Sextants for Navigators Rise From Attics for War Use
Washington reports a wartime surge in sextant demand driving prices up as ships prepare for merchant marine training. Old instruments from New England capes and voyages of exploration are revived, passing tests of durability and accuracy for modern navigators aboard ships crossing the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Washington
United States
England
Canada
France
United States Shipping Board
New England
South Pacific
China Seas
Shipping Board
John Hadley
Hadley
New World
West Indies
Seas to supply fats as oil from ocean sources rise
London reports investigators warn seas will increasingly supply oils and fats to meet growing meat demand after the war. Norway develops a substitute for oleomargarine from fish oils, using domestic materials, with higher prices due to fish oil duties. A Norwegian refinery plans to meet national needs, signaling a broader push to utilize sea resources and tropical development postwar.
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London
Americas
Australia
Norway
Tropics
South America
Africa
Pacific Islands
Hr. Vik
Morgenblatt
Whisky Prices Rise in England After Prohibition
Three years after the ban on distilling and selling spirits under three years old, English whisky prices have surged. A 28 ounce bottle once cost 84 cents, but available stock now trades between $2.00 and $3.00, with scarcity driving the increase.
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England
London
New York froze the visitor from Dallas with a cold reception
A Dallas man visits New York and dislikes the city after a sharp exchange. He mocks the famed New Yorker as a frozen, self-satisfied figure and departs, declaring he is off New York for good after a street encounter over a corncob smoke.
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Sya
Dallas
Tex
New York
Morningside Heights
New
York
Broadway
John Street
New Yorker
Arizona Desert
Big Trench Plows In Military Use Since Boer War
The text describes 80 size trench digging machines used by Germans and earlier British trials in the Boer War. It notes plows cut trenches 20 by 20 inches turning earth to form a parapet. Large plows dig 8 to 4 feet deep, replacing many soldiers and speeding trench work before enemy positions.
Ingenious transformer heats copper shell bands in shells
Intense heat swiftly produced by a novel transformer used in British shell making plants. A laminated iron core with a hinged leg allows easy insertion of a copper band over the primary winding. The band becomes the secondary, converting a small lighting current into high amperage to rapidly heat the band to the desired level.
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Scientific American
Labor-Saving Tool Moves Heavy Freight Car Invented
A tool invented by an Illinois inventor enables a single van to move the heaviest freight car, promising a major labor-saving advancement in rail yard operations.
Protestant Churches Form Federation in West Union
West Union churches form a federation aiming to unite patriotic wartime efforts and religious services. Samples of food sent to the state food and dairy department tested for glass or poison. two were contaminated. Barrie family of Morningside Bronx enlists five sons for democracy. Fayetta County reports strong wartime record with 15 inmates sent to penitentiary since September 1. Six tons of Grinnell coed garden produce feed campus dining halls through winter. John Read Wood, 19, of Logan now in Canada awarded French theater medals with Seventh machine gun section. Des Moines bootleg cargo valued at $50,000 to be divided among hospitals after court agreement. Investigations into alleged German poison plot in Davenport via powdered glass in sugar. Camp Dodge hosts full-blooded Filipinos in hospital corps and 366th colored infantry complaints at cantonment. Draft legal cases and economy move urge wearing old belted suits. Ben Votrondek’s sentence may be revoked to join army. Tragedy at Cornelia Bluffs as Walter Grim wounds Wallace Adams in birthday party incident. Evening classes planned across Iowa to train conscripts in technical work via night schools.
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West Union
State,food and Dairy Department
Alexander Barrie
Morningside
Bronx City
Canada
Fayetta County
Fort Madison
T. C. White
St. Louis
United , States
Grinnell College
John Read Wood
Frank Wood
Logan
Delisle
Saab
France
Des Moines’ Drug Company
Des Moines
Atete
Polaon
Davenport
National Army
Camp Dodge
Leon Magsico
Candido Blearo
Guan Yatto
Salt Lake City
Utah
Fort Riley
Kans
366Th Colored Infantry
Ben Votrondek
Cedar Rapids
Votrondek
Smith
North Liberty Bank
Ima Bank
Cedar Rapida
Charles H. Wry
National Retail Clothiers’ Association
Wallace Adams
Corneil Bluffs
Walter Grim
Iowa
State Board For Vocational Education
J. Will Parry
Amey
Marshal Crowder
All Women Health Advice and Remedies Ad
Fragmented OCR notes advertise Lydia E Pinkham remedies for women health issues and a Cuticura hair care regimen. Mentions looser phrases about hemp imports, happiness, and assorted medical products with promotional tone and unclear attribution.
Optiiatsin Leads to Power and Purified Blood
Optiiatsin is claimed to empower health by purifying the blood and eradicating rheumatism dyapepsia and many chronic ailments according to Garfield Tes. The advertisement asserts lasting relief and renewed vitality from the remedy.
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Garfield Tes
Ady
Camouflage In Sick Room For Lightened Spirits
The article suggests disguising bottles for sick neighbors as comical dolls to lift spirits. It offers simple wrappings, fabrics, and inked features to transform items like grape juice or wild cherry cordial into cheerful, doll-like containers. Even medicines for children could be hidden this way to ease medicine time.
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Red Cross
Fragmented Quote About Knowledge and Power
A clipped aphorism notes that knowledge is power yet cannot always provide a straw for a drowning man to clutch, suggesting limits to information as aid in danger or distress.
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Chatham
Spithead
Hough
Marineta
Steworth
Yosty Deep
Emma
Frohman
Bama Frohman
Daniel Frohman
Lusitania
New York City
Cuba
Texas
Bolithwent
Gould
Manhattanito
Ydia
McLieon
Pinkham
Jon Koppelmann
McLean
Nebraska
Rae
America
Lydia E
Lydia E. Pinkhamedicine Co
Lynn, Maas
Hull
Hngland
Cuticura
Guticura
Dept. X
Boston
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