Ponce De Leon and Alcazar in St Augustine Offer Grand Moorish Splendor
The narrator tours St Augustine visiting the Ponce De Leon and Alcazar hotels, describing Moorish architecture, ornate interiors, fountains, rotunda, and glass-walled dining room. They observe tropical gardens, parrots, and the surrounding historic town while meeting State Senator S and his wife. The piece also notes broader water resource themes and urban planning in the eastern United States.
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Ponce de Leon
Eldo
Eros
Alecasar
History of Rain Drops and Water Supply Work
The government traces the water cycle from rainfall to river and ocean, notes underground water movements and pollution concerns, and explains the 500 gauging stations that record stream discharge for power, city supply, and irrigation planning.
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Uncle Sam
Mt Wuel
Sis
Monument Erected At Bull Run Battlefield Spot
A small monument marks the site of the Civil War Battle of Groveton near the old railroad cut, northwest of the crossroads. Veterans, returning after Appomattox, erected the marker on the bloodied field where thousands fell, honoring Union soldiers who died there.
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Bull Run
Groveton
We Manassas
Sadley
Jackson
Appomatox
Washington
Warrentown
Ar-ington
Herschel and the Great Musicians of the 17th Century
The article notes Sir William Herschel as a leading astronomer and music patron while highlighting a golden era of the late 1600s. It lists eminent contemporaries across science, politics, arts, and letters, including Franklin Pitt Burke Hume Gibbon Wattre Sheridan Garrick and Blackstone, among others.
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Bath
Herschel
Benjamin Pranklin
Fox
Pitt
Burke
Darristers
Hume
Gibbon
Watte
Sheridan and
Garrick
Gains Boroupt
West and Reynolds
Volture
Paine
Blackstone
Coldsmith
Duke of Wellington
George the Taird of
Magland
Aurows Lao
Mortal Waehlagten
Rotels for Women Seeded
Mrs. Clarence Burns of the Little Mother's Association told the New York Federation of Women's Clubs that only three options exist for working girls with low wages and self support needs. She urged building 13 Mills hotels for working women to provide affordable, respectable living spaces in New York City, citing 250 732 wage earners and low pay in sales and boxmaking.
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New York
Clarence Burns
Little Mother's Association
New York Federation of Women's Clubs
New York City
Burns
Mills
Federation of Women's Clubs
Peoce
Great Salt Lake Size and Notable Features Described
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is about seventy five miles long and three tiles wide with a circumference near 291 miles. It contains six islands, the largest roughly sixty miles long and five miles wide, and a peak around 800 feet above lake level. The water’s density lets people float easily, second only to the Dead Sea, while the lake is gradually receding from the shoreline.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
Sugar Beet Miracle in Colorado Farm Folklore
A farmer recounts a bizarre tale of sugar beets growing enormous after a floodwaters mix, yielding huge quantities of beet pulp and syrup. He claims quick plant growth, then a flooded harvest, massive gains from selling beets to a factory, and plans to plant more as he brags about wealth from beets and cattle, ending with a boast about living through a water melon crop on his farm.
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O’bhanney
Colorado
Shugar Bates
Shugar Gates
Gunneson
Pasip
Chicago
Chesapeake Bay
Talking alarms clock first unveiled by inventor
A new class of clocks uses talking discs to announce the hour by voice or sound. The device can wake sleepers with voices or sounds and the discs are replaceable to avoid alarm fatigue.
The Canvasback Duck and Chefs Deception
A historical notice explains canvasback duck flavor signals and warns against deceptive prep practices. It contrasts Chesapeake Bay birds feeding on wild celery with Wisconsin ducks fattened on celery, noting how hunters and hoteliers manipulate perceptions and risk wounding birds with decoys.
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Chesapeake
Wisconsin
Wolverine
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The
St. Debra
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Urigal
St. John’s
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Roda
Old City
San Marco Avenue
Old Town
Willie
Anastasia Island
United States
Thour
Central States
Alcazar
Herschel N Great Musics
Teonomera
Innis
Ilfe Tanghe Music
Ile Proprietor
Litue Mother's Association
Dead Sea of America
Shannasy Rasien
Cleveland
Rockefellers
Mae Ou
Angle Manufacturing CO
Murray ST
Walnot Locke
Renan Hoeft
Deky
Pittsburg
Friend Supply CO
Washington Street
Best
Boston
Mass
N. P. GC
Alta
Tnner
National Photographic Chemical Company
Pith Street
Pa. Ave
N. W
Nicholas Lorzworth
Alica Roosevelt
White House
National Photo-Souvenir CO
Lock Boxer
Washington, P. C
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