Time-Saving Habits of World Leaders Revealed
A London Tit-Bits feature profiles Lord Rhondda Lloyd George Arthur Balfour Theodore Roosevelt and J D Rockefeller as master time managers. It notes Rhondda rises early works at breakfast and even settles matters before the office door. Lloyd George conducts affairs from No 10 and often sits up all night for urgent issues. Balfour dictating letters during meals and drafting speeches before debates. Roosevelt writes on horseback planning replies and articles. Rockefeller favors concise negotiations and delegates details to trusted aides.
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Rhondda
England
London
Lloyd George
10 Downing street
No. 10
Arthur Balfour
house of commons
Roosevelt
J. D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Tablets Four Thousand Years Old Unearthed In Translating Study
Professor F T Kelly of the University of Wisconsin translated about thirty Mesopotamian tablets dating to 2000 B C. The cuneiform Lumherian texts are hard to read due to mixed scripts and unfamiliar grammar. Most tablets are commodity lists with cows, sheep, grain, and bread recorded in exchange or ritual contexts.
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B.C
University of Wisconsin
F. Tb. Kelly
department of Seattle
Erech
Sir-Evarashayr
Shadohebiranl
Takuurt
Fifteen on the Fifteenth Birthday Reverie
Laura Spencer Porter compares a fifteenth birthday to a balance of youth and homage in a lyrical Atlantic Monthly fragment. She muses that fourteen feels unripe and sixteen too mellow, arguing that fifteen on the fifteenth is a near perfect moment for celebration.
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Solomon
Laura Spencer Porter
Exequatur In Diplomatic Use and Limitations
Exequatur grants a foreign consul permission to act within a host country. The accrediting government issues the permit, and can revoke it for any reason. A consul may be unacceptable to the host nation and be denied or may lose the right to act after issuance.
Motives Matter More Than Results, Says Local Minister
A local minister argues that motives shape character and guide conduct. He decries the view that results excuse poor motives, saying unguided motives lead to embarrassment and danger, while pure reason should ground actions for life’s greater joys.
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Ife
Los Angeles
First Baby Bottle From Hollow Gourd Unearthed
An ancient feeding vessel likely carved from a hollow gourd served as an early baby bottle. Archaeologists note the vase like bottle dated six to seven thousand years before Christ, globular in shape with knobs that may have hung bells, functioning as both bottle and rattle in one.
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Uritisti Manuseum
Christ
Kilmaarpock Town Hums With Poets and Burns Lore
In Kilmaarpock, a plain factory town, many poets arise from its rhythms. The Burns monument in Ayr draws visitors to see Jean Armour’s wedding ring and the Burns Bible. Yet true Burns identity lies in Ayrshire’s people, life, and countryside rather than artifacts or footsteps, a lyric landscape still shaping local wit and thought.
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Kilmaarpock
Burns
Ayr
Jean Armour
Highland Mary
fledr
Burng
Ayrshire
Evergreen leaves in evergreen trees studied by Miss Pease
Miss Vinnie A. Pease studied Pacific Northwest evergreens to determine leaf retention. The California buckthorn sheds some leaves in autumn and holds others until the next season, while the short leaved yew retains leaves for five to twelve years, with some up to 23. Saplings lose leaves faster than mature trees and open-site trees drop leaves sooner than those in shade.
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Vinnie A. Pease
Pacific Northwest
California
Prophecies From Gottingen Professor Fail To Bind
R J Genre notes in American Medicine that Dr Christopher Girtanner, a famed Gottingen professor, predicted a future where gold could be altered and widely produced. He foresaw chemists and artists awakening gold production and metals like kitchen utensils becoming silver or gold, aiding longevity despite oxides of copper, lead, and iron in daily diet.
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Christopher Girtanner
Gottingen
kite
R. J
Snakes Haunt New Jersey Woods In A Photographers Lesson
A nature photographer in New Jersey and eastern New York gathers startling insights after encountering a congregation of black snakes. He and a boy companion watch snakes climb trees and loop between branches, learning how these reptiles hide and move to confuse pursuers.
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Jersey
New Jersey
New York
Strange Weddings in India Playful Bombay Rites Painted Town Red
The Leople's Home Journal notes weddings in Bombay feature guests throwing red powder, staining clothes and faces. Hindu temple ceremonies have bridesmaids drenching the bride and mother and grandmother in water while priests chant and fires glow. The groom remains outside amid well wishers as East traditions crown the groom with attention.
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Bombay
India
Leople
far
Emperor penguin eggs hatch on feet in Antarctica
A discussion of maternal instincts notes that emperor penguins lay a single egg on the parents’ feet to avoid freezing, with warmth provided by bare skin and surrounding feathers. It cites other cases, including Venezuelan frogs and the morbid behavior of the mother scorpion allowing offspring to feed on her body.
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Antarctic
Richard A. Mattkowski
University of Missouri
America
Mattkowski
Tea Shipments Up as Americans Drink More
The Shizuka Maru of Nippon Steamship Company arrived in Seattle from Yokohama with 21 398 packages of tea. Each package weighed about 85 pounds, surpassing the previous season’s Yokohama total set by the Tumba Maru. The cargo also included 2000 packages of raw silk 2575 cases of rubber 2215 rolls of matting 598 cases of toys 807 cases of porcelain 3225 cases of manufactured cotton and sick goods and 5233 sacks of peanuts.
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United States
Shizuka Maru
Nippon Steamship company
Seattle
Yokohama
Shizuka
Bryson Shifts to U S Naval Plan With Glass Bottom Boats
Charles R. Bryson, president of Electric Steel, rejected a 4 million shrapnel order from Britain for humanitarian reasons and now aids the United States. A Pittsburgh correspondent reports Bryson has submitted his glass-bottom patrol boat concept to the government as a potential method to combat German U boats mines and other sea perils.
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Charles R. Bryson
Electric Steel company
Uncle Sam
Pittsburgh
New York
Conserving Leather Use to Save Army Footwear
A department of agriculture advisory explains civilian leather conservation to extend shoe life. Grease when dry, prevent run-over heels with heel plates, and half-sole when practical to reduce costs and keep soldiers properly shod.
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department of agriculture
If you have been made by nature short and plump
The column advises women toward forty to address overplumpness with systematic exercise, reducing baths, diets, and simple lifelong habits. It notes external and internal remedies, warns some cures are costly or burdensome, and suggests practical steps like cutting sweets, sipping hot water before breakfast, and drinking water between meals.
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Mother’s Magazine
I Am Carelessness The Deadly Foe of Humanity
An old Baltimore Sun quotation declares Carelessness as humanitys worst enemy. It claims it destroys more lives than wars, wipes out wages, and haunts every field from home to factory, urging vigilance to avoid its silent, pervasive damage.
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United States
Bea
Baltimore Sun
Dietary rules for the aged offer cautious guidance
The Nascher method, summarized by the Medical Journal, urges reducing total food intake for the elderly, chopping finely as teeth wear, favoring well cooked vegetables high in cellulose, and serving meals in liquid or mush form. Dry foods, smoked items, and nuts are avoided. meals every four to five hours are advised with mild alcohol at meals or bedtime. Overeating on rare delicacies should be avoided.
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N. Nascher
Medical Association of
Greater City of
New York
Medical Journal
Doctor Nascher
How the Bees Keep Warm
The text explains bees endure winter by forming a compact shell of bees with heads inward to conserve heat. Inside the shell bees fan wings and move rapidly to generate warmth, while outer bees stay still. In one case a bee’s seven and a half minutes of rapid fanning raised a nearby thermometer by half a degree.
Inception of copper-toed boots by Newman Silverthorne
A Toronto Star writer notes that copper-toed boots emerged about sixty years ago when Newman Silverthorne, driven by need while traveling through wild countryside, spurred innovation. Boot makers objected to the new wear, but advertising built a market. Silverthorne, now very elderly, lives under his daughter’s care.
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Toronto Star
Newman Silverthorne
Silverthorne
Plumbago Mines in Ceylon and their crude extracting methods
The article notes Plumbago as Ceylon s key mineral known globally for luster and polish. About 1 000 mines exist from shallow pits to 700 feet deep mostly worked by locals, with Medapola as the principal European controlled site. Machinery is minimal, a wooden barrel and rope powered by seven or eight men.
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Ceylon
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