Shaker Furniture and Believers History Across New York and New England
Shaker design emerged from a religious movement’s simple, honest craft. Begun by Ann Lee in 1774 New York settlements grew to 11 communities with 1,000 members by early 1800s and 6,000 by 1860, shaping stark, proportioned furniture noted for collectibility.
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New York State
New England
United Society of Believers In Christ
Ann Lee
Manchester
England
New York
Watervliet
Alibany
N.Y
Hudson River Valley
New Lebanon
N. Y
James Whittaker
Hancock
Mass
Enfield
Maine
U S Car Builders Profit From Puerto Rico Trade
Puerto Rico's road building since 25 years ago spurred U S car makers profits. The island invested over 120 million dollars in new roads, with 16 million for highways between 1914 and 1920. By 1938 Puerto Rico imported 1,504 autos and 1,139 trucks, reflecting a high vehicle growth and dense distribution compared with U S family car ownership.
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United States
Puerto Rico
U. S
Uncle Sam
Long
Gargoyles in Mexican Church Steeples Impress Visitors
The Mexico article notes scarce gargoyles in Mexican religious art with Santa Rosa de Viterbo in Queretaro as the best known. Eduardo Idú Tresguerras, a Queretaro born architect, shaped the church facades, while Indian artisans are believed to carved the gargoyles with huge faces and expressive features.
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Mexico
France
Santa Rosa de Viterbo
Queretaro
Prisoner Reflects on Jail Life and Lack of Entertainment
Fragmentary OCR text reveals a prisoner near Claremont, N.H. discussing the limitations of his stay and the absence of adequate entertainment. A simple solution or arrangement is hinted, with references to a monthly allowance or support from another party.
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Claremont
Dutch Scientists Develop New Type Vapor Lamp
Dutch scientists unveil a gem lamp from Eindhoven now refined at Stanford with a mercury vapor tube emitting pure white light. A pencil-thick column of vapor, under 15 000 psi pressure, burns at over 4000 degrees hotter than the sun’s surface, promising daylight rivals for future lamps in airports and other large spaces.
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Eindhoven
Holland
Stanford University
United States
Europe
Amsterdam
Cornelis Hol
Stanford
Golden Dolphins Adorn Nagoya Castle Feudal Landmark
Two golden dolphins worth over a million dollars adorn Nagoya Castle's great feudal keep, tied to Kato Kiyomasa's era. The fortification, famed for warding fires, draws American visitors while Nagoya thrives as a modern commercial hub with weaving, machinery, and cloisonne ceramics. Seto, thirteen miles away, is renowned for its porcelain Setomo wares.
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Nagoya
Bastle
Chara
Nakoya
Japan
Kato Kiyomasa
Donjon
Seto
Setomono
Dutch Cleanliness and the Dutch Front Door Image
The piece notes Dutch courage and bravery, but praising Dutch cleanliness as proverbially extreme. It describes Dutch housewives reputedly the cleanest globally, floors so spotless one could eat from them. Roads appear unnaturally clean with women using vacuum cleaners on cobbled streets to avoid a dirty front.
Juilliard Musical Foundation Support Aims Education
The Juilliard Musical Foundation supports music education by aiding deserving students to attain complete musical training from qualified instructors in the United States or abroad. It funds non profit musical entertainments and assists the Metropolitan Opera Company in opera productions while ensuring gifts do not profit the company. Established in 1920, the foundation maintains the Juilliard School of Music.
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Musical Foundation
Juilliard Musical Foundation
Gselst
Metropolitani@pera company
Juilliard Schest of Music
Point Roberts Unique Travel Route Draws Attention
The small Washington town sits on a peculiar footnote of geography reached by road only via Canada and via British Columbia, with travelers passing Canadian customs to reach the American enclave. Roberta is noted in the piece describing this cross border route.
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U. S
Canada
Point Roberts
Wash
Agil
Northier
Point
Roberta
Gretna Green Marriage Origin and History
Gretna Green, a Dumfries village near the Scottish border, became infamous as England’s runaway marriage route after Lord Hardwicke's 1764 act. Eloping couples were wed in Scotland where ceremonies were simple, often by a blacksmith, with witnesses. The practice peaked at the tollhouse with 200+ marriages yearly until 1858 law changes ended it.
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Gretna Green
Dumfries
Scotland
Grand Southport Host Miss Kate Stuart and Clyde Salutes
The Clyde line ships once saluted the Miss Kate Stuart house at Southport with three whistles. Built 125 years ago, it hosted governors from 1800 to Miss Kate’s death, and Woodrow Wilson’s father preached there. Miss Kate swam to save a Clyde official’s daughter who fell from a dock, earning lasting riverfront reverence.
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Clyde Line
Kate
Clyde
Cape Fear
Southport
N. C
Stuart
North Carolina
Kate Stuart
Riverside
Woodrow Wilson
Miz
Education Takes to the Water in Chinese Rivers Tour
A government school tour aboard ferried by waterways showcases health, music, news, and air raid and chemical warfare techniques. Chinese life centers on an intricate river network with junks dotting crowded coasts and inland routes, carrying vast river trade. Modern steamers move alongside but the junk remains a common sight on China’s waterways.
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China
Old Spanish Town in France Survives Enclave Oddity
The National Geographic Society notes a rare geography quirk where a sliver of Spain lies entirely inside France. Lima, the Spanish enclave, remains unfortified, connected to Spain by a mile-long neutral road through Cerdagne.
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France
National Geographic Society
Spain
Lima
Pyrenees
Cerdagne
Lilivia
Wisconsin fish yield estimate cited by agencies
The Wisconsin conservation department and the National Wildlife Federation project a lake fish yield of 18 million pounds for the season, excluding trout and streams. An eastern Ontario figure places muskellunge value at 260 dollars in tourism, highlighting Wisconsin as a muskellunge state, per official H W Meae.
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Wisconsin
Conservation Department
Ita
National
Wildife Federation
Cot National
Federation
Wilaegnela
Ontario
H.W
Lignin From Corn Cobs Softens Hard City Water
Federal chemists at the agricultural by products laboratory in Amberg found recovered lignin from corn cobs effectively removes iron from hard city and well water. Lignin, a wood pulp by product, is inexpensive with vast supply from corn stalks, wheat straw, cottonseed hulls and sugarcane bagasse. The discovery suggests wide use for lignin in water treatment to improve appearance and taste.
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Amna
IUWA
Ameg
Department of Agriculture
Kenya Colony Big Game Hunting Landmark Of Africa
Kenya, famed for big game hunting, is larger than France with a lakeless interior and vast deserts. Fertile plateaus rise from coast to upland farms. elephants roam mountains and tribes trade wives for grain or coffee. The Nairobi-Mombasa rail line aided abolition, and Theodore Roosevelt rode it during his 1909 to 1910 African hunt.
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Kenya
Africa
France
Mombasa
Nairobi
Theodore Roosevelt
Proper food choices establish lifelong nutrition for children
The most important factor in child nutrition is teaching how to select proper foods and foster good eating habits. Early habits form quickly. good sleep, regular meals, outdoor activity, and pleasant dining boost appetite, while grazing between meals undermines regular meals.
More Camels Than Frenchmen In Tunisia Study
The National Geographic Society notes Tunisia hosts over 160,000 camels surpassing French and Italian populations. Camels provide burden transport and, when dead, hair, skins and skins yield tents coats shoes water containers. Their endurance rivals horses and they travel up to 100 miles daily and ten days without drink in non hot months.
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Tunisia
National Geographic Society
Desert
Language of Christ and Aramaic Influence in Judea
A fragmentary account notes that Jesus spoke Aramaic, a northern Syria dialect, and that Aramaic influence grew as Judea faced interaction with Aramaean populations. It describes Hebrew's decline as a spoken language after the fall of Samaria and subsequent population shifts, with Aramaic becoming common in courts and among colonists.
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Christ
Syria
Judea
Ageyria
Henskiah
Sdmatia
tAramale
Cowaa
First gas mask by Londoner in 1854 discovered
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute reports that Dr. Stenhouse invented the first practical gas mask in 1884 and that its manufacture was placed with St Bartholomew's Hospital instrument makers. A single specimen was found in the hospital museum, a copper sheet respirator with velvet padding, wire gauzes and charcoal filters designed to absorb or destroy contagious particles.
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Imperial Institute
Stenhouse
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
London
Hospital
Bulletin
Hidden stamps in old letters may pay big rewards
A columnist notes attic finds of 1861 five cent Jefferson, 1861 Franklin, and 12 cent Washington stamps can fetch thousands if first issue on thin paper. Values rise to 10 000 for a rare 1845 New Haven stamped envelope, with cautions about later issues and condition.
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Jefferson
Emma
Franklin
Washington
New Haven
Family Glass Polishing Traditions In Toledo Plants
In Toledo Ohio the tradition of plate glass polishing persists in Libbey Owens Ford plants. A 1700 foot polishing line houses seven father and son teams. Modern tech includes a 350 ton machine and many sands and polishing materials requiring expert handling to achieve crystal polish.
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Toledo
Ohio
Libbey-Owens-Ford
Gas Tells Age of Rock
Dr Alfred C Lane emeritus Tufts geology professor develops a method to measure tiny gas amounts from rocks. A vacuum tube with a fine wire changes resistance as gas molecules strike it, used to quantify helium from radium breakdown to date rocks and estimate Earth's age.
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Alfred C. Lane
Tufts College
Jaye
Lane
Ember Day Adaptation in Historic Church Observance
Fragmentary OCR summarizes Ember days as prayerful observances linked to planting and seasonal rites. The text mentions Wednesday Friday and Saturday after certain liturgical markers, and references Whitsun, Lent, and December as calendar anchors, reflecting a Roman season of prayer and petitions for agricultural needs.
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Institut
E Gregory
Peppermint Production Expands in Pacific Northwest Mint
The Washington Farmer notes peppermint has been grown in the Pacific Northwest for about 25 years with 3,500 acres in cultivation. Good mint yields 40 to 80 pounds of oil per acre, selling around 1.75 dollars per pound in 1938. Wild mint has little commercial value, and mint farming requires well-watered muck lands, summer fallowing, and careful hand weeding.
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Pacific Northwest
Washington
Madison’s long pants mark early United States fashion shift
James Madison is noted as the first US president to wear long trousers while in office, while Washington Adams and Jefferson wore knee breeches. The trend followed French revolutionary influence of 1789 and spread in America from 1790 to 1810, with broader adoption later and parallels to English fashion by Beau Brummell.
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James Madison
United States
Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Rocky Mountain Herald
France
America
Duke of Wellington
England
Beau Brummell
Frosts Help Preserve Surplus Strawberries For Shipments
Frozen at forty degrees below zero, strawberries from Louisiana’s strawberry belt can be stored after a frost. The Growers and Shippers cooperative union notes that the method allows preservation of picked berries for out of season shipment. A cold packing plant and large freezing rooms enable gradual expansion to save surplus crops that are now often lost.
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Louisiana
Growers and Shippers Co-Operative Union
Mole Not Criminal Says Biologists
The federal bureau of biological survey notes moles are not criminals but accessories before the fact. Besides Townsend moles on the Pacific coast, they live largely underground feeding on insects. Myriad tunnels aid pine mice and meadow mice, the real garden offenders that eat roots and bulbs.
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Federal Bureau of Biological Survey
Townsend
Pacific Coast
Memoriam of the Rabbit at Rabbit Crossroad
In Guilford County North Carolina long before the WPA a construction minded rabbit drew to work crews on a backwoods crossroads. The tale says the rabbit watched all day while men built the road. Its fate is unknown, but the legend endures in the community name Rabbit Crossroad.
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Piedmont
N. C
Guilford County
Lake of Sligo Vanishes Again in Local Legend
In Gresvagh County Sligo a lake known as Lake of the Bye reportedly vanishes and reappears. The 40 acre body is said to disappear over night according to local lore and is tied to a curse that keeps it from staying away for long.
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Treland
Alodidonce
Gresvagh
County
Sligo
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U.S
Madison
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