Billy's Check No. 101
Billy Osgood a conscientious young artist falls for Marlon Hines and takes a risky job painting Belter's roof with a giant Belter sign. He earns seven hundred fifty dollars, balks at profiting from ill gotten gain, returns the money, then plans marriage and reveals the truth when Belter's ad makes headlines.
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Ostead
Osgood
Martone
Belter
Marlon
Billy
Marion
Hecht
Ply
Belter’s
Utopia as Portrayed by Sir Thomas More
A concise overview of More’s Utopia as a fictional island described in De Optima Republicane Statu. Raphael Hythloday, a companion of Amerigo Vespucci, is credited with discovering the island where just laws and enlightened institutions sustain a near perfect commonwealth.
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Utopia
Sir Thomas More
Island of
Raphael Hythloday
Amerigo Vespucch
Chambers Cyclopedia
Wild Silkworm Culture in Chinese Provinces
The Detroit News reports tussah silk comes from wild silkworm cocoons in Shantung Henan and Szechwan. It is less fine yet more durable than ordinary silk. The wild tussah feeds on oak leaves and thrives in humid air, with acorns bearing fruit after seven to eight years.
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Shantung
Henan
Szechwan
China
Detroit News
Sorrow and Consolation By William Dean Howells
A reflective meditation on sorrow and consolation in bereavement. Howells argues sorrow remains nobler than dwelling on loss and can be patient cheerful and self sacrificing. He urges mourners seek a practical act of comfort by ministering to others in distress.
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William Dean Howells
Rubber Found in Coal Petrified in German Lignite
Rubber found in brown coal deposits described as monkey hairs, strange fibers later identified as vulcanized rubber. Analysis shows long-term vulcanization due to high sulfur content, with variations from soft vulcanized rubber to ebonite in different hynite deposits.
Cause of sneezing in reflex act myth and irritation
Involuntary spasmodic expulsion of air through the nose and mouth is caused by irritation of nasal nerves from dust particles. The reflex may also be triggered by excessive earwax buildup.
Leather Becomes Cheaper Through Modern Methods
Leather is now the cheapest basic commodity in the country due to improved finishing processes, machinery, and utilization of by products saving the public millions.
Back at the old home a weary return to Mamie
Jim Steel, after twenty years away, returns to his hometown seeking the past. He recalls a love now altered by time and change as he wanders through familiar streets, sees old haunts replaced, and faces the painful truth that the place he remembers no longer exists. A longing for Mamie resurfaces on the bungalow veranda as he realizes settling back home is unlikely.
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Osgood
Marlon
Belter
Africa
Mamiel
Mamie
Gilpin
Jim
Chester Turton
Dibney
Dib
Jim Stdel
School Street
Floyd
Mumle
New York
Marvel of Accuracy Used by Astronomers
An astronomer studies stars by splitting their light to learn composition. Two methods exist: prism dispersion and a diffraction grating plate with about 15 000 lines per inch. Gratings are produced by a precise machine with a diamond cutter, kept underground to maintain temperature.
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London
Mythic Charon and the Coin of Passage
The Detroit News notes Charon, son of Erebus and Nox, ferries shades across the lower world’s rivers for payment. The rite, a coin placed in the dead’s mouth, ensures safe passage. neglect risks the shade wandering along Acheron.
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Charon
Erebus
Nox
Detroit News
Acheron
Char
History of English alphabet origins and reigns
The article traces the English alphabet from its Roman roots through Ethelbert’s Christian conversion and Hertha’s influence, noting transitions from Anglo-Saxon to Franco-English forms, a final English alphabet emergence by 1600, revisions by 1789, and that over 70 percent of English words derive from Greco Latin roots.
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Ethelbert
Kent
Hertha
Britain
California Forest Wealth and Tourism Highlight State Resources
California holds about 15 percent of remaining virgin timber in the United States. The forest wealth is valued at 750 million dollars and one tenth of wage earners in California work in the lumbering industry. Over 4 million tourists visited the forests last year.
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United States
California
Meaning of Caliph Caliph Title Abolished in Turkey
The high-sounding title caliph, now officially abolished in Turkey, means a successor. It was first adopted by the father of the Prophet's wife Ayesha, who became Islam’s second ruler.
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Turkey
Ayesha
Flemish King Gambrinus and Beer’s Founder Legend
The inventor of beer is reputed to be Gambrinus, a Flemish king. The name Gambrinus may derive from Jan Primus or John the First, duke of Brabant, dating to the thirteenth century.
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Gambrinus
Jan Primus
John the First
Brabant
Swedish Match Industry Innovator G B H Pasch 1844
A Swedish inventor G B H Pasch devised the Match Industry in 1844. The industries he founded grew to enable Swedish manufacturers to produce about one third of the world supply of matches.
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G. B H. Pasch
Nan
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R. C. Jackson
Greensboro
Charles H. Steelman
North 3Rd St
Denton, Md
W. H. Thawley
Chestertown, MD
THE
Denton National Bank
Call Journal Office
Doubleday, Page & Co
Illy Osgood
Marlon Hines
Belter Company
Perseus
Old Belter
Old Better
Ufe
Relter
Hus Elty
Buly
Foyy
Hines
Dilly
Willum Osgood
Murion
California’s Lumber
Sweden
Wes
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