Mirage Illusion Figures in Arctic Echoes Across Skies
New York reports describe Arctic mirages that fool explorers by bending light through air layers of varying density. Eyewitness accounts from Peary era expeditions, plus notes from Dr. Chester A. Reeds and artist A Operti, recount ships, coastlines, and inland landscapes transformed into arches, towers, and horizons.
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New York
EF Ivening
Ahebeti Fedse
Crogher
Landy
Peary
Hnsign Witzhugh Grene
A. Operti
Gras
Chester A. Reeds
American Museum of Natural History
Operti
Edgewater
N. J
Acros
Indian
Arctic
Reeda
Jourdale
W. Scorsby
Charles’ Island
Spitzderwen
Camille Flammarion
Admiral Wrangell
Doctor Reeds
Flammarion
Paris
Fourth City of the Americas Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires stands as Argentina’s center of industry thought and culture. The metropolis dominates commerce journalism politics drama literature art social life and national ambition, drawing Argentines and travelers with its cosmopolitan yet Latin character and feverish activity.
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National Geographic Magazine
Buenos Aires
Arentina
Paris
France
Greaest
Americas
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Oldest Fort in the New World at Santo Domingo
Prom National Geographic Magazine spotlights Santo Domingo with ruins from Homenaje fortifications and the first stone church on this side of the Atlantic. The article notes Columbus, his voyages, and the tomb of the great discoverer as central to American historical memory.
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New World
Prom National Geographic Magazine
Santo Domingo
Atlantic
Southern establishes a live stock service expansion
Southern railway announces daily fast live stock service expanding from western North Carolina east Tennessee and Southwest Virginia to eastern and southern markets and to Virginia trading grounds and from Alabama to St. Louis Louisville and Cincinnati. Stock from western Carolina east Tennessee and southwest Virginia will be consolidated at Asheville then run to Spencer for feeding and resting. The St. Louis to Atlanta leg carries horses and mules. Birmingham connects to St. Louis via Mobile and Ohio. From Atlanta trucks extend to Georgia South Carolina North Carolina and Florida.
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South
Southern Railway
North Carolina
East Tennessee
Southwest Virginia
Alabama
St. Louis
Louisville
Cinconati
Atlanta
Southeastern
Carolina
Southwest
Virginia
Asheville
Spencer
Suthern
Birmingham
Mobile and Ohio Rail
Mobile
Ohio
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Taxable Values Eight Bullion
The tentative tax list for New York City shows real estate valued at 7,833,875,536 with a 1917 assessment increase of 51,405,827. total real estate taxables near 8,000,000,000 and personal property assessed at 500,000,000.
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New York
New York City
Connecticut Towns See Dry Wins In Local Elections
In Connecticut on October 3 the so called little town elections featured lively contests over excise and prohibition. Dry forces gained four towns with 91 of 168 remaining no license after Monday votes. Fifty towns voted, six changed from license to no license and two shifted from dry to wet.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed by High Point Testimony
Mrs C R Lee of 613 Willowbrook Ave High Point praises Doan's Kidney Pills for reversing years of back pain and kidney distress after trying other medicines. She notes three boxes relieved her symptoms and urges others to use the Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Doan
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Great Plains
United States
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Aland
Upland
Westerming
Stockholm
Cranz
Greenland
Kéktinen Islands
Brandes
Darmogast
A. Hart Drug Co
Clinchfield
Jellico
Pennsylvania
Arctic Ice & Coal Co
Southern
Atlanta, Ga
Miss Clara Boyd
New York Life Insurance
Fr. A. Gogburn
Peone
High Point
N. C
Mellichampe Printing Co
Hamilon ST
Ring Cruz Co
South Main St
Max Rones
D. Rones & Son
Wood
Main Drug Co
Carolina & Yadkin River
R. R. Co
Thomasville
Gordontown
High Rock
The
Commercial National Bank
Savings Department
She Commercial
High Point, N.C
J. Elwood Cox
C. M. Hauser
V.-Pres
J. Idol
J. W. Harriss
E. S. Wall
Bank of Commerce
C. E. Kearns
J. H. Adams
A. M. Rankin
H. A. Millis
G. A. Pollock, JR
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