The Lighthouse of the North aboard the Potemkin
A six man revolutionary group aboard a yacht plan to rescue Satcha Alexandrovitch and others imprisoned on Archangel. They seize a lighthouse to mislead the Potemkin, free captives, and, after a series of ambushes, engineer a dramatic escape and destroy the ship’s course by altering the lighthouse beam.
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North Cape
Norway
Nikolai
International League
Satcha Alexandrovitch
Archangel
Potemkin
Russia
White Sea
Imperial Guard
Nicholas
New Ideas for Handy Boys by A Neely Hall
Instructional piece details building a rocking chair for a boy using a small box and salvaged rockers from a broken chair. It covers measuring, assembling, finishing, and converting a broken chair or piano stool into a revolving desk chair, plus notes on a armless craftsperson in Chicago and a humorous hat-buying anecdote from Coffeyville.
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A. Neely Hall
Better Let the Women Tat
Tatting is the least expensive fancy work a woman can do and helps busy hands. The piece notes tatting as a frugal craft, urging men to let the hobby continue as cushions wear out and new thread and linen follow.
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Kansas
Fine Art of Visiting
An Atchison girl who spends much time visiting has studied hosting and is a successful guest. On arrival she calls her hostess and family to her room and shows every rag she owns, empties boxes and trunks to the bottom layer, claiming it saves the hostess from snooping while she is out.
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Nikolai
Atchison
Atchison Globe
Heat as Standard Measure for Illuminating Gas
The bureau of standards of the department of commerce urges heat as the standard of illumination for gas. It says candle power should still apply for open flame jets, but mantles offer greater economy and should define the standard where applicable.
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Bureau of Standards
Department of Commerce
Germany’s airships slated to carry fifteen crew
The German government builds larger airships with a fifteen person crew. Each ship will hold several tons of explosives and two machine guns, designed to stay aloft for at least sixty hours without landing.
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the Lighthouse of the North
Summers
H. M. Egbert
W. G. Chapman
Tam Adam Gortchakoff
Adam Gortchakoff
Nicholas Stambuloff
Satcha Alexan
Rewsn
Riesia
England
Baltic
Mar
Citron
Morrie
Handy Boys
By A.neely Hall
Kittie M. Smith
Chicago
Miss Smith
Home For Disabled Children
Maywood
Coffeyville
Kas
Emile
Kansas City Star
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