Night Sounds and the Silent Room
A child describes waking alone in darkness feeling unseen and listening for sounds. The hush of night becomes a loud inner murmur as the heart and imagination conjure rustling, sleeping minds, and growing things. The piece ends with a child’s sense of being separate within the night, a gentle meditation by Mabel Dearmer.
OUT FOR AN OLD MAID CONFRONTS CHOICE OF CLARENCE ARNOLD
A narrator recalls eight years away and a life of flirtation amid Jessie Mason and Maud. Clarence Arnold returns, challenging her belief she is bound for spinsterhood, as Jessie marries Charlie Morse and Maud discovers her fate lies with Clarence.
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Larence Arnold
Clarence
Jessie Mason
Jessie
Jessii
Tessie
Mand
Marion
Mother
Niger
Link
Maud
Piddlesticks
Charlie
Joss
Welik
Charlie Moree
Lim
Charlie Morse
Chirence Arnold
Clirence Arfield
Dessie
Lang
Kite
Mead
Clarence Arnold
Tom
Jes
Uke
Mischies
Teil
Weill
Tom Clarence Arnold
Mayflowers on Cape Cod industry hunts arbutus blooms
At Cape Cod near Buzzards Bay locals hunt the arbutus or Mayflower as a commercial crop. They gather the waxy blossoms in moss and ship them to major eastern cities where demand keeps professional harvesters staking out bloom grounds each spring.
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Cape Cod
Cleveland
Buzzard's Bay
Biz Cape
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Providence Journal
Honeymoon In a Prairie Wagon Adventure
A young couple from Washington travels by wagon to Phoenix with a canvas roofed wagon, mule teams, and a teamster crew enjoying an ideal trip. They sell the wagon in Phoenix at a profit and continue by rail to Los Angeles, with plans possibly to travel to Japan and India.
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Flagstaff
Aziz
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Japan
India
Washington Star
Butter making science boosts US industry in 1900s
The West leads the modern creamery era adopting Denmark like methods with centrifuges pasteurization and pure culture. Eastern farms struggle to compete as science spreads. butter quality improves, prices adjust, and large creameries emerge while baring out fraud and oleomargarine rules.
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Denmark
United States
Near York
New York
Sun
Clover Bay
Pennsylvania
West
Illinis
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Chicago
Mississippi States
Itz
Boston
Devery
Europe
West Indies
South America
Cactus Fire Control and Luminous Glass Signs
In southern France cactus rows are tested to curb forest fires amid varied science notes. German luminous glass street signs use pressed glass with luminous material, backed by tin to resist air and moisture for long life. Swiss electric furnaces plan to smelt iron using hematite ore near Meiringen, leveraging high water power to substitute coal.
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France
Pumbera
Chemiscal
Switzerland
Germany
Herr Muller Landsmann
Bernese Oberland
Meiringen
Ball-bearing chain introduces a new flexible link design
The article describes ball bearings as widespread in reducing friction and introduces a ball-bearing chain. Links have a hollow seat for a steel ball with an interlocking link and shoulders to hold the ball, yielding a highly flexible chain for various uses where constant motion is needed and energy is not a factor.
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Mabel Dearmer
Ireland
Langley
Natonal
Washington
New York Tribune
Science and Industry
Alfred Austin
South Africa
Russkin Engineer Corps
Russia
Monsieur Priem
New York Press