The Most Versatile American Ben Franklin Remembered
ELMO SCOTT WATSON lauds Benjamin Franklin as the first civilized American and a world man type, noting his life as printer inventor diplomat and statesman. The piece traces his career from apprentice to publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette to colonial unity advocate and diplomat in France, ending with his death in 1790 and his epitaph.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Benjamin Franklin
Wen
Ern Eisher
Franklin
Frank
Wittle “Homan
Tlteough
James
Boston
New England Courant
Powers-That-Be
Benjamin
Philadelphia
Deborah Read
England
Samuel Keimer
America
Pennsylvania Gazette
Hugh Meredith
The
Gazette
Ben Franklin
Bradford
Ben
Meredith
Richard
Junto
Assembly
Junta
Europe
Thirteen Colonies
Congress
Albany
Braddock
George Washington
Colonies
General Franklin
House of Commons
France
la Franklin
Paris
Anglo-American Press Association of
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Count de Vergennes
Monsieur
Dr. Franklin
Pennsylvania
Storks and Babies Folklore From Old World Beliefs
A discussion tracing how the white stork’s migratory habits and nesting customs fed centuries of superstition that a stork in a chimney brings a baby and signals luck or misfortune. The piece notes houses chosen by storks seen as lucky and explains worries about birds entering homes and associations with death.
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Old World
Holland
Germany
Denmark
Egypt
Palm Beach
Deauville
Riviera
Kansas City Times
Europe
Eskimos in Greenland and Labrador Practice Animistic Beliefs
The Eskimos in Greenland and Labrador are mainly Christians with a native animistic undercurrent. They believe in good and evil spirits each ruling its own sphere and in heaven and hell. Children trust native wizards as intermediaries with spirit powers, and whale-spirit worship is common.
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Greenland
Labrador
Heaven
Hell
Hard luck miner Abe Stott a tale of gold and loss
The death of Abe Stott in Quesnel B C recalls his early Caribou country gamble. Pat McKenna the Irish police officer helped him reach Eight Mile lake then prospected with Stott, Ogden and others. They sold their claim to Hannah for 16000, who later mined gold valued at 500000 from the site.
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Quesnel
B. C
Abe Stott
Los Angeles Times
Stott
Hin
Wiseacres
Pat McKenna
Chicago
Sturtts
Inglishman
McKenna
Barkerville
Caribouo Winers
Eight- Mile Lake
Llrishman
Slort
Pat
Billy Ogden
Ogden
Minneapolis
Hannah
Canada to become self governing dominion amid imperial conference
The Imperial Conference in London signals Canada Australia and South Africa moving toward practical independence and self government. Canada emerges as the largest and most influential, with a population near 9.5 million and area over 3.6 million square miles, governed under the British North America Act of 1867. The piece details Canada’s federal structure, regional populations, vast northern lands, Hudson Bay ports, and the western prairie and coastal provinces shaping a developing empire.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, DC
London
British Empire
Canada
Australia
South Africa
Great Britain
United States
Constitutional Convention
United Provinces
Senate
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lfe
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Manitoba
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
United States-Canadian
Maritime Provinces
Newfoundland
St. Lawrence River
Canadian National Railway
Hudson Bay
Hudson Strait
Greenland
Winnipeg
Canadian
North America
Gulf of Mexico
Port Churchill
Port Nelson
Edmonton
Liverpool
Montreal
Hudson Bay Company
Prairie
Great Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Missouri Valley
Great American Desert
Chicago
St. Paul
Keewatin
Mackenzie
Prairie Provinces
Alaska
Yukon Territory
Vancouver
Countess Felix von Voss Modernizes Mecklenburg Estate
American heiress Esther Lawrence of New York, now Countess Felix von Voss, has transformed a major Mecklenburg landed estate. She personally manages the poultry farm and horticulture and created a producers cooperative store to market local and neighboring products.
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Felix von Voss
Esther Lawrence
New York
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
Countess Voss
Fortunate Accident Reveals Ore Processing Advance
A painter accidentally upset a bucket in California mining company ore bins, exposing an improved method to precipitate iron pyrites. The foam loss initially alarmed workers, but the day’s recoveries rose 12 percent as linseed oil and kerosene in the paint acted as effective agents.
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California
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Modern Crusoe on Eden Isle by Banfield
E. J. Banfield and his wife spent 25 years on a tropical isle in ideal conditions. A new memoir recounts their happier variant of Robinson Crusoe life, born from a breakdown after years in crowded newspaper work and the weariness of urban reporting.
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E. J. Banfield
London
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe
Isle of Eden
Unselfishness and Self Expression Warned In Herald
A Montreal Family Herald reprints a moral exhortation on unselfishness and warns against the fetish for self expression. It argues that selfish indulgence leads to self-torture, remorse, and lost happiness, urging readers to prioritize usefulness and personal care without fear for the future.
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Montreal
T Family Herald
Eight-Hour Workday Rule Questioned By Curious Worker
The industrious narrator asks what to do with time on a workday that should not exceed eight hours. He notes a lack of interest in dancing or motion pictures as alternatives.
Mars Roughly Described By A Small Boy In Class
A Boston Transcript quote recalls a pupil answering teachers asking about Mars. The boy humorously equates Mars to dents and scratches on parlor furniture, framing the planet through a child’s witty domestic analogy.
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Mars
Boston Transcript
Largest testing machine at Washington bureau crushes walls easily
The world’s largest testing machine operates at the Bureau of Standards in Washington. It exerts about 10,000,000 pounds of pressure and can crush a brick wall as easily as an eggshell with minimal visible effort. The pump feeds oil under heavy pressure to the great cylinder.
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Bureau of Standards
Washington
Quietly Moving Testing Machine Exhibits Slow Motion
A testing machine operates with barely perceptible motion as its components move very slowly. The device's slow operation is described as almost unnoticeable.
Duty of Possession on Means of Life and Morality
Edward Howard Griggs argues that every possession of life’s means carries responsibility to use power for life’s sake, not self indulgence, and that nothing morally wrong can be economically desirable.
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Edward Howard Griggs
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