Printing a Magazine for the Blind in New York
The Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind in New York publishes for sightless readers using two type styles Braille and New York point. It details the specialized plant, stereograph setup, and rotary press operations enabling the world’s largest edition for the blind with dedicated facilities and staff.
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The
Wind
New York City
Matilda Ziegler
William Ziegler
New York
United States
East Fifty
Connecticut Industrial Home For the Blind
Hartford
American Printing House For the Blind
Louisville
New York Point
Iolund
William R. Wait
New York Institute For the Blind
New Triumphs in Electricity
Montreal Gazette recounts William Thomson and a group of innovators shaping the electric age. It notes advances in electric welding graphite pigments tungsten lamps and home electrical appliances. It highlights the Cooper Hewitt tube railway electrification and the broader push toward cheaper electrical devices and policy to aid invention.
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Lord Kelvin
William Thomson
Bortz
Galileo
Daguerre
Pasteur
Watt
Stephenson
Parsons
de Laval
George Iles
Etthuamson
Edward Goodrich Acheson
Niagara Falls
Iles
Westinghouse
Cooper-Hewitt
New York Post Office
Les
Brooklyn Edison Company
Madison Squatre Garden
Mr. Iles
Hes
New Haven
Ties
Marconi
Ireland
Nova Scotia
Atlantic
Theodore Cahill
Cahill
Pueblo
Colp
Telephonic Links Connect Australian Farms Across Fences
Telephones have been established between several Australian farms by wiring along fences. It is easy to converse with a station eight miles away using instruments connected on the wire fences, with multiple stations now connected in this manner.
Hoax Old Bjones and Matrimony Endless Chain
Hoax Old Bjones has been married four times. Hoax-Gee! He treats marriage as an endless chain.
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Old Bjones
Pink Pills Said to Cure Rheumatism and Other Ailments
An advertisement asserts Dr Williams Pink Pills cure rheumatism by improving blood quality. Testimonial claims a man from St Jerome, Quebec, was cured after three months, with broader claims of aiding anaemia heart issues indigestion and more. Pills priced 50 cents a box or two fifty for six. The text also shifts to a government colonization note on African farming.
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Willams
Ravel Montigny
St. Jerome, Que
Germans in East Africa Offer New White Colonies
The article notes Germany’s German East Africa as a potential home for white settlers. About 2,000 Germans and Transvaal peasants have settled, with land leased at low rates and future sale planned. Regions open include Usambara, areas near Kilimanjaro, Urundi and Ruanda. most land remains inaccessible and natives relations unsettled.
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East Africa
Equator
Usambara Mountains
Kilimanjaro
Uhebe
Urundi
Ruanda
Congo Free State
Germany
Transvaal
Urondi
German East Africa
Indian Ocean
Cement From Volcanoes Linking Japan to Cement Manufacture
American consul reports a Japanese firm turning volcanic ash into cement. With 9 percent dividends on 200000 yen and orders beyond capacity, the ash cement is used by Mitsu Bishi Kawasaki docks, Sasebo naval yards, and Wakamatsu Foundry, plus 60,000 bags for Keelung harbor works. Ash sourced from Japanese Alps creasers, ground at a new plant, needs only water to set. The venture promises inexhaustible material and expands Japan’s exports beyond Portland cement from the Pacific Northwest.
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G. H. Scidmore
Nagasaki
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Mistu Bishi
Kawasaki
Sasebo
Wakamatsu Iron Foundry Company
Keelung
North China
Formosa
Corea
Japan
Oregon
Modern Medicines for Babies Promises Safe, Gentle Relief
The notice touts Baby's Own Tablets as modern medicine free of opiates, claiming safety verified by government analyst. It contrasts with old half century treatments and promotes easy, nonsedative cures for common infant ailments available from Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont. via dealers or mail order for 25 cents.
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Dr. Williams
Brockville
Ont
Mending a Meerschaum Pipe Repairs and Techniques
A Technical World Magazine guide offers repair methods for fractured meerschaum pipes. It suggests garlic paste to join surfaces, clamping parts, boiling milk immersion, and slow cooling for a strong invisible joint. It also outlines cement blends using quicklime egg albumen magnesia and casein with water glass for durable repairs.
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Technical World Magazine
Winter in Quebec
Canadian winter sports are in full wing as winter brings vigor to the blood and inspires the annual burst of activity. The season drives us to take on the busiest months of the year in both work and play, contrasting with a summer lull.
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Canada
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Visio
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Yucatan
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Montreat Star
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