Chestnut Blight Threatens Maryland Trees and Crop
State Forester Besley warns chestnuts will be scarce this year and may become a memory. In Baltimore region the crop is negligible as blight devastates groves. West of Hagerstown remains healthier but Garret County reports infection. Experts hammer away, seeking a remedy or resilient regions.
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Besley
Maryland
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Garret County
China
Long Island
Looks That Way Reflects a Man’s Struggle with Alcohol
In Louisville the Courier Journal notes a man named Flubdub considers finally keeping a promise to his wife to quit drinking after years of intending to stop. The piece highlights his resolve amid personal struggle.
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Louisville Courier- Journal
Halibutter Risks Life for Big Pacific Halibut Hauls
A fearless class of fishermen known as halibutters roams the north Pacific chasing banks and new grounds. Ventures last three weeks to three months aboard small vessel boats worked on shares. Typical haul yields 90 000 to 125 000 pounds of halibut worth 12 to 18 cents a pound, netting owners about 6000 dollars and crew around 1900 each.
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North Pacific
Arctic
Bounderbys climb social ladder to modiste status
The Birmingham Age-Herald notes Mrs Bounderby shifts from dressmaker to modiste, highlighting ongoing social ascent. The Advocate Classified Ads are cited as the source context for the remark on social mobility.
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Bounderbys
Bounderby
Birmingham Age-Herald
Radium Supply Seen as Limited Despite Rich Ore
The article notes radium is still scarce though Cornwall field ore showed about 5500 milligrams in existence recently. A pew process speeds extraction and prices have fallen from about 3 million dollars an ounce before 1910 to roughly one third since. Radium, with an atomic weight of 224.4, is very heavy and has wide potential in light heat and power generation. Commercial radium is a bromide salt though Curie and Debierne isolated pure radium.
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Cornwall
Pew
Mme. Curie
E. Debierne
Nothing Like It in Neighborhood Music Exchange
A brief dialogue reveals Neighborleigh asking about a son who loves music and Mr Longsurfer replying he does not, noting the son plays the ukulele.
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Neighborleigh
Longsurfer
Immense New York Steam Turbine Installed in Public Power Plant
The largest steam turbine ever built, rated at 100000 horsepower, has been installed in a New York street railway power house. It is the first three cylinder cross compound unit in America, using superheated steam at 205 pounds and exhausting into two low pressure elements. At full load it consumes 826000 pounds of steam per hour, and runs at 1500 rpm driving 25 cycle three phase generators totaling 20000 kilowatts each at 11000 volts. The three generators can overload to 70000 kilowatts for two hours, and the installation spans 52 by 50 feet.
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New York City
America
Developments in Food Fuel and Clothes Prompt Pessimism
Mr Growcher voices complete pessimism about new ideas. He notes that every experiment in food fuel and clothes seems to result in outcomes worse than before.
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Mr. Growcher
Farmer Corntes Relays Last Words of Bill Hohenzollern
In a rustic remark, Farmer Corntes recalls Bill Hohenzollern as proud and independent to the end. He notes Hohenzollern chopped his own winter wood rather than be bossed by the hired man.
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Farmer Corntessel
Bill Hohenzollern
Liquor Stock Problem Stirs Baltimore Debate
A Baltimore American quotation highlights a conflict over beer and spirit supply. The exchange emphasizes the difficulty of obtaining liquor at home despite restrictions on interference with stock.
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Baltimore American
Conversation on Sunlight Costs Between Neal and Nixon
The note from London Answers recalls a playful exchange about the sun’s value. Neal contemplates sunlight as solid coal burning out in 5 000 years and Nixon jokes about the cost of sunlight.
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Neal
Nixon
London
New Ship Patent Lets Either Fuel Run Propeller
A Swiss engineer patents a vessel propulsion system that couples a steam turbine and an oil engine to each propeller, enabling operation with either fuel type. The invention aims to offer flexible fuel use and improved reliability at sea.
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King & Johnson
Montgomery
A. Sidney Johnson
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