Restoring the Fort McHenry Flag by Amelia Fowler
Amelia Fowler and assistants are sewing the 1,044 square feet of the original Fort McHenry flag to stabilize it for the long term. Fowler, famed for conserving 175 Naval Academy flags, seeks durable backings and silk reconstruction, likening the work to hand tapestry.
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Amelia Fowler
Naval Academy
Fort McHenry
Amelia Bowler
Worring
National Museum
Washington
A. B. Bibbins
Fowler
Bostop
Smithsonian Institution
British Museum
Ireland
Belgium
Unfair Handicap Willie Resigns From Bakery
A social investigator interviews Willie who left a large bakery for a carpenter's shop. He explains the move was for lower wages but cites pain from cherry pies and the rule forcing workers to wrestle during shifts, affecting appetite and pay.
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Willie
Queer News Snippets From The Era In Brief
A collage of odd local items includes a wooden leg persisted in Milanville New York leading to a robbery arrest of Trobert Garnson a cripple. Yonkers woman Mrs Patrick McNulty dominates her husband in strength. A Clifton New Jersey bird nest encounter with a miniature airplane. Mount Iope New Jersey man Frank Davis faced repeated surgery after a growth in his appendix. Milwaukee YMCAs stance on bachelor apartments noted.
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Milanville
N. Y
Trobert Garnson
Patrick McNulty
Yonkers, N. Y
Hing
Frank Davis
Mount Iope
N. J
How to Destroy the Mosquito Crop
Article explains female mosquitoes bite for egg nutrition, describes life stages from egg raft to larvae wigglers and pupae, and notes that breeding water must be eliminated. It advises draining standing water, netting troughs, and oiling ponds with kerosene to kill larvae, with weekly applications.
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Eave University
University of Wisconsin Biology Department
Chicago Census Takers’ Adventures Highlight Fearless Women
Chicago census takers spotlight an eighteen year old girl Catherine Thomas who hops fences, and Mrs Lillian Bakes who flips freights, as they take leading roles in the citywide census under Stephen A. Gall. Other encounters include a snake chase by Mrs Crystal Hixson and a rooster pursuit of Mrs Norval Mardy, illustrating daring measures taken during fieldwork.
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Chicago
Stephen A. Gall
Catherine Thomas
Lillian Bakes
Island and Pacific Railway
Gresham
M.T. Canary
Ninth Ward
Crystal Hixson
Norval Mardy
Nellie MacMahon
Stuonk
Solar Energy and Sun’s Mass Loss Through Radiation
The article explains that energy radiated by the sun reduces its mass per Einstein and relativity. It cites MFT Bester estimating a mass loss of Earth’s mass over 30 million years, implying a yearly lengthening of the year and seasonal retardation, with greater effects in hotter stars like Algol, per Nordmann.
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Einstein
Mft Bester
Earth
M. Nordmann
Boston Herald
Rule of the Glove in Honiton Fair Exempts Arrests
A Devonshire custom during Honiton horse fairs suspends the law from dawn to sunset on a fair day. An official in beadle dress carries a gilt glove on a pole and, after ringing a handbell, proclaims the glove is up and no man may be arrested until the glove is down. Children chorus Oyez and gather nuts at sunset.
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Honiton
Devonshire
England
Henry
King
St Louis Republic
Mme Adam and the Crinoline
Mme Adam credits her path to journalism to not wearing a crinoline when fashion dictated it. Alphonse Karr mocked crinolines but acknowledged many pretty women wore them. Mile. Lambert, later Mme Adam, wrote a witty reply to editors and began a career in periodicals, becoming a lead contributor.
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Mme
Adam
Alphonse Karr
Sui
France
Mile
Lambert
Alphonse Kate
le Slee
Westminster Gazette
A Bird Story Ends With Loud Pigeon Misunderstanding
Michael Debold of Gary Indiana left a soot choked stovepipe. A white pigeon flew into the pipe and its plumage turned black. The pigeons killed the bird thinking it was a crow. Rain washed the feathers white and the surviving pigeons scorned the error.
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Michael Debold
Gary
Ind
Fiji Sugar Cane Meke Dance Described By London Standard
The London Standard reports on a Fiji native performance called the sugar cane meke. Dancers squat and murmur then rise as tall as cane, waving arms while chanting, ending with a combat sequence to symbolize chiefs’ exactions on the knisi crop cutters.
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Fiji
London Standard
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