Treasure Island Mystery at Cocos Island Legend
The article recounts Cocos Island off Costa Rica as a famed treasure site tied to pirate lore. It describes a German governor, decades on the island, and tales of fortune seekers seeking gold hoards. It also details a 1812 privateer Benito Bonito mutiny tale and pirates hiding loot on the island in sacks and caves.
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Cocos
Treasure Island
Cocos Island
Cocos Ialand
Pis Ratle
Costa Rica
George Gercke
New York
Benito Bonito
Bonito
Miutes
Op Cocos Island
Restoration planned for Tolstoi home in Moscow district
The Tolstoi House in Hamovniki Moscow will be restored by Tolstoi Museum, preserving Tolstoï's study and expanding a collection. 1900 transfer of the city home to Serge Tolstoi, 1911 sale to the city, furniture moved or stored, 1920 rationalization, 200 more pieces from Yasnaya Poliana, plans to publish a Tolsto volume for his centenary.
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Tolstoi
Hamovniki
Moscow
Leo. Tolatot
Tolstoi Tuseyn
Serge
Yasnaya Poliana
Stupia
Tolsto
Electricity From Trees Sparks Scientific Debate
A French scientist connected copper plates to trees and earth, using a galvanometer to measure currents. With up to 20 trees linked, he lit four small lamps from earth generated current, but commercial viability remains undetermined.
Peons murdered in Mexico amid illiteracy push clashes
Reports from the Mexican education ministry recount that within a year five rural school teachers were killed. Some haciendados oppose the government's literacy drive while others assist in spreading primary instruction, highlighting rural tensions over reform and landowner resistance.
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Mexico
Ministry of Education
Anys el Univeran
Japanese Christian Creates Hand Printed Bible On One Page
A Japanese Christian named Ishizuka completed a feat of skill by printing a full Bible, 618 and New Testament, on a single sheet six feet long and wide, using a brush on fine Japanese paper. The work required four years and three months and 10,000 prayers.
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Ishizuka
Cheap Fireproof Lumber From Sawdust Ideas
A Tacoma group explores making a nonflammable board from sawdust and mill waste by chemical treatment. Tests indicate the material could withstand flames that cut through thin steel, potentially enabling fireproof wooden houses if commercially viable.
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Tacoma
Wash
Lincolniana 1926 A boyhood hunger for books fuels Lincolns rise
DeWitt J. Mason recounts Abraham Lincoln as a Indiana farm boy driven by an insatiable thirst for knowledge. He reads by the fire, studies late into night, and uses Aesop and Weems to understand union, freedom, and leadership shaping his early curiosity and resolve. Lincoln values books over farm routine and seeks a path beyond his father's stance, writing letters and learning independently.
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Dewitt J. Mason
Abraham Linecoln
Indiana
Jones’ Store
Gentryville
Abe Lincoln
Abe
Dennis Hanks
Dennis
Bobby Burns
Kentucky
Andrew Crawford
Hitn
Washington
Lincoln
Aesop
Hha
Ila
Geerats Af
Ryan
Spencer County
Codfish Dishes And Salads From Practical Cookery
A vintage kitchen guide enumerates codfish recipes and salads. It covers Codfish Souffle Scalloped Codfish Codfish en Casserole Codfish Creole Codfish With Rice and drawn butter sauce, plus fruit salads like Pear Salad Cue cerne Piquant Peach Salad and Cherry Salad with mayonnaise, highlighting preparation steps and serving ideas.
Wilsons Lincoln Copy Shows Style And Sympathy
The piece notes Woodrow Wilson, unable to craft a dignified letter to a needy mother, copied Abraham Lincoln's famed letter to Mrs Bixby and added his own note. It highlights Wilson's literary taste and a remarked modesty admired in the White House.
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Wilson
Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Bixby
Abraham Lincoln
Indianapolis News
Lincoln a Modest Poet When He Turned Poet
A fragment notes Abraham Lincoln at age thirty five turning to his own poems and maintaining a modest character in his literary pursuits. This archival snippet hints at Lincoln’s early poetic inclination and personal restraint.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
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