London Christmas charity shines with vast feasts
London shows extraordinary generosity at Christmas with public dinners, private gifts, and hampers for the poor. An immense network coordinates dinners, food, clothing, coal, and toys for thousands of desolate families and starving children, funded by councils, aldermen, lord mayor gifts, and private benefactors like Sir William Treloar.
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London
England
Santer
Claus
Ad School
London County Council
Frariu
County Council
Father Christmas
Court of Common Council
Béryoreie
Caer
Court of Aldermen
London County Council Fund
William Tre- Joar
Londes
William Treloar
Turbulent speech referenced in fragmented report
A garbled passage cites a speech during a campaign, mentioning a person named Beveridge and Portia with an unclear vocal line. The text is incomplete and difficult to interpret, but implies a political platform discussion and marital context.
Rise of the gas engine changes energy use in America
The article notes American progress with gas engines surpassing Europe, citing a Poughkeepsie pumping plant retrofit as a model for coal savings. It details a reduction from steam to gas engine power, showing monthly filtrations and costs, and claims the plant paid for itself in twenty-two months. It also remarks gas engines expanding in marine use and industry adoption.
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Poughk He Y
Gaa- Bae
Patem
United States
Europe
Standard Company
Hea
Etn Northland
O Cay
Boe Peion
Nixon
American Industrica
Embodied Football Poetry and Nortons Wit
A Boston observer recalls Charles Eliot Norton joking about youths preferring brawn to brain. He tells a tale where Princeton’s star Poe, linked to Poe’s poetry, sits beside Norton and the lad mishears as a grand relation to Poe. The anecdote blends humor with literary mishearing.
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Charles Eliot Norton
Princeton
Poe
Prof. Norton
Annabel Lee
Pra Seth
Nortor
Fossil lightning bolts shown at Princeton University exhibit
In Princeton a collection of fulgurites or fossil lightning bolts is described by Dr. W. J. Sinclair to the Princeton Alumni Weekly. The tubes form natural glass from fused sand, with rough exteriors and smooth interiors, dating back thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
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Princeton
Museum of the New Natural Science Laboratory
Princeton University
W. J. Sinclair
Geological Department
Scrambled OCR Transit Timetable Notes for New York Area
Fragmented OCR text lists numerous city names, times, and routes including New York Easton Bethlehem Mauch Chunk Red Bank Long Branch Trenton and others.</s>
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New York
Iso
Huston
Bethlehem
Te Easton
Gayre Ands Sorston
Red Bank
Long Branch
Bat
Cain
SG Auas
Ealrh A. M
Labeesor
Trenton
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America
J. Pierpont Morgan
Pie
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Morgan
Brod
Wall Streets
Morgan
New England
Latch
Weequahic Cut Glass
Atock
Dee
Sesee Sds
Weequahic Cut Glass Works
Broad Street
Newark, N. J
Usband
Nameone
Stein
Markowitz
Patr
Storm King
Bootles
Astrakhan
WATC
Newark
Ee Journal
R. D. Bell
Charles L. Salathe
Westfield Ave
NEW Jersey Central
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