Quick Asset Crisis Ends With Personal Triumph
Sidney Walters faces pressure from Bless. Bluett & Co. over a $2,000 debt while building a small cash‑flow factory in Acton. Arline Tracey, his office helper, secretly secures a certified check from her city contact, pays the overdue amount, and reveals a blossoming romance that steadies his business and life.
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Mr. Walters
Thomas Biggs
Bless. Bluett & Co
Sidney Walters
Walters
Sitney
Sidney
Acton
Vay
Biggs
Arline
Lince
Artine
Biges
Hypnotizing Animals Reveals Trance States Across Species
The article traces historical and cross species hypnotic phenomena. It cites Athanasius Kircher describing a hen placed on a table with a chalk line to induce catalepsy. It notes snakes frogs crabs and crawfish showing paralysis under sudden handling or positioning. It links methods to human hypnosis via suggestion and sensory cues.
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Jesult
Athanasus Kircher
India
Archer's Advantages In Bow Hunting Delightful Outing
The eye cannot track a speeding bullet but a fast arrow is traceable and brings a thrill when a shaft passes a startled squirrel or nearly intercepts a crow. The archer enjoys quiet hunting with a bow string twang and faint arrow whisper that rarely startles game.
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Mina
Proper Use of Water to Extinguish Liquids
The text explains why water can put out burning alcohol and acetone but not gasoline or oil. Water mixes with alcohol and acetone, cooling the fire, while gasoline and oil float on water, spreading the blaze. In large quantities, water can still help cool burning oil incidents.
If the World Were Perfect Defects Worth Keeping
A reflection on human imperfection from Anatole Le Bras in the Outlook notes that a perfectly uniform world would dull humanity. The line urges retaining personal defects as a private charm while urging control to prevent social nuisance. The passage contrasts love of God with individual quirks and the appeal of imperfect humanity.
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Anatole le Bras
Access to FARMERS by Melvin Ryder
Gov Frank B Willis lauds a seventeen year old Buckeye corn and wheat champion who inspires thousands of farmers with methods to boost yields and cut costs. The piece praises 4-H style clubs, soil science, and community support driving future farming success and proper home life.
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Frank B. Willis
Ohio
Buckeye
Willis
United States Department of Agriculture
Jerry Moore
South
Oreater
United States
Heldor
Rerhs Hanes
South Carolina
Dewey Hanes
Marius Malgrew
Virginia
Acre
Oddities and Inventions From A Far Flung Era
A scattered collection of trivia notes: insurance payouts for war victims exceed 20 million dollars, locust plagues delay Uruguay census, New Zealand backs beekeeping and runs an apiary for students, Ceylon’s new sugar refinery will extract sugar and alcohol from palmyra sap, an Austrian patent for a porous fire damp detector, Dickens’s works feature 1425 characters, thunder travel limits roughly 15 miles, Uruguay experiments to breed high quality seeds, loudspeaking phones aid street demonstrations, Chile imports chinchillas for breeding on an English farm, and a friction motor powers a phonograph from a light socket.
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Ife
Uruguay
New Zealand
Ceylon
Charles Dickens
Monument to Minneapolis Street Railway Pioneer Rowley
Minneapolis honors Fouseo Rowley, builder of the city’s electric railway, with a monument. The tribute, praised by the Houron Times-Herald, notes Rowley helped shape a growing metropolis and reflects the city’s civic spirit.
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Minneapolia
Rowley
Fouseo
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Art in House Terracing
Terraces linked to buildings form part of architecture and should be kept tight to the structure. A terrace sequence should widen as it steps down toward the field, ensuring the field remains broader than the terrace. Reversing this order is repeatedly condemned by authorities on the subject.
National contest offers housing plans for immigrants
National Americanization communities announce a prize contest with $2,100 total awards for immigrant housing in industrial towns. First group seeks workmen housing for towns up to 35,000, with designs for family lodging or boarding arrangements. Top prizes are $1,000, $500, and $100s. A second group offers $200 and $100 for railway construction gang housing as a substitute for derailed freight cars.
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National Americanization
How a Builder Financed His Home Project
Hosvan Merald explains his method for funding a home and barn build. He outlined securing land and plans, applying to a cooperative bank with shares, drawing funds in installments, and borrowing from his own bank at need on short-term notes. This system allowed stage payments and cash purchases at favorable terms led to savings.
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Co-Operative
Bank of Deposit
Co-Operative Bank
Hosvan Merald
Shipbuilders Busy Under Contract for Private Aeriet
A 1916 Shipbuilders' return to the Bureau of Navigation shows vessels built or under contract by private builders and steel merchants. The record, numbered 250 of 901,371 tons, lists activity as of February 4, 1916, under the Department of Commerce.
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Aeriet Etpyasde Ud
Bureau of Navigation
Department of Commerce
Not on the Right Tack in Whiskered Poets Debate
A Chicago man argues against the prevailing view by noting that many beloved poets wore whiskers. The piece questions current attitudes toward facial hair among literary figures and defends whiskers as part of poet personas.
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Chicago
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W. G. Chapman
Archer
By Melvin Ryder
Bartholomew County
Indiana
Rapidoe
Agricultural Colleges
Wttle
Chile
England
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