World Runs Fast on Electric Model Exhibit
An exhibit by engineering students from Hav Band Park College Des Moines and Dickinson College Galesburg presents a seven foot diameter earth model turning at a minute, simulating a full day’s rotation to show surface speed concepts. The display aims to illustrate how a world driven by electricity could spin 4,440 times faster than gravity.
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Elsu
Oun
Saya
Hav Band
Colepe Des Moines
Pred Iickens
Galesburs
Interscholastic Meet Held in Chicago with Wide Attendance
The Fourteenth Annual Interscholastic Meet at Chicago’s Starg Field drew top high school athletes from Illinois to California under the direction of Ceseh Stage. Cups awarded in events, planning for larger entries, and excitement noted as coaches anticipate stronger showings next year. A separate social in Lagrange Ky celebrated Mr and Mrs S S Waldrop’s Golden Wedding with family from Louisville, Jeffersonville, Edgerton, and Hanover attending.
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Wcniversty
Yen Staryfield
Chicago
Hois Bois
Ceseh
Dirres Inter- Scholaglic
Ae Id Agats
Onis
Califorenia
Eford
Stair
Sir
S.S. Waldrop
Noir Lagrange
Louisvile
George Waldrop
Edgerton
Ind
Louisville
John A. Waldrop
Jeffersonville
M. E. Waldrop
Lagrange
L. Waldrop
Tuacola
Albert Snyder
Hanover
George G. Waldrop
H. H. Brown
Wilson
Ark
Philanthropist L. T. Cooper Visits Evansville
Evansville Indiana May 13 1015 millionaire philanthropist L T Cooper visits after nine months in the East lecturing on health and hygiene He promotes his Tanlac medicine claiming it cures stomach kidney and intestinal ailments and prolongs youth Cooper donates much to charity and assigns exclusive drugstore agency to W H Rogers Madison frontage for Evansville sale adv
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Mr. Cooper
Indiana
Cooper
Pacific Ocean
Mexico
Tanlac
Yanlac
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Evansville
Coopera
W. H. Rogers
Madison
Adv
goTH ANNIVERSARY OF Presbyterian Church at Dupont
Dupont Presbyterian Church celebrates its anniversary with a full day program on May 10. Morning service includes Prelude Doxology invocation responsive reading hymn 189 Holy Holy Holy scripture anthem The Lord is Great prayer announcements and offering with further anthems and sermon by Rev W A Millis. Evening service features anthem No Night There Where He Goes I Go offering sermon by Millis solo by Prof G B Townsend and benediction. A hearty welcome to all. Do not miss hearing President Millis.
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E. S. Lorenz
H. S. Wordworth
W. A. Millis
H. W. Petrie
L. LD. Solo
G. B. Townsend
Millis
Sloan's Liniment touted for quick rheumatic relief
Ad copy extols Sloan's Liniment as fast relief for rheumatic pain and sore muscles. It claims rapid penetration to the pain site, no rubbing needed, and offers a bottle for 25 cents at druggists with home-use savings.
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Sloan’s
Sloan
Try Mrs. Austins Bag Wan Cake Ad
A clipped line promotes Try Mrs. Austins Bag Wan Cake as a sure seller for grocers and shoppers, suggesting broad appeal and market demand.
American guns hit the hardest in naval armament debate
Secretary Daniels cites ordnance tests comparing British Elizabeth class and American Pennsylvania and Nevada ships. He notes the Pennsylvania's fourteen inch guns outrange the Queen Elizabeth's fifteen inch weapons, with higher fire volume and a 70 percent superiority in blows per time at battle range.
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England
Pennsylvania
Bureau Art Ordnance
General Board
Bell
Navy
Degaartment
Undersea Peril and Thor Lange Death Featured in Briefs
The notice reviews naval losses from peace maneuvers with 265 sailors killed across British French German Japanese Russian Italian and American fleets. It notes pump failures and buoy markers aiding surfacing as safety devices. Danish poet Thor Lange dies at sixty four after translations and Irish ballads work.
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Newport Harbor
Leslie’s
Thor Lange
Longfellow
Russia
Moscow University
London Athenaeum
Denmark
Jed bin
Marriage Pomp Triggers Indian Debt Legislation
The piece notes how wedding display drives unsustainable debt among Indian social classes and prompts government action. It highlights proposals to curb excessive borrowing and to regulate money lenders who charge high interest to ryots.
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India
Japan Ships Maine Lobsters to Yokohama for Delicacy Trial
Japanese visitors bring back stories of lobster salad and broiled lobster. Twenty seven lobsters were shipped from the Maine coast to Yokohama. eleven arrived alive, marking the first such voyage and the longest journey lobsters have made.
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Japan
Maine
Yokohama
New Nonrusting Steel Promises Everlasting Polish
An English firm launches a steel claimed to be nonrusting unstainable and untarnishable. It is designed for table cutlery and allegedly retains its polish indefinitely even when in contact with acidic foods. The price runs about twice that of ordinary steel.
Aeroplane Deafness Report From London Car Expert
A London car specialist notes many people exposed to flight suffer aeroplane deafness. Causes include rapid air pressure drop at altitude and wind pressure on ears and nose, according to Peargon's Magazine.
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London
Peargon’s
Practical Health Hint on Lumbago Treatments
Lumbago is a form of muscular rheumatism affecting the lower back making rising erect painful. Treatment varies by case with internal remedies like aspirin and potash compounds and external methods such as heat massage mustard plasters and poultices. Often rubbing the affected parts after covering with flannel is suggested.
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Sisdtega
Doeands
Adison
Juntech
L. T. Cooper
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of Presbyterian Church
Dupont
R. D. Wilson
Daniels
Washington
Bureau of Ordnance
Riises
Cartier
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Theta
American Press Associattion
Guiry Ce
Aix, Seca
Centaur Company
Castoria
the Centaur Company
Boss Ovens
Peter Hoffman
Walnut
W. H. Miller & Sons
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Stant
Madison Telephone Co
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