Library for the Blind Holds 3 000 Volumes and 800 Borrowers
The New York State Library for the Blind in Albany reports a collection of 3 000 braille volumes and a registry of 800 native blind borrowers. Over the past twelve years 60 000 volumes have been borrowed by blind readers, averaging seven towns per volume in circulation.
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New York State Library For the
Statebrary
Albany
New York Evening Post
Durtin
Costa 18
Ad & Work
Parkman
Oregon Trail
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Tom Sawyer
Lae
Tnele Willan
Hale
Tilly Hread
Gaakell
Crawford
Thoes
Andrews
Ines) Wiggins
Wieter
the Virginian
Miss
Sailor Seeks Return to Philippine Home After Worldwide Wandering
Simeon Tone tero a Tangalan native now 72, after forty five years abroad, sought transport home from Vancouver via the Diz and Rorengan steamers. He left Tangalan young, wandered through Shanghai and an English freighter, ending in Vancouver eleven years ago. He asked the American consul general for free passage back to the Philippines to spend his declining years there.
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Simeon Tonetero
Tangalan
Capals Provinces
Bia
Vancouver
Manila Times
Manila
Tranport Diz
Secret Service Bureau
Gimeon
Shanghai
Philippines
Langensulbach Vision of a Shared Community Life
The village of Langensulbach in the West Erowold region owns extensive forest land yielding over $10,000 and a limestone quarry generating profit, covering communal expenses from property income totaling $50,000 annually or about $76 per person. Free high pressure water serves houses, and a plan seeks an electric power station with four cents per unit lighting, hoping to avoid district taxation for years to come.
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Langensulbach
Westerwold
Rhine
Lahn
Baved by Hair s Breadth Saves Woman in Elevator Shaft
Night engineer Mack Dufmie saved Lillian Krolin when she stepped toward an elevator door that led to an open shaft. The automatic car started and tipped toward her, but Dufmie cut power, stopping the car above her and preventing a deadly crush.
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Mack Dufmie
San Francisco
Lillian Krolin
Miss Krolin
Mystery of the Deep: Waratah’s Fate Remains Insoluble
The Waratah disappeared with all aboard two years ago after leaving Ai. Rumors swirled about a top heavy ship. An Admiralty court in London heard officials but stopped short of naming the catastrophe’s exact form, leaning to the view that the vessel capsized.
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Army and Navy Journal
London
Mrs Talbot Missed Army Train for Candy in San Francisco
Mrs Ralph Talbot wife of Lieutenant Talbot failed to board an army train in San Francisco due to a craving for real American candy. The couple had just returned from two years in the Philippines and Texas to Denver, where the Army train departed at 11 30 while she awaited a 12 20 arrival. She spent two days recovering in Denver after the shock of missing the train.
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Ralph Talbot
Talbot
San Frapeleco
Washington Star
San Francisco
Denver
Lich
Mra
Strange Colony At Paragua Dome Colony Facts
Report describes the Colonia Dome colony on the Paraguay above Ancunston where workers earn time instead of money. Workers have seven hours daily and may save hours for holidays. three men took a three week canoe trip, buying a canoe for a pound and returning home with some hours left credit.
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Colonia Dome
Paraguay
Ancunston
Pheir
Travis
Chile
Ascanalon
Tragic Wedding Day Death in Holonskvitea
In Holonskvitea, Russian Poland, bride Katrina Ritkar awaits her lover Ivan Marchon son of a Smolina landowner at their wedding. Guests wait in vain as the groom is found dead in the snow beside his horse later. The bride collapses and is taken home unconscious.
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Iitire
Holonskvitea
Russian
Poland
Ivan Marchon
Smolina
Katrina Ritkar
Clock of 1790 at Lutterworth with music figures
An 1790 long clock owned by a Lutterworth gentleman features a seven day dial, dead beat indicator, and chiming quarters. Upper clock has a moving orchestra with flute cello and two violins plus boy and girl dancers as a tune plays every three hours on bells or lyricord.
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Lutterworth
Westminster Gazette
Farmer near Avanta unburies coffin prank ends in relief
A farmer in Avanta area prepared a coffin believing his child would die but the child survived. He placed four legs under the coffin and used it as a water trough, though he initially did not know what to do with it.
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Avanta
Lefe
Ayer
Vital Testimony Promotes Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Ottumwa Iowa resident Mrs Hannier F Vaueneric reports relief from long standing female ailments after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She urges others to try the remedy before surgical operations and credits its herbs roots for her improvement. Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts offers free confidential advice to sick women everywhere.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
United States
Pickham
Hannier F. Vauenerk
S Ransom Street
Ottimwa, Towa
Lydia KE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Swedish Church Boat Serves Rural Sweden Tradition
The church boat is a popular institution around Lake Siljan. It ferries families from farms to services at Leksand, then returns along the shore by the same water route. The boat travels farm to farm collecting worshippers for the service.
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Sweden
Siljan
Leksand
Wide World Magazine
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Mecormick
Earth
McCormick
McCormick New
Hanna Bros
Polk County
Nuf
Skarplei
Oregon
Oward
Edward
Correa Patdent
New York Sun
Edward VII
Queen Victoria
Alexandria
Tetmarx
England
Persimmon
Pythagoras
Milton
Epheres Macauley
Porsena
Hydra
China
Erasmus
Ideal Township
Mystery OF the Deep
Strange
Hostetter
ASAW
Meyerbeer
Ronsini
Rosalii
Ayers
The
Ayer Co
Lowell, Mass
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