Navy to Stage Big Maneuvers Off Pacific Coast Next January
Navy plans largest sea power display in history with Atlantic and Pacific fleets near Gulf of Panama. Only ships in active service with trained crews will join, led by Admirals Wilson and Rodman, featuring destroyers and submarines, and a comparison to 1910 forces shows vast modernization.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Panama
Navy Department
Wilson
Henry B. Wilson
Atlantic Fleet
Hugh Rodman
Guantanamo
Cuba
Tennessee
Ala
California
Admiral Rodman
Neva
New Hampshire
Congress
Tennemime
Pearl In Neck Lump Answers Ongoing Pain
James Lon den of Clifton Heights Pennsylvania swallowed a pearl twenty years ago after eating oysters when a bottle valve contained a pearl. A recent neck lump caused severe pain and the pearl broke through the skin, ending the discomfort.
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James London
Clifton Heights
Longen
Navy Fleet Growth and Cruiser Strength Over Ten Years
A 1910 overview notes 200 vessels with 100 more in reserve or under construction and 16 submarines on active list. Submarines now nearly 100 attached to two fleets with about 75 more under construction. Cruiser force remains largely unchanged, the big eight modernized to six after losses. Auxiliary vessels show major gains with organized fleets of hospital ships supply boats repair ships and fuel ships among others.
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San Diego
Memphis
Atlantic
Pacific
Straw Kitchen Utensils From Collestrada Orphans
The Junior Red Cross school at Collestrada in Umbria makes colanders and baskets from ossers to supply nearby villages with tools hard to buy in wartime Italy. Reed receptacles woven tight serve to sift flour. three thicknesses of horsehair across a hoop equal metal wire quality. Most outputs stay in Italy to replace metal wares. about a hundred baskets and colanders weekly are absorbed locally. Children learn quickly. key skill is selecting material and soaking splints properly.
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Collestrada
Italy
Red Cross
Umbria
Cole
First Man-Eating Shark of Year Caught in Potomac
A Potomac water shark tale from Piney Point Maryland is told with a doctor from the fishing party removing the teeth as souvenirs. The report notes the sea creature was described as a half foot long and the Potomac waters allegedly carried the catch toward the river’s mouth.
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Potomac
Washington
Piney Point
Blazed Trails in Woods and the Craft of Boundary Marking
The article explains how early surveyors blazed trees to mark trails and property lines. It describes techniques for winter and summer blazing, how blazes indicate direction, and how monuments or four sided blazes mark corners. It notes age and weathering reveal blaze dates and line continuity.
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Woodamnan
Wood Fibers Show Wide Range In Tree Fiber Lengths
Wisconsin forest products lab measurements reveal fiber length varies within a single tree more than between species. Douglas fir fibers range 0.8 to 7.65 millimeters, with species averages 4.41 and 3.67 millimeters for Douglas fir and longleaf pine. Early growth fibers lengthen outward from center, while each annual ring shows longer spring fibers than summer.
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Forest Products Laboratory
Wisconsin
Incident at Back Bay Cab Prompts Social Exchange
A Boston Herald report describes a late night taxi scene at Back Bay station. A woman arriving with two bags finds only one cab with two men entering. The driver offers the front seat to her and she sits beside him while the two men, overhearing, depart for another club.
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Boston Herald
Philip Hale
Back Bay
Indy
Chilton Club
Algonquin Club
Unbiased Critic Finds Painter Hidden Among Exhibits
A visitor tours two artist rooms in a town store building. He praises landscapes in the second room, then learns the polite attendant, who guided him, painted those works too, confessing the trick just before exit. The anecdote appears in the Chicago Tribune.
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Ochicago Tribune
Queen Bee Describes Her Reign and Robotic Work Ethic
A queen bee explains her role laying two to three thousand eggs daily while ruling a hive. She details royal diet, helpers, and the contrast with workers who forage, build, and care for the colony, emphasizing leadership, lifelong duty, and unwavering industry.
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Queen Bee
Buzz
Queen Hee
Mortifying Conduct in Church Prompted by Minister
A fragment from a church scene shows a minister reproaching his son Traiph for improper behavior in last Sabbath's service. The child, overheard, responds with a muffled, defiant retort, while a figure labeled lacor rete Tecah interrupts. The text reflects moral strictness and family tension within a religious setting.
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Traiph
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Testimonial
A Nebraska reader praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for persistent female troubles and endorses the accompanying wash. She notes long familiarity, keeps a household bottle, and invites others to write for confidential replies from the company.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
J. C. Teet
2Th Street
Omaha
Nebraska
Pinkham Medicine Co
Eatonic Boosts Pep in Hot Weather Ad
Hot weather weakens appetite and saps energy. Eatonic tablets taken before and after meals help neutralize acids and gases, cool the mouth and stomach, and restore appetite. A big box from the druggist offers a trifling cost, promising lasting relief for a few days.
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Nature
Eatonic
Adv
May I ask what that scrap of paper is you gaze at
A sardonic exchange about a diploma from the school of experience. One man hurriedly persuaded another to endorse a canceled note, which the speaker has just paid for, illustrating ironic learning and debt through a frayed financial anecdote.
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School of Experience
A Past Joy
A reflective line from a parent to a son about alcohol meaning loss of feeling and its lingering impact. The excerpt uses brief dialogue to convey memory and consequence.
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Henri Coquelet
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Rodman
Abe Mitchell
Moapy Veura
Philip Marshall Brown
Princeton University
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Yialdiz
Abdul Hawid
Sultan Mohammed
Mr. Brown
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