A Voyage South and the Science of Water
A traveler describes Charleston and Jacksonville scenes and a St Augustine visit with a Senator host. The article then surveys Uncle Sam's work on water supply, from rain and underground rivers to river flow measurements and pollution studies guiding power, city water, and irrigation planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s
Florida
St. John's River
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Old City
San Marco Avenue
Old Town
Hercac’s
Anastasia Island
Uncle Sam
Herschel the Great Musician and the Era of Notable Minds
Herschel, famed as a leading astronomer, was also a gifted musician who ran the Bath Orchestra in his early life. The latter half of the seventeenth century boasted a remarkable array of figures including Franklin, Pitt, Burke, Hume, Gibbon, Watts, Sheridan, Garrick, Voltaire, Paine, Blackstone, Goldsmith, the Duke of Wellington, George III, and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herschel
Bath
Benjamin Franklin
Fox
Pitt
Burke
Hume
Gibbon
Watts
Sheridan and Garrick
Gainsborough
West and Reynolds
Voltaire
Paine
Blackstone
Goldsmith
Duke of Wellington
George the Third
England
Washington
Ponce de Leon visit and surrounding Moorish palace scenes
A travel memoir describes visiting the Ponce de Leon hotel and the nearby Alcazar Cordova and their ornate Moorish interiors. It notes marble floors, large fountains, stained glass, tropical courtyards, and grand dining rooms, then shifts to commentary on water resources and the value of surface waters for power and municipal uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponce de Leon
Pithersie
Alcazar
Ponce
Cordova
United States
Central States
Relic of Bull Run Monument Erected Beside Old Tailroad Cut
A small monument marks the bloodiest Bull Run battlefield area about a thousand yards northwest of Groveton crossroads near the old railroad cut. The site commemorates the Civil War fight around Jackson and the Federals, with many troops fallen and later exhumations noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bull Run
Groveton
Manassas Gap
Gainsville
Leesburg
Bull Rur
Sydsey Springs
Sudsey
Jackson
Alow Hill
Cat
Anpuinaton
Pomator
Warrentown
Ar Vagten
Hotels for Women Urgently Needed in New York
Mrs. Clarence Burns, president of the Little Mothers Association, told the New York Federation of Women's Clubs that working girls earning three dollars weekly face starvation or worse. She urged building Mills hotels offering affordable, respectable living for 22,708 saleswomen and other wage earners totals 255,732 in the city, arguing organized club action can establish cheap, comfortable housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Clarence Burns
Little Mothers Association
New York Federation of Women’s Clubs
New York City
Burns
Mills Hotels
Federation of Women’s Clubs
The Great Sugar Beet of Colorado Farm
A farmer claims a sugar beet grew enormous mixing with soil in Colorado. After blasting it out with dynamite the beet was cut into slabs and shipped to a Rocky Ford factory. The factory deems the sugar highly sweet and valuable, leading to large profits and plans for future crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
vu’Shannasy
Colorado
Shugar Bates
Gunneson
Gunnison
Rocky Ford
Agricultural Department
Chicago
The Great Salt Lake Size and Density Noted
The Great Salt Lake Utah stretches seventy five by thirty five miles with a 291 mile circumference and six islands. The largest island runs about sixty miles by five miles, peaks at 600 feet, and the lake’s dense water allows easy buoyancy, second only to the Dead Sea. It is slowly receding from the shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Shee
Talking Alarm Clocks Speak Time Through Discs
Inventor creates clocks that wake users by speaking hours via talking-machine discs. Alarms feature varied sounds from roosters to famous voices, with adjustable modulation and replaceable discs to prevent habituation and improve wakefulness.
The Canvasback Duck and Its Waterside Diet
A story on the canvasback duck notes its reliance on Chesapeake Bay wild celery for sustenance. It explains the bird dives up to two minutes for underwater buds while hunters use weed decoys to lure it, highlighting a regional flavor and hunting practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man
Wisconsin
Secouineen Seartak
Eevee En Common
Chesapeake Bay
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charleston
Little Mother’s Association
O’shannasy
Dead Sea of America
Cleveland
Rockefellers
Carmegiocs
Angie
Angle Manufacturing CO
Murray ST
Columbia Novelty CO
Dept.7
Boston
Mass
Pittsburg Nations
Friend Supply CO
Washington Street
Post
N. P.C.C
National Photographic Chemical Company
11Th Street
Pa. Ave
N. W
Washington, D. C
Nicholas Luckworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
Seiiling
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