News
Kentucky
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Hoard
goMé
BEARS
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