Old Glory Names and First Battles of the Stars and Stripes
The article traces flag names from Star Spangled Banner to Old Glory and June 14 as Flag Day. It notes the 1777 Congress resolution, Key’s 1814 inspiration, and Captain William Driver’s ship flag. It discusses Betsy Ross, Hopkinson, and a Bulbert flag find, plus disputed first battles at Brandywine, Fort Stanwix, Cooch’s Bridge, and Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Free
United States of America
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
United States
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
Washington
D.C
Rey
Bod
William Driver
Charles Doggett
South Seas
Betsy Ross
Francis Hopkinson
New Jersey
John Bulbert
Long Island
Ticonder
Congress
Fort Schuster
Fort Stanwix
Rome
N. Y
Fort Standis
Battle of
Brandywine
Delaware
Cooch's Bridge
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
John Spargo
Vermont Historical Society
John Stark
Bennington
Kitt
Bennington Battle Museum
Cooch’s Bridge
Fort Schuyler
Golden Dominion Gold Found Across Canada
The article notes gold found in every Canadian province except Prince Edward Island. The first discovery occurred in Quebec in 1824 on the Gilbert River, fifty miles south of Quebec City. Placer mining began there in 1847 and has continued intermittently, with discoveries also reported in Ontario, British Columbia, and Yukon Territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Prince Riward Island
Quebec
Gilbert River
Quebec City
Ontario
British Columbia
Yukon Territory
Lode Mining for Gold Began at Tangier River in 1859
The article notes that lode mining for gold commenced at the Tangier River in Nova Scotia in 1859, marking an early phase of regional mineral exploration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tangier River
Nova Scotia
Old Custom Keeps Up The Imman Meter At Waterton
A fragment describes Waterton Lakes National Park in the Canadian Rockies near Glacier Park Montana where a woman maintains a tradition of using a travois with firewood loaded on the return journey, keeping the papoose undisturbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterton Lakes National Park
Canadian Rockies
Glacier Park
Montana
Banana nutrition claim exceeds most fruits and vegetables
Banana's food value is described as higher than nearly any other produce with 480 calories per pound. Comparisons include potatoes at 3395, mili, 325, macaroni cooked at 413, indicating bananas provide substantial energy per weight.
Expert Tattooing Traces New Zealanders Artistry Under Skin
The article notes New Zealanders craft elaborate skin patterns and describe tattooing as an art form producing beautiful effects. It highlights the skilled trace work of artistes and the aesthetic goals pursued in this body art.
Snake expert returns with venomous specimens from Honduras
Dr. Claymond L. Due mis, curator of reptiles at Bromty Zoo, after weeks in Tela Honduras, brings back yellow beards, tropical rattlesnakes, coral imitators, vine snakes, giant toads, and tree toads. He films on voyage and notes the yellow beard grows to eight feet and births rarel y.
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New York
Claymond L. Duemis
Bromty Zoo
Telu
Honduras
Americas
Ife
Doctor Ditmars
Tela
Florida
Miami
Seaboard
Peda Zoo
Ditmars
Yellow-Beard
Ditmara
United States
Doctor Ditmers
William H. Waller
Hondauras
Monkers
Laziness Cited as Driver of Mechanical Progress
Professor Burstall of Birmingham University told a Universities congress that science will bring heaven on earth but warned humanity must choose its path. He argued science reduces labor hours and enables five hour workdays, claiming laziness drives most mechanical advances and the human frame cannot endure heavy labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
England
Universities Congress
Burstall
Birmingham University
Multiplication Tip Shows Quick 14 to 34 Increase
Frank Green keeps 11 ewes with one triplet and the rest twins. The flock grew in two months, illustrating a simple multiplication idea.
Peaks shrink as fables face reality in Jasper text
A travel tale notes that early explorers overestimated the heights in Jasper National Park, with figures for Mount Brown and Mount Hooker fading to modern measurements. It traces estimates by David Thompson, James Renwick, and David Douglas, then cites the 1920 interprovincial survey giving Mount Brown 9 156 feet and Mount Hooker 10 872 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper Park
Alberta
America
Alaska
Yukon
Brount Whitney
California
Brown
Hooker
Athabasca Pass
Jasper National Park
Alberts
North Country
Columbia River
Prairies
David Thompson
James Renwick
Columbia Collage
Washington Irving
David Douglas
Hooker and
Prof
Coleman
Toronto
Mount
Brains of Great Men Close to Ordinary in Size
Post mortem studies by Dr Henry B Donaldson of the Wistar Institute show that the brains of G Stanley Hall Sir William Osler and Edward Morse were not greatly different from average brains. They were slightly heavier but overall similar in fundamental structure with variations in convolutions considered incidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
G. Stanley Haly
William Osler
Edward S. Morse
Henry B. Donaldson
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
National Academy of Sciences
Donaldson
North Sea Island Milk Rich in Iodine
A scientist from Foehr Island reports North Sea cows goats and sheep milk contain high iodine levels up to 210 millionths of a gram per liter. Iodine is cited as a remedy for hardening of the arteries and iodine free milk is noted for certain children's diseases. Residents of the region are described as rarely suffering arterial hardening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea Island
Wyk-on-Foehr
North Sea
Island of Foehr
Germany
Elkhart Woman Credits Vegetable Compound For Recovery
Nes D. H. Smet of 1226 Laurel St Elkhart Indiana reports severe fatigue and inability to rise from bed eased by using Vegetable Compound. She says she can work again without rest and urges other women to try the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
Ind
Nes
D. H. Smet
Laurel St
Elkhart, Indiana
Dilemma Over Car Upgrade Impresses Judge
A judge comments on a man’s dilemma between painting his old car or getting his father’s face lifted, noting that debt is a bad habit and wind and luck both play into the decision.
Varicose Veins Reduced Or Money Back
Advertisements claim Moone's Emerald Oil reduces varicose veins in days with regular use and promises money back. The copy urges buying an original bottle at any dispensing pharmacist and applying it at night and morning as a powerful antiseptic remedy for eczema ulcers and niles.
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Moone
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Bey
William Herschell
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Patchorne
Floreston
Parker's Lair
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Sats
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N.Y
Carter
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