Postage, monocles, bachelors and Ruth Owen notes
A columnist reflects on postage rate history from 1883 to wartime changes and stamp color shifts, notes on monocles and wristwatches as military devices, examines bachelor presidents and public figures, and comments on Ruth Bryan Owen's Florida primary defeat and future in politics.
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Oxford
Buffalo
Walter Nurrey
America
English Guards
Ruth
Ruth Bryan Owen
Florida
William J. Bryan
Owen
Washington
Wood Waste to Alcohol Could Power Engines
Sugar can be extracted from wood and wood wastes yield sugar for ethyl alcohol. Germany reports a cheap process turning twenty tons of sawdust into eight tons of sugar and 1,300 gallons of alcohol at half a cent per quart. Cheap alcohol may drive future internal combustion motors as oil supplies wane.
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America
Germany
First Loves unfolds the teen’s city awakening
A 16 year old tugboat barge hand named Johnny Breen is drawn to a great city he has visited before. He recalls its sounds and machinery while facing hunger shelter and knowledge as life rapidly unfolds into a decisive moment that tests his will and resilience.
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Johnny Breen
New York
Bowery
Park Avenue
Riverside Drive
Felix Riesenberg
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John G. Milburn Jr
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James Buchanan
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Fillmore
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Albert C. Ritchie
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S. Davies Warfield
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Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Sfrig Wats
Bud
Vie
Shell Petroleum Corporation
Shell
WAST
Sincerity Lodge
A. L. Bennett
W. M
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