Military Authority Reveals How Bunker Hill Was Filmed
An American Expeditionary Force unit helped stage the Battle of Bunker Hill for a D. W. Griffith film in Westchester County New York. The scene featured British Grenadiers and American minutemen marching in 1775 style, with volleys, bayonets, and a dramatic assault ending in a pyrrhic victory. The production drew on patriotic groups and historians to recreate authentic uniforms and tactics.
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Johnston Hall
Tryon County
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Bunker Hill
Yorktown
Breed’s Hill
Grenadiers
Prescott
Red Coats
Griffith
the Argonne
It Happened in Boston Visitor Remarks on Walter
In Boston a visitor remarks on a child named Walter, noting disbelief at the child’s growth while Walter muses on adults’ beliefs about intelligence and the inevitability of change. The Washington Star reports the scene with observational humor about expectations and perception.
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Boston
Walter
Wand
Washington Star
Modes for Evening Fashion Is Tolerant in Gowns
In modes for evening fashion, flexibility extends to gowns with allowances for fabrics and designs. The description notes two colors in crepe de chine with embroidery and metallic thread, creating a lovely appearance.
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Bolk
New Jumiper Sweaters Make Youthful Appeal
In youthful hearts the jumper hosts first place among sweaters. It is shown here knitted of fine mohair with a variety of color combinations and endless styles in this fashion display.
Steam heated bird nest settles in Yellowstone geyser cone
A blue pair in Yellowstone park build a nest in the Excelsior geyser cone using steam from the natural plant. They avoid modern plumbing and fittings while using the geyser as a cozy home and daily jet in and out. Wild straw berries are reported two weeks early near the cone as plants use the geyser area as a natural greenhouse.
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Yellowstone Park
National Park Service
Washington
City planning critique by Mumford in American Mercury
Lewis Mumford argues that modern urban design overemphasizes mechanization creating profitable systems for light, transit, and cars while eroding sunlight vegetation and humane living. He claims these treatments misapply human effort and burden residents with density and pollution.
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Lewis Mumford
American Mercury
Investment in Youth Prompts Community Answers in Wisconsin
The Two Rivers Chronicle argues boys cost families about 100 per year from birth to sixteen, totaling 2,560 for 1,600 youths. It urges communities to invest in youth with direction, opportunities, and programs to foster better citizenship and constructive activities, questioning playgrounds, social spaces, and education aligned with local service needs.
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Two Rivers
Wis
The
Milwaukee Journal
Plea for Home Ownership in Indianapolis
Promoters urge home ownership to foster saving and thrift among residents. The News of Indianapolis notes that widespread thrift strengthens public welfare and civic patriotism, and that families who own homes contribute to the nation's and local community’s health and vitality.
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Indianapolis
White Plains Rules Out Billboard Signs In Residential Areas
Residents in White Plains New York opposed billboard advertising in homes districts. A 600 foot frontage on Central Avenue rented by a New Rochelle company displayed a 4 foot high sign, which was ordered down by Building Superintendent Denehy. The appeal to the board upheld the order as in the city’s best interest to keep such displays out of residential districts.
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White Plains
N. Y
Central Avenue
New Rochelle
Denehy
Value of Small Industries in Small Towns
Montgomery Alabama writer argues small industries sustain towns. A blacksmith shop and cotton factories draw workers and keep population steady. without such industry a town collapses.
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Alabama
Montguery
Aln
Pines
Proved Value of Paint Aout three years ago
Proved value of paint about three years ago. I was asked to stock a license that was in real bad shape. It had stood in need of paint. I assured the owner that paint could make money on the hens were having if painted. I did the work and sold the house inside of the year. From the time he bought it, may sin south more than he could for it or fare fines more than my job cost. Win George B. Brxtar, Winnipes, Cenk, s.
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Fock St
Tet Ag
T& Sear
George B. Brxtar
Winnipes
Cenk
Mineral mixtures for steers pay, Iowa station study finds
The Iowa experiment station tested mineral supplements with yearling steers about 950 pounds. Groups fed standard rations with added minerals showed slightly higher daily gains and similar feed costs, yielding a margin about 25 cents per hundred pounds of gain. Ground soybeans and soybean meal were also trialed. one soy group had lower gain and higher 100-pound gain cost, while a soybean oil meal group matched linseed meal in gain and cost but had a lower estimated selling price. Soybean hay replacing red clover hay reduced feed costs by 4.88, with clover and soybean hay valued at 20 per ton.
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Iowa
Unnecessary Grinding of Beans for Hogs Proved Expensive
Purdue University figures from an agriculture college trial show pigs fed ground beans gained 5.66 pounds daily over 70 days, consuming 180 pounds of corn and 50 pounds of soy per 100 pounds gain, with grinding costing more per 100 pounds gain than whole or unthrashed soy feeds. A three-group check found ground soy at 6.05 dollars per hundred pounds gain, whole soy at 6.08, and unthrashed soy at 6.05, concluding grinding beans is unnecessary.
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C. M. Vestal
Purdue University
Agriculture College
Eac
Livestock Care Tips From An Agricultural Note
The article offers livestock guidance on keeping cattle and pigs healthy with shade and clean water, proper throughways, and sanitation in pig pens. It covers wiring sweet clover hay, winding straw, and preventing digestive issues via clean troughs and dry quarters to reduce common pig ailments.
Bret Harte Faces English Backlash Over Pioneers and Poker
The Kansas City Star discusses how English readers misread Bret Harte and debated his pioneer tales and poker descriptions. Harte reportedly reframed the gambler Oakhurst as a self portrait, insisting his own life inspired the character and his own demise was his own doing.
Growths of Mangroves Serve Good Purpose
Mangroves form dense coastal thickets in tropical regions and act as natural water walls by tying mud and protecting soil from sea incursions. Their bark has tanning value, though species offer little economic use. A Java mangrove study by Van Leeuwen links root branching to a small beetle causing new roots to sprout near the tip.
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Old World
Dich
van Leeuwen
Samarang
Java
Financial or Otherwise? Town Gossip on Marriage
Suburban whispers swirl around a recent marriage. One asks if the bride is seen, another jests about wealth and whether the groom will endure poverty. The exchange, though terse, exposes local tension as everyone weighs the newlyweds.
Mystery Island Kerguelen in Indian Ocean Baffles Researchers
The Desolation Land, midway between Africa and Australia and about 15 percent miles north of the Antarctic circle, the Kerguelen island fascinates readers with its odd vegetation. It hosts vast cabbage-like plants with large leaves 18 to 20 inches across, making the island a striking oddity in oceanic lore.
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Indian Ocean
Africa
Australia
Antarctic Circle
Kerguelen Island
Desolation Land
Popular Mechanics Magasine
Ancient Crete statues hint at corset use five millennia ago
Vanity statues from Crete reveal slender waists that suggest ancient women across the Far East to Entoe wore corsets. References to corseting appear in the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, implying a long history of waist shaping.
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Crete
Entoe
French miner Mitlien proposed English Channel tunnel idea
The first mate to propound a scheme for buriting a tunnel under the English channel was a French mining engineer named Mitlien, who impressed Napoleon with the idea at the beginning of the last century.
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Mitlien
Napoleon
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