Giant searchlight to guard coast at Sandy Hook
United States government buys the largest electric arc searchlight for coast defense experiments. Mounted on a 98 foot height at Sandy Hook, it sweeps eighty miles and can dazzle ships with 194 million candle power. The device uses a parabolic mirror, huge carbons, and automatic arc control, enabling rapid activation and naval utility.
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Mount Kington
United States
Sandy Hook
Chicago
Ordnance Department
Navy Department
Systems of Defense
Avery
Freshofs
Goat
Sanisco
Miantonomah
Sanay
Schuckert
Nuremburg
Germany
New York Journal
Milwaukee
Grains of Gold Aphorisms on Self-Knowledge and Worth
A reflective collection of maxims urging self discipline and humility. It counsels avoiding self praise, valuing knowledge, and being restrained in speech while appreciating blessings and love as highest aims. It notes weakness in quarrels and the ease of contentment without riches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Heaven
Finest Bread and Cake Baking Advice
Do you wish the finest bread and cake asks a reader. Advertises Royal baking powder as absolutely pure and warns against powders with gifts or prizes and cheaper substitutes containing alum lime or sulphuric acid.
A Hartford Boy’s List on Happy and Unhappy Things
A nine year old Hartford boy offers a two part list explaining happiness and unhappiness. He cites daily comforts like eyes ears and books, then laments missing items such as a bicycle a dog and ice cream, reflecting child perspectives on wants and rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
New York Times
Indications of a Fight and a Mining Monthly
The passage describes Stonewall Jackson's body servant predicting battles by the general's nighttime prayers. It also notes a Denver launch of the Gold Miner monthly paper, offering mining news and gold strike summaries for 50 cents a year with sample copies for 5 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonewall Jackson
Massa Stonewall
Denver
Gold Miner
Ladies and Syrup of Figs Ad Promoting Laxative
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for women under air conditions and instructs buyers to seek the California Fig Syrup Co. name on packages while noting other products like Hansen's Made Corn Salve and Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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California
California Fig Syrup Co
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Mrhrowe
Atlantic
Cushing
Umman
Congress
Indianapolis Journal
The
Hall
Price
Stamps
la Fayette Co
Ark
V. Pierres
A. Ee
Feker
Logers
ST. Jacobs Oil
Will
Tee Columbia
17Th St
Union Depot
Colo
Ls Bates
Mgr
Denver, Colo
Wiedicine
A. T. Bates
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