Desert Island Mount Desert Island Becomes National Playground
Mount Desert Island on the Maine coast attracts naturalists and visitors with mountains lakes and trails. Champlain named the Isle of Desert Mountains. later it became Mount Desert praised for scenic beauty bird life and geology. By 1917 part of the island was set aside as a national playground and official bird refuge in Bar Harbor.
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Mount Desert Island
Bar Harbor
Isle of Desert
Champlain
Mount Desert
Mt Desert
Sauety
Bir Harbor
Canvoy
Bir
Astind
Jonz
Mr Desert
Finding Happiness in Work in Forbes Magazine
An essay argues work is a blessing and happiness comes from attitude and excellence. It contends honest effort, whether sweeping streets or painting, turns work into art. Proficiency, enthusiasm, and full effort lead to contentment and success, while idleness yields dissatisfaction.
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Ife
Forbes Magazine
Providence
Seven Wise Men of Greece mottoes and attributions
The Seven Wise Men of Greece were Solon Chilo Pittacus Blas Perlander Lyphnenides Meabulus and Thales noted for practical sagacity. Their celebrated Delphic mottoes credited to each include Know Thyself by Solon Consider the end by Chile Know thy opportunity by Pittacus Most men are bad by Blas Nothing Is impossible to Industry by Perlander Avoul excess by Cleobulus and Suretyship is the precursor of ruin by Thales.
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Greece
Christ
Solon Chilo
Pittacus Blas Perlander
Lyphnenides
Meabulus and
Thales
Delphrin Temple
Solon
Chile
Pittacus
Blas
Perianders
Cleobulus
Making Improvement Through Following Directed Wood Work
A reflection from the New York Evening Telegraph about improving skill by following proven methods in wood work. It argues that by applying and slightly extending others’ approaches every worker can improve gradually and advance in their craft.
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New York Evening Telegraph
First International Expositions in U S History
The first international exposition in the United States was held in New York in 1858. Subsequent pivotal events include the Philadelphia centennial in 1876, the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, the Pan American in Buffalo in 1901, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, marking the era’s major international showcases.
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New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Buffalo
St Louis
San Francisco
Insect Control Guide From A Copy of Ancient Advice
A fragment advises placing a wide mouthed bottle containing oil of mirbane in trunks or closets with the cork removed to emit fumes. It suggests three ounce bottles for small spaces and larger bottles for bigger closets, renewing oil as needed and sprinkling blankets with the oil before packing away for pest control.
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Preston
L. C. Reid
A. Knightson
Sammy Edwards Returns to Circus life after near disaster
Sammy Edwards a taxi driver known as Sammy shifts to circus work after McGuire arranges a bite on the road. He becomes the star of the Great and Gary show, but a leopard cage scare, Kitty’s warning, and a dramatic escape test his resolve before he regains his place with the troupe and with Kitty in the end.
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Sammy Edwards
Kb Fosdick
Toe McGuire
Bass
McGure
Sammy
Star of the Great
Gary
Jr Wes
Sammy Odreke
Circus
Sammoon
McGuirre
New York
Sarmy
Iris
Tim
Dinerous
Lee
de Toment
Kitty
Geltin
Callph
Eliza
Samy
Hindoo
Banner of
Kin
Samim
Bot Hood
Saming
Ritty
Simitar
Jack
Wiitriman
Abarriman
Samms Tadwards
Anu
Schoolbooks of Long Ago from Nippur Tablets
Professor Langdon of Oxford Fog reports that tablets stored at the University of Pennsylvania show children 4200 years ago learned arithmetic and phonetics, with earliest writing syllables and word construction, hinting at ancient literacy and the first steps toward the alphabet. Strange flowers sprouting from shell holes in No Man’s Land are noted by botanists as possibly seeds buried for decades germinating after long dormancy, suggesting war soil may trigger unusual plant growth.
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Langdon
Oxford Fog
Cuniversty
Pennsyivina
Taday
Witen
Minn
Crim son Gulch Hints at Universal Prohibition Shift
Fragmentary report notes a visible improvement in Crimson Gulch and references Pm Dind of afrud and Cretus Joe. The text hints at a broader prohibition theme, with mentions of a metropolis, Coyote Center, and the idea that figures might be “Jesus” if they returned home.
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Pm Dind
Cretus Joe
Aarby
Metropolis
Coyote Center
Universal
Jesus
Fewly Elected President of C and P Telephone Co
Albert E Berry elected president of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies at a Washington meeting. He succeeds Frank N Bethell who resigned. Berry will head the system covering Maryland West Virginia the District of Columbia and parts of Ohio and other listed areas.
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Albert E Berry
Chesapeake and Potomac
Washington
Mr Berry
Frank N Bethell
Berry
Maryland
Nurse Sings For Boy Who Asks For It Again
A nurse entertaining a young patient sings his favorite tune repeatedly. On a morning visit a little voice asks if she has enough tone left to sing the song again, highlighting a playful exchange in the patient’s room.
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Centor Journal
SRD
Melvin Ben H Jowanson
Melvin & Johnson, Publie News
Desert Island
Maine
Mothe
Pyright
McClure
Jysut
Sears
C.& P. Telephone CO
the Farmers & Merchants
State Bank
Denton
Mer
JIS Institution
State Bank 18
John T. Carter
C C Dern
Sherman KL. Hignutt
America
Economic World
Insurance Advocate
Spectator
F. Rawlins
Continental Life Insurance Company
Baltmore Blhominy Co
Seaboard
Baltimore
Pearl Hominy CO
Seaboard Mills
Howard Street Pier
Enn
Pillsbury’s
Harter’s
Eshelman
Swift
Nate Roinamond Dary
Anchor Dairy
Dixie Horse
Tennessee
Eshelman’s
Peninsula Produce Exchange OF
Pocomoke City, Md
Fordson Tractors & Implements
Denton Auto Co
Della Cooper
Ciroline County
Court House
Caroline County
State of
Main Or
Market Street
Third Street
George T. Redden
James T Cooper
Jacob Ghinghe
Albert G Towers
Harvey L Cooper
James Temple
Board of Education of
Covey Bros
Hov
Nelson H. Fooks
Alex Noble
Chase Harrison
W T Turp
Austin
Nuttle & Hughes
Covey & Stevens
Auds
Journal
Exon
S. EH. Douglas
Nuttle Hardware Co
Denton, Maryland
Hallet & Davis Pianos
Victor Victrolas
M. K. Newnam
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