Entrance Examinations for Engineering and Arts and Sciences
Baltimore notices announce entrance exams in Gilman Hall for the Department of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences from Monday through Thursday September 16 with scholarship applications now being received. Competitive exams on Friday September 20 will determine scholarship awards. districts and counties will share awards under state law with full tuition textbooks and fees covered for scholars.
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College of Arts and Sciences
Gilman Hall
Hourtewood
Maryland
Balticore City
eneh
Howard
Worcester
Act of Assembly
carrive
Loyola College
St. John’s College
Washington College
Western Maryland College
Maryland Agricultural College
Mt. St. Mary’s College
Rock Hall College
Dolly Varden gown and ballroom love in old manor
Eleanor Brooke searches the attic for a gown to wear to a grand independence ball with General Washington due, hopes the Dolly Varden dress will charm John Eversfield. A thoughtful note from John arrives with a miniature, and at the dance she finally reveals her feelings, accepting his proposal during the minuet.
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Eleanor Brooke
London
Eleanor
Washington
pausine
Upper Marlborouh
Annapolis
lis
Georgetown
Alexandria
Baltimore
maids Inn
Marlborough
Upper
Mattapony Landing
Clem
Jake
John Everfield
Allan Bowie
Ruth Worthington
John
John, Jr
Tie
Alec Worthington
Dolly Varden
John Eversfield
Ruth
Tom
Tohn
John Nyersfield
Aesthetics and Health Link Sanitary Reform
The New York Medical Journal argues that health and beauty are intertwined, noting that public aversion to ugliness drives cleanliness and sanitary improvements. It claims medical science increasingly uses aesthetics to promote public health, suggesting that awakening the sense of beauty is a chief means to advance sanitation.
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New York Medical Journal
Remarkable Feat of Memory Text Exchange
A Boston Transcript remark notes a father and son exchange about learning four French words. The boy reports grasping Grenade village envelope and lo comotive, and the father asks for their French forms, the boy replies they are the same words in French as in English.
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Boston Transcript
Heaviest Man That Ever Lived
An anonymous author of a new weight loss book cites Daniel Lambert as the heaviest man recorded. Lambert, born 1770 died 1809, reportedly weighed 739 pounds at death, an Englishman whose size predates Banting and Harvey.
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Daniel Lamhbert
Daddy Lambert
Daniel Lambert
Harvey
Lambert
Thames penny steamers reach Tigris in wartime aid
Eleanor Franklin Egan recounts how Thames penny steamers joined a British riverine fleet to the Tigris, five reaching the river from eleven launched ships after long perilous voyages via the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Red Sea. Eighty-six ships were lost, including six Thames boats, as part of a remarkable but costly effort.
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Tigris
Mesopotamia
Persian gulf
Eleanor Franklin Egan
Evening Post
Ganges
Indus
Irawads
Nile
Africa
Siklang
Thames
Richmond
Putney
Henley
London
Atlantic
Biseay
Portugal
Spain
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Suez canal
Red sea
Arabian sea
England
Canals Begin Stocking New Fish Ponds
New York moves to stock the beds of the old Erie and Champlain canals with fish. Construction is done and consignments of yellow perch fry are being planted in a section of the old Erie canal near Amsterdam. State officials say perch spawn collected in Adirondack lakes is a menace being removed, yielding a double benefit.
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New York
Erie canal
Amsterdam
conservation commission
Adirondack
Destroying Airplanes and Sentry's Misstep in War Report
An official report recalls British aviators and mechanics destroying their planes to prevent German capture of secrets. One brave aviator blew himself and his aircraft with a bomb rather than surrender. A sentry at night wrongly hailed an officer of the day, greeting a voice he did not recognize with casual good night.
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Tie
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CAROLINE COUNTY BANK
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