Wood Waste and the Bell Bystem Treating Plants for Conerving Life of Chestnut Poles
A National Conference on the Curation of Forest Products highlights reducing wood waste. Bell system actions include butt treating plants in Natural Bridge, Shipman, Ceredo, Sylva, Nashville, Danbury, Willimantic to preserve chestnut poles. Open tank creosote treatment protects below ground decay. 31,000 poles in Washington area to be replaced in 1926, with 70 percent butt treated.
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United States
Washington, D. C
United States Forest Service
Bell System
Natural Bridge
Shipman
Ceredo
W. Va
Sylva
N. C
Nashville
Bilght
Potomac River
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Bell Amateur
Pole Creosoting Method Extends Chestnut Timber Use
The butt ends of poles are treated by immersion to one foot above ground, with six months plus seasoned wood. Hot creosote at 212 230F stays seven hours, then cold oil at 100 110F flows in for four hours. The process saturates about 95 percent of sapwood, using 2 4 gallons per pole, aiding conservation of valuable chestnut timber.
Poles stock held by Western Electric to aid storm restoration
Western Electric Company maintains adequate stocks of electric light and telephone poles to speed service restoration after storm damage. Poles are cut under scientific forestry regulations to ensure sustainable supply.
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Western Electric Company
Carpet-Baggers and Their Reign in Reconstruction
The term Carpet-Baggers mocked norther n political adventurers who invaded the southern states after the Civil War. For ten years 1860 to 1876 they used the negro vote to win chief offices, plunder, run up debt, and steal proceeds. In 1877 President Hayes withdrew federal protection and their system collapsed, allowing whites to regain government control.
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Hayes
Kansas City Star
Movement of Glaciers in 1912 Swiss Alps Report
The Swiss Alpine Club records show the Aletsch Glacier retreated about ten feet in 1912 after losses near 60 feet in 1911 and slightly more in 1910. The Rhine Glacier retreated 34 feet, with cumulative declines totaling around 70 feet from the prior year. Of 52 smaller glaciers surveyed, most show retreat, and the Berna region glacier continues a pattern of substantial fluctuation.
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Swiss Alpine Club
ST Aletsch
Rhine
Alpine Club
Bermina
Real Rain in India Monsoon Drys Clothes Amid Wet Season
The piece describes India's four month monsoon with near constant rain. People use tokii baskets with charcoal fires to dry clothes and keep wet garments in tin containers to protect them. Monsoon benefits Nadlan by preventing famine where rains fall.
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India
Nadlan
Bali Men Steal Wives From Bali Tradition Report
The Family Herald describes Bali men abducting wives as a centuries old practice. Lovers coordinate glances and secret meetings to gauge consent then abduct women in secrecy. If caught, the groom negotiates forgiveness. a failed third entreaty leads to banishment from village.
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Bali
Be Beautiful at Thirty in Woman's Companion
Hazel Rawson Cades argues that charm at thirty comes from effort and mindset. She suggests women can look better than ever by dressing well, gaining poise, and cultivating grooming, grace, and mental qualities, rather than relying on youth.
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Hazel Rawson Cades
Martins Plan Quiet Evening Ended by Child’s Demand
Signals The Martins were set for no evening call but four year old Juanita Martin bored with the Bergers’ entertainment. She climbed into her father’s lap and whispered, Start your headache, daddy, start your headache, prompting a change in plans as the family headed home after ten.
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Mr. Martin
Juanita Martin
Morie Confesses Truth in Classroom Tale
A young Morie admits a fib but defends the act with pride, claiming she believed her grandmother’s false tale. The exchange shows a modern child’s view of conscience, with Morie insisting that her granny believed the story and that no guilt remains.
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Molle
Auitie
Ste
Granny
Morie
Telephoto heart diagnosis demo wows Atlantic City crowd
Fifteen hundred physicians at the American Medical Association session witnessed a telephoto diagnosis demo from Steel Pier Atlantic City. A stethogram of a heartbeat was sent 1,000 miles to Chicago, where Dr. James St Greer diagnosed irregularity and prognosis with digitalis context. Dr. Samuel W Lambert in New York joined by telephone as the images and discussion moved between cities.
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American Medical Association
Steel Pier
Atlantic City
N. J
Chicago
H. B. Wiliams
Columbia University
Bell Teléphone Laboratories
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York City
James St. Greer
Samuel W. Lambert
New York
Greer
Dr. Greer
Lambert
Wild Geese Break Old V Formation in Flight
In White Salmon Washington a flock of wild geese abandoned the classic V in favor of a crescent shape. The New York Sun cites observations from aviation patterns, scout drills, and air service formations, suggesting test-like behavior rather than mere accident. The piece ponders whether geese adapt through empirical study of air dynamics taught by human examples and war patterns.
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Wash Ingteb
Crescent
New York Sun
Air Service
African Coast Natives Use Beetles as Food
A Conquest writer notes West African natives eat the Goliath beetle boiled as a delicacy. The beetle’s striking fur, resembling ermine and velvet, contrasts with its black and white coat. Its nest construction is studied. a cocoon specimen rests in London’s Natural History Museum, 14 inches long with 8 inch girth and thin clay walls.
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Africa
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
England
OF the Squirrel Family Jewellers of the mountains
The jewellers are beaverlike rodents of northern California to British Columbia living in wet vegetated mountains. They form colonies, hibernate, and collect woody plants and ferns near burrows to dry before storing. Indians used their soft fur, and they differ structurally from beavers, forming their own family rooted as ancestral to squirrels.
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California
Electric Strip Mine Near Cuba Bright with Power
Electric works at a strip mine near Cuba show 1800 horsepower powering the process. Shovels clear soil, electric coal diggers strike the deposit thirty feet below, then electric shovels gather coal and load cars for cleaning and screening at the pole.
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Cuba
Don't talk politics so much says wife to taxidermist
A Louisville Courier-Journal quip features a wife urging her husband the lazy taxidermist to focus on his work, with a sharp line about politics and performance. The brief, humorous remark highlights domestic wit and rural character in a single witty exchange.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Modern Ages of Man At thirty Ambition
Ambition marks the thirtys era while at forty the path shifts toward Rieh and by fifty the focus turns to a sanatorium, reflecting a San Francisco Chronicle style reflection on aging stages.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Kilt Not National Dress of Scotland
A historical note explains the kilt is not Scotland’s nation dress, limited to the Highlands and suppressed after the 1746 Jacobite uprising. It cites Magnus Warefoot’s eleventh century mention and 1725 Letters from the North of Scotland describing Highland attire with a plaid and tartan.
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Scotland
Highlands
Lowlands
Magnus Warefoot
Hebrides
North of Scotland
The Flying Dutchman Legend Haunts Cape Waters
The Kansas City Times recalls the superstition of the Flying Dutchman as a phantom ship seen in tempestuous seas off the Cape of Good Hope. It purportedly carried treasure from which its wicked crew were cursed, sailors fleeing port, plague spreading aboard, and the specter doomed to haunt the seas as punishment for murder and piracy.
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Sabors
Cape
Whiter Scott
Kansas City Times
Potter Household Breakfast Debate Over Fried Mush
Exclaimed Potter curses fried mush at breakfast while Afra and Mrs. Potter discuss having it more often. Potter hints money is tight yet promises to pursue vittles, as Exehlinnge notes the budget strain.
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Potter
Afra
Mr. Potter
Exehlinnge
Resourceful Man and the Drafty Doorbell
A policeman delivering summons for unpaid rent faced a reluctant resident who bolted inside and grabbed a bellows. After repeated door placements failing to stay, the officer finally lifted the summons and quipped that the tenant likely owed rent for a drafty doorway.
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Fnally
Sea Oil Wells Spotted Across Ocean Surfaces
Reports describe sea areas where large oil-covered patches stretch for miles. Surface slicks trace to oil-carrying ships or submarine bottom wells. Bubbling oil has been observed offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and near the western coast of South America.
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Gulf of Mexico
South America
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Seyee
Urmyc
I Clace Reams
Watt
Charmis
Colgate
Denton
Colgate's
Squirrel
DE Laval
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John W. Henry
Easton
L. B. Towers
Pres
Denton, Maryland
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Sec
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Cale
House of
Songat
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