A Sailor’s Memoir of Trials and Shipwrecks in the Tropics
A nineteen year old narrator recalls a vow to return home after a voyage from England to see if God would spare him. He describes capture by a Turkish rover, slavery in Brazil, a voyage seeking slave labor, a wreck off South America, and survival on a remote island where he builds shelter, rafts, and tools, planting crops and fending for himself as days blur into months.
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Daniel Defoe
London
Moorfields
Daniel
Whiliam III
Newgate
Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Hull
Guinea
Africa
Brazils
South America
I am to escape the island and set sail for England
An autobiographical narrative recounts a solitary years on a deserted island adapting to storms and scarcity. After discovering Friday and training him in English, the narrator builds a boat, defeats approaching cannibals, and sails with Friday's help. A mutinous English ship, a Spaniard survivor, and a prosperous island colony follow. After 28 years, 2 months, and 19 days, he returns to England changed, with riches and a desire for retirement.
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Srvages
Friday
England
Brazos
Old Island
The
Post Publishing Co
Boston Post
Long courtship humor from a Birmingham paper
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip notes a couple’s twenty year courtship, joking that the bride made the first mud pie the groom ever ate. The exchange frames a playful courtship memory in a local newspaper voice.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Pulp Yields 20 Commodities Exhibition in Portland
Twenty products derived from pulp of spruce and hemlock are shown by the West Coast Lumbermen's association in Portland Oregon. Prepared by the United States forests products laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, the display travels nationwide for inspection. Items include silk cloth and stockings gun powder paper absorbent substitute for absorbent cotton paper bagging rope and twine linoleum shingles reed fiber for furniture and matting paper lath rug yarn paper webbing and phonograph records.
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West Coast Lumbermen’s Association
Portland
Ore
United States Forests Products Laboratory
University of Wisconsin
Indianapolis News
War Brides Return in Large Numbers from America to France
Mrs Reginald H Johnson head of the new L Espoir France American club in Pittsburgh says about 12000 of the roughly 50000 French war brides have gone back to France due to incompatibilities in American and French customs The club formed at the suggestion of Mile Odette de Bouglon of Paris aims to broaden the interests of French brides and help them adjust to life in their new homes
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France
Reginald H. Johnson
L'Espoir
Pittsburgh
Odette de Bouglon
Paris
Atmericcnans Everseasy
Pictures Show Effects on Tires in Slow Motion Study
A tire company uses slow motion pictures to analyze what happens when a heavily loaded motor truck climbs a curb drops off an elevation or bumps over a railroad track. This represents the first use of this photography form in tire testing and will aid in understanding tire and highway shock effects.
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Linge
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Hochschild, Kohn & Co
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WM. Croll
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