Journey from Charleston to St Augustine Reveals Southern City Life
The narrator describes a voyage from Charleston to St Augustine via Jacksonville, noting Fort Sumter, warm Florida days, San Marco Avenue hospitality, and a tour of the old town including the slave market. The piece shifts to a feature on rain and water, detailing the government’s work on rainfall, underground rivers, water quality, and stream discharge stations guiding water power, supply planning, and irrigation.
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Charleston
Fort Sumter
St. John’s River
Florida
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Old City
San Marco Avenue
Old Town
Anastasia Island
United States
Central States
Herschel the Musician and Astronomer of Fame
Herschel, famed for planetary discovery, was also a gifted musician who ran Bath Orchestra in his youth. In the late 1600s he stood among remarkable contemporaries like Franklin, Pitt, Burke, Gibbon, Watts, Reynolds, Voltaire, Blackstone, Goldsmith, Wellington, George III, and Washington.
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Herschel
Bath
Benjamin Franklin
Fox
Pitt
Burke
Slame
Gibbon
Watts
Sheridan
Garrick
Gainsborough
West
Reynolds
Voltaire
Paine
Blackstone
Goldsmith
Duke of Wellington
George the Third
England
Washington
Moorish Ponce De Leon Hotel Tour Through Luxury
The narrator describes visiting the Ponce De Leon and nearby Alcazar and Cordova hotels. Lush verandas, marble interiors, ornate fountains, and Tiffany level furnishings create a fairyland ambiance. He hints at future visits to Anastasia Island and notes the hotels’ relevance to engineers and water resource studies.
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Ponce de Leon
Alcazar
Ponce
Cordova
Anastasia Island
Sowers
Relic of Bull Run Monument Erected After War near Groveton
A small rude monument stands on the Bull Run battlefield about a thousand yards northwest of Groveton crossroads beside the old railroad cut. Veterans who returned after Appomattox paused to erect and dedicate it in a wooded, rarely visited site.
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Bull Run
Groveton
Manassas Gap
Gainsville
Vac
Leesburg
Sudley Springs
Sudley
Jackson
Hne
Flere
Washington
Warrentown
Arington
Hotels for Women Needed in New York
Mrs Clarence Burns president of the Little Mothers Association told the New York Federation of Women's Clubs that only three options face working girls earning $3 a week. She urged building Mills hotels offering cheap, respectable lodging for 22 708 saleswomen and 3 094 boxmakers plus other wage earners to prevent starvation and desperation.
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New York
Clarence Burns
Little Mother’s Association
New York Federation of Women’s Clubs
New York City
Burns
Mills Hotels
Federation of Women’s Clubs
The Dead Sea of America Great Salt Lake Utah Details
The Great Salt Lake Utah spans seventy five miles long and thirty five miles wide with a 291 mile circumference and six islands. The largest island measures sixteen by five miles and peaks at about 3000 feet. Its hypersaline waters allow easy floating and rival the Dead Sea in density. The lake's shoreline is gradually retreating.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
Sugar beet tale from Colorado farm boom tale
A Colorado farmer recounts an extraordinary sugar beet growth incident driven by river water and irrigation. The beet swelled enormous, forcing explosive harvest and a chain of profit moves including selling bulk for processing, fattening cattle, and shipping to Chicago. The tale ends with plans to plant more beets and a promise of another奇 story about a water melon.
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Shannasy
Colorado
Shugar Bates
Gunneson
Gunnison
Hocky Ford
Agricultural Department
Chicago
Rizevoor
Talking clocks awaken with voice and cockcrow alarms
The invention creates clocks that speak the hours via talking discs instead of bells. Alarms feature varied voices and birds or well known voices, with discs changeable to prevent familiarization and keep sleepers from dozing off.
Deception in Canvasback Duck Preparation Exposed
A historic piece notes how hotels and manufacturers imitate canvasback duck flavor by feeding common ducks celery. It contrasts Chesapeake Bay wild ducks feeding on wild celery with Wisconsin ducks on celery fields. It warns decoys and warns anglers of the bird’s diving escape behavior when wounded.
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Chesapeake
Wisconsin
Wolverine
Chesapeake Bay
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St. John’s
Uncle Sam
Herschlel
Dead Sea of America
O’shannasy
Cleveland
Rockefellera
Angle Manufacturing CO
Murray ST
ROVS
Rec
Columbia Novelty CO
Dept.g
Boston
Mass
Pittsburg National
Friend Supply CO
Washington Street
Dept
N. P.C.C
National Photographic Chemical Company
11Th Street
Pa. Ave
N. W
Washington, D. C
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
Miss Roosevelt
National Photo-Souvenir CO
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