Titanic Lighthouse Becomes Officially Mapped Landmark
After seven years the Seamen's Church Institute lighthouse on the roof gained government chart recognition in New York harbor. The green beacon, once ignored, now appears as a fixed point with a star on maps. The memorial lighthouse commemorates the Titanic disaster and features 7500 candlepower Cooper Hewitt lamps 211 feet above street level. It also bears a 4 foot time ball dropping at standard noon daily.
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Seamen's Church Institute
New York Harbor
Newfoundland
Cooper Hewitt
L Ughthouse
Arry
Bill
Luonin
Buried in Pyramids at Teotihuacan City of the Gods
Archaeologists excavating San Juan Teotihuacan report two sun and moon pyramids holding tombs of tribal dignitaries. They uncover stone coffins, obsidian knives, terracotta heads, and an ancient jadette mask. Inscriptions with Chinese characteristics found near La Ciudadela suggest a larger, older pyramid.
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Uztle
San Juan Teotihuacan
la Ciudadela
Whence Comes Turpentine From Pine Resin
The article explains how turpentine is derived from pine resin. Wounding the tree bark triggers resin-secreting cells to exude resin, which is collected in a receptacle, distillation yields turpentine, and the remaining rosin has various uses including explosives.
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Kansas City Star
America's Telephone Industry in 1917 Census Report
The census bureau reports 53,234 telephone events and lines in 1917, with 28,827,188 miles of wire, 1,716,520 telephones, and 21,175 exchanges. Messages totaled 21,845,722,335, equaling 211 per person based on 1917 population.
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America
Bureau of the Census
United States
Heart Expels Bullets in War Surgical Feats
Sir Charles Ballance, consulting surgeon at St Thomas Hospital London, discusses remarkable heart surgeries in the Lancet. He notes bullets that pierced the heart are often expelled through the aorta with blood and lodge in distant arteries, illustrating surprising heart wound outcomes.
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Sir Charles Ballance
St. Thomas’ Hospital
London
Bump the Bumps for Electric Irons
A large electric manufacturer subjects a sample iron to a series of bumps on a hard surface to simulate shocks during use. A well-built iron is expected to withstand the testing from 16 to 24 hours before it fails or is deemed satisfactory.
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St. Fale
No Roughing It for Japs on Molokui Ranch
Sage J F Brown recalls encounters with Japanese laborers on Molokui ranch. He offered wages and housing but workers asked about barber shops stores and a picture house before declining further work. The exchange ends with the worker expressing concern for a sick brother.
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J. F. Brown
Nolte
Board of Strategy Table
Molokui
Brown
Islands
Brother Verry Seeck
Mills to Lift Ancient Mounds at Camp Sherman Site
Dr. William C. Mills of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society plans extensive excavations of seven prehistoric mounds at Camp Sherman. He challenges the Squier and Davis theory of Mound Builders, arguing the mounds were created by American Indians of the Algonquin family. The dig plans to sift dirt through screens, with 23 mounds in the group and prior finds including 183 skeletons and 12,000 flint copper and pottery artifacts.
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Camp Sherman
William C. Mills
Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society
Squier
Davis
Blackmore
Doctor Mills
Little Zion Becomes Park A Desert Rainbow Emerges
The canyon south of Salt Lake City near Lund Utah is renamed Little Zion and promoted as a new national playground. Once called Zion by Salt Lake City dwellers the region attracts many tourists calling it The Rainbow of the Desert. It features red and white cliffs up to 2 500 feet tall huge natural bridges plateaus and dramatic amphitheaters creating a striking landscape.
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Little Zion
Park
Salt Lake City
Lund
Utah
Little Zion Canyon
Canyon
Zion
Brigham Young
Christian Science Monitor
When Mankind Was Young Teinoden and ancient life
Dr W D Matthews of the American Museum of Natural History discusses the Teinoden, the Terrible Tooth, a prehistoric animal. He notes early humans were small, tree-dwelling, opossumlike creatures living among towering reptiles that ruled the earth. The passage emphasizes a long distant, primitive world and human sleep habits.
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W. D. Matthews
American Museum of Natural History
Doctor Matthews
Squirrels Rank: North America Teems With Species
The Americas boast vast numbers of squirrel species and subspecies, but the most handsome, largest squirrels in color and size are found in the Orient and East Indies. A Malabar coast example is as big as a domestic cat, bright red above, with stark black, and yellow beneath.
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North America
American Forestry Magazine
Washington
Orient
East Indies
Malabars
Sixty Million Chaira Made in Gardner Mass
Sixty million chaira have been manufactured in Gardner Massachusetts since the industry began a century ago in that town.
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Gardner
Mass
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