Disappearing Guns Fascinate at Coast Defences
A New York Post article explains how disappearing guns are protected by sand and concrete and why they resist enemy fire. It describes Crozier Buffington carriages, hydraulic buffers, and drills at Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth, noting a 12 inch gun at 176 tons and a 1000 pound projectile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weat Point
Ordnance Museum
England
Bulton
Crozier- Buffington
Forts Schuyler
Hamilton
Wadsworth
Sandy Hook
Fort Hemilton
New York Post
Searchlight Mirrors and Fortifications in the United States
The article stresses the scarcity of searchlight mirrors in the United States and the meticulous, week long process to produce a high quality mirror. It notes origins in 1881 in England and later in France and Germany, and says U.S. shops can make acceptable mirrors if needed, with fortifications currently lacking facilities and needing dynamos, a task feasible within three to four months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
France
Germany
New York Ledger
The Sure Footed Goat
A New York Sun description notes big horn sheep on high mountains, with watchful bands and agile goats. Goats climb sheer walls in pursuit of escape, often leaping from falls over a thousand feet rather than surrender. The piece emphasizes their surefootedness and perilous evasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
English medical ads praise mineral springs and fresh air devices
A Syracuse Standard excerpt notes a German medical ad collection praising a mineral spring that “stirs the dermal functions” and reconstitutes animal economy, alongside a “fresh air respirator” for indoor patients. It contrasts the health of open-air country youth with pale town children to show air effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Syracuse Standard
Production of Coal and its Colorful Dyes
Coal yields more than heat and light, serving as a storehouse of colors, medicines, perfumes and explosives. From 140 pounds of guatar per ton, over 2000 distinct ani Moe dyes can be produced.
Neutrality and jokes from the comic papers
A selection of light verse and humor panels parodying wartime neutrality and daily life. Jokes touch on romance, distant wars, and social quirks with punchlines about manners, dress, and coin tricks, framed in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.
The Shirker Cured by a River Winter Rescue Tale
An old Civil War veteran recalls a lazy private who spent most of his service in bed and hospital. During a forced march a new surgeon tied the shirker’s hands and feet, dumped him into an icy river, and the man swam ashore a changed man avoiding shirking thereafter.
A Queer Old Geography in Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant notes a Century and a Half old Wells collection map describing America as the last quarter of the world and North America with vast unknown regions. It cites misnamed rivers, a New Jersey town as Elizabeth Town and argues for canal projects across the Panama and Suez Isthmuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Wells
America
North America
California
Great Lakes
Superior
Illinois
Huron
Erie
Rrontenac
England
St. Lawrence
Louisiana
Oyo
Ohio
New Jersey
Elizabeth Town
Europe
Panama
Suez Isthmusea
Hartford
Conn
Courant
Stinging rebuke to attorney as Brewster recalls scarred face
The article recalls Benjamin H. Brewster, Arthur’s Attorney General, who faced a brutal attack by opposing counsel noting his disfigured features. Brewster recounts how a childhood accident left his face scarred after saving his sister from flames. The piece also mentions the Dew monitors and a claim about piano keys and billiard balls requiring 75,000 elephant tusks annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin H. Brewster
Arthur
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brewster
the Argonaut
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mumnor
Wittieisaen
Dewey
Manila Bay
Schley
Sampson
Trousseau
May
Belle
Blanche
Mrs. Barstow
Mars
Mr. Benham
Johnnie’s
Cholly
Freddie Longhead
Augustus
Gobang
Pacific Coast
North Pole
Barklow
Caughey
Caroline
Jack Downright
Gibbs
Jane
Brinkerhoff
Rentington
Dew
Bank OF Fremont
Fremont, Ixdiara
Luey Bary
Hans. d. Bats
Bess Banking
Cives
Foronto Collections
Teantea
D. N. Young
Cas. Proun
Jesu Lorr
John G. Yeagley
Notary Public
Fremont
Diana
Emory G. Melendy
Fremont, IR
D. H. Patchen
D. Caswell
Bardick’s
Stephen A. Powers
Prizie
Reeves’ Jewelry Store
Angels
Indiana
Ver
B. F. Wolfe
Scientific
Sic
Fremont Eagle
Cincinnati
Trapapene Bevan, O
Raine
Jackson Mail
van Wort & Jackson Expreas
Paasenger
Vagares Beom
Routa
Jackson
Cincinnati Mall
Jackson & van Wert
Paaneurev
Semace
van Wert
United
van Weet
L. 8
AIR Line
Bocas
Fort Wayne
Raz
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