Smokeless Powder Production at Indian Head Navy Plant
The article details United States government smokeless powder manufacture at Indian Head and Fort Wadsworth. It covers plant layout, safety measures, secrecy, chemical processes, drying and purification stages, quality control, and testing in proving grounds.
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Indian Head
Navy Proving Ground
United States
Navy
Gould
Uncle Sam
Fort Wadsworth
New York City
Powder Board
Powder Factory
Language Barrier Halts Coroner in Fatal Railroad Accident
A fatal railroad crossing crash in a Pennsylvania town stalls the inquest as the coroner cannot communicate with a single witness, attempting German Italian Hungarian and Russian before declaring the language barrier blocks proceedings.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Record
Red Tape Rules in London Hospitals Delay Care
A London laborer who fell into the Thames was denied drying and admission because no order existed, despite space. In a police court he claimed he was refused at two stations and a Salvation Army shelter before the morning hour rule. An American patient recalled being told care was only for the nonpaying, highlighting rigid hospital rules.
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New York
London
Thames
Salvation Army
Whitechapel
N. Y. Sun
Transcontinental Flight of C. P. Rodgers Praised Despite Losses
W Paid Hero Mr French Strother writes in World's Work that Rodgers earned about twenty thousand dollars from backers and four thousand prize money for a New York to Fort Worth to Pasadena flight. Costs included five thousand for the machine and about seventeen thousand in repairs, leaving a small net. At Pasadena, Rodgers summed up the endeavor by saying money does not matter, it did it, didn’t it.
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French Strother
C. P. Rodgers
New York
Fort Worth
Passadena
Pasadena
Names of John Smith Across Languages and Lands
A playful survey of how the name John Smith morphs into many forms worldwide. It lists Latin Johannes Smithus Italian Giovanni Smithi Spanish Juan Smithus Dutch Hans Schmidt French Jean Smeet Russian Jonloff Smittowski Canton Jovan Shimmit Iceland Jahne Smithson Tuscaroras Ton Qa Sinittia Poland Ivan Schmittiwerski Welsh Jihon Schmidt Mexico Jonth F'Smitt Greek Ion Smikton Turkey Yoe Seef.
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John Smith
Johannes Smithus
Giovanni Smithi
Renader
Juan Smithus
Hans Schmidt
Jean Smeet
Jonloff Smittowski
Canton
Ion Smikton
Turkey
Yoe
Photographer’s Complaints About Uncooperative Subject
The photographer grows exasperated as a man refuses to smile for the camera. The subject explains he aims to appear menacing so his wife’s relatives, whom he has never met, will avoid visiting.
Women Strive Forward Amid Stylish Hobble Skirts
A dialogue notes women making great strides yet jokes about the era's fashion hobble skirts. Mrs. Baring-Bannners asserts progress while her husband quips the sight of a woman in a hobble skirt chasing a street car proves otherwise.
Fine Breakfast Dish Cooked In Methods Described
A guide to cooking sausages with safer methods and flavorful options. It covers simmering in water to render fat, flour coating to prevent bursting, paper bag cooking, broiling with rice, and baking with creamed potatoes. Also notes home made sausage over commercial filler and the food chopper use.
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Socrates
How to Iron and Fold Table Napkins Correctly
Instructions for preparing and folding table napkins. Steps cover washing preparation, flattening, air drying, ironing both sides, and methods for folding into three or four sections. Emphasis on keeping hems flat, even edges, and proper placement of any monogram or embroidery.
Two Wire Hanging Improves Picture Stability
Popular Mechanics notes that a large picture hung by a single wire can tilt with a jar or gust. Attaching two wires, as shown in the sketch, better secures the image and keeps it straight.
Favorite Brown Bread Recipe From Old Household Circuit
A vintage kitchen note gives a brown bread method using Indian meal. It lists ingredients like milk or water, meal, flour, molasses, soda, salt, and a five pound lard pail for steaming. The cook instructs to steam over boiling water for three hours and to avoid peeking for an hour, then asks for feedback.
Renovating a Dusty Painting and Brightening a Frame
A vintage cleaning guide advises brushing off dust, washing the canvas with water, rubbing with shaving soap, brushing after drying, and wiping the canvas with benzine on linen. If dull, a little olive oil helps, then a thin colorless varnish seals and brightens. For frames, boil onions to make a cleansing fluid to restore brightness.
Oven Stewed Dried Fruit Method
Wash the fruit and pour boiling water over it then let it stand in a covered dish. Add sugar and bake until cooked. Prunes are especially tasty when prepared this way as the fruit stays whole and cooks evenly.
Uses of Hot Water Bottle An Everyday Helper
The note lists many uses for hot water bottles including easing neuralgia toothache and other pains. It suggests using crushed ice for headaches and describes a bread rising method with hot water. It also proposes a warm milk cover with pockets to hold a nursing bottle, keeping milk warm for a baby.
Spinach Cooking Tips and Laundry Hints
Practical kitchen and laundry tips from an old household guide. Spinach cooked in a cheesecloth bag drains easily. Ironing board padding suggested on both sides. Use one side for white goods and the other for colored. A teaspoonful of glycerin in rinse water helps woolen blankets come out like new.
How to Remove Lime Deposit From a Kettle
A simple method uses whiting placed in the kettle with water. Boil until the incrustation loosens, then wash it out easily.
To Purify Sinks and Draine
Instructions describe making a drain cleaner by dissolving copperas in boiling water. Warns that copperas is deadly poison and must be carefully labeled. Notes this solution as one of the best cleansers of pipes and drains.
Cleaning Sewing Machine Restores Mint Condition
Move the machine near heat to melt congealed oil then oil thoroughly with paraffin. Work quickly for a few minutes then wipe away paraffin and dirt. Apply a little machine oil then a touch of kerosene wipe again and the machine becomes easy to use.
Rolled Rib Roast Instructions From Historic Menu
A vintage kitchen note describes rib roast preparation. It instructs removing backbone and ribs to stew, tying the meat round, seasoning with salt and pepper, dredging in flour, and searing in a hot oven before lowering heat. Serve with hot mashed potato surrounds.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Turns Around Nervous Prostration
Miss Minerva Reminger of Upper Bern recounts years of nervous prostration with a failing stomach and bread and beef diet until Hood's Sarsaparilla brought relief. She credits pure blood and stronger nerves to the remedy and promotes Sarsaparilla in liquid or Sarsatabs form.
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Roy
Minerva Reminger
Upper
Bern
Hood
Amy
Treod
Great Man and Long Service Records at Battle Abbey
A meditation on character quotes by Bancing and a note on long service records. Isaac Ingall, buried at Battle in Sussex, is cited as serving ninety years with the Websters of Battle Abbey until his death in 1798 aged 120. Sarah Thompson of Belfast is said to have served eighty three years with a single family, dying in 1896.
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Battle
Sussex
England
Isaac Ingall
Websters
Battle Abbey
Sarah Thompson
Belfast
Spohn’s Distemper Cure Promoted for Horses
The greatest horsemen tout Spohn's Distemper Cure as the most successful remedy and blood purifier for horses. Bottle Co. and $100 offer. Druggists or manufacturers can supply. Agents wanted. send for Treebank. Spahn Medical Co. Goshen Ind.
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Spohn
Treebank
Spahn Medical Co
Goshen
Ind
Eye Water Before or After in Medical Quirks
A physician recalls a witless patient query about eye medicine timing. The man asked if eye drops should be used before meals or after, after a prior treatment for a severe eye condition. The anecdote underscores the odd questions doctors occasionally field.
Architect of the Rialto Bridge in Venice
The Rialto Bridge in Venice was designed by Antonio da Ponte. The single arch spans nine feet? feet in length and is noted for strength and grace. It is crossed by ascending and descending steps with two shop ranges on top creating three parallel streets.
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Venice
Antonio da Pomte
Eye Salve Promises Best Cure Says Perth Standard
Eye Salve marketed as the best reliable Perth product claims to cost no more than rivals. Used by physicians and oculists to treat eye issues where others fail. It guarantees under government act and sold by druqists worldwide with antiseptic attribution.
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Perth
Howard Bros
Food and Druge
Judge Allows Extenuating Circumstances in Contempt Case
The judge told the lawyer to stand up and noted contempt was clear but granted extenuating circumstances. He remarked he had never heard the attorney say lota of proof before discharging him.
Where Doctors Failed to Help in Covington Missouri
Mrs. Jennie Green of Covington Missouri testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improved her health. She describes severe monthly hemorrhages and weakness keeping her bedridden for days, but now she can work after using the product.
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Covington
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jennie Green
How Mra. Cline Avoided Operation
Brownsville Indiana resident Mrs O M Cuz credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after doctors urged surgery for severe female troubles and hemorrhages. She reports renewed strength and improved well being after using the remedy.
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Mra. Cline
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