Love in a Cottage Ends in Wise Savings and Approval
Marvin Bates fears disapproval from Milly Worthington’s father but vows to save. He trims debt and saves twenty five dollars a month to win a cottage life. Milly and Mr Worthington watch savings grow as the couple proves their steady future.
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James Henry Ashley
Millie
Marvin Bates
Marvin
Milly
Papa
Worthington
Miss Worthington
Mr. Worthington
Maple Street
Papa Worthington
Bread and Butter Studies Versus Breadth of Learning
A Boston Herald excerpt notes undergraduates favor practical subjects like accounting industrial chemistry and political science while Greek and Sanskrit classes draw few students yet university extension courses suggest bread and butter studies captivate beyond campus. Popular Mechanics describes French experiments using electric Niagara devices to drain clouds and hail formation. A large L Eiffel Tower installation aims to test practicality but officials warn results require years to assess value.
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Boston
College Gates
Oston Herald
France
M. Vielle
French Academy of Science
Liffel Tower
Native Brazilian Drama Emerges On Rio Stage
Le Bresil Economique reports a native Brazilian drama La Belle Madame Vargas by Joao do Dio, a Rio de Janeiro journalist, achieving local success and predicted to spark the growth of Brazilian theater and travel to Paris and beyond.
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le Bresil Economique
Rio de Janeiro
Joao Do Dio
Paris
Rio
Madame Vargas
Pourparler Confusion Sparks Parental Teasing
A humorous exchange shows a parent teasing a child for not knowing the word pourparler after a year of study in ornithology. The moment highlights language learning and family dynamics in a light, everyday scene.
Electric corn popper for apartments catches heat from light fixtures
A New York man invents an electric corn popper that attaches to room light fixtures for heat. The quart capacity device sits under a wire mesh dome to keep kernels in. It rolls on rubber tires for easy use on polished tables eliminating scorched hands.
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New York
The Electric Cobbler Changes Shoe Repair
An article describes an electric cobbler that uses a shaft driven by an electric motor to perform sole stitching, patching, heel repair, and relining. The system completes shoe repairs quickly and yields quality comparable to a traditional hand cobbler, with multiple machines finishing the sole and edges.
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Knights of the Owl
Face contour heater offers steam via double wall design
Alfred P Blenkner and Bert Z Smith of Mountain Home Idaho patent an electric heating pad shaped to fit the face. Used in barber shops and massage parlors it heats to generate steam under a wet towel. The device features double walls with heating elements between them and an air chamber for even heat distribution.
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Alfred P. Blenkner
Bert Z. Smith
Mountain Home
Idaho
Lessen Damage by Lightning
Investigations across Europe suggest lightning damage in cities has fallen sharply due to electric wires diverting bolts. With wires going underground, a notable rise is expected and a return to traditional lightning rods may follow.
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Europe
Electrical rat trap uses auto drop and bait motion
Popular Mechanics describes an electric rat trap with a trapdoor and movable bait holder. When a rat steps on the door and bites the bait, an electrocuting current activates and a motor rotates a shaft to tilt the door, drop the body into a pit, and reset the trap for the next rodent.
Electrically Driven Implements and Wireless Inventions
A survey of early 20th century electrical progress notes seven electric motor trucks planned for the Manila post office and new processes for hardened steel dies via electrolytic etching. It reports a French company granting Liberia a wireless station within a 2500 mile radius and references US and Canada electric signs numbering about 80 000 with 8 000 000 ramips. It mentions New York prohibiting wooden mouldings for electrical wires from June 1 and the first electric plant in Arabia installed in the Sultanate of Oman in Muscat. It covers electric power in candy factories, hydraulic steering gear for ships, a German electric railway achieving over two miles per minute, and a note on a scarecrow controlled by a resident Illinois inventor. It concludes with a push for an international wireless operator union.
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Manila
Liberia
South Africa
Port Elizabeth
New York
Arabia
Oman
Maskat
United States
Canada
Stockholm
Madrid
Green River
Colorado
First Electrical Fire Engine Debuts in New York
New York showcases the first electrically driven fire engine in use in the United States, marking a milestone in urban firefighting technology. The innovation promises quicker response and reduced emissions as departments evaluate the new vehicle for broader adoption.
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New York
United States
Seed Distribution Through History Reflects US Agriculture
The article traces seed and plant distribution from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson through the 19th century to modern times. It notes congressionally supported seed programs, the growth of the agriculture department, and the scale of seed distribution, testing, and bidding processes. It also covers native cotton use by Hopi and related ethnographic notes.
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Henry L. Ellsworth
Patents
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Mesa Verde National Park
Utah
Arizona
Navajo
Cotton Industry in the United States Origins and Growth
Historians and ethnologists examine the development of American upland cotton from its origins to its varieties. The discussion highlights how the foundational types of cotton shaped later agricultural and industrial growth in the United States.
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The
United States
Pension roll shrinks as new government report debuts
The annual pension bureau report lists 538000 soldiers and sailors on the roll with 321932 dependents and widows and 362 army nurses. Civil War survivors total 497268 and War of 1812 widows 238, funding this year is 151,558,1411 dollars, down 3,276,096 from prior year.
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Pension Bureau
United States
Pajamas Ordered for Navy and Marine Enlisted Men
The navy department issued orders requiring all enlisted sailors and Marines to wear two pairs of white drill pajamas on board ships. Previously only hospital patients wore pajamas. new rules also add a non elastic chin cord to the pancake sailor hat.
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Navy Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Bluejackets
Engraving Likenesses Planned for Wilson and Marshall
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing prepares to engrave portraits of President elect Woodrow Wilson and Vice President elect Thomas R. Marshall for national archives. Secretary MacVeagh asked for copies of their preferred portraits to guide the engravings. Marshall's picture has arrived, and the bureau notes its past masterpieces including Roosevelt and Taft.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
MacVeagh
Treasury Department
Governor Marshall
United States
Roosevelt
Taft
Bureau
New Nickel Design To Be Finished Soon
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh will finalize the new five cent coin design in a few weeks. Mint Director George B. Roberts and artist J. E. Fraser discussed the plan today. An Indian head will appear on the obverse and a buffalo on the reverse honoring Indians and buffalo in American history.
Judge Orders Wash-Tub Exercise for Lethargic Graduate
Juvenile Court Judge David Lacey prescribes wash-tub exercise to a college graduate deemed too tired to seek employment and support his wife and child. The unusual remedy aims to foster labor discipline and family responsibility.
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Juvenile Court
David Lacey
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England
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson
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Senate
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Pension List
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