Dandies in War Gear Ornate Greeks and Persians in Battle Garb
The text describes ancient Greeks winning at Marathon by luck while Persians wore lavish festival attire. Persian noblemen in canary yellow silk with jade vines, pink jackets, and jeweled accessories faced battle with diamonds and rubies on scimitars. It recalls historic fashion influences and Muscovy boyars and Polish princes in pearl-encrusted coats, including the Esterhazy heirloom coat rumored hidden or betrayed to Bela Kun’s communists.
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Marathon
Muscovy
Poland
Hungary
Esterhazy
Bela Kun
Army studies airship spray to fight gypsy moths
The United States Department of Agriculture and the War Department air service will test a motorized balloon to distribute poison spray over gypsy moth infested areas in New England. Tests seek to assess feasibility and cost effectiveness for forest pest control, aiming for rapid aerial application and potential large scale use if practical.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Air Service
War Department
New England
Department
TWO WATCHES SOLVE MUDDLE FOR TRAVELLING SALESMAN
Sniffens travels across the continent with a silver second watch set to daylight saving time to track city appointments and suburban trains, while his gold watch stays on standard time for trains. The method helps him manage schedules amid time zone and timetable differences during his frequent trips.
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Sniffens
New York Sun
Giant Finback Whale Exhibit Displays on Land at Museum
The American Museum of Natural History owns a colossal female finback whale, 68% feet long with a 30 foot girth, large enough to hold about 50 men inside. Washed ashore near Forked River, N J, the skeleton is a landmark in taxonomic history as scientists note that whales evolved from terrestrial ancestors and became aquatic.
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American Museum of Natural History
Forked River
N. J
Washlington Star
Acetylene Gas Lighting From Calcium Carbide
Acetylene gas, discovered in 1896, is obtained from calcium carbide. A method to manufacture it on a large scale was found in England around 30 years ago, enabling its use for illumination. When mixed with air it is explosive, but the pure gas is claimed to burn safely. At five cubic feet per hour it can produce a light of 240 candle power.
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England
New York Herald
Busy Man Refuses Visiting War Buddy in White House
Capper's Weekly recalls how Col. L H Waters once sought a private audience with Pres. Benjamin Harrison. Waters, a noted West lawyer, met a blunt reply as the President kept his nose to the desk. The famed reunion ended with Waters leaving in embarrassment.
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Capper
L. H. Waters
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison
Indiana
United States
Waters
West
Washington
President Harrison
White House
Speed Reduced to Figures in Automobile Stoppage
A New York Herald discussion explains that a car moving at 60 mph would hit with the energy of 200,000 foot pounds, comparable to a 1,000 pound mass dropping 200 feet. If 6,600 pounds resisted, the car would stop in 44 feet, doing work at over 257 horsepower.
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New York Herald
Static electricity blamed for many gin fires
USDA investigations show that many cotton gin fires costing over a million dollars annually are caused by static electricity from friction in machinery. Other causes include matches to cotton, overheated bearings, saw-cotton friction, and sparks from metal. Grounding parts with proper wiring can drain electricity and prevent sparks. circular No. 271 explains the wiring system with diagrams.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Pullman Laundries Handle Vast Linen Volume
Pullman Laundry operations are vast with 65 laundries processing the Pullman linen supply. In one year about 800 million pieces are cleaned and 2,581,840 coats worn by porters and waiters are laundered. Linen is inspected for tears or stains and repaired items are processed while hopelessly soiled items are discarded. The total linen repaired nationwide in a month reached 16,804 pieces.
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Pullman
Pullman Company
Modern Syria as described after 1920 mandate
The article outlines Syria's 60000 square mile area, population of 3 million, and its 1920 independence from Turkey under a French mandate. It notes four administrative provinces Aleppo Alsonito Damascus and Great Lebanon, with a dry east and fertile Great Lebanon, and a Muslim majority population.
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Syria
Georgia
Turkey
France
Aleppo
Alsonito
Damascus
Lebanon
Strange Experience In Vacant Lot Nets Lost Purse
A Chicago Journal account recalls a couple walking at night who lose a small coin purse containing about $9 to $10 in a vacant lot. They search with matches and a flashlight, give up, and later, returning the same way, find the purse.
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Chicago Journal
Largest Extinct Volcano on Maui
The world's largest extinct volcano sits on Maui in Hawaii's national park. Its crater is described as large enough to hold the city of Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Maui
Hawaiian National Park
Stamps That Stick Separate With Paper and Iron
A simple method to separate stuck stamps involves placing a thin piece of paper over them and running a hot iron along the paper. The stamps separate easily while the gum stays intact.
Packing Pictures For Safe Frame Transport
Packing pictures with cork at frame corners prevents rubbing and breakage between adjacent pieces during transit, preserving frames and glass. The simple material cushions edges, reduces chipping, and minimizes movement inside containers.
Cop Worries Over Pocketed Handkerchief Case
In the Yale Record a comic note asks a bystander to aid a police search, joking about a handkerchief marked Susan and possible pickpockets. The quip plays on old lady detective banter and city patrols.
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Susan
Yale Record
Fats and Oils As Strong Energy Source In Diet
The article states fats and oils in the diet are two and a quarter times more effective than proteins or carbohydrates for energy. It discusses comparative energy value of macronutrients and implies dietary emphasis on fats as energy sources.
Cook And Be Independent
A suburban narrator notes a man left alone in summer vacations may turn to simple meals with sardines crackers and garden onions. The piece ponders home cooking as a sport and mocks failures like lemon jelly cake, comparing amateur meals to athletic triumphs in a witty St Louis Globe-Democrat voice.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Romance Fades as Gold Stampede Shifts to Batavia
The piece notes a modern gold rush in Batavia and Kameel boom district, South Africa, where stampedes lack old frontiersmen gear. Stampede speed and motorized transport replace horseback pursuit, with rapid staking and no fatalities. The writer doubts the new field will yield enduring fortune, unlike past Gold Rush lore.
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Batavia
Kameel
South Africa
Western States
Australia
Dried South African Grapes Promise Quality for U S Market
Consul Charles J. Pilar in Cape Town reports South African dried black grapes are being produced mainly to meet American demand. The 1022 crop totaled 850 tons with a hoped yield of 1 00 tons this year, while growers seek a price of 10 to 11 cents per pound in New York. Shippers are pushing for top quality and quality this season is seen as better than last year.
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South Africa
New York
Charles J. Pilar
Cape Town
Department of Commerce
Farm land values in Canada rise to 44 an acre in 1022
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports average occupied farm land value in Canada at 44 per acre for 1022, covering improved and unimproved land plus buildings. Values rose from 40 in 1021 and 43 in 1020, with British Columbia at 120 and Ontario 64 while Alberta stands at 24.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
British Columbia
Ontario
Alberta
Actress Quips Over Marriage License Blank
A county court clerk hands a marriage license blank to an applicant seeking details on name age and previous marriages. A movie actress arrives and studies the form, perplexed by its length. She asks the clerk if a longer blank exists or if three blanks can be pasted together.
Whaling Activity Falls Then Rebounds Less Cash in Oil Season
The report notes whaling operated on a very small scale last year with a fleet active for three months and 187 great mammals captured. This is far below peaks when whale oil price was strong, the best season recording 089 catches.
Escaped Being a Freak
A Boston Evening Transcript remark about a woman whose face is described with a long face and a square chin, provoking judgment on what her appearance would be like if the chin were centered on her face. The tone satirizes beauty norms and public gossip.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Tyrlan Dyes Through Ancient Times to Modern Art
Tyrlan dyes, famed since antiquity, trace to Tyre about 1500 B.C. The English shipped goods to Holland for dyeing until 1608. Modern dyeing owes much to chemical research expanding the art.
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Tyre
Holland
United Press Boys Reunited By Phone
Two World War II veterans Hank Youmans and Bill Cramer reconnect via United Press long distance call. They reminisce about the 120th Infantry of the 32nd Division and the 120th Artillery of the Red Arrows, renewing old friendships and pledging to meet in Madison during a routine newsroom routine.
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United Press
Henry A. Youmang
U. P
Artilery of the Red Arrows
Hank Youmans
Freeman
Bill Cramer
Bhi
Mr. Youmans
Madson
Radio boom brings WEAF program to Washington
Radio fans in Washington hear WEAF broadcasts via Bell System wires from New York City. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company’s station WCAP relays concerts, expanding coverage up to 500 to 1000 miles depending on conditions. The $350,000 Eastern station optimizes static issues by re-routing signals to clearer locales. Folding fans used by English women since Queen Elizabeth’s era are noted in wardrobe inventories.
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Washington
New York City
Cheasapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Ball System
Telephone Company
Bell System
WEAF
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York Company
WCAP
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
New York
Maine
Ilinois
Georgia
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Population density if world were evenly spread
The article calculates that distributing the world’s population over the earth’s 57,255,000 square miles would yield about nine people per square mile. It presents a simple division to illustrate global population density.
Delicate flirtation amid fashion and mischief
A quirky scene blends business with pleasure as a tailor's daughter and her lover clash over trousers, while a wry police exchange and a distant plea for watch and purse add urban whimsy and tension to the fragment.
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Penn State
Preventing infection during childbirth in Maryland
The piece argues that puerperal infection is largely preventable through scrupulous cleanliness by physicians, nurses, midwives, and patients. It urges expectant mothers to secure highly skilled obstetrical care and calls on communities and the state to provide such services if unavailable.
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Maryland
Medical Profession
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Baltimore Sun
S.O
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Baltimore
Philadelphia School For Nurses
Mary Virginia Price
Federalsburg
R. D
Box
Hynson
Journal
Calvert C. Merriken
Atorney-at-Law
Denton, Md
Cook
Eastern Shore State Hospital
Cambridge
Printing Call Journal Office
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