Pont du Gard and the ancient concrete method
A survey of the Pont du Gard in southern France describes ancient concrete using alternating layers of large and small stones with cementitious material. Vitruvius Alberti and Palladio note the technique of boards on edge and stone filling. Modern work, if properly executed, may outlast bonds. a small sinking fund suffices for maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Pont du 'Gard
Vitruvius
Ike Alberti
Palladio
Pont du Gard
United States
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound testimonial and lunch counter joke
A Milwaukee woman credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing years of female trouble and back pain after doctors warned of a tumor. The letter praises the remedy and invites others to seek advice from Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts. The page also includes a Chicago Tribune joke about a professor and a lunch counter order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pink
Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pink Nain
Lydia KE
Finkahams
Reward for Catarrh Cure Claims and Odd Ads
A collage of old advertisements and quotes offers a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure, touts Hall's Catarrh Cure and Pills, and includes spoof lines about lawyers, Panama canal, and baseball fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. J. Chenty & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Tilm
Watpre, Kinxan & Manvin
Hall
Hull
Senate Debates Tariff Bill and Income Tax Clash
The Senate devoted days to the steel schedule of the tariff bill with Aldrich and Beveridge clashing over amendments while Sutherland argued against a federal income tax. House adjourned as debate continued, and a quorum delay halted the Philippine tariff vote. An extended session featured sugar and linotype duties, with several provisions adopted or rejected amid party lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldrich
Beveridge
France Committee
Senate
Belig
House
Acasion
Sutherland
Utah
Depaw ii
Cannon
Hol Ingsworth
Ohio
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Hollingsworth
Burteson
Texas
United States Steel Corporation
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Stone
Gore
Committee On Finance
Sugar Trust
Clay
Guerglia
Paynter
Linotype
Curtis
la Spirette
Macon
Arkansas
Dalzall
Fire destroys business block in Clova New Mexico
Two blocks in Clovla New Mexico burned destroying property worth about fifty thousand dollars. The report notes a high rate of poultry moving from New York and mentions a merchant from York Pennsylvania dying in a Philadelphia railroad station. Also cited is a prominent engineer, Maco Moulton, who collapsed from heart disease in the Hotel Ansonia corridor in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clovla
N. M
New York
Samiel Grumbacher
York
Philadelphia
Maco
Moulton
Ansonia Fo
New
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mira
Chicago Tribune
Howard. Bros
Buffalo
Nova Scotia
Tropan
Lewis
Fisteat Fyer
Mounyon
Munyon
Carters
Rome
Stuckley
Mauch
Chunk
Daisy Fly Killer
Dagle
Songkaaeo Uedele Ay
Brooklyn
Profesor
Ordor
Lane
Nan
Panama Canal
Chicago
Pribune
Perron
Chicago ‘Tribune
Dodds
Work of Congress
H. Fletcher
FacSimle Signature of
Lexact
Chas. H. Fletcher
J.W. Dinsdale
Alexander H. Mintle
Cleveland
J. A. Alexander
Omaha
Neb
J. A. McClellan
N. J
Gaga
J. W. Allen
St. Louis
G. H. Glidden
St. Paul, Minn
H. D. Benner
J.A. Boorman
Kansas City
J. J. Mackey
Centaur Company
TF Murray Street
Neale
York City
Wiintayer
Gaud
PBROS
Aur Oey
Fay
Sone Thompson
Libby
Ucts
Avery Ndre Saanuine
Piles Fies Rezco
Deph BG
Minascape
Canada
Tudison Bay
Avery Tars
Nation
Western Canada
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
C. J.broughton
MaUrudy
Raukliy
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