Double Boilers and Salted Water Cooking Tip
A fragment discusses using salt in the water of a double boiler to speed cooking, noting that salt can raise the temperature of the food more quickly. It also includes a humorous anecdote about social exclusions at a formal function and a remark on the origin of the word milliner, tying it to Milan.
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Te Great House
Lipplecott
Great Natures and Generosity in Service
The passage extols great natures as generous and vital, describing them as fountains of vitality and giving. It argues rewards are only a fraction of their worth and that no person should be satisfied unless they feel they give far more than they receive.
The True Graces: Virtue Mildly Draws Hearts Together
A quotation from Burton on true graces linking beauty and lasting worth. Amber attracts while warmth fades, but virtue wisdom and goodness remain powerful like a loadstone, uniting human hearts beyond appearance.
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Burton
Treasury File Room Holds Naval History Fragments
The Treasury Department filing room under Captain Ridgate preserves a vast archive of Revolutionary and War of 1812 materials. Documents include contested naval battle accounts of Jones and the Bonhomme Richard, the Augusta sinking, and donor funded monuments at Annapolis and near the Capitol, tied to ships like Constitution and Chesapeake.
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Washington
Congressional Library
Houses of Congress
Executive Department
Treasury Department
Thomas J1. Kidgate
Department of the Treasury
Kidgate
Ridgate
Army
Navy
Department
Truman Tr. Newberry
Tidgate
John Paul Jones
John Kilby
Jones
A. C. Brel
Kilby
John Magrant
Morant
Augusta
Mifflin
Philadelphia
Red Bank
N. J
Port Mifflin
Aagusta
Las
Delaware River
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Tripoli
Navy Yard
Capitol
United States
Constitution
President
John Adams
Cyrene
Argos
Chesapeake
Wasp
Revenge
Navy Yards
Stephen Decatur
Congress
Diamonds From Gas New Process in Germany
A German chemist Dr Wer ner von Belten of Siemens Halske in Berlin developed a method to synthesize diamonds from illuminating gas through a mercury alimini gram that crystallizes carbon. Tiny starter diamonds act as mothers to build larger stones, but the process remains experimental and yields minute diamonds.
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Germany
Werner von Belten
Siemens-Halske Laboratory
Berlin
Medal for Cleveland Abbe Honored by London Society
The Royal Meteorological Society of London awards the Symons gold medal to American meteorologist Cleveland Abbe of the U S Weather Bureau in Baltimore for his pioneering work in U S weather reporting. The medal will be presented January 17 at a society meeting. Abbe, born 1838 in New York, helped establish the modern system and early weather prediction methods.
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London Weather Society
Royal Meteorological Society of London
Symons
Cleveland Abbe
United States Weather Bureau
Baltimore
Abbe
United States
New York City
Weather Patena
Rior
Incinnati Observatory
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Misprint Leads to Mass Destruction of Reports
A clerical error credited John M. Harlan as chief justice and Smithsonian regents member, prompting destruction of 10 000 copies of the institution’s annual report. The issue incorrectly states the chief justice status and alters board leadership history.
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John M. Harlan
United States
Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
W States
Marlin
Street and channel listings for Long Branch area
A catalog of street corners and landmarks in Long Branch including Ocean Avenue Elberon Park Norwood Avenue and Broadway with associated rail stations and lumber yards. Also includes a signals section detailing tap sequences and alarm statuses for fire response.
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Franklin and
Second Avenues
South Bath
Second
Brighton Avenues
Cedar Avenue
N. Y
Takanassee Lake
Ocean Avenue
Elberon
Park and Elberon Avenues
Elberon Hotel
Elberon Station
L. B
Hollywood Avenue
Norwood Avenue
Westwood
Guire’s
Brighton Avenue
Bath Avenue
Prospect Street
Morris Avenue
Long Branch
Broadway
Second Avenue
Third Avenue
Edwards Lumber and Coal Co
Morrell Street
Grand
Buttonwood Avenues
Branchport Ave
Cloughly, Nicholl &Co
Washington and
Lafayette Streets
Branchport Avenue
Bennett's
Joline
Edwards Avenues
Sixth Avenue
Halberton Street
Sea View Avenue
Liberty Street
Patten
Port-au-Peck
Pleasure Bay
Patten Avenue
Riddle Street
West Street
Columbia Avenue
Oliver Byron
Fay Street
First Avenue
Laird Street
Hamilton Avenue
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Pearson
Pearson Bros
House OF Better Shoes
Broad Street
L. de la
Reussille
the True Graces
Patterson & Spinning Cor
Broad and
Front Streets
Red Bank, N. J
Aate
Muayrant
Morayt
Tliey
Magrant
South Carolina
Rawlins Lowndes
Kirby
Mayrant
Winfield Scott Schley
Maryland
Potter
Cleveland
Cormaande
The
Daily Record
Lehigh Valley
Thos, L. Slocum & Co
Carley
Pavilion Ave
Long