New Van Doren Biography Reframes Franklin as Grand Figure
Western Newspaper Union notes Carl Van Doren’s 800 page biography of Benjamin Franklin, highlighting Franklin’s diverse roles as printer, diplomat, scientist, and moralist. It stresses the new material, including early writings and private papers, and argues the work offers a unified, vivid portrait beyond the Autobiography.
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Benjamin Franklin
Carl van Doren
Viking Press of
New York
Franklin
Boston
James
Ben
New England Courant
Philadelphia
Deborah Read
Samuel Keimer
Hugh Meredith
James Franklin
Richard
Pennsylvania Gazette
Carlisle
Catherine Ray
Pennsylvania
Insurance Company
Baron Munchausen
Raspe
Grand Ohio Company
James Boswell
Wedderburn
Pennsylvania ‘Committee of Safety
P Richard
van Doren
Dr Goddard’s Rockets and Beulah Land Singfest Echoes
Dr Robert H Goddard, long at Roswell New Mexico funded by Daniel Guggenheim, shows steady rocket progress with gyro steering and 30 percent range gains while Major Randolph weighs rockets for long range bombardment. The piece also notes Sir Richard Gregory and biocracy debates as science and religion intersect.
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AJEW
James R. Randolph
Doctor Goddard
Army
Roswell
N. M
Daniel Guggenheim Foundation
Major Randolph
Goddard
Clark University
Earth
Beulah Land
Richard Gregory
Plain valance for three windows with crinoline interlining
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes making a plain valance for a Davenport with beige slipcover and glass curtains. She specifies a four inch wide valance board, L brackets, underboard rods, six inch deep valance, crinoline interlining, and tacked top fold, plus optional striped overdrapes and fringe in green tan or blue.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Nervous Relief for Women
An advertisement touts Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a general tonic for nervousness irritability and distress in women claiming over sixty years of use and more than a million testimonials. It suggests the product helps calm nerves strengthen resistance and ease symptoms linked to female functional disorders.
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van Doren
Deceas
Trydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Natural Friendship Quote By Hazlitt
A short quotation attributing a view on friendship by William Hazlitt notes that friendship has no set rules and must develop freely, unlike forced relationships or enforced love.
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Hazlitt
The Kruschen fat loss plan headline
A New York City feature reports 25 women shed 286 pounds in 40 days using a plan combining light meat and vegetables with a daily half teaspoon of Kruschen in hot water. The ad urges adherence for 28 days to lose fat, improve health, and buy Kruschen at local druggists.
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New York
N. Y
Nown
Roper
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Western Newspaper Union
Elmo Scott Watson
Pennsylvania Assembly
Braddock
England
Colonies
Junto
Young Ben
London
David Martin
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Paris
France
Joseph-Sifre de Duplessis
New York Public Library
Franklin IN
Philadelpha
Robert Feke
John Greenwood
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University
By. Lemuel F. Parton
Dr.Goddard
Queens College, London
Nature
Rof. Walter. B. Cannon
Harvard
Howard Scott
Scott
John the Baptist
Professor Cannon
Cannon
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Iat of
Sci
By Ruth Wyeth Spears
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