Owes Big Debt to Chemistry and Modern Industry
The article argues chemistry underpins everyday life from food and water to clothing and industry. It lauds Priestly and other chemists, notes discoveries like starch to sugar, mauve dyes, and improvements in lighting, rubber, steel, and pharmaceuticals, and calls for stronger industrial support for science in education and research.
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Caesar
Chesar
Northumberland
America
Ugg
Kirchoff
United States
Perkin
Bessemer
Ehrlich
Professor Allyn locks whiskey in Westfield safe
Twenty quarts of bottled In bond whisky owned by Prof. Lewis B. Allyn a pure food expert have been kept in his safe since June 16 He plans to safeguard his supply used in research and analysis amid prohibition and rising demand for home made beverages A small bottle of home made wine tested at 28 percent alcohol possibly spiked with ethyl alcohol highlights the unusual samples Allyn analyzes in his laboratory
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Aliyn
Allyn
Big Steel Pay Buying Homes in Pittsburgh Area
Pittsburgh steel workers and coal miners in Pittburgh and Allegheny County are spending a large portion of their income on homes, per John D. Graham recorder of deeds. 1919 deed and mortgage filings totaled 60,487, down from 91,895 the prior year. in the first quarter this year filings reached 16,585 versus 7,080 last year. Most properties remain in the hands of owners.
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Pittsburgh
Pittchurch
Allegheny County
John D. Graham
Recorder of Deeds
Remarkable Kiimabethan Charles Friend of Mendale
Kiimabeth Kentucky Charles Friend of Mendale aged eighty still passes for younger than seventy. He recently visited town and writes visiting cards for youth with steady hand and keen eyes. When he decides to go to Hodgenville he walks ten miles there and back each way.
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Kiimabeth
Charles Friend
Mendale
Hodgenville
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Liver Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims purity in every bottle and offers a sample by mail from Binghamton New York with a newspaper note to mention the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Diamond Dyes Do Not Ruin Your Materials
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as simple to use on wool silk linen cotton or mixed fabrics promising richer fadeless color and guaranteed results for first time dyers. Also mentions Hall’s Catarrh Medicine and Red Cross Bag Blue as products alongside the Toledo based J Cheney Co claims and a notary seal date.
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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's Night Crossing No Man's Land Tale
Returning soldiers recount a four mule ration wagon misdirection in France. A driver, lost in mist, plowed toward German lines until a doughboy signaled to whisper. The driver, eager to turn the mules, kept shouting despite the warning. The tale blends war memory with a cautionary aphorism about time.
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France
No Man's Land
Fanny Crosby A Life Of Hymns And Love
A recent sketch in Along Broad way highlights Fanny Crosby the prolific hymn writer who authored more than six thousand hymns. She became blind at six and later married blind musician Alexander Van Alstyne. Crosby taught at the New York Institute for the Blind and many of her hymns appear in Moody and Sankey collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Crosby
Hlind
Broadway
New York Institute For the Blind
Alexander van Alstyne
van Alstyne
Moody and Sankey
Jesus
Phonograph
A Mean Regret
A fragment recall of a past engagement with She Mr Bangs and a sense of near luck missed, phrased as a reflective line about choices and consequences.
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Mr. Bangs
Bee Keeping Pulse in Lithuania Becomes National Craft
In Lithuania bees are valued for their gentle nature and economic role. Citizens rarely kill bees, leading to widespread beekeeping. The country exports thousands of barrels of honey yearly and many households keep hives, sometimes with swarms of thousands. Midus, the national drink, is brewed from honey.
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Thomas Morse
Ithaca
Thomas Morse Aircraft Corporation
Lithuania
Midus
Making Fast and Failing Courts Clash at Social
Reportedly the scene recounts a man bolting the ticket and a subsequent clash as he and his party lock horns. The passage notes businessmen feel uneasy at polite social functions, reflecting tension in social gatherings and political maneuvering.
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Northwestern University
Kainine
Dieppe
BIG Steel
Doughboy
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Rolling Stone
Wrigley
Alo
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