Plan Airships 800 Feet Long
London conference discusses long distance air travel by lighter than air craft. Dirigibles of eight hundred feet could carry 100 passengers with heated, ventilated quarters and fly London to Cape Town in five days. Mail capacity across empire promising. mooring innovations and testing at Howden proposed. Predicts future intersection of airships with heavier than air craft and automated control systems.
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London
Guildhall
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
England
Cape Town
India
Gret
Britain
Egypt
South Africa
Dia
Australia
New Zealand
Trevor Dawson
Lee
Vickers, Limited
Howden
Yorkshire
Berlin
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
America
Croydon
Ages of Man and His Bride-to-Be Total 136
Brooklyn couple Chester Osterhauer aged eighty three and Lulu Alice Robbins aged fifty three showed before the marriage license clerk. Osterhauer, a retired farmer formerly of Kingston, N Y, said this would be his fourth marriage. The combined ages stated were 136 years.
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New York
Chester Osterhauer
Willow Street
Brooklyn
Lulu Alice Robbins
Fort Greene Place
Osterhauer
Kingston
N. Y
Smiling Face Quote From Thoreau Inspires Kind Streets
Thoreau's reflection on smiling faces in crowded streets highlights how cheerful, hopeful expressions from strangers can uplift and aid a passerby whom one may never meet again. The note emphasizes incidental kindness in daily urban life.
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Thoreau
America Becomes World’s Highest Place Among Peoples
A speech proclaims America’s emergence as a mighty nation after World War I, praising the middle class character, simplicity, and independence of the common people. It contrasts America with Europe, arguing the nation’s destiny is glorious for mankind based on justice and liberty.
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America
Europe
Wdge
Development of Water Power Spurs Westward Industry Growth
A Washington address on the Water Power League of America highlights the vast U S hydraulic resources opened by congress. The Geological Survey cites about 60 million horsepower potential versus 10 million in use, with power use up fivefold in twenty years and coal and oil facing substitutes in water power. The talk predicts westward industrial growth as eastern development rises and mountain and Pacific regions lag in utilization.
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Washington
Water Power League of America
Federal Commission
Congress
United States Geological Survey
New England
Atlantic
Central States
Mountain States
West
Pacific States
Day of the Drive for Funds Declines Postwar
L. Wilbur Messer argues that postwar fund drives must be transparent with clear objectives budgets and policy. He contends blanket central appeals lack merit and donors should see frank records of achievement before supporting any institution.
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Interchurch
Red Cross urged to aid war orphans worldwide
Dr. Livingston Farrand cites 11 million war orphans and 60 million destitute European children as a grave postwar problem. He argues nourishment training and care are essential to prevent future societal collapse and to preserve civilization. Gustav Seedorf weighs priorities, while Myron B. Ream notes two million dollars daily lost to clerical inefficiency.
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Livingston Farrand
Red Cross
Europe
Myron B. Ream
United States
A Letter for Women from Garnett Kansas
Mrs Eva E Shay of Garnett Kansas writes that after a nervous breakdown and male trouble she found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes weakness pain and inability to do housework improving after five bottles and now in good health. She says she would recommend the medicine to others.
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Garnett
Kas
Lydia E. Pinkham
Eva E
Shay, Garnett, Kansaa
Bright
Doan
New Mexico
Goodale
Family time saves crowded flat at the cinema
Jud Tunkins notes that with most of the family out to the moving pictures or the cabaret, the flat remains from becoming overcrowded.
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Jud Tunkins
Moving Pictures
Cuticura Toilet Trio Ad Promises Clear Complexion
Cuticura Soap daily plus Cuticura Ointment as needed to clear complexion scalp and hands. Fragrant Cuticura Talcum completes the trio. An advertising note cites phrases like hes all wool and I cant cotton to him from a Louisville Courier Journal column.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Eatonic Promises Quick Relief for Digestive Ailments
A testimonial by O. Frappir claims Eatonic cures acid stomach bloating and indigestion. It supposedly neutralizes acidity and gas, enabling natural digestion and full nourishment from meals. Big box offered at a trifling price with druggist guarantee.
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Eatonic
O. Frappir
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Decatur
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Gould
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L. Wilbur Messer
Gustav Seedorf
Carter
Uslog
Denver
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