Caribbean Haiti and Naval Maneuvers Highlighted
The piece surveys Haiti's recorded history from precolonial times through French and Spanish rule, Toussaint L Ouverture, Haiti’s independence, US Marine involvement in 1915, and economic highlights. It also notes the Allande Training Squadron and regional geography, with a joke ending about a bandaged eye.
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Gonaives
U.S. Navy
Caribbean
Haiti ' i
la Espanola
Hispaniola
Ryswick
Callal
Dominique
Napoleon I
France
Santo Domingo
U. S. Marine
Tenis
United States
U. S. Marines
Gopetren
Iate Porulation
Flue-Dried Tobacco Idea From Virginia Grower
A Virginia tobacco grower William T. Ballou near South Boston pioneered flue curing for bright tobacco after a 1869 drought spurred him to seek a drying method. He collaborated with itinerant tinsmith Upton Bowden to build a flue dryer for fruit, which then proved successful for tobacco curing, yielding strikingly beautiful first sun-cured leaves.
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Virginia
KR. S. Barbour Jr
Richmond Times-Dispatch
William T. Ballou
Boston
Ballou
Upton Thomas Bowden
Bowden
Batton
Life of Sappho Reveals Ancient Mystery and Rediscovered Fragments
A New York World Telegram feature notes little is known about Sappho, famed Greek poetess. Fragments survive, with Egyptian papyrus rolls from the seventh century AD claiming authentic poems. Sappho, from Lesbos, born around 600 BC, spoke in everyday language, whose passionate lines resist easy translation.
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Sappho
Greece
New York World-Telegram
Egypt
Caer
A.D. Sappho
Island of
Lesbos
Sulphur Beds in Louisiana Sparked by Frasch Method
Sulphur deposits in Louisiana were once hidden beneath 500 feet of quicksand and rock. Herman Frasch devised a novel three pipe system to melt, lift, and extract the sulphur, enabling extraction and surface processing for storage in bins.
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Louisiana
Sicily
Philadelphia Record
Herman Frasch
Ancient Razors Through Rome and Greece
The piece traces shaving tools from iron and bronze razors used by Romans and Pompeians to tempered steel advances. It notes Greek barbers by 400 B C and Rome’s first daily shaver from Sicily around 300 B C, with debates on beard shaving as heat insulator or germ trap.
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Greece
B. C
Rome
Sicily
B.C
Scipio
Silent Night Song Origins and 1818 Premiere
The Silent Night melody was written by Franz Gruber, an Austrian organist, with text by Josef Mohr, an Austrian priest. In 1814 Mohr became a priest and, four years later, at Oberndorf, met Gruber. They created the carol, first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St. Nicholas parish church.
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Franz Gaiber
Josef Mohr
St. Nicholas
Oberdorf
Franz Gruber
Oldest European Dye Weld Used for Green Tint
The oldest known European dye came from the weld herb reseda luteola. The term weld likely stems from walda, influencing gaude and our word gaudy. To produce a popular gentle green, fabric was first dipped in indigo and then in weld.
Commission to study federal career service signals reform
A New Deal era piece discusses a presidential commission to study a federal career service. It lists members including Justices Read and Frankfurter, Frank Murphy, Wood, Dini, Leonard White, and W. W. McReynolds. The piece contrasts British civil service tenure with United States practices and warns of entrenched patronage and political obstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alsop
Kintner
Supremes Court
Read
Frankfurter
Frank Murphy
General Wood
Sears-Roebuck
Gallo Dini
Civil Service
Leonard White
Treasury
W. W. McReynolds
Economic shifts drive demand from food to war materiel
The piece notes 1938 foreign demand shifting from fats and grains to munitions and machinery. It cites Nina Salts of American gouda and 1929 patterns, predicting rising need for weapons and related tolls while imports of consumer goods decline, reflecting wartime industrial emphasis.
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U. S
Bref
Aecteaaty
An Yan
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U. S. Navy
Bel
Fuene Station
Salt Lake City
Christophe
Cape Haitien
Cartetephe
Toussaint Liouvertum
Ilenry 4
Chrstophe
Germain
Allande
Battles
New York
Texas
Wyoming
Arkansas
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Rose
Nashville
Honolulu
Savannah
Phoemix
Shaw
Warrington
Sampson
Mugford
Ralph Talbot
Somers
Heim
Tillipp'ns
Luzon
Xranila
Mindanao
Bewern
Mr. Stiles
Mrs. Stiles
Bell
The
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co
Robert Vansittart
Foren Offies
State Department
Foreign Service
Far East
South America
Central Europe
Asmal
Crollary
Tim Munters
J. A. Evans
Payowan
iNov
Cail Sam ,Aneel J
Adams
John W. Benson
Paarowan
H. C. Parcetts
Intermountato Title Guaranty Co
Catrt Hou Parowan
Walter G
Mitchell & Sohs Farowan
Uwish
Ant Sava
Joseph W. LaBine
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