Owes Big Debt to Chemistry Shows How It Shapes Life
W Lee Lewis argues chemistry underpins all daily life from food and water to clothing and industry. He highlights historic discoveries by Priestly and others, the role of chemistry in lighting, plastics, steel, rubber, and fertilizers, and warns that university labs and industrial support are essential to future progress.
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Caesar
Chesar
Northumberland
America
Bessemer
Ehrlich
Professor Lockes Whiskey in Safe in Westfield Mass
Twenty quarts of bottled In bond whisky owned by Prof. Lewis B. Allyn, a pure foods expert, are stored in his safe since June 16. He notes the risks of home made beverages and cites a bottle of home made wine at 28 percent alcohol as exceptionally strong.
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Aliyn
Allyn
Big Steel Pay Buying Homes In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh workers including steel laborers and coal miners are spending a large portion of their income to buy homes, based on John D. Graham 1919 recorder of deeds report. Deeds and mortgages filed totaled 60,487 in 1919, up from 91,895. first quarter 1920 shows 16,585 filings versus 7,080 a year earlier. Most properties remain owned by the sellers.
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Pittsburgh
Pittchurch
Allegheny County
John D. Graham
Recorder of Deeds
Remarkable Kiimabeth Elder Walks Ten Miles to Hodgenville
Kiimabeth, Ky. Charles Friend of Mendale, eighty years old, still writes visiting cards for the young. His steady hand and keen eyes betray no age. When he wishes to visit Hodgenville he walks there and back, ten miles each way.
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Kiimabeth
Charles Friend
Mendale
Hodgenville
Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root Ad Claims Pure Kidney Remedy
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It offers sample bottles by sending ten cents to the company in Binghamton New York and notes the product is sold in two bottle sizes at drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Diamond Dyes and White Clothes Promises
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes for染 garments in wool silk linen cotton or mixed fabrics with easy directions and guaranteed perfect results even for first-timers. Also features Hall’s Catarrh Medicine claim and credits J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio with product endorsements and a Red Cross Bag Blue line for whiter clothes.
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Druggfat
State of
Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
Ae Pasiner
F. J. Cheney
Hall
W. Gleason
K. J. Cheney & Co
J. Cheney & Co
Mule driver in France loses way and nears German lines
Returning soldiers recount a four mule team driver in France who wandered through a weak trench gap onto No Man's Land. A doughboy signaled him to turn and whisper as the driver tried to back the mules away. The tale ends with a quip about time and progress.
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France
No Man's Land
Fanny Crosby Hymn Writer Sketch Highlights Career
The sketch in Along Broad Way outlines Fanny Crosby as the prolific hymn writer with about 6044 compositions. She became blind at six and met Alexander Van Alstyne at the New York Institute for the Blind where they married and she later taught. Her hymns appear in Moody and Sankey books and have been sung and recorded by artists and on phonographs.
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Fanny Crosby
Hlind
Broadway
New York Institute For the Blind
Alexander van Alstyne
van Alstyne
Moody and Sankey
Jesus
Phonograph
Mean Regret Turns On Love Triangle and Chance
A personal confession recalls a failed engagement with Mr Bangs and a new romantic arrival. The speaker reflects on luck and missed opportunities in a tense relationship turn, highlighting evolving feelings and consequences.
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Mr. Bangs
Country of Bee Keepers in Lithuania
In Lithuania a bee sting meets no revenge as killing a bee is a sin. Beekeeping has grown from social custom to a major industry with thousands of barrels of honey exported annually. Most Lithuanians keep at least one hive and midus, the national drink from fermented honey, is widely produced.
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Lithuania
Midus
Making Fast and Honest Debates Stir Public Function
A fragmentary account notes a sharp clash at a social function where a merchant couple was said to bolt the ticket and the party locked horns. The piece hints at uneasy moments for businessmen at polite gatherings.
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Thomas Morse
Ithaca
Thomas Morse Aircraft Corporation
W. Lee Lewis
Northwestern University
Ugg
Kirchoff
United States
Perkin
Kainine
Dieppe
BIG Steel
Doughboy
The
Rolling Stone
Wrigley
Alo
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